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- Breakwater.
- Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
- Bolt for Doors.
- Patent for the improvement of bolt locks on double doors using a lever lock for safety and ease of locking and unlocking one or both doors, including illustration.
- Air-Chamber.
- Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
- Method of Repairing Circular-Saw Teeth.
- Patent for enabling the teeth of circular saws to be drawn out and hammered for repair, 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.
- Medical Compound.
- Patent for a cough syrup formula made from various plant extracts, to treat inflammatory diseases. No illustration.
- Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of the seeding-machine by having a lever that allows the driver to operate the hopper-box, harrow, and smoothing-roller at any time, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Cultivator" (lines 3-4) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for a plow called the "The Texas Cultivator" (line 7) that uses left and right wings and diamond plows that may be used to plow either side of stock to eliminate additional operators and time for the same job, including illustration.
- Improvment in Steam-Plows.
- Patent for one machine that plows, sows, roles and harrow soil in one operation or separately, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Rotary Engines.
- Patent for improvements in rotary engines.
- Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.
- Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
- Improved Medical Preparation.
- Patent for an invention of a powder that is said to aid in curing scurvy. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
- Coffee and Teapot.
- Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
- Boiler Washing Machine.
- Patent for "Improved Washing Machine" in combination with a boiler, "and with a furnace on which the boiler rests".
- 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 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 treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits.
- Patent for "Improvement in the Mode of extracting Flavors from Grain." (lines 3-4)
- Improvements in Velocipedes
- Patent for improvements to a single-wheel velocipede.
- Improvement in Drawing Off Tallow, Lard &c., from Rendering-Tanks.
- Patent for a new method for drawing off tallow, lard, etc. from pressure tanks by introducing water. This includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Current-Wheels.
- Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Elevators.
- Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow.
- Patent for "a strong, simple, durable, and effective machine, which shall be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily adjusted for use as a gang plow, seed-sower, seed-planter, cultivator, and cotton-scrape, and which will do its work thoroughly and well in either capacity." Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants.
- Patent for improvement in insect destroyer by “placing a gas-generator on a wagon, in its lower chamber, a fire box is placed for creating sulphurous gas. A bellows attached to its lower end to regulate sufficient air in forming the sulphurous gas.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Slaughtering and Curing Meat
- Patent for the design of a facility to slaughter, pack, preserve, and cure meat.
- Improved Anchor for Animals.
- Patent for improvement in animals’ anchor in which it allow the animals to graze without being twisted or wound up the rope by using the combination of a swiveled loop and a pivoted loop with each other, and a pin. “This pin is made with four wings, or radial longitudinal flanges, tapering to a point at its lower end and is readily forced into the ground, and easily drawn out, but will resist a very strong side-draught.” (Lines23-27) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Carriage-Axles.
- Patent for improvements to carriage axles which include the addition of a sleeve, bearing, and linch-pin device.
- Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
- Improvement in Scrapers.
- Patent for a horse-drawn excavator that includes a scoop attached to wheels.
- Improvement in Farm Gates.
- Patent for "a gate herein I dispense with the use of hinges and other similar devices and prevent sagging; also that the operation of opening or shutting the gate, owing to its balanced and suspended condition, is attended with little or no exertion on the part of the operator..." (lines 84-90) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator," (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Wheel-Plows
- Patent for a wheel plow designed to be simple, durable, easily controlled, and of light draft.
- Improvement in Whiffletree-Fastenings.
- Patent for the improvement of whiffletree fastenings, relating to the means by which single-trees are attached to a double-tree. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Water-Elevators.
- Patent for "an endless chain of buckets on a reel for working them, so contrived that it tilts the buckets so that they empty and pass the spout without revolving, whereby the contrivance is simpler and better than when they are made to revolve, and the buckets are linked together by a novel contrivance for carrying them, to enter the water bottom downward, and to allow the air to escape when filling." (Lines 5-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improving the way that hay bales are tied and bound. This bale tie is an addition to a previous patent (number 152,138).
- Improvements In Dropping-Bottles
- Patent for improvements in dropping-bottles that can be used by doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to dispense medicine one drop at a time.
- Improvements in Riding-Saddles.
- Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
- 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.
- Improvement in Sulky-Plows
- Patent for sulky plow improvements plow beams, pivot studs, and plow frame.
- Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.
- Patent for a foot operated wagon braking mechanism, including illustrations. Patent for a better alternative to lever brakes on buggies and wagons as the braking mechanism is "out of the way, and not noticeable or prominently visible from the sides of the vehicle".
- Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
- Patent for an improvement in vapor burners used in self-generating gas burners.
- Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.
- Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
- Improvement in Speed-Measures.
- Patent for a "means for indicating the degree of speed with which an engine or train of cars is passing over a rail-road, and for enabling an engineer to regulate the speed of his engine to conform to the 'time' enjoined by his table, so that he will run at an even degree of speed, and be required neither to 'slow down' to save his schedule nor quicken the pace of his engine to make up lost time." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Scale-Beams.
- Patent for "the movable weight used on scale-beams; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the weight to slip over the scale-beam, and with a roller, upon which the weight rests or is suspended, in combination with a locking device." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement In Shoe-Lacings
- Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
- Improvement in Fluting-Irons.
- Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Sewing-Machine Shuttles
- Patent for an improved sewing-machine shuttle, which shuffles the bobbins back and forth among one another. This makes sewing faster for easier for any person who sews.
- Improvement in Paper-Clips.
- Patent for the improvement of paper-clips, made out of a single piece of metal. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Fences
- Patent for an improvement in fences through the manufacturing of a fence or fence-paneling of hoop-iron, so that it may be sold in sections of any desired length, rolled up in compact form, easily and cheaply transported to any distance, and put up by the farmer with rapidity and facility.