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Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Rost, Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Clod-Crushers.
Patent for a land-drag and clod-crusher that will effectually crush the clods, level the land, and pack the soil, at one and the same operation.
Date:
May 16, 1876
Creator:
Crockett, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coffee-Pots
Patent for the design of an improved coffee and tea pot with an internal water reservoir, dripping cup for coffee or tea, gauge for water level, and two separate valves for the hot water and resulting coffee or tea. Includes illustration of both a sectional and horizontal elevation of coffee-pot design.
Date:
June 27, 1876
Creator:
Sherwood, Willis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Collars.
Patent for a device improving the speed and efficiency of shirt collar fastening, as well as the securing of items such as scarves and ties, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1876
Creator:
Mitchell, Frank G. & Saunders, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Dish and Clothes Washer.
Patent for a combined dish and clothes washer that has a tilting shelf for draining, attached to the sink for washing.
Date:
August 15, 1876
Creator:
Jackson, Ansberry Chapman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in a combined seed-planter, fertilizer-distributer, and cultivator by attaching some prongs to a dropping-wheel for the purpose of taking hold of the cotton-seed and draw it out of the hopper. This dropping-wheel can be covered with a case when planning seeds and, removed if fertilizer is to be distributed with small seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Flatau, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Spading, Plowing, and Stalk-Cutting Machines.
Patent for an earth working machine that can be used for spading, plowing and stalk-cutting by arranging “a series of spades in a plane parallel with the axis of the machine and interposed spades in planes at right angles thereto, all attached to a reciprocating cross-bar.” (P. 2, lines [29]-[33].) The spades are adjustable in height and, it can be removed to use as a cultivator. For stalk-cutting, the plows may be removed. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Mathes, William McConnell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compound Tools.
Improvement in Kitchen-Utensil for lifting pots, kettles, plates, and as a means for holding a device for mangling meats.
Date:
December 5, 1876
Creator:
Mayfield, Samuel B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in corn-planters.
Patent for an "improvement upon the planter described in Patent No. 8,408" (paragraph 3). The movement of a horse's shoulders causes vibrations that power a cropper-slide. Includes illustration.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Meeks, Nathan H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for "an improved machine for scraping, chopping, and cultivating corn and cotton" (lines 10-12) with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
McCormick, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-choppers by way of vertical rock-shafts.
Date:
May 25, 1876
Creator:
Burnham, Theodore O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Colquitt, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Jones, Henry B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses
Patent for a new and improved Cotton-Press. The invention relates to the press on which a Patent (No. 150,573) was granted May 5, 1874, to William B. Hollowell. It consists of a duplicate master-wheel on the drum for working the follower; also an improved contrivance for connecting the pitman to the lever and to its pivot, whereby the machine is rendered more efficient and may be lighter for a given strength.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Horn, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improved cotton press: "Our invention consists of a contrivance for driving the screw, which works the follower by a worm when doing the work, and a toothed wheel when returning the follower; also, of a removable case which receives the pressed bale and carries it away on a truck to be tied, while another box takes its place to receive the next bale" (lines 8-15). Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 17, 1876
Creator:
Davis, James Harvey & White, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivator and Chopper.
Patent for an improvement in cultivators and choppers which will allow for the adjustment by height and width.
Date:
October 7, 1876
Creator:
Killough, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Adjustable Cultivators"
Date:
February 8, 1876
Creator:
Price, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Detaching Horses
Patent for improvements for a device used to detach a horse or horses from a vehicle. Included illustration shows 3 elevation views of the detacher.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Craig, John Kerr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Allison, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dining-Tables.
Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers.
Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Harper, Elijah S., Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of ditching-machines by way of new construction techniques.
Date:
May 5, 1876
Creator:
Austin, Matthew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Double-Bitted Drills.
Patent for "an easy mode of straightening wells while drilling them through rock or earth, and also for enlarging the same into a cistern when it is desired to keep on hand a large supply of water." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1876
Creator:
Yarbrough, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.
Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History