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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 Seeding-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of the seed-box so the seeds are properly distributed into the soil while preventing the seed from clogging the machine, including illustration.
Date:
August 24, 1858
Creator:
Keiper, D. B. & Fox, A. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hair-Triggers
Patent for a hair-trigger for firearms.
Date:
August 24, 1869
Creator:
Schenck, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hair-Triggers.
Patent for improvement in fire-arms by arranging a hair-trigger on to a fire-arm that have a guard and a trigger without alternation of the interior mechanism of the gun-lock; it is not necessary for the application of a fly in the hammer to prevent the catching of the trigger in the rest-notch of the hammer. (Lines 11-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 24, 1869
Creator:
Schenck, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ox-Bows.
Patent for improvements to ox-bows so that they "shall not require bending, and which may be made in parts of the country where timber suitable for bending is scarce" (lines 9-12).
Date:
May 24, 1870
Creator:
Moore, Alfred L. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pen-Holders.
Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.
Date:
January 24, 1871
Creator:
George, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Machines for Making Paving-Blocks.
Patent for the improvement in machines for making paving-blocks.
Date:
October 24, 1871
Creator:
Brooks, Samuel Wallace
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for a new and improved process of production and distillation of turpentine, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "an improved car-coupling simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective and reliable in operation." (lines 12-14) e.g., including illustration.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Allen, Henry & Baldwin, Addison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improving a butter church mechanism.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Messick, William P. & Messick, Harvey T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay.
Patent for a method of combining bitumen, water, and clay for such purposes as plastering.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses.
Patent for a new press design, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lasswell, Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new design for a picket fence which is simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture.
Date:
December 24, 1872
Creator:
Willhite, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sawing-Machines.
Patent for a new and improved pulley-operated, roller-fed log sawing machine
Date:
May 24, 1873
Creator:
Bell, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Running Gears for Wagons.
Patent for improvement in running gears for wagons. Improvement for class of vehicles in which the axles revolve with the wheels.
Date:
June 24, 1873
Creator:
Meddows, Issac Orson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new improvement in apparatus for wiring picket-fences to hold the wires tight, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Parks, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement in combined plows, planters, and cultivators, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Urban, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dish-Washing Machines.
Patent for a dish washer that allows dishes to be placed on shelves and rotated through a column of water. The machine can also be modified for washing clothing. It includes illustrations.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Starr, Henry Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guards for Wire Bale-Ties.
Patent for improving the method of tying the bales together whether it be cotton or hay so that the material will not get cut into by the wiring.
Date:
February 7, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps.
Patent for a reusable scaffold clamp for assembling builders' scaffolds, eliminating the need for nails or bolts.
Date:
April 24, 1874
Creator:
Crockett, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "an improved cotton-press, which is mainly devised for use on smaller cotton-plantations for baling smaller crops in a very convenient and rapid manner, with considerable economy in power and hands." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 24, 1874
Creator:
Koehl, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Bale-Ties
Patent for improved Bale-Ties which is designed to unite the two ends of a binder placed around a compressed mass of cotton, hay, or moss.
Date:
November 24, 1874
Creator:
Reese, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-couplings
Patent for "an automatic car-coupling, that may also be readily coupled with the common pin-and-link and other couplings, and be adjusted without going between the cars, so as to avoid all danger" (lines 14-18).
Date:
August 24, 1875
Creator:
Harper, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for "a machine for ironing clothing by means of a revolving heated roller, under which is passed a reciprocating table, on which the clothing is placed." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1876
Creator:
Bailey, Charles F. & Perrenot, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History