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4
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Collection
Texas Patents
18,572
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887
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76
Rescuing Texas History, 2019
5
The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
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States
Decade
Month
Propeller of Machinery to be used in Currents.
Patent for a propelled water wheel that is attached to the back of a vessel that uses a current of water and stream power, including illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1851
Creator:
Hardie, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress.
Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1854
Creator:
Gaines, Edmund P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the Rotary-Disk Cutters for plows that enable it to swivel and be supported by guides, including illustration.
Date:
April 3, 1855
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the gang plow by the plows arrangement and pivoted beams to be adjustable for convenience, including illustration.
Date:
May 1, 1855
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mode of Straining Saws by Atmospheric Pressure.
Patent for the improvement of the reciprocating saw by simplifying the arrangement of cylinders, pipes, and exhaust pumps to produce the necessary vacuum, including illustration.
Date:
August 14, 1855
Creator:
Brown, A. & Coffin, Abel, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Mode of Regulating the Velocity and Furling the Sails of Wind-Wheels.
Patent for a new windmill using different parts to help regulate the sails and for folding and unfolding the sails, including illustration.
Date:
March 24, 1857
Creator:
Witting, F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harvesters.
Patent for cutting grain in gavels at regular intervals along the track of the machine, including illustration.
Date:
April 21, 1857
Creator:
Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compositions Used as Building Materials.
Patent for making a new kind of building and fencing materials by using farm waste and inorganic settable ingredients such as quick-lime, clay or soil. No illustration.
Date:
October 12, 1858
Creator:
Raymond, N. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Water-Wheel.
Patent for the improvement of the water-wheel using curved buckets over a spiral water passage to increase power and volume, including illustration.
Date:
February 8, 1859
Creator:
Littlepage, C. V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and low maintenance submerged rotary pump, including illustration.
Date:
February 22, 1859
Creator:
Fagan, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gins.
Patent for the improvement of the cotton-gin by the arrangement of two cylindrical brushes and rollers to reduce damaging the staple of the cotton, illustrations included.
Date:
April 19, 1859
Creator:
Gottheil, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the plow using braces and mold-board for a sturdy and very durable plow, including illustration.
Date:
November 15, 1859
Creator:
Townsend, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress.
Patent for an improved millstone-dress that produce less heat while grinding by employing a greater number of furrows, including illustration.
Date:
March 20, 1860
Creator:
Littlepage, C. V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for improvement in pump-drills for boring artesian wells by “combining pump-valves and pistons with a drill for boring artesian or other wells” (lines 21-23), including illustration.
Date:
April 17, 1860
Creator:
Taney, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improved plow to turn and reverse the mold-board by using a single bolt to secure the reversible mold-board onto the stock of a plow.
Date:
May 15, 1860
Creator:
Pitts, William C.
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.
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for an improvement of gang-plows by arranging the plows in rows on to a fame which can be fastened to a wagon, when the wagon is in motion, it causes the plows to work in vertical motion. The height of the plow-frame can be adjusted. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 3, 1860
Creator:
Wilson, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Boiler.
Patent for the improvement for steam boilers by having a detachable fire-box for a portable boiler with little maintenance and efficient as a steam generator, including illustration.
Date:
March 5, 1861
Creator:
Porter, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Oven.
Patent for outdoor use of the Dutch oven and skillet converting the cover of the Dutch oven as a way to suspend frying pan or gridiron over coals to heat, including illustration.
Date:
July 12, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Curing Meat, &c.
Patent for curing meat using an air-tight brine vacuum to heat and purify the meat, including illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1846
Creator:
Allen, Augustus C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fish-Hooks.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in the Sockdolager Fish-Hook" (lines 4-5), including illustration.
Date:
April 11, 1854
Creator:
Sigler, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for the improvement of the rotary cultivator with adjustable thinning-points and rotating cutter, including illustration.
Date:
April 10, 1855
Creator:
Morrel, A. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History