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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 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 Machines for Oiling Slides and Glides.
Patent for a new machine to be used for oiling slides and glides for engines, &c., includes illustration.
Date:
June 4, 1878
Creator:
Bates, Asa N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 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 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 Paper-Clips.
Patent for the improvement of paper-clips, made out of a single piece of metal. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 4, 1872
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Plows.
Patent to improve the construction of the mold-board of the plow described in Letters Patent No. 163,352, "to make it more effective in preventing the black lands of Texas and other sticky and waxy soils from adhering to it, and to enable a proper furrow to be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 20, 1876
Creator:
Bell, Francis R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improvement in plows which will allow for adjustments in width.
Date:
June 26, 1876
Creator:
Traweek, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum.
The production of chewing-gum will become much simpler with the improved patent of chewing-gum.
Date:
June 23, 1877
Creator:
Cotter, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pump-Buckets
Patent for new and improved pump-buckets, which are more cheaper and much more durable. The much improved pump-buckets fasten together with chains as well as metal plates.
Date:
October 9, 1877
Creator:
William, Mayfield D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scale-Beams.
Patent for "the movable weight used on scale-beams; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the weight to slip over the scale-beam, and with a roller, upon which the weight rests or is suspended, in combination with a locking device." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scrapers.
Patent for a horse-drawn excavator that includes a scoop attached to wheels.
Date:
June 16, 1874
Creator:
Arcos, Ignacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines
Patent for a seed-planting machine with adjustable mechanisms that allows the user to customize the seeding machine for a specific project.
Date:
June 2, 1874
Creator:
Lee, Abram & Sinks, Edward Randolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Shuttles
Patent for an improved sewing-machine shuttle, which shuffles the bobbins back and forth among one another. This makes sewing faster for easier for any person who sews.
Date:
June 30, 1877
Creator:
Nott, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Shoe-Lacings
Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Lindemann, August W. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.
Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Speed-Measures.
Patent for a "means for indicating the degree of speed with which an engine or train of cars is passing over a rail-road, and for enabling an engineer to regulate the speed of his engine to conform to the 'time' enjoined by his table, so that he will run at an even degree of speed, and be required neither to 'slow down' to save his schedule nor quicken the pace of his engine to make up lost time." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1875
Creator:
Minton, Stephen F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Sulky-Plows
Patent for sulky plow improvements plow beams, pivot studs, and plow frame.
Date:
June 5, 1877
Creator:
Fowler, Albert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement
Patent for the improvement in the manufacture of hydraulic cement with specifications for the manufacturing process and a description of usage.
Date:
June 25, 1878
Creator:
Dimelow, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits.
Patent for "Improvement in the Mode of extracting Flavors from Grain." (lines 3-4)
Date:
June 14, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
Patent for an improvement in vapor burners used in self-generating gas burners.
Date:
June 23, 1874
Creator:
Sawyer, Frederick A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History