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- Improvement in Permutation Locks.
- Patent for improvements to permutation locks by various means.
- Improvement in Fire-Tongs
- Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.
- Improvement in Pen-Holders.
- Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for changes in the construction of a cultivator.
- Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person
- Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
- 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 Medical Compounds for Treating Chills, Fever, &c.
- Patent for the improvement of medical compounds for treating chills and fevers. The patent states the components of a "True Ague Pill."
- Improvement in Fluting Sad-Irons.
- Patent for "a new combination of fluting and sad-iron, of such kind that the upper fluting-roller will serve as handle for the sad-iron, there being thus no loose or separate parts required for the two functions." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Methods of Forming Saw-Teeth.
- Patent for "a rule for giving to the backs of saw-teeth such an angle as will allow the teeth to be made of proper strength and at the same time to be chambered out and pointed so that they will cut the wood like chisels instead of scraping or tearing the wood." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters.
- Patent for a medical compound prepared with whisky, gentian-root, cinchonabark, quassia and cloves which is intended as "a remedy for miasmatic fevers" (line 23) including instructions for the preparation and administration of the medicine.
- Improvement in Fire-Place Fenders.
- Patent for "an extensible fender adapted for large or small fire-places" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for a new arrangement of posts, rails, and false posts in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Electro-Magnetic Engines.
- Patent for "a new practical application of electro-magnetism to machinery for the purpose of moving the same and keeping it in motion, and developing a degree of force which is only limited by the reduced proportion of power applied. The invention consists principally in the transmission of electro-magnetic power through compressed air for motor purposes, and the mechanism and combination of machinery necessary for that purpose." (Lines 12-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hair-Triggers
- Patent for a hair-trigger for firearms.
- 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.
- Improvement in Clevises
- Patent for an adjustable clevis, consisting of a hinged loop and an eyebolt.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for improvements in presses for hay, cotton and similar substances, by making the machine portable and the box that holds hay or cotton is adjustable vertically and horizontally. Illustration is included.
- Mill-Stone Dress.
- Patent for Mill Stone Dressing- the pattern on a mill stone for the better grinding of grains into flour. The furrows and grooves of the new design allow grain to be "milled... at greater speed (and)even distribution."
- Improvement in Apparatus for Separating the Seed from Fruit-Pulp
- Patent for a simple machine "for separating the seed from the pulp of the Bois-de-Arc or Osage orange and other apples where the seed is required to be separated uninjured for planing and other purposes" (line 26-29).
- Improvement in Baling Presses.
- Patent for improvements to "the construction and combination of the levers, rack-bars, and pawls with each other, and with the follower and baling-box" (lines 15-17).
- 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.
- Improved Side-Saddle.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
- Improvement in Gun-Locks.
- Patent for "a novel application of hair-trigger catch to the main trigger, which operates together with a holder and separate springs." (Lines 30-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Coffee-Mills.
- Patent for an improvement to upright coffee-mills, "whereby the bearings are always maintained in their true relative positions, while the strain on the two is made automatically counteracting, and each part of the shell firmly and effectually supported by the other." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator
- Patent for a new gang-plow and cultivator design, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Gin Feeder
- Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including endless apron, toothed cylinder, and toothed equalizing and distributing bars. Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improved Washing-Machine.
- Patent for a machine for washing and wringing clothes, which can be used with a furnace for heating the water but has legs for support when being used separately from a furnace. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Grinding-Mills.
- Patent for an improvement in grinding mills which purports to save time.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
- Patent for a device to destroy "winged insects which are destructive to the cotton plants and other vegetation" (lines 19-21) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for the improvement of lint-rooms and cotton presses, including a description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Cultivators, Scrapers, and Choppers.
- Patent for a new cotton cultivator that allows for a worker to adjust the cultivator's angle based on soil depth.
- Improvement in Plows
- Patent for a new design for a subsoil plow. Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Worms in Cotton-Plants.
- Patent for using a solution of water and arsenic for killing cotton pests.
- Improvement in Grinding-Mills
- Patent for an improvement in grinding-mills, combining the operative mechanism with spindles - in which the both the grinding stones obtain relative surface speeds only half the actual speed of the stones.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.
- Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Photographing Children
- Patent for an improvement in machines for taking Photographs of small children.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
- Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
- Improvement in Bedsteads.
- Patent for the improvement of bedsteads in order to make them more convenient and durable.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses.
- Patent for improving the cotton and hay press.
- Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.
- Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Combination Locks.
- Patent for improved combination locks, with a bolt that is locked or unlocked by the combination of spindles and pivoted buttons. The invention combines the spindles in to an "annular ring having letters or numbers and a series of different shaped pegs or combinations of letters or figures or both jointly" (pg 1).
- Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges.
- Patent for "an apparatus in which the gases from one or more forges, instead of passing off unconsumed into the atmosphere, enter a furnace and are burnt therein, thereby furnishing heat for the generation of steam in a boiler connected with said furnace, which steam is used to drive a fan that impels a blast into each forge, and is also used to propel an engine that operates a hammer, the exhaust from the engine being conducted to the tuyeres of the forges through pipes in which are placed red-hot iron plates, which decompose the steam, taking up the oxygen, and liberating the hydrogen which is burnt in the forges." (Lines 12-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
- Patent for a refrigeration apparatus "in which a continuous operation is maintained by means of a current of ether or other volatile fluid which liquefies at a low temperature." (Lines 18-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Ice-Machines.
- Patent for improvements to the construction of "of the various parts of the [ice machine], whereby the reconversion of the ether into liquid before it reaches the freezing-vessel or chamber is better assured" (para. 3).
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "a new buckle or tie for holding the ends of the bands of cotton-bales" (lines 18-19) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Axle-Boxes, Sand-Bands, and Casings for Carriage-Wheel Hubs.
- Patent for improvements in combined axle-boxes, sand-bands, and casings for carriage-wheel hubs. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.