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- Improvement in Addressing-Machines.
- Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Bag-Fasteners.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
- Improvement In Bagasse-Furnaces.
- Patent for improvements in Bagasse Burners or Furnaces.
- 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 Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improved cotton press: "Our invention consists of a contrivance for driving the screw, which works the follower by a worm when doing the work, and a toothed wheel when returning the follower; also, of a removable case which receives the pressed bale and carries it away on a truck to be tied, while another box takes its place to receive the next bale" (lines 8-15). Includes illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Door-Checks.
- Patent for "a device for holding the doors in open position, which is readily applied to the door and worked without noise or jamming; and the invention consists of a holder or knob, with recessed front end, attached to the base-board, and of a counter-sunk door plate or case provided with a rubber block, that binds on the recessed part of the holder to retain the door in open position." (Lines 10-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Excavators
- Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
- Improvement in Fire-Escape Ladders.
- This patent was created for the improvent of fire escape ladders. The inventor gives a comprehensive look at his invention via his image.
- Improvement in Fire-Tongs
- Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.
- Improvement in Fruit-Corers.
- Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for improvements to the gang-plow consisting of "an adjustable frame, within which two or more ordinary plows can be arranged to form the gang, said frame being constructed so as to enable one set of plows to run deep, while the other set can be made to run shallow." (Lines 15-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Guide-Wheels for Car-Trucks.
- Patent for a "device or attachment to car-trucks, &c., for preventing their being thrown off the track." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hoe-Handles.
- Patent for the improvement of hoe-handle tightening devices, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Horse-Powers.
- Patent for new improvement in the construction of horse-powers for cotton-gins and other machinery, including illustration.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
- Patent for a "compound for killing the cotton-worm and other insects that infest, eat, and damage the leaves of the cotton-plant," which "consists in combining a poisonous, an adhesive, and a diffusive ingredient in one and the same compound." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Leather-Cutting Gages
- Patent for improvement in leather cutting-gages in order to negate the need for the set-screw at the end of the gage handle that is needed to hold the rule. The document contains instructions and illustrations of the device.
- 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).
- Improvement in Pitmen.
- Patent for "a new and and useful Improvment in Crank and Pitman;" (lines 3-5) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "a plow which will effect a clean severance of the sod on the land side when operating in heavy, tenacious soil, and which will prevent the accumulation of rubbish against the edge of the mold-board or standard." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "means whereby the beam of a plow may be elevated or depressed at the front end according to the depth to which it is intended that the plow shall run, and held securely at several points of adjustment." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Riding-Plows.
- Patent for "an improved riding or sulky plow which shall be so constructed that the plow may be readily lowered into, raised from, and adjusted to run at any desired depth in the ground, and which may be adjusted to take or leave land, and to hold the carriage level when both wheels are running upon unplowed land, and when one wheel is running in a furrow." (Lines 14-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
- Patent for an improvement in road-scrapers, illustration included.
- Improvement in Sand-Conveyers.
- Patent for a machine for "taking up and conveying sand into a suitable receptacle". Patent for breaking up sand and transferring it into a receptacle by means of circular cutters, conducting apron, inclined plate.
- Improvement in seed-planters.
- Patent for a seed planter that drops seeds into the plow furrow, where a roller covers the seeds with dirt. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Truss-Bridges.
- Patent for an improved method of truss-bridge construction, "whether made with a single or double roadway and with or without a sidewalk upon one or both sides, so as to enable them to be made with less material and less expense than when made in the ordinary manner, and which shall at the same time have an equal or greater strength." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvements in Corn-Shellers.
- Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.
- Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.