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- Car Ventilation.
- Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
- Carbureter.
- Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
- Fire and Burglar Proof Safe.
- Patent for a safe "constructed as to be safe from fire and burglars, and at which the same time may be made lighter, and may be less expensive in manufacture than when made in the usual way." (para. 4). Additionally, safe is airtight and water-proof.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
- Patent for an "improvement in devices for destroying ants and burrowing animals of all kinds." (lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton.
- Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.
- 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 Balanced Valves.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of balanced slide valves for steam and other engines, 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 Bale-Tie Clamps.
- Patent for an instrument that tightens the ties used for bales of cotton.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for fastening iron or other bands on cotton-bales or packages that put up with iron bands, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Billiard-Tables.
- Patent for a design for a billiard table that can also be used as a Jenny-Lind table. Illustration included.
- 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 in Churns.
- Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Awning and Shutter.
- Patent for a "combined fire and burglar proof shutter and awning" (line 5-6).
- 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 Corn-Poppers.
- Patent for a corn-popper with design specifications and a description for usage, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for improving cotton bale ties with buckle-tie plate and zinc-galvanized iron wire.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a secure cotton-bale tie which is "held securely in place on the hoop or band without depending therefor upon the elasticity of the bale" (lines 12-14), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-pickers with design specifications and a description of applications and usage, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
- Patent for improvements in cotton picking machines.
- Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-picking machines including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Presses
- Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-presses adapted for pressing cotton into bales including instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses
- Patent for "a new and improved cotton-press" (line 3) using a stationary toothed wheel, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers.
- Patent for "the combination, in a cotton-sprinkler, having a fluid-vessel, of flexible ejecting hose, having flaring nozzle sprinklers, with hooks or fastening devices for holding the nozzles in elevated positions upon the vessels, whereby the driver has perfect control both over the flow and direction of the fluid, and is thereby enabled to inject the fluid upon the two rows of plants, without regard to their height or the uncertain movement of the horse between the rows, and to stop the flow by elevating and hooking the ejecting-hose to the upper corners of the vessel, thus rendering the device much more effective in directing the fluid than could possibly be effected by fixed distributing perforated cocks, and preventing unnecessary waste of the fluid." (Lines 13-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvements to a cultivator "which, for convenience of operation, may be attached to the wheels or frame of any ordinary wagon or cart, or it may be operated independently of either of the above by attaching the draft animals directly to the main or principal beam to which the plow-points are connected." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improving on a plowing device. This apparatus has four independent and adjustable shovels attached together to work to cultivate a field.
- 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 Dish Cleaners and Drainers.
- Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
- 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 Fire-Lighters.
- Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and 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 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 Grain-Driers.
- Patent for an improved grain-drier with design specifications and a description of the object's applications and usage, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Horse-Powers.
- Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
- Improvement in Ironing Apparatus
- Patent for improvement to an ironing apparatus to "produce a cheap portable ironing-machine, with which any capable person (and even children) can with very liggle fatigue and labor, do the ironing for a large family in a very short time".
- Improvement in Ironing-Machines.
- Patent for an ironing machine that includes a "movable table operated by a crank" (lines 16-17). Illustration included.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a mixture of "amargosa" root, Jamaica ginger, glycerin, and simple syrup for use in treating illnesses of the bowels.
- Improvement in Paper Bags.
- Patent for an improvement in paper bags with design specifications and a description of their functionality and usage, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "plow mold-boards to which the black land of Texas, and other similar soils, will not adhere, so that a furrow can be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (lines 14-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Portable Fences.
- Patent for "a simple, cheap, and portable fence...which can be readily folded up for transportation from place to place." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
- Improvement in Pruning Implements.
- Patent for "an improved implement for trimming hedges and for cutting and laying down hedges" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Rerigerator-Cars.
- Patent for "improvements in refrigerator-cars for preserving fresh meats, vegetables, and other perishable articles while transporting them over great distance; and it consists of an ice-receptacle at the top of the car, provided with flat top and carved or inclined bottom." (Lines 13-19) 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 Saw-Sets
- Patent for an improvement in a device which sets the teeth of a saw, with instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Sawing-Machines.
- Patent for a new and valuable sawing-machine is combined and, "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the vibrating beam, vertically-sliding block, and flanged support," (pg. 3) e.g...including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Scew-Propellers.
- Patent for "means for guiding pivoted propeller-blades so that they can open and close readily and uniformly. It also consists in a new mode of applying a spring there-to so that the obliquity or resistance of the blades will be automatically graduated." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- 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.