Bolt for Doors. (open access)

Bolt for Doors.

Patent for the improvement of bolt locks on double doors using a lever lock for safety and ease of locking and unlocking one or both doors, including illustration.
Date: June 26, 1860
Creator: Bonney, N. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Chamber. (open access)

Air-Chamber.

Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
Date: June 18, 1861
Creator: Creuzbaur, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee and Teapot. (open access)

Coffee and Teapot.

Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Heiss, Gregor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Syringe for Destroying Cotton-Plant Worms. (open access)

Improvement in Syringe for Destroying Cotton-Plant Worms.

Patent for improved instrument to be used to destroy cotton-worms, this instrument “provided with a nozzle, having a fine discharge-passages, through which the liquid is forced slowly, in the form of spray, and that the same nozzle is provided with an inlet-tube, through which liquid can be rapidly drawn into the barrel for filling it, but which will be automatically shut at the commencement of discharging the liquid through the nozzle, and kept shut during such discharge.” (Lines 55-62) Illustration is included.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Robira, Antonio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Velocipede. (open access)

Improvement in Velocipede.

Patent for improvement in velocipedes by using “two levers that are secured by a pivot-connection to pendent vibrating fulcra, on each side of the machine, and to the cranks of the driving-wheel; this would develop greater power than can be brought to bear by the placing of the feet of the driver directly on pedals on the crank-pins, or wrists.” (Lines 32-37) Illustration is included.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Flint, Daniel P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Velocipede. (open access)

Improvement in Velocipede.

Patent for an improved arrangement of velocipedes "to allow the use of a much larger driving-wheel than is compatible with the use of pedals that are placed directly on the crank pins or wrists, and to increase the power that can be applied to the propulsion of the machine by the feet of the driver, and the the speed at which is may be driven." (Lines 16-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Flint, Daniel P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Velocipedes (open access)

Improvements in Velocipedes

Patent for improvements to a single-wheel velocipede.
Date: June 20, 1869
Creator: Dillaha, J. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for improvements in rotary engines.
Date: June 5, 1866
Creator: Hughes, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress. (open access)

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for improvement in millstone-dress by “making each of the main grooves in five sections, in combination with shoulders and inclined planes” (lines 17-19), including illustration.
Date: June 26, 1860
Creator: Gaines, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compound. (open access)

Medical Compound.

Patent for a cough syrup formula made from various plant extracts, to treat inflammatory diseases. No illustration.
Date: June 26, 1860
Creator: Reeves, J. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides. (open access)

Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.

Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1868
Creator: Milner, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants.

Patent for improvement in insect destroyer by “placing a gas-generator on a wagon, in its lower chamber, a fire box is placed for creating sulphurous gas. A bellows attached to its lower end to regulate sufficient air in forming the sulphurous gas.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Perl, M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Slaughtering and Curing Meat (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Slaughtering and Curing Meat

Patent for the design of a facility to slaughter, pack, preserve, and cure meat.
Date: June 29, 1869
Creator: Fulton, G. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for a plow called the "The Texas Cultivator" (line 7) that uses left and right wings and diamond plows that may be used to plow either side of stock to eliminate additional operators and time for the same job, including illustration.
Date: June 4, 1861
Creator: Cain, Shugar M. & Stelfox, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Medical Preparation. (open access)

Improved Medical Preparation.

Patent for an invention of a powder that is said to aid in curing scurvy. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
Date: June 11, 1867
Creator: Lege, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Anchor for Animals. (open access)

Improved Anchor for Animals.

Patent for improvement in animals’ anchor in which it allow the animals to graze without being twisted or wound up the rope by using the combination of a swiveled loop and a pivoted loop with each other, and a pin. “This pin is made with four wings, or radial longitudinal flanges, tapering to a point at its lower end and is readily forced into the ground, and easily drawn out, but will resist a very strong side-draught.” (Lines23-27) Illustration is included.
Date: June 8, 1869
Creator: Raiford, P. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Steam-Plows. (open access)

Improvment in Steam-Plows.

Patent for one machine that plows, sows, roles and harrow soil in one operation or separately, including illustrations.
Date: June 25, 1861
Creator: Saladee, Cyrus W.
System: The Portal to Texas History