Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.
Date: April 28, 1874
Creator: Lane, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps. (open access)

Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps.

Patent for a reusable scaffold clamp for assembling builders' scaffolds, eliminating the need for nails or bolts.
Date: April 24, 1874
Creator: Crockett, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a new medical compound to treat "various diseases, more especially those which affect the bowels and digestive organs" (lines 34-36) which lists the ingredients.
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Roberts, Robert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a pill composed of podophyllin, leptandrin, butternut bark extract, rhubarb extract, extract of "jalap," capsicum, quinine sulfate, and salicin. The pill is said to treat a wide variety of diseases.
Date: April 12, 1874
Creator: Roberts, Robert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers. (open access)

Improvement in Road-Scrapers.

Patent for road scrapers, illustration included.
Date: April 28, 1874
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for an improvement on plows specifically designed to turn black Texas soil.
Date: April 7, 1874
Creator: Payne, Joseph Mott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps

Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Flournoy, Rice Smith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Portable Fences.

Patent for portable fencing with sections that can be connected and set up in a particular area, or removed and put elsewhere at will.
Date: April 21, 1874
Creator: Griffin, James Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History