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Construction of Roofs.
Patent for improvements in the construction of roofs, including instruction.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Boyd, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for an easily converted machine that can plan corn, drill corn or cotton, or cultivate growing crops, including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1879
Creator:
Bowles, Talbot M. & Farmer, Joesph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for a plow for use in heavy or wet lands, including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1879
Creator:
Woodward, Lewis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harrows and Clod-Crushers
Patent for the improvement in the design of harrows and clod-crushers.
Date:
November 11, 1879
Creator:
Murphy, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harmony Attachments for Piano-Fortes.
Patent for, "an attachment for piano-fortes, whereby the musician may play the melody upon an instrument like the violin with his hands in the usual manner, and the accompaniment or harmony by operating the attachment with his feet."
Date:
November 11, 1879
Creator:
Radinsky, Gustav A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in the plow with a heated mold-board to prevent sticking, including illustrations.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Tucker, Argyle W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers
Patent for Improvements to cotton-sprinklers that provides "effective distribution of poisonous liquids upon cotton-plants, for the purpose of destroying the cotton-worm or other destructive insects." (lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
November 11, 1879
Creator:
Schier, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigating Apparatus for Exterminating Insects.
Patent for ant extermination device. Injects gas into the entrance of (primarily) ant or insect nests.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Mueller, Onno
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Plows.
Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date:
December 21, 1878
Creator:
Cummins, John Randolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History