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Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.

Date: March 21, 1876

Creator: Jones, Henry B.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in folding tables.

Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.

Date: March 21, 1876

Creator: Arnold, James Edwin

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps.

Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.

Date: March 21, 1876

Creator: Boyle, James

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Paper Boxes.

Patent for improved techniques in folding paper boxes using a single piece of paper in which the bottom part is safely secured. Illustration is included.

Date: March 7, 1876

Creator: Kuehne, Franz

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Piano-Pedal Attachments.

Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.

Date: March 14, 1876

Creator: Cheesman, Charles F.

Item Type: Patent