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- Insect-traps
- Patent for an improvement in ant traps. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Picket-Fences.
- Patent for a new design for a picket fence which is simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture.
- Improvement in Fruit-Corers.
- Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.
- Improvement in Sheet-Metal Cans.
- Patent for sheet-metal cans, specifically a spout attachment for cans.
- Improvement in bale-ties
- Patent for cotton bale ties, involving a lateral arm. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Hand-Vises.
- Patent for hand vise to use as a tool for mechanics to hold small articles, can be attached to bits or augers for gauging the depth of a hole bored, and also for countersinking such holes for screws.
- Improvement in Chairs.
- Patent for improvement in chairs consisting of self-adjusting chair-backs.
- Improvement In Circular-Saw Mills.
- Patent for an improved Circular Sawmill with an " improved adjustable feed mechanism" (pg 1). Illustration Included.
- Improvement in railroad switches
- Patent for an improvement in railroad switches, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improvement in churns by using an oblong box with a diamond-shaped dash fixed in the box. The churning is done by rapidly swing the box back and forth until butter is obtained. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for an improved Cotton Chopper. The device is horse drawn with adjustable wheels, plows and drivers seat (pg 2). Illustration Included.
- Safety-Harness
- Patent for a harnesses for horse-carriages designed to enable the instant detachment of the horse. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
- Patent for a new and improved process of production and distillation of turpentine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for "an improved car-coupling simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective and reliable in operation." (lines 12-14) e.g., including illustration.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improving a butter church mechanism.
- Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay.
- Patent for a method of combining bitumen, water, and clay for such purposes as plastering.
- Improvement in Presses.
- Patent for a new press design, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fish and Animal Traps
- Patent for an improvement in the design of traps intended for catching fish or animals. Includes illustration.
- Improvement in Blow Offs For Boilers
- Patent for Improvement in Blow Offs For Boilers provides details of the construction of the blow off device with two labeled Figures and descriptive text. Also includes the significance of the blow off device and how it will improve locomotive travel by conserving water.
- Improvment in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvement in digging or cultivation machines primarily adapted to the cultivation of cotton. Includes parts that can be added or removed from the machine, thereby reducing the number of machines needed for farm work. Includes illustrations and instructions.
- 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.
- Improvement in Earth Scrapers
- Patent for improved earth scrapers, the class of which are " mounted on Wheel and provided with slatted carriers" (pg 1). This earth scraper has a novel system that allows the machine to be turned around and still used where other machines cannot do so (pg 1).
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in rail-fence by using “triangular-shaped posted or couplings; it consists in arranging posts of a triangular form and a certain construction diagonally with the rails forming the body of each panel, so that long and short rails may be utilized.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues
- Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
- Improvement In Cultivators
- Patent for an improved cultivator, with adjustable wheel base, plow height and more (pg 1).
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Grinding-Mills.
- Patent for the improvement of grinding-mills, including a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
- Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines
- Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines" for which "the novelty consists in providing the tank with two separate apartments or boxes for containing, respectively, suds and clear water, and in arranging the separating partition so that an ordinary wringer may be attached thereto and used on the clothes as they pass from the suds-box to the clear-water box."
- Improvement in Car-Trucks.
- Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Axles for Vehicles
- Patent for "an Improvement in Wagon-Axle Skeins" that "has for its object to furnish an improved iron axle for wagons and other vehicles which shall be stronger without being heavier than iron axles made in the ordinary manner."
- Improvement in Mattress and Cushion Tackers.
- Patent for improvement in fasten materials that are used for mattresses or cushion together without being drawn through and lifted by the needles. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Harness.
- Patent for an economically designed harness that can be attached and detached to the animal with greater simplicity.
- Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Gas from Oils.
- Patent for "machines for the manufacture of gas from oils, benzine, gasoline, &c.; and it consists in providing the tank or cistern with a retort constructed with an outer cylinder surrounding one or more cylinders or tubes, which inner cylinder is provided with perforated plates at the top and bottom thereof, and the space between said plates filled with sponge or other porous material, while the space or chamber between the inner and outer shell of the retort serves as a mixing-chamber for the oil and air before being forced through the sponge and delivered to the service-pipe." (Lines 17-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Buckles.
- Patent for improvement in buckles by providing “with two two tongues on the same pivot, and with a guard for securing the same and the straps in position, thereby producing a simple and reliable means of connecting two straps.” (Lines 6-10) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings
- Patent for an improved car-coupling that lets cars couple automatically when they run together and uncouple automatically in the event of an accident. Includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement for Axle-Boxes for Vehicles
- Patent for an improvement in axle-boxes for vehicles which incorporates an adjustable tube that may take up the wear on its ends.
- Improvement in Beverages and Sirups from Mustang Grapes.
- Patent for manufacturing a syrup by mixing brown sugar, water, and Mustang grapes.
- 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 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.
- 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 Transplanters
- Patent for an improvement in transplanters, intended for use in transplanting cotton or other plants.
- Improvements in Joints for Railway Rails
- Patent for improvements in box or "fish" joints for railroad rails.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters
- Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, which allows for adjusting to plant less or more seeds as desired.
- Improvement in Stalk-Chopper
- Patent for an improvement in corn and cotton stalk-choppers, allowing for the stalks to be turned under by the plow and prevent their interference with the machine.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of washing machines, using two washboards. It includes a description and illustrations.