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- Binder for Paper Tablets.
- Patent for improvements for tablets for blank paper, leterheads, etc. that holds content securely, including illustrations.
- Board Roofing.
- Patent for a new design of roofing board. The wooden boards are designed to "contract and expand with changes of temperature" (para. 3) and to allow rain to run off without seeping into the joints of the boards.
- Improvement in Air-Cooling Apparatus.
- Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a refrigerator for the purpose of cooling and maintaining a low and dry temperature, for preserving fresh meats and vegetables, and for cooling rooms for any purpose." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement in bale-ties, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Baling-Presses.
- Patent for a baling press "intended for compressing and re-pressing cotton for shipment" (para. 4), and is created using a "simple and efficient" (para. 2) design.
- Improvement in Ballast-Distributing Cars
- Patent for ballast-distributing design with new design in changing rails and weight from car to car, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bee-Hives
- Patent for an improved design for bee-hives with the sloped V shaped interior designed to aid in warmth for the hive and reducing debris entering the comb. Illustrations included show several cross-sections of the hive construction.
- 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 Brick-Presses.
- Patent for a "new and useful improvement in brick-presses by which bricks may be quickly and cheaply pressed by hand power from clay taken direct from bank or mixer" ( Lines 1-3 )including instructions and illustration.
- 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 improvement in car-couplings, including description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in link and pin car-couplings, including illustrations.
- Improvement In Car-Seat Locks.
- This patent is for the usage of car seats and how they perform. It was created to improve the mechanics of locking a reversible car-seat.
- Improvement in Churning-Machines
- Patent for improvement in mechanisms in operating churns. Includes a crank wheel and spindles for churning, as well as a better balanced upright position.
- Improvement in Churns
- Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
- Improvement In Churns
- Patent for improvements in the construction of a churn dasher. Descriptions and illustrations are attached
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for the improved design of churns "in which the dasher-shaft is vertical and receives rotation by gearing at the top of the churn" (2nd para.), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator
- Patent for a new gang-plow and cultivator design, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cooling Attachements in Barrels.
- Patent for improved cooling attachements for larger-beer barrels.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers
- Patent for improvement for cotton-choppers. Includes specifications and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
- Patent for a "new and valuable improvement in cotton-planters" (lines 3-4), for planting cotton seeds, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for "a press by means of which the cotton can be backed and pressed into the bale in small quantities at a time, by alternating pressing a quantity, then lifting the follower, and inserting more, and pressing again, and so on until the bale is formed." (Lines 19-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Double-Bitted Drills.
- Patent for "an easy mode of straightening wells while drilling them through rock or earth, and also for enlarging the same into a cistern when it is desired to keep on hand a large supply of water." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Earth-Augurs.
- Patent for a new auger design for "boring and excavating wells" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.
- Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Earth-Boring Machines.
- Patent for improvements in earth-boring machines with new design and connections, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Excavators.
- Patent for improvement in earth excavators combining a plow, rotating cylinder, and helical plate.
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for improving fire-escapes and provides a portable instrument that "may be used for letting persons directly down from buildings, or for carrying them from the upper stories of buildings to others buildings at a distance" (lines 9-12).
- Improvement in Heater and Feeder for Steam-Boilers.
- Patent for "a new and valuable improvement in supplying feed-water to steam-boilers" (lines 15-17), including 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 Locks
- Patent for an improvement for slide door fasteners and locks. Description and illustrations are attached.
- Improvement in Machines for Cutting Shingles.
- Patent relating to "that class of shingle-machines which form the shingles by means of a knife working sidewise with the grain" (lines 10-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Masks for Horses and Cattle.
- Patent for a slitted leather mask for animals to be used for horses, cattle, etc. to deter the jumping of fences. Patent for "mask, covering the eyes of the animal, leaves him with a sufficiently free vision, and being thoroughly ventilated, will not injure his eyes".
- Improvement in Mold-Boards for Plows.
- Patent for an improved design for plow mold-boards that involves using holes and a water pump to keep the mold-board clear of earth.
- Improvement in Presses.
- Patent for new improvement in press, including illustration.
- Improvement in Pumps.
- Patent relating to "improvements in double-acting pumps. The object is to devise a pump...[so] as to allow the admission of water at one end of and its discharge at the other" (lines 16-24). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Quilting-Frames
- Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
- Improvement in Quilting-Frames.
- Patent relating to improvement "of quilting-frames made with folding ends and adjustable in width" (lines 10-12). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Railway-Gates.
- Patent for "automatically operating slide-gates which are operated by pressure on treadles, and are suitable for use either as farm-gates or railroad-gates." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Railway-Tracks.
- Patent for improvements in the adjoining of railway tracks.
- 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 Riding-Saddles.
- Patent for improvement in riding-saddles by "which the leather straps hitherto required for the girth-riffing may be dispensed with, and in place thereof a stronger and more durable rigging obtained, that leaves the top and sides of the tree in perfectly smooth state."
- Improvement in Rotary Churns.
- Patent for an improvement of the churn that is, "within a square wooden box, of a rotating dasher or paddle, and the mechanism for driving the same, that various parts being constructed, arranged, and operated" (lines 20-24). Illustrations included.
- Improvement in Steam-Engines.
- Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools.
- Patent for "an improved rotary hand-tool for dressing stone" (lines 7-8) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Ventilators.
- Patent for improvement in ventilators which combines a bell-mouthed vane with white induction and black eduction pipes for the purpose of introducing fresh air and eliminating foul air from an enclosed area.
- Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of wheel-cultivators, combining a plow and cultivator. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Wood Pavements.
- Patent for a new and improved construction of Bois D'Arc Pavement, which uses two layers of planks that cross at right angle as a base, sand to hold bois d'arc blocks in place and fill gaps in between, and coal-tar covering planks to prevent sand from shifting. It includes illustrations.
- Scuffle-Hoe
- Patent for a garden hand tool for destroying weeds and stirring, or aerating, soil. Used for garden crops.