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Improvement in Bale-Ties

Description: Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date: February 2, 1875
Creator: Reese, John L.

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for improved bale-ties, including illustrations.
Date: August 10, 1875
Creator: Jones, Henry Bradley

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: 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).
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Drake, Simeon N.

Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in the bottle-stopper of Westel E. Hawkins, patented under date of August 4, 1874, and numbered 153,769" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1875
Creator: Shaw, Michael W.

Improvement in Excavators

Description: Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Cole, Thomas Z.

Improvement in Locomotive Earth-Excavators.

Description: 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.
Date: December 28, 1875
Creator: Hawley, Abel

Improvement in Pile-Drivers.

Description: Patent for an improved pile-driver device which automates the release of the pile-driver hammer as well as including a perpendicular device which advances the device longitudinally as the work progresses.
Date: January 22, 1875
Creator: McDermott, Martin

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid.

Description: Patent for a process to "reduce asphaltum to a liquid, and hold the same in a semi-fluid condition without heat, and which constitutes an entirely new article of commerce, and furnishes to the trade an article of asphaltum prepared and ready for use, without the labor, expense, and delay of melting, for paving and roofing purposes, and one most admirably adapted for use by manufacturers of varnish and japan." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1875
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.

Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.

Description: 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.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Hawley, Abel

Improvement in Swinging Berths.

Description: Patent for the improvement of ships' berths, by neutralizing the effect of the roll and pitch of the seas to prevent sea sickness, as well as providing space for baggage and ballast.
Date: July 16, 1875
Creator: Brown, Bartlett W.
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