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- Cotton - Bale Ties
- Patent for tying the ends of cotton bale wires or bands.
- Cotton-Picking Shade.
- Patent for a cotton-picking shade that will furnish a portable shade or shield for the use of cotton-pickers to protect them from the direct rays of the sun while at work.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for new bale-tie formed from a single metal piece where the locking side (B) can be fastened to a rounded eye (C) on the opposite end.
- Improvement in cane-strippers.
- Patent for an improvement in sugar-cane stripping machines, using an arrangement of rollers and a movable spring blade. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings
- Patent for car coupling device that attaches cars automatically when moved together while also detaching if one or more cars come off the tracks.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for car-couplings.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement to car couplings which would "obviate the necessity and its attendant danger of going between the cars" (lines 17-18) including an illustration.
- Improvement In Circular-Saw Mills.
- Patent for an improved Circular Sawmill with an " improved adjustable feed mechanism" (pg 1). Illustration Included.
- Improvement in Combined Wrench and Saw-Set.
- Patent for improvements in the "combination of a wrench with a saw-setting device attached to the sliding jaw thereof" (lines 17-19). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cooling Attachements in Barrels.
- Patent for improved cooling attachements for larger-beer barrels.
- Improvement in Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaners.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-gin-saw cleaners used in cotton ginning processes, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers.
- Patent for an improvement for an instrument to stretch and tie a band around a cotton bale.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of corn cultivators, including illustrations.
- Improvement in fences
- Patent for improvement in fences. Inventor created removable, adjustable fences with wire loop hinges.
- Improvement in Force - Pumps.
- Patent for new and improved force pump with three cylinders.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
- Patent for an insecticide that kills ants via fumigation. Ingredients include sulfur, charcoal, potassium cyanide, arsenic, and coal tar.
- Improvement in liquid-measuring tanks.
- Patent for an airtight and fireproof measuring tank for lamp oils, usable in both daytime and nighttime. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Manufacturing Anti-Corrosive Compounds.
- Patent for "an anti-corrosive coating for iron and all other metals, and one which in all respects does positively preserve the same, and into the composition of which enters as an element neither lead, oil, nor any other ingredient that contains any destructive or otherwise deleterious acid or alkali." (Lines 7-13) Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Methods of Adjusting Signaling-Mirrors.
- Patent for an improvement in the "method of throwing reflected light of a mirror with accuracy upon a distant object in flash-signaling" (lines 5-7), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Pile-Drivers.
- 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.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in Skeleton Tillage-Plow.
- Improvement in Processes for Packing Shingles.
- Patent for improvement in processes for packing shingles "in such a manner that they shall quickly dry and be prevented from molding" (lines 13-15).
- Improvement in Pulverizing Subsoil-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement in subsoil plows to pulverize soils, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Putting Up Caustic Alkalies.
- Patent for a method of packaging caustic alkalies inside of treated paper or wood. This patent describes the mixture and use of this treatment.
- Improvement in railroad switches
- Patent for an improvement in railroad switches, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Revolving Conical Mold-Boards
- Patent for improvements and new design for a Revolving Conical Mold-Board Plow.
- Improvement in Seed Planters.
- Patent for new improvement in seed planting that describes parts of the construction including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Speed-Measures.
- Patent for a "means for indicating the degree of speed with which an engine or train of cars is passing over a rail-road, and for enabling an engineer to regulate the speed of his engine to conform to the 'time' enjoined by his table, so that he will run at an even degree of speed, and be required neither to 'slow down' to save his schedule nor quicken the pace of his engine to make up lost time." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Vehicle-Springs
- Patent for a newly designed vehicle spring that attached to the axle and features an auxiliary spring.
- Improvement in ventilating cars, &c.
- Patent for a system which prevents ashes and cinders from railroad engines from entering the train cars and also allows for ventilation of the cars. Includes illustration.
- Improvement in Vibrating Propellers.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in vibrating propellers.
- Improvements in Cotton-Gins
- Patent for improvement in the Cotton-Gin with moveable brushes. This object is designed to make the brushes on the cotton machine move closer to the saw when they become shortened from constant use. This will improve the quality of the machine like a brand new equipment.
- Lubricating Device.
- Patent for a new and improved lubricating device. This design consists of "[t]he combination, with the cross-head of an engine or other reciprocating part of machinery, and the guides or ways on which it works, of a reservoir for the lubricant, a wheel for taking up and applying the same to the friction-surface with which the wheel works in contact, and a spring for supporting the wheel" (para. 10). This design prevents dust and other pollutants from entering the reservoir.