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Brick-Machine.
Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1848
Creator:
Wilson, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the gang plow by the plows arrangement and pivoted beams to be adjustable for convenience, including illustration.
Date:
May 1, 1855
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for covering cotton seeds by using a hoe transversely with cams and slides with the main axle of the planter, including illustration.
Date:
May 15, 1855
Creator:
Morrel, A. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Planters.
Patent for a corn-planter that allows the seed to be placed in a hopper and disperses the seed through a cylinder that is connected to a wheel to place and cover the seed, including illustration.
Date:
May 10, 1859
Creator:
Gilbert, R. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for a triangle shaped cultivator with removable mold-boards that can be used as a plow and scraper, including illustration.
Date:
May 10, 1859
Creator:
Doss, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improved plow to turn and reverse the mold-board by using a single bolt to secure the reversible mold-board onto the stock of a plow.
Date:
May 15, 1860
Creator:
Pitts, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for the improvement of planting seeds using a single seed-slide and double tubes from seed box to distribute seeds to planting point in a more direct route than other seed-planters, including illustration.
Date:
May 15, 1860
Creator:
Pitts, W. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Millstones.
Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
Date:
May 29, 1860
Creator:
Dance, G. P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels.
Patent for improvements in steering vessels: "by means of rotary paddle wheels the blades of which are arranged parallel to keel" (lines 21-23).
Date:
May 29, 1866
Creator:
Forshey, Caleb G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harvesters.
Patent for improvements in reaping and mowing machines.
Date:
May 5, 1868
Creator:
Ramsey, Jo.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for improvement in brick machines by “providing the mixing and grinding-shaft with arms at the bottom, adapted in form and arrangement for pressing the clay through the openings, in the bottom of the curb, into the moulds, below, which rest on ways above a sliding carrier, provided with brackets, for forcing the moulds out.” (Lines 26-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1869
Creator:
Morgan, Asa
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for improvement in buckles “which does not require to be sewed to either of the straps which it is to connect, and which will securely fasten and hold the said straps of bands in any desired position.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1869
Creator:
Richer, F. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machine for Cutting Stalks in the Field Preparatory to Plowing.
Patent for improvement in machine for clearing cotton and corn-fields of the stalks after the crops have been gathered by “providing a revolving drum or roller with knives, set spirally around it, which cut the stalks of cotton or corn-fields into pieces of any desired length, for the purpose of being plowed under the surface for fertilizing, by rolling it over them.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1869
Creator:
Wright, Reuben
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wrench.
Patent for improvements in monkey wrenches.
Date:
May 4, 1869
Creator:
Richer, F. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Horse-Power.
Patent for an improvement in horse-powers (tread-powers) by changing the construction and arrangement of the driving wheels.
Date:
May 18, 1869
Creator:
Dillaha, J. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 18, 1869
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Baling Presses.
Patent for improvements to "the construction and combination of the levers, rack-bars, and pawls with each other, and with the follower and baling-box" (lines 15-17).
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Stroud, Bryant F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Refining and Ageing Liquors.
Patent for improvement in refining and ageing liquors, including an illustration. The process includes expelling air from distilled liquors, heating them to a boiling point and then cooling them in a waterbath, through the use of a closed, air-tight vessel surrounded by an open water-vessel.
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pitmen.
Patent for "a new and and useful Improvment in Crank and Pitman;" (lines 3-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 17, 1870
Creator:
Kealy, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.
Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
Date:
May 17, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ox-Bows.
Patent for improvements to ox-bows so that they "shall not require bending, and which may be made in parts of the country where timber suitable for bending is scarce" (lines 9-12).
Date:
May 24, 1870
Creator:
Moore, Alfred L. D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Head-Rest.
Patent for a new and improved head-rest for railroad-car seats and other seats, that can be applied to or removed from the back of seats without the use of clamp-screws, and are adjustable and adaptable to the convenience and comfort of different persons. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grinding-Mills
Patent for an improvement in grinding-mills, combining the operative mechanism with spindles - in which the both the grinding stones obtain relative surface speeds only half the actual speed of the stones.
Date:
May 9, 1871
Creator:
Hensley, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for improvements in valves used in rotary engines.
Date:
May 9, 1871
Creator:
Hughes, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History