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- Improvement in Locomotive Earth-Excavators.
- Patent for "an earth-excavator, principally for use in making the road-beds for railroads, which shall not only do its work continuously, but which shall be equally efficient in throwing up an embankment or in making a deep cut." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for "a novel means of hanging the gang of plows beneath the draft-frame, in combination with levers and link-connections, whereby the plows can be adjusted to run at any desired depth, and firmly held after the adjustment." (Lines 18-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.
- Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
- Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.
- Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Ventilators.
- Patent for improvement in ventilators which combines a bell-mouthed vane with white induction and black eduction pipes for the purpose of introducing fresh air and eliminating foul air from an enclosed area.
- Improvement in Adding-Machines.
- Patent for an improved adding-machine design.
- Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators
- Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement in bale-ties. "This invention relates to that class of ties or hoops for cotton-bales, in which the band of hoop iron is provided with rigid hooks, studs, or buttons, and matching perforations as means for adjustably uniting the ends."
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-presses, which increases convenience by using detachable parts to facilitate insertion of material and a windlass with a system of cords and levers to increase compression of cotton.
- Improvement in Spectacle-Frames.
- Patent for "spectacle-frames in which the bows are turned into a coil near the points where they are connected to the lens-hoops for the purpose of forming spring-joints, instead of the ordinary pivot-joints." (Lines 6-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for "an improved automatic car-coupling that may be readily uncoupled from the side and top, and be employed to couple cars of different heights." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for "a press by means of which the cotton can be backed and pressed into the bale in small quantities at a time, by alternating pressing a quantity, then lifting the follower, and inserting more, and pressing again, and so on until the bale is formed." (Lines 19-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for a bale tie that "form[s] a double lock-tie for securing the ends of baling-hoops, which cannot become detached or tear and whose outer surface face is flush, thereby rendering it impossible to catch against other packages, and thus be broken or torn off" (para. 2).
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-presses that relates to a specific combination toggle arms connected to a platen with a ball-and-socket or other joint and sliding guide rods.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for improving a plow device that is curved and has open grooves.
- Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.
- Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement brick machines that includes "an endless chain of molds at the bottom of the press box [...] in combination with a pressing plate and a cut-off plate" (lines 18-22).
- Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Cultivators.
- Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Combined Cotton Scraper, Chopper, and Cultivator" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Construction of Jails.
- Patent for improvement in construction of jails; in which a system of flues in between layers of a double floor provide ventilation through grates in the walls and upper layer of the floor, without compromising security.
- Improvement for Apparatus for Cutting Glue.
- Patent for a design for a battery-powered wire glue cutter/slicer including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Beef-Steak Tenderers.
- Patent for improvement in beef-steak tenderer by mounting “two studded or pointed rollers on to a stand; the rollers are arranged one above another, in order to mash the steak by rolling the meat between the rollers.” (Lines [6-9]) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Flat-Irons.
- Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Processes for Preparing and Drying Glue.
- Patent for a process of drying glue that uses superheated steam and a drying chamber.
- Improvement in Station-Indicators.
- Patent for improvements in railroad-station indicators to indicate to passengers the next stations and the distances between them.
- Improvement in Wash-Boilers.
- Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Wash-Boilers" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Windmills.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Windmills" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
- Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
- Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
- Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
- Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
- Improvements in Wheel-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
- Improvement in stilts.
- Patent for an improved stilt involving a stilt-rod and a tube that can be slid. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.
- Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Plow" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Churn-Dashers.
- Patent for "construction and arrangement of a churn-dasher..." ( lines 13-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Processes of Coloring Enameled Photographs.
- Patent for improving the coloring process of enameled photographs by using collodio-gelatine instead of warm gelatine.
- Improvement in Sad-Iron Heaters.
- Patent for improvements to sad-iron heaters, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-couplings
- Patent for "an automatic car-coupling, that may also be readily coupled with the common pin-and-link and other couplings, and be adjusted without going between the cars, so as to avoid all danger" (lines 14-18).
- Improvement in Beer-Refrigerators.
- Patent for "an improved refrigerator for cooling lager-beer in the keg, and keep it cool for a long time with a small quantity of ice" (lines 15-18) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Corn-Shellers.
- Patent for improvement in the design of the corn-sheller, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Excavators
- Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
- Improvement in Machines for Washing Photographs
- Patent for "a new and improved apparatus for washing photographic prints after fixing, for the purpose of removing the double hyposulphite of soda and silver formed in the body of the paper during the process of fixing" (lines 6-11).
- Improvements in Corn-Shellers.
- Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improved bale-ties, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Bale-Tie" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Metallic Window-Blinds.
- Patent for "a blind which acts both as a barrier to the progress of flames attacking windows and as a convenient shutter for the common purposes, and is adapted to be adjusted and securely locked in an open or closed position." (Lines 21-26) Includes instructions and 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 Reversible Sad-Irons.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Apparatus for Destroying Ants" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Farm-Fences.
- Patent for "a cheap and easily-constructed fence, and one which neither small nor large stock will be able to jump over or pass through." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Tire-Tighteners.
- Patent for a device "for the purpose of tightening or loosening tires on wheels belonging to any kind of vehicles without shrinking or cutting the tires." (Lines 6-9) Includes instructions and illustrations.