Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Collection: Texas Patentshttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TXPT/browse/?fq=untl_decade:1860-1869&fq=str_location_county:Brazoria+County,+TX2011-07-20T11:29:10-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Collection: Texas PatentsImprovement in Cotton-Seed Planters.2011-07-20T11:29:10-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165099/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165099/"><img alt="Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters." title="Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165099/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters using a combination of an adjustable agitator and a movable self-adjusting stirrer, including illustration.</p>Hanging Millstones.2011-07-20T11:29:10-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165103/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165103/"><img alt="Hanging Millstones." title="Hanging Millstones." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165103/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.</p>Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.2011-07-20T11:29:10-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165116/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165116/"><img alt="Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers." title="Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165116/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for the improvement of a cotton scraper "for general cultivation of drill-husbandry" (lines 17-18) and cotton crops, including illustration.</p>Improvement in Seeding-Machines.2011-07-20T11:29:10-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165109/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165109/"><img alt="Improvement in Seeding-Machines." title="Improvement in Seeding-Machines." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165109/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for the improvement of seed-planters using a rotary system to distribute seeds from a drum and into the soil, including illustration.</p>