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- 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.
- 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.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters using a combination of an adjustable agitator and a movable self-adjusting stirrer, including illustration.
- Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers
- Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
- Improvement in Saw-Sets.
- Patent for a simply constructed device for setting the teeth of saws. Includes illustrations and descriptions of its parts and usage.
- Improvement in Lamps
- Patent for the construction of a combined oil burning lamp and candlestick.
- Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller.
- Patent for an invention "to combine and arrange a cultivator, plow, harrow, and roller, with draught-wheels, axle, draught-pole, and an adjustable supporting-frame, in such a manner that the several parts can be used together or independently." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for a new and improved hay and cotton press, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Single-Trees
- Patent for "a new and Improved Single-Tree and Breast Yoke." (lines 3-4) Includes specifications and illustrations.
- Improvement in Machines for Tightening Iron Bands on Bales.
- Patent for an apparatus that consists of "a series of metal bars to be inserted between what is known as the 'channel bars or teeth,' both on the upper and lower platens of a compress used for compressing cotton-bales, which bars thus inserted shall be so attached to the channel-bars that, by the force of springs, the said bars will be kept below the surface of the teeth on the platens, allowing ample space to insert the iron bands to be used in tying the bales, in the same manner as they are now universally inserted." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Mosquito-Net Frames.
- Patent for "mosquito-net frames which are made adjustable, so that they may be extended over the bed or folded compactly, according to the requirements of use." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Sheet-Metal Cans.
- Patent for sheet-metal cans, specifically a spout attachment for cans.
- Improvement in Levers for Presses.
- Patent for improvements on locks and fasteners of shutters.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds
- Patent for improvement in insect,specifically cotton worms, destroying compounds . Included list of chemicals and measures of amount used.
- Improvement in Ironing-Machines.
- Patent for a new ironing machine design, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Portable Fences
- Patent for an improvement to portable fences so that they can be "easily and cheaply constructed in sections, and then quickly put together and firmly braced and supported." (lines 14-17) Illustration included.
- Improvement in Automatic Fans.
- Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
- Improvement in Bed-Bug Exterminators.
- Patent for "a machine for exterminating bed-bugs by steam." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a new and useful seed-planter for corns and cottons, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Automatic-Gates.
- Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Farm-Gates" (lines 3-4) allowing persons riding to open and close a swinging gate.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an improved bale-hoop tie, consisting of a tongue and slot locking device, which may be used for cotton or other bales, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for the improved design of a bale-hoop tie, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying the Cutting Ant.
- Patent for "an improved apparatus for destroying the cutting ants in their nests." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cane-Seats for Chairs.
- Patent for improvement in cane-seats for chairs by simplifying the process of dispensing the drawing of the cane through the chair-frame; thereby reduce materials used to produce the chairs. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
- Patent for an improved cotton-picking machine, including illustrations.
- Coffin.
- Patent for "a coffin of improved construction and composition, to so construct the same as to render it impervious to the action of water or moisture, and to render said coffin strong and durable and admit of the same being produced in a neat and ornamental form." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cloth Measuring Reel.
- Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a simple and reliable car-coupling that embodies "novel features of construction that adapt[s] said coupling for an automatic coupled engagement with a similar coupling, and that may be safely uncoupled from the side of the car whereon the improvement is secured" (lines 11-16).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in baling-presses." (Lines 5-6) Illustrations are included.
- Carriage Top.
- Patent for a new and improved carriage top. This design consists in "the combination, with a vehicle-seat, a series of top-supporting bows pivoted thereto, and a jointed brace having its lower end pivoted to the seat and its upper end to one of the bows, of a rigid operating-lever having its upper end pivoted to said jointed brace and its lower end adjustably connected with the seat, whereby the position of the lower end of said lever may be varied and the brace and top secured in any desired position" (lines 51-60).
- Shearing and Punching Machine.
- Patent for punches and shears combined to cut metal longitudinally.
- Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.
- Patent for an expansion bit for a well-drilling apparatus that can be "adjusted and removed without without withdrawing the well tubing, and to provide means whereby a bit capable of drilling a hole sufficiently larger than the well tubing to accommodate a casing may be introduced through the tubing" (lines 11-16).
- Bicycle.
- Patent for a bicycle that can be operated by the operator's hands or feet or both, and the motion used to operate the bicycle is that of rowing. "the rider must assume a position upon the machine corresponding to that assumed by an oarsman in a boat, and as the rider can work with both hands and feet all the energy and strength he is capable of exerting can be brought to bear upon the propelling mechanism in a most effective manner, and the seat can be rendered much more comfortable than at present and in no wise interfere with the rider's movements" (lines 18-27).
- Combined Stalk-Cutter and Rake.
- Patent for an improved combined stalk cutter and rake that has a main frame, a rake frame, a hanger attached to the axle-bar under the frame, arms at the back of the frame, a transverse rod in the hanger and slots in the arms, a rock-lever, connections for operating the frame, a rake at the end of the frame, and an operating lever.
- Car-Replacer
- Patent for invention for new and useful improvements in Car-Replacer. The invention relates to improvements in car replacers which can easily be applied to a track or rail which will quickly and easily cause the car to enter upon the track and which cannot possibly become displaced by the weight and strain of the car
- Belt-Tightener
- Patent for an improvement in belt fasteners, "especially adapted for use in connection with the running belts of planning, sizing, matching, molding and like machines" (lines 10-12) so that belts may be adjusted to tighten or loosen easily.
- Broadcast Seeder.
- Patent for a broadcast seeder designed to "cultivate, plant, and subsequently roll or cover the seed, the elements for accomplishing the same being combined in a single device simply constructed" (lines 10-13).
- Base Ball Game.
- Patent for a new and improved board game. This design "consists of a game-board marked out to represent a baseball field and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, provision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs" (lines 13-22).
- Bent for Suspension-Bridges.
- Patent for improvements in bents for suspension-bridges by securing the columns with wire braces, cross-bar and anchor-pins. Illustration is included.
- Bird-Cage
- Patent for "bird-cages of the circular kind, wherein the main-frame wires have a band at their lower ends and a single tie-wire arranged diametrically across the band. . .to utilize the single diametrical tie-wire as a support for an inverted interiorly screw-threaded connecting-cap, and to combine with such a device a pan" (lines 10-12 and 17-23).
- Clasp.
- Patent for a new and improved clasp. This design "is to make a fastener for pieces of leather by which bridles and other parts of harness may be made with less stitching and riveting, thereby lessening the labor and cost of manufacture" (lines 15-20). To this end, it consists in "two plates, [one] having key-hole slots with beveled side walls, and the [other] carrying studs undercut . . . and provided with top pin, in combination with the spring-plate perforated . . . to receive [the] pin to form the leather clasp or fastening described" (lines 77-83).
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "comprise[s] a frame and case having aligned baling-chambers at opposite ends, a follower having two head-blocks working one in each of the baling-chambers, a shaft journaled between the baling-chambers, and two ropes connected at one end to the shaft and at their other ends to the opposite head-blocks" (lines 46-53).
- Bath Tub.
- Patent for a new and improved bath tub. This design consists in "a removable bottom provided with perforations or openings, and with supports to sustain it above the permanent bottom of the tub, a single opening in said tub below the level of the removable bottom for inlet and outlet purposes, a valve for closing said opening, and a rod within reach of the head of the tub for operating the valve and the cover" (lines 9-16).
- Apparatus for Handling Brick.
- Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
- Apparatus For Emptying Barrels Or Other Receptacles Containing Liquids.
- Patent for a device to empty barrels and other receptacles containing liquids, including illustrations.
- Caster and Insect Guard Combined.
- Patent for a new and improved combined caster and insect guard for furniture. This design consists "[i]n a combined caster and insect guard, the combination, with a suitable spindle, of a segmented cup or vessel having a central upwardly-extending bearing for such spindle, and provided on its under side with a recess the edges of which are provided with bearings for a wheel or caster" (lines 95-101).
- Combination Tool.
- Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists of a tool having a staple-holder, a driver, a chisel, a vise attachment, and a detachable driver adapted to be used with the vise to splice the ends of the wire in building wire fences, in which the tool is used for driving staples, cutting the wire, and splicing the wire, the several devices forming a combination-tool disposed for convenient use upon a stock or holder" (lines 9-17).
- Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.
- Patent for a combined cotton and corn planter by having two wheel guards and graduators, one feed-wheel is mounted fixedly on the shaft, the other is removable; so that it can be easily converted from planting corn or cotton-seed, and vice versa, and regulating the planting of either. Illustration is included.
- Construction of Privy-Vaults.
- Patent for an improvement of privy-vaults using a soil-pipe with sleeve adapted to be connected with the trap-door of the vault-floor into an air-chamber where a ventilating-pipe is placed directly above a furnace; the noxious gases along with the products of combustion in the furnace would be drawn from the air-chamber and carried off to the outer air. Illustration is included.