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Improvement in Wardrobe-Beadsteads.
Patent for a new and improved office-furniture that combines a desk, bookshelf, folding bed, hat-rack, and wash-basin, including descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Sutcliffe, Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tug Attachments for Harness.
Patent for improving the tug-harness attachments on a horse harness to better lock straps in place.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Brodnax, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns
Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Gray, Whitley F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improved design of the plow consisting of a modified foot of the plow and curved blade. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Moore, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Blow-Guns and Arrows.
Patent for an improved design of the blow-gun and arrows consisting of the broader boar for the blow gun, an arrow fastening cord, and arrow-shafts with grooves. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
White, Luther C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reciprocating Churns.
Patent for an invention that, "relates to certain improvements in motive power for churns, its object being to provide a compact system of automatically-operating gearing, that may be readily attached to the top of an ordinay churn" (lines 7-11). Illustration included.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Miller, Noah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum.
The production of chewing-gum will become much simpler with the improved patent of chewing-gum.
Date:
June 23, 1877
Creator:
Cotter, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pump-Buckets
Patent for new and improved pump-buckets, which are more cheaper and much more durable. The much improved pump-buckets fasten together with chains as well as metal plates.
Date:
October 9, 1877
Creator:
William, Mayfield D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History