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Boring and Mortising Machine.
Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine."
Date:
July 11, 1848
Creator:
Swingle, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.
Patent for the "improvement in Horizontal Cotton - Presses for compressing cotton, hay, and other articles and substances for baling; ..." (lines 3-6), including illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1859
Creator:
Stockbridge, Elam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1850
Creator:
Milner, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress.
Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1854
Creator:
Gaines, Edmund P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for an improvement of gang-plows by arranging the plows in rows on to a fame which can be fastened to a wagon, when the wagon is in motion, it causes the plows to work in vertical motion. The height of the plow-frame can be adjusted. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 3, 1860
Creator:
Wilson, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Oven.
Patent for outdoor use of the Dutch oven and skillet converting the cover of the Dutch oven as a way to suspend frying pan or gridiron over coals to heat, including illustration.
Date:
July 12, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Planting Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine to clear top soil and dispense seed into soil when moving forward, including illustration.
Date:
July 5, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Excavating and Grading Machine.
Patent for a cultivating machine that pulverizes colds of soil using a revolving cylinder of blades, including illustration.
Date:
July 19, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress.
Patent for millstone dress using mill stone.
Date:
July 20, 1858
Creator:
Loy, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Sewing Machine.
Patent for improvements in book sewing machines, the descriptions are included by figures.
Date:
July 16, 1867
Creator:
Sims, Ferdinand
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Saw-Gummer.
Patent for a machine that uses a grindstone to sharpen rotary saws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1865
Creator:
Fosterm A. K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Oscillating Steam-Engine
Patent for improvements to steam-engines that employ oscillating cylinders for the drive-shaft.
Date:
July 6, 1869
Creator:
Richer, F. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Side-Saddle.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 26, 1870
Creator:
Smith, Fenwick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.
Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
Date:
July 4, 1871
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Photographing Children
Patent for an improvement in machines for taking Photographs of small children.
Date:
July 4, 1871
Creator:
Sloan, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for improvements in the construction of plow-beams to be attached to the front axles of a wagon.
Date:
July 6, 1869
Creator:
Cummins, A. G. & Cummins, J. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Tooth
Patent for "Improvement in Saw Teeth" (line 3)
Date:
July 12, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides
Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
Date:
July 20, 1869
Creator:
Bean, W. O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Axles.
Patent for an easily replaceable and self-lubricating carriage axle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 26, 1870
Creator:
Hall, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter.
Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims.
Patent for a "new and Improved Extension Hat Brim" (lines 3-4) with folding arms to extend the brim, including illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1873
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wedges for Spitting Rock &c.
Patent for improvement for a wedge. This design hollows the middle in two areas to make it easier to handle and more economical.
Date:
April 24, 1875
Creator:
Cosbey, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
Patent for "an improved wheel-cultivator, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use in marking the ground, covering the seed, and cultivating the plants." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Riddle, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vehicle-Wheels.
Patent for an "invention to provide a vehicle-wheel that is capable of being expanded so as to fit the tire". Patent for an invention to facilitate removing and replacing wagon or buggy tires.
Date:
July 10, 1877
Creator:
Racer, Martin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History