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Clothes-Pin.: Patent for improvement on clothing pin by using a single wire.
Jeweler's Pliers: Patent for jewelry pliers. These pliers can hold multiple sizes in jewelry and makes improvements on the ease of cleaning.
Chicken-Roost: Patent for an improved chicken roost.
Pump.: Patent for a simple, double-acting pump.
Attachment For Cultivators: Patent for an attachment for cultivators. Illustration included.
Cotton-Chopper.: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can shop two rows at the same time and performs the work faster than it can be done manually.
Machine-Brake.: Patent for a break that "the device may be brought to a stop either gradually or instantaneously as may be desired. The break is a reciprocative one and comprises a rubber or other elastic or yielding wheel designed to engage the periphery of the fly wheel of the motor and a lug, tooth or analogous provision for engagement with a tooth of a ratchet wheel on the said fly wheel; in operating the break the rubber wheel is first brought into contact with the fly wheel and then by continued movement of the brake lever the said lug or projection enters a tooth of the ratchet wheel and stops the revolution of the same" (lines 14-27).
Nut-lock.: Patent for improvements in the means for securing nuts on their bolts. The invention is "especially adapted for use on railway-rails in which the locking devices are subjected to severe and continual jarring" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.