Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics (open access)

Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics

Patent for an improved device to measure textiles and other similar fabrics, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1877
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adjustable Hats (open access)

Improvement in Adjustable Hats

Patent for an improvement to adjustable hatband which includes directions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Photographers' Bath-Warmers (open access)

Improvement in Photographers' Bath-Warmers

Patent for keeping photographers' chemicals and bath water the same temperature throughout the liquids. The patent contains instructions and illustrations for the creation and use of the invention.
Date: March 27, 1877
Creator: Fellrath, Charles J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid (open access)

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid

Patent for a new and useful process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and the patent includes a list of solvents suitable for use in the process.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles (open access)

Improvement in Buckles

Patent for a new and improved buckle for use with hame-straps, breech-straps, etc. The patent contains an explanation of the buckle and various illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Melton, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Convertible Wagon-Bed and Hay-Rack. (open access)

Improvement in Convertible Wagon-Bed and Hay-Rack.

Patent for "an ordinary wagon-bed with sides and a rear end board or gate, which are both adjustable and removable, and attach slats or bars to said sides and end-board in such manner that they may be extended laterally when requires, to practically increase the width of the wagon-bed." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Ice-Machines (open access)

Improvements in Ice-Machines

Patent for an improved make and design for ice-machines including instructions for construction and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1877
Creator: Rankin, Thomas L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Soldering-Irons (open access)

Improvement in Soldering-Irons

Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
Date: March 21, 1877
Creator: Stevens, Hennell
System: The Portal to Texas History