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Propeller of Machinery to be used in Currents.
Patent for a propelled water wheel that is attached to the back of a vessel that uses a current of water and stream power, including illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1851
Creator:
Hardie, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence.
Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.
Date:
November 8, 1853
Creator:
Meriwether, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion
Patent for converting reciprocating into rotary motion by using “two vertically moving racks with a cog wheel on a small shaft between them which gears into the teeth of the racks” (lines 16-19), includes illustration.
Date:
November 1, 1859
Creator:
Harper, C. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the plow using braces and mold-board for a sturdy and very durable plow, including illustration.
Date:
November 15, 1859
Creator:
Townsend, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machines.
Patent for improvement in sewing-machines by using two cams, one to operate the needle-arm and another to operate the feed and shuttle movements, illustration is included.
Date:
November 15, 1859
Creator:
Singer, E. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Link.
Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
Date:
November 13, 1860
Creator:
Kirk, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for the improvement to cotton-seed planters by connecting the wheel to the reciprocating stirrer to guide the seed from hopper to soil and covering it, including illustration.
Date:
November 27, 1860
Creator:
McClanahan, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Baling Press.
Patent for improvement in baling press "for compressing cotton, hay, and other substances for baling" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 20, 1866
Creator:
Gillis, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harvesters.
Patent for improvements in mowers and reapers.
Date:
November 12, 1867
Creator:
Tucker, A. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller.
Patent for an invention "to combine and arrange a cultivator, plow, harrow, and roller, with draught-wheels, axle, draught-pole, and an adjustable supporting-frame, in such a manner that the several parts can be used together or independently." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1868
Creator:
Thornton, Sterling C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvement in cultivators in which the plows can be adjusted by width, height and laterally to regulate the depth and angle of inclination. The plows, which can be operated by a foot device, may be simultaneously thrown from the ground. (Lines 73-76) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 2, 1869
Creator:
Baker, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Ditching-Machine.
Patent for improvement in ditching machine which “consists of a boring or ditching-auger, suspended from the frame of a truck, and having an enlarged head projecting in advance of the truck, and rotated, so as to bore out a groove as the truck is moved along, screwing the earth taken back through a trough, to an elevator which carries it up to a spout, chuting it to one side.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
McGehee, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine.
Patent for improvements to the sewing machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
Clever, P. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing Machines
Patent for "a new Improved Sewing-Machine" that "has for its object to provide more useful and efficient machines than those now in use."
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
Cleaver, P. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Roaster.
Patent for a coffee roaster that intends to "supply a ready and cheap means of effectually stirring the grains of coffee while being roasted in any convenient and suitable vessel...(lines 6-9). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
November 23, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for "a gang-plow, which is so arranged that the beams can be adjusted sideways and up and down at will, and can be permanently secured in any desired position in either movement." (Lines 17-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 30, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.
Patent for improvement in cotton scrapers and choppers by way of the innovative placement of plows.
Date:
November 8, 1870
Creator:
Hale, Nathan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grinding-Mills.
Patent for an improvement in grinding mills which purports to save time.
Date:
November 15, 1870
Creator:
Westmoreland, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges.
Patent for "an apparatus in which the gases from one or more forges, instead of passing off unconsumed into the atmosphere, enter a furnace and are burnt therein, thereby furnishing heat for the generation of steam in a boiler connected with said furnace, which steam is used to drive a fan that impels a blast into each forge, and is also used to propel an engine that operates a hammer, the exhaust from the engine being conducted to the tuyeres of the forges through pipes in which are placed red-hot iron plates, which decompose the steam, taking up the oxygen, and liberating the hydrogen which is burnt in the forges." (Lines 12-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 7, 1871
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting Sad-Irons.
Patent for "a new combination of fluting and sad-iron, of such kind that the upper fluting-roller will serve as handle for the sad-iron, there being thus no loose or separate parts required for the two functions." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1871
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1871
Creator:
Sivley, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
Patent for a refrigeration apparatus "in which a continuous operation is maintained by means of a current of ether or other volatile fluid which liquefies at a low temperature." (Lines 18-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1871
Creator:
Mühl, A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Belt-Fasteners.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Belt-Fasteners. Illustration is included.
Date:
November 28, 1871
Creator:
Olmsted, Marcellus
System:
The Portal to Texas History