Improvement in Lock-Faucets. (open access)

Improvement in Lock-Faucets.

Patent for a improvement in lock faucets, includes instructions and illustration.
Date: June 4, 1878
Creator: Seward, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Extinguishers for Lint-Rooms. (open access)

Improvement in Fire-Extinguishers for Lint-Rooms.

Patent for a fire-extinguisher for lint-rooms with design specifications and instructions on operating procedures and usage, including illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1878
Creator: Morrell, Zachariah N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Paper Bags. (open access)

Improvement in Paper Bags.

Patent for an improvement in paper bags with design specifications and a description of their functionality and usage, including illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1878
Creator: Alexander, Newton J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Storing the Power of Wind-Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Storing the Power of Wind-Engines.

Patent for a machine for storing the power of wind-engines with design specifications and a description of the process and implementation of usage, including illustrations.
Date: June 25, 1878
Creator: Everhart, Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Draw-Gages. (open access)

Improvement in Draw-Gages.

Patent for improving the manner in which leather straps may be cut and avoid slippage.
Date: June 25, 1878
Creator: Tays, John Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Ironing And Fluting Machines. (open access)

Improvement In Ironing And Fluting Machines.

Patent for improvements to Ironing and Fluting Machines.
Date: June 13, 1878
Creator: Bailey, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Middlings-Purifiers. (open access)

Improvement in Middlings-Purifiers.

Patent for a "machine for purifying the middlings in the process of making flour that will free them more completely from impurities that has heretofore been done, and to construct the parts of the machine so that air-blasts will be completely under control" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1879
Creator: White, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Photographic Backgrounds. (open access)

Improvement in Photographic Backgrounds.

Patent for a new way of "holding and manipulating photographers' backgrounds" (line 19) including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1879
Creator: Moberly, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Exterminators. (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Exterminators.

Patent for an improved insect exterminator design with modifications especially suitable for cotton fields, includes illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1879
Creator: Walker, John Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spring-Hinges. (open access)

Improvement in Spring-Hinges.

Patent for a new spring hinge design which will "either open or close the door or gate after it has passed an angle of forty-five degrees" (lines 20-22) including illustrations.
Date: June 24, 1879
Creator: Barry, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Drawing Off Tallow, Lard &c., from Rendering-Tanks. (open access)

Improvement in Drawing Off Tallow, Lard &c., from Rendering-Tanks.

Patent for a new method for drawing off tallow, lard, etc. from pressure tanks by introducing water. This includes illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1870
Creator: Archer, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Current-Wheels. (open access)

Improvement in Current-Wheels.

Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 6, 1871
Creator: Tuder, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Elevators. (open access)

Improvement in Elevators.

Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 13, 1871
Creator: Bishop, Josiah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow.

Patent for "a strong, simple, durable, and effective machine, which shall be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily adjusted for use as a gang plow, seed-sower, seed-planter, cultivator, and cotton-scrape, and which will do its work thoroughly and well in either capacity." Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1870
Creator: Eddleman, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adjustable Saddle-Trees. (open access)

Improvement in Adjustable Saddle-Trees.

Patent for "improvements in saddle-trees; and the invention consists in constructing the forward ends of the trees with the hinged connection between its sides, to allow lateral adjustment of the sides to and from each other..." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1874
Creator: Heaton, George & Eckley, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Axle-Boxes for Vehicles (open access)

Improvement for Axle-Boxes for Vehicles

Patent for an improvement in axle-boxes for vehicles which incorporates an adjustable tube that may take up the wear on its ends.
Date: June 11, 1872
Creator: Ahrenbeck, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Gas from Oils. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Gas from Oils.

Patent for "machines for the manufacture of gas from oils, benzine, gasoline, &c.; and it consists in providing the tank or cistern with a retort constructed with an outer cylinder surrounding one or more cylinders or tubes, which inner cylinder is provided with perforated plates at the top and bottom thereof, and the space between said plates filled with sponge or other porous material, while the space or chamber between the inner and outer shell of the retort serves as a mixing-chamber for the oil and air before being forced through the sponge and delivered to the service-pipe." (Lines 17-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1872
Creator: Gearing, Charles & Gearing, Franklin A. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harness. (open access)

Improvement in Harness.

Patent for an economically designed harness that can be attached and detached to the animal with greater simplicity.
Date: June 25, 1872
Creator: Ellis, Ira
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bed-Bug Exterminators. (open access)

Improvement in Bed-Bug Exterminators.

Patent for "a machine for exterminating bed-bugs by steam." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1873
Creator: Fewell, Calvin L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for a new and useful seed-planter for corns and cottons, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.

Patent for a "compound for killing the cotton-worm and other insects that infest, eat, and damage the leaves of the cotton-plant," which "consists in combining a poisonous, an adhesive, and a diffusive ingredient in one and the same compound." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1873
Creator: Royall, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings.

Patent for the improvement of bale-tie fastenings, including illustrations.
Date: June 2, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Worms in the Cotton-Plant. (open access)

Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Worms in the Cotton-Plant.

Patent for a method of "destruction of the cotton-worm, and this object is accomplished by sprinkling the plants on which the worm feeds with a solution of arsenic in water." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions.
Date: June 30, 1874
Creator: Mitchell, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for an improved bale-tie with a description of the tool and specifications for its usage, includes illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1878
Creator: Rutherford, William Bryson & Hawkins, Joel Turnham
System: The Portal to Texas History