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Brick-Machine.

Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations.

Date: May 30, 1848

Creator: Wilson, Robert

Item Type: Patent

Boring and Mortising Machine.

Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine."

Date: July 11, 1848

Creator: Swingle, Alfred

Item Type: Patent

Corn-Husker.

Patent for a new and improved machine for husking corn using a rotating wheel with spurs and cutters with combination of a stationary and movable concaves, including illustration.

Date: March 9, 1858

Creator: Fagan, Joseph & Fagan, James L.

Item Type: Patent

Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.

Patent for "lowering and detaching life and other small boats from large ships" (lines 5-7), including illustration.

Date: March 16, 1858

Creator: De Veuve, Henry

Item Type: Patent

Breakwater.

Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.

Date: June 7, 1859

Creator: Armour, D. Hillen

Item Type: Patent

Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion

Patent for converting reciprocating into rotary motion by using “two vertically moving racks with a cog wheel on a small shaft between them which gears into the teeth of the racks” (lines 16-19), includes illustration.

Date: November 1, 1859

Creator: Harper, C. A.

Item Type: Patent

Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers.

Patent for the "improvement in supplying air to furnaces on steamers" (lines 5-6), including illustration.

Date: December 20, 1859

Creator: Brandy, Louis

Item Type: Patent

Bolt for Doors.

Patent for the improvement of bolt locks on double doors using a lever lock for safety and ease of locking and unlocking one or both doors, including illustration.

Date: June 26, 1860

Creator: Bonney, N. W.

Item Type: Patent

Ant-Trap.

Patent for an ant-trap using a portable receptacle with three different designs, each can be used as an individual trap or in any combinations to lure ants into the bottom of the receptacle without any means of escaping, including illustration.

Date: August 7, 1860

Creator: Cottingham, G. W. & Menefee, John S.

Item Type: Patent

Chain-Link.

Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.

Date: November 13, 1860

Creator: Kirk, John P.

Item Type: Patent

Air-Chamber.

Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.

Date: June 18, 1861

Creator: Creuzbaur, Robert

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers.

Patent for the improvement of fertilizer-distributer which dispense fertilizers from a hopper with revolving arms that is mounted on top of a plow like machine, which would allow the fertilizers fall into the furrow. Including illustration.

Date: September 27, 1859

Creator: Morrel, Z. N.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.

Patent for the "improvement in Horizontal Cotton - Presses for compressing cotton, hay, and other articles and substances for baling; ..." (lines 3-6), including illustrations.

Date: July 5, 1859

Creator: Stockbridge, Elam

Item Type: Patent

Wire Fence.

Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.

Date: November 8, 1853

Creator: Meriwether, William H.

Item Type: Patent

Machine for Sawing Marble in Obelisk Form.

Patent for "a new and Improved Machine for Sawing Marble Blocks in Polygonal Taper Form" (lines 4-6), including illustration.

Date: April 15, 1856

Creator: Haviland, J. E.

Item Type: Patent

Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.

Patent for a machine that collects swaths of grain for threshing using hooked teeth arranged in rows, including illustration.

Date: April 14, 1857

Creator: Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.

Item Type: Patent

Window-Fastener.

Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.

Date: August 31, 1858

Creator: Root, Irving

Item Type: Patent

Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.

Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.

Date: July 30, 1850

Creator: Milner, George B.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in the Manufacture of Black Bottle-Glass.

Patent for manufacturing black bottle-glass by using "combination with other ingredients, an earthy slate of a peculiar character, called "clay-slate," for the purpose of furnishing the coloring-matter of the glass,as well as forming one of the bases of the glass itself."(line 10-15) Instruction only, no illustration.

Date: September 2, 1856

Creator: McCully, John F.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for the improvement of the hopper, stirrer, and distributor in cotton-planters that dispenses seeds into the soil using two horizontal united disks that discharges the seeds regularly and evenly, including illustration.

Date: September 13, 1859

Creator: Collier, T. T.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for the improvement of the cotton-seed planter through the arrangement of a seed dispenser over a reciprocating slide and agitator operated by a pulley system simultaneously when moving forward, including illustration.

Date: September 13, 1859

Creator: Smith, P. M. & Collier, T. T.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Corn-Planters.

Patent for a corn-planter that allows the seed to be placed in a hopper and disperses the seed through a cylinder that is connected to a wheel to place and cover the seed, including illustration.

Date: May 10, 1859

Creator: Gilbert, R. B.

Item Type: Patent

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for millstone dress using mill stone.

Date: July 20, 1858

Creator: Loy, George W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvment in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for the improvement in pressing cotton, hay, and tobacco with moveable bale-boxes and a more rapid-working press, including illustration.

Date: March 13, 1860

Creator: McCray, Thomas H.

Item Type: Patent

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Brick-Machine.

Boring and Mortising Machine.

Corn-Husker.

Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.

Breakwater.

Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion

Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers.

Bolt for Doors.

Ant-Trap.

Chain-Link.

Air-Chamber.

Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers.

Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.

Wire Fence.

Machine for Sawing Marble in Obelisk Form.

Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.

Window-Fastener.

Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.

Improvement in the Manufacture of Black Bottle-Glass.

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Improvement in Corn-Planters.

Millstone-Dress.

Improvment in Cotton-Presses.