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Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.

Description: Patent for a new piano forte design which "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and combination of the key-lever and its fulcrum and rest, a receiving-lever, a transmitting-eccentric, a secondary hammer, a principal hammer and its rest, and a damper-action and its connections, whereby greater simplicity and efficiency are obtained" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1879
Creator: Roedern, George O. V.

Improvement in Middlings-Purifiers.

Description: Patent for a "machine for purifying the middlings in the process of making flour that will free them more completely from impurities that has heretofore been done, and to construct the parts of the machine so that air-blasts will be completely under control" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1879
Creator: White, Henry

Improvement in Spark-Arresters.

Description: Patent for improved construction of spark-arresters, "so that they will be more efficient, and yet simple in construction and not liable to get out of repair; and the invention consists of a metallic circular cone, with winding or arched flanges or wings, which extend toward the side of the shall, and they are covered by a plate, to the upper side of which a perforated cylinder is attached, so that all the sparks are arrested and thoroughly extinguished, while the smoke can pass out through the… more
Date: July 15, 1879
Creator: Lochner, Casper F.

Improvement in Hair-Triggers for Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for "an improved trigger for fire-arms which shall be provided with a hair-trigger in such a way that the hair-trigger may be used or not, as may be desired, which shall be complete in itself, so that it may be applied to any kind of fire-arm without change in its construction" (lines 17-23), includes illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1879
Creator: Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
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