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Method of Repairing Circular-Saw Teeth.
Patent for enabling the teeth of circular saws to be drawn out and hammered for repair, including illustration.
Date:
June 10, 1856
Creator:
Parry, M. L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater.
Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date:
June 7, 1859
Creator:
Armour, D. Hillen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of the seeding-machine by having a lever that allows the driver to operate the hopper-box, harrow, and smoothing-roller at any time, including illustration.
Date:
June 14, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and Improved Cultivator" (lines 3-4) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for improvements in rotary engines.
Date:
June 5, 1866
Creator:
Hughes, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Velocipedes
Patent for improvements to a single-wheel velocipede.
Date:
June 20, 1869
Creator:
Dillaha, J. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History