Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes.

Patent for the improvement in car-journal boxes. This invention "relates to oil-boxes used upon journals of car-axles, the object being to prevent the lid from shaking off of the oil-stop or oil-packing surrounding the axle to be removed and replaced by a new one without removing the box from the journal."
Date: October 15, 1878
Creator: Alexander, Francis M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators (open access)

Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators

Patent for an improvement in Chain-Wheels consisting "in the construction and arrangement of a device for drawing water from wells, which shall be cheap, convenient, and free from danger, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth."
Date: July 27, 1878
Creator: Knipscheer, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Motors for Operating Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Motors for Operating Churns.

Patent for "a simple and effective motive power for operating the dashers of churns; and it consists of a suitable frame-work provided with a fly-wheel, operated by a pitman attached to a bar projecting from brackets on the side of an ordinary rocking-chair, said fly-wheel being provided with cogs upon one side, which mesh into the cogs on a smaller wheel, which caries a crank for operating the dasher of the churn, a suitable belt being arranged upon the rim of the fly-wheel and around a small pulley for setting in motion a rotary fan." (Lines 13-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Crump, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeders for Thrashing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeders for Thrashing-Machines.

Patent for improvements in the design of band-cutters and feeders for thrashing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Andrews, Henry K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.

Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Ames, Theodore George
System: The Portal to Texas History