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Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
Date:
August 9, 1870
Creator:
Stopple, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gun-Locks.
Patent for "a novel application of hair-trigger catch to the main trigger, which operates together with a holder and separate springs." (Lines 30-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Deutz, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coffee-Mills.
Patent for an improvement to upright coffee-mills, "whereby the bearings are always maintained in their true relative positions, while the strain on the two is made automatically counteracting, and each part of the shell firmly and effectually supported by the other." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Richer, Francois Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator
Patent for a new gang-plow and cultivator design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 23, 1870
Creator:
Thornton, Sterling C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
Date:
August 1, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bedsteads.
Patent for the improvement of bedsteads in order to make them more convenient and durable.
Date:
August 8, 1871
Creator:
Baldwin, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses.
Patent for improving the cotton and hay press.
Date:
August 8, 1871
Creator:
McGowen, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.
Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
August 15, 1871
Creator:
Dawson, Paul R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Power-Apparatus for Vehicles
Patent for "improvements to powered vehicles with combined rim-wheel(s) in combination with a truck(s), resting upon the inner and lower part of the rim, and supporting a carriage-body or frame, crank-shaft. with one or more pinions, and guide-rollers." (line 8)
Date:
August 17, 1869
Creator:
Dillaha, J. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Compound for Destroying Vermin in Cattle
Patent for topical medication to kill screw-worms in livestock wounds.
Date:
August 10, 1869
Creator:
Kalteyer, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Bedstead-Fastening
Patent for improvements in the mode of fastening the rail to the post of bedsteads.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Maulding, Pres.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brooms.
Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date:
August 15, 1871
Creator:
Anderson, Edward Americus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picker and Cleaner.
Patent for improvements in cotton-picker and cleaner by using rotary breakers combined with fixed breakers to break the branches and outer coverings of the cotton in the bolls. The cotton then passes through an “inclined-way” where the rotary breakers are spirally-arranged on a concentric cylinder to carry the cotton out of the cleaner. (Lines 69-75) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.
Patent for improvement in cotton-hoes for the purpose of saving time when spacing and thinning cotton plants by providing an angular handle with bent arms that can be attached to the back of the hoes. The hoe is made up with three separate cutters with spaces in between to allow young plants equally spaced in each row. The middle cutter can be removed when second thinning is needed to avoid injuring the plants. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 23, 1870
Creator:
McRae, Daniel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers.
Patent for an improvement for an instrument to stretch and tie a band around a cotton bale.
Date:
August 22, 1871
Creator:
Mather, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plow and Planter
Patent for improvements to cotton-plows and planters.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows
Patent an improved cotton-plow with curved flanges, with illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
Patent for improvement in cotton-plows by making the plow blades curved for the purpose of breaking up the land to prevent the plow from clogging. (Lines 27-30) The plow can break up the soil and laying off seed-furrows simply by reversing and removing the blades to a different position of the frame. (Lines 59-60) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for a cotton press that is constructed using fewer parts than other models. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 30, 1870
Creator:
Knowles, William Wadsworth
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-tie
Patent for improvement in the construction of hooks used to join the ends of ties "for packages or bales of cotton, hemp, rags, or other substances in which a divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale is used, and the ends whereof are joined by a hook at one end of said band, arranged to interlock with any one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band" (para. 2).
Date:
August 8, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues
Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1872
Creator:
Gaines, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Sheet and Tent
Patent for an improvement in wagon sheet coverings / tent. The improvement is in the sides of the wagon sheet can be extended by loosening straps to fall the length to the ground and be staked to the earth. This gives a tent to sleep under after a day of traveling.
Date:
August 13, 1871
Creator:
Fitzgerald, M. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Patent for a "new and improved horse-power." Relates to railway horse-powers.
Date:
August 16, 1873
Creator:
Tadlock, John S. of Belmont, Texas & Howell, J.M. of Belmont, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History