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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 Spark-Arresters.
Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Liscow, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Detaching Horses
Patent for improvements for a device used to detach a horse or horses from a vehicle. Included illustration shows 3 elevation views of the detacher.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Craig, John Kerr
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Allison, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for the improved design of churns "in which the dasher-shaft is vertical and receives rotation by gearing at the top of the churn" (2nd para.), including illustrations.
Date:
January 25, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fan
Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Gollner, Ervin G. & Fretz, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-choppers by way of vertical rock-shafts.
Date:
May 25, 1876
Creator:
Burnham, Theodore O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Colquitt, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Power Presses.
Patent for improved horse-powered press; it "relates to horse or other power presses for cotton, hay, and other compressible materials; and the nature of my invention consists in a reversible stay-brace; in a series of sliding plates, which fill the space between the main standards; in an arm hung to each one of the side doors, regulating the opening of such doors; and in auxiliary devices" (para. 3).
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History