Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like (open access)

Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like

Patent for and improvement in propelling devices for street cars and the like, includes illustration.
Date: February 16, 1875
Creator: Trible, Herndon & Davis, Nicholas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.

Patent for "the invention of a new and useful Improvement in Combined Cotton Scraper and Chopper" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1875
Creator: McClaugherty, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compound Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Compound Engines.

Patent for "a series of engines for working the steam over by exhausting it from the first into the second, and so on, for utilizing the pressure lost when steam is exhausted from a single engine into the air..." (lines 7-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1875
Creator: Bell, Jackson W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Binding Grain (open access)

Machine for Binding Grain

Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
Date: February 13, 1875
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves. (open access)

Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Folding and Portable Store-Shelving" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1875
Creator: Key, Minter P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Mills (open access)

Improvement in Saw-Mills

Patent for an improvement in saw mills, with illustration.
Date: February 9, 1875
Creator: Linder, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in fluting-iron (open access)

Improvement in fluting-iron

Patent for an improvement in fluting iron, involving a hollow smoothing and glossing iron.
Date: February 27, 1875
Creator: Fisher, William F. & Brown, Amos C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for a detachable and re-useable cotton-bale tie, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1875
Creator: Jones, Henry Bradly
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date: February 2, 1875
Creator: Reese, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth. (open access)

Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.

Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
Date: February 9, 1875
Creator: Erlenmeyer, Erwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press (open access)

Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press

Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date: February 23, 1875
Creator: Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History