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- Improvement in Sewing-Machine.
- Patent for improvements to the sewing machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Sewing Machines
- Patent for "a new Improved Sewing-Machine" that "has for its object to provide more useful and efficient machines than those now in use."
- Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains.
- Patent for improvement in spark-conductors for railroad trains by using a “horizontal flue in sections and use “other devices to engage and disengage the sections, where by to arrest and extinguish sparks and conduct the smoke, ashes, and cinders to the rear.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Stalk and Cane-Puller.
- Patent for improvement in stalk puller by using “two pointed teeth or prongs peculiarly constructed, and secured to a suitable handle to which an adjustable fulcrum is connected, in order to allow the implement to be manipulated by persons of different statures and strength.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration is included.
- 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.
- Improvement in Tanning.
- Patent for improvements in tanning materials: "extractive matter for the manufacture of leather from the wood and bark of the mesquit - a tree of extensive growth on the prairies of western and north western Texas" (lines 9-13).
- Improvement in Three-Horse Equalizers.
- Patent for improvement in treble-trees by using “two stretcher-loops that are jointed on the double-tree at points on each side of the centre, so that the strain is not at one point, but somewhat distributed.” (Lines 42-44) “The loops can be adjusted so that should there be any material inequality in the strength of the three horses, one can equalized by arranging the loops accordingly nearer to or further away from the centre on either one or both sides.” (Lines 45-49) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Threshing-Machine.
- Patent for improvements in threshing-machine for threshing grain, with the improved machine, “grain may be threshed and separated from the straw in a very rapid and perfect manner, and without bruising or injuring the straw in any way.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
- 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.
- 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.
- Improvement in Vitreography.
- Patent for an invention that is similar to an adhesive, which aids in the ornamentation of windows. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
- Improvement in Wrench.
- Patent for improvements in monkey wrenches.
- Improvements in Velocipedes
- Patent for improvements to a single-wheel velocipede.
- Improvment in Cotton Cultivator.
- Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators: "designed more especially for cultivating cotton, scraping the earth away from the young plants, and thinning out the same" (lines 11-12).
- Improvment in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for the improvement in pressing cotton, hay, and tobacco with moveable bale-boxes and a more rapid-working press, including illustration.
- Improvment in Steam-Plows.
- Patent for one machine that plows, sows, roles and harrow soil in one operation or separately, including illustrations.
- Medical Compound.
- Patent for a cough syrup formula made from various plant extracts, to treat inflammatory diseases. No illustration.
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for an improved millstone-dress that produce less heat while grinding by employing a greater number of furrows, including illustration.
- 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.
- Pessary.
- Patent for an improved pessary, as an instrument to support for the uterus against prolapse, including illustration.
- Smith's Forge.
- Patent for "The improvements consists of a cast iron box" (line 12).
- 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.