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- Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
- Improvement in Convertible Cotton-Planter.
- Patent for improvement in convertible cotton-planters. The mechanism has a seed-dropping mechanism and a rear or side plow covers the dropped seed.
- Improvement in Combined Cultivator and Planter.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a combined corn and cotton planter and cultivator" (lines 3-6), includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator.
- Patent for "a new and improved gang plow and cultivator" (lines 3-4), including instructions and illustrations. "This invention relates to a new agricultural machine which may be readily changed from a gang-plow into a cultivator, and vice-versa" (lines 15-17).
- Improvement in Single-Trees.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Wooden Single-Trees" (lines 3-4), "for plows and other similar drafts" (lines 15-16), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Carriage-Axle Boxes.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in carriage-axle boxes and spindles" (lines 3-5), includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
- Patent for a "new and valuable improvement in cotton-planters" (lines 3-4), for planting cotton seeds, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Heater and Feeder for Steam-Boilers.
- Patent for "a new and valuable improvement in supplying feed-water to steam-boilers" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Rifle-Barrels.
- Patent for a "new and useful improvement in firearms" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations. The invention provides "a gun-barrel with a number of cutters or plows for grooving the ball, said cutters or plows to correspond with with the number of guides or ribs which the gun is formed" (lines 20-25).
- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
- Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
- Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
- Improvement in Combination-Hoes.
- Patent for "hoes in which the blade is made detachable from the handle-eye, and the latter made to receive several blades or other attachments." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.
- Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved band-cutting and feeding attachment for thrashing machines. This design receives grain bundles "upon an endless traveling apron provided with teeth or claws, and by it conveyed under rotary cutters, which sever the bands, the grain being then scattered or spread out by a vibrating rake into a thin sheet as it passes to the toothed cylinder. The invention relates more particularly to the construction and arrangement of parts" (paras. 3-4).
- Improvement in Baling-Presses.
- Patent for a baling press "intended for compressing and re-pressing cotton for shipment" (para. 4), and is created using a "simple and efficient" (para. 2) design.
- Improvement in Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.
- Patent for improvements to machinery for cleaning cotton by passing the raw material over various sizes of mesh and using air to draw out dirt.
- Improvement in Earth-Augurs.
- Patent for a new auger design for "boring and excavating wells" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Post-Hole Diggers
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in Post-Hole Diggers.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for "revolving-cylinder seed-planters; and its object is to furnish a strong and durable implement adapted to plant with precision various kinds of seed, and the wheels of which are not liable to become clogged with earth." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed and Corn Planters
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton seed and corn planters which lists the design specifications.
- 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).
- Earth-Augers.
- Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design calls for "a hinged door having its edge folded or bent to form an air-tube . . . [and] a pair of hemi-cylindrical doors having on one or both an air duct or ducts," as well as interchangeable bits with a shouldered and threaded shank and a nut combined and arranged in a novel way (paras. 12-15).
- Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
- Patent for improvements on insect destroyers to be used in cotton fields, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
- Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
- Improvement in Combined Awning and Shutter.
- Patent for a "combined fire and burglar proof shutter and awning" (line 5-6).
- Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.
- Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
- Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
- Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Faucets.
- Patent for "an improved faucet, which shall be so constructed that it will not be liable to be injured by being screwed into and out of the cask, which will not be liable to leak, which will have the button of the valve-stem protected from accidental injury, and shall be simple in construction and easily operated." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Saddle-Trees.
- Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
- Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
- Patent for an improvement on neck-yokes that have a "swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole" (line 18-19).
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for improving the washing machine by being operated by a spring-motor.
- Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
- Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.
- Improvement in Ballast-Distributing Cars
- Patent for ballast-distributing design with new design in changing rails and weight from car to car, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
- Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
- Improvemnt in Cotton-Gin Feeders
- Patent for new improvements to the cotton-gin making the feeders simpler to use especially for the well versed.
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for improving fire-escapes and provides a portable instrument that "may be used for letting persons directly down from buildings, or for carrying them from the upper stories of buildings to others buildings at a distance" (lines 9-12).
- Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement on sulky-plows which allows it to be adjusted for different uses.
- Improvement in Car Brake and Starter.
- Patent for improvements in car brakes "of novel and simple construction" (lines 24-25).
- Improvement in Garden-Pumps.
- Patent for improvements in garden-pumps: "a garden-pump with attachments for sprinkling liquid poison" (lines 13-15).
- Improvement in Hopples.
- Patent for improvement in hopples: "consists of a metallic band composed of three equal parts, two of which are hinged to a third, and provided with a fastening, by means of which it may be secured to the leg of the animal" (lines 14-19).
- Improvement in Piles for Bulk-Heads and Other Structures.
- Patent for improvements in piles for bulkheads: "The object of the present invention being to provide a concrete-faced bulk-head composed of piles, each of which may be sunk in position by continuously forcing the sand from beneath the lower end of the pile" (lines 15-19), with illustrations.
- Improvement in Walking-Planters
- Patent for improvements of a new walking planter where the design is much improved to that of the cotton planters. The new improvements of the walking planter are much safer because of the hopper that is in the new and improved equipment, including illustrations.
- Improvement In Water-Elevators.
- Patent for improvements to water-elevators using water-vessels which are suspended from a chain or cord, also known as endless carriers.
- Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
- Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
- Improvement in Faucets.
- Patent for a faucet "which is inexpensive in its construction, easily repaired, and efficient in operation" (lines 7-8), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for a rope-and-pulley fire escape apparatus, including illustration.