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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Lane, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
Patent for road scrapers, illustration included.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1875
Creator:
Clements, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of running up the follower, or against the small pulley for the purpose of running it down, by drawing the said level inward or outward." (Lines 15-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1875
Creator:
Knowles, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Working Glass.
Patent for a blowing-engine that will make the glass-blowing process less laborious. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1875
Creator:
Chase, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved, cheap and convenient bale-tie. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1875
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.
Patent for improvements to carriage wheels, relating to the socketing ring that braces the spokes between the hub and the rim. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1875
Creator:
Nelson, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for " a new and improved Table-Fan"
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Stamps, Lorenzo D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid.
Patent for a process to "reduce asphaltum to a liquid, and hold the same in a semi-fluid condition without heat, and which constitutes an entirely new article of commerce, and furnishes to the trade an article of asphaltum prepared and ready for use, without the labor, expense, and delay of melting, for paving and roofing purposes, and one most admirably adapted for use by manufacturers of varnish and japan." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to Liquid.
Patent for improved “process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and holding the same in a fluid condition without heat or the use of dead-oils” (lines 31-34).
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Vine-Rakes
Patent for new and improved Vine-Rakes to use in everyday farming. Uses includes pulling fines from crops and preparing the ground for plowing or digging before planting crops.
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Dunn, Joseph W
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Bench-Vises.
Patent for "a new and Improved Sliding-Carriage Vise for Carpenter's Bench" (lines 3-5) includign instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 27, 1875
Creator:
Rimbold, Pierre
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Collars.
Patent for a device improving the speed and efficiency of shirt collar fastening, as well as the securing of items such as scarves and ties, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1876
Creator:
Mitchell, Frank G. & Saunders, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fences.
Patent for improvement in fences, with description and illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1876
Creator:
Ingalls, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date:
April 11, 1876
Creator:
Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Rost, Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers.
Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Harper, Elijah S., Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Andrews, Henry K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fan
Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Gollner, Ervin G. & Fretz, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Allison, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters.
Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Liscow, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Tightening Iron Bands on Bales.
Patent for an apparatus that consists of "a series of metal bars to be inserted between what is known as the 'channel bars or teeth,' both on the upper and lower platens of a compress used for compressing cotton-bales, which bars thus inserted shall be so attached to the channel-bars that, by the force of springs, the said bars will be kept below the surface of the teeth on the platens, allowing ample space to insert the iron bands to be used in tying the bales, in the same manner as they are now universally inserted." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1877
Creator:
Quin, Michael
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mosquito-Net Frames.
Patent for "mosquito-net frames which are made adjustable, so that they may be extended over the bed or folded compactly, according to the requirements of use." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1877
Creator:
Volle, Johann F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame Fasteners
Patent for a new and useful improvement in hame-fasteners. "This fastening can be readily fastened and unfastened without taking off the gloves, and with cold and benumbed fingers, and when fastened will hold the hames securely" (lines 35-38). Including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1877
Creator:
Poland, Tunis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History