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- 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.
- Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter.
- Patent for a device to remove grubs from soil, which consists of an adjustable gage-wheel and a cutter to remove grubs and to cut roots. The cutter can be also used to cut cotton-stalks. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Door-Securers.
- Patent for a new and improved safety-locks for doors which consists of only three parts: a screw with sharp points, a nut, and a guard pivoted to the nut. It includes illustrations.
- Car Ventilation.
- Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
- Binder for Paper Tablets.
- Patent for improvements for tablets for blank paper, leterheads, etc. that holds content securely, including illustrations.
- Combined Shawl-Strap and Head-Rest
- Patent for a head rest to be used in cars and other places and can be attached to a seat or shawl, including illustrations.
- Construction of Roofs.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of roofs, including instruction.
- Attachment for Wheel-Plows.
- Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
- Cart-Saddle
- Patent for a more animal-friendly saddle to attach a horse to a cart by adjusting the way the girth is handled as the cart is loaded.
- Bale-Tie.
- Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design utilizes a strap-iron binder with notches along the sides that allow for a bail to clamp firmly within them; thus, the bale is fastened.
- Improvement in Water-Tanks.
- Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Wrenches.
- Patent for furnishing "an adjustable wrench for holding and turning bolts, pipes, taps, &c." (lines 7-9). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvements In Buckles.
- Patent for a new kind of buckle along with specifications for construction and illustrations of the buckle.
- Improvements in Compounds for Destroying Trees, Roots, &c.
- Patent for a new and useful improvements to compouds used in the destroying of trees. Lists ingredients and dosages.
- Improvement in Windmills.
- Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
- Improvements in Escapements for Time-Pieces
- Patent for inprovements in escapements for time-pieces involving levers and duplex escapements as a way of improving force and regularity in time-pieces. Patent gives instructions and provides illustrations.
- Improvement in Tube-Fastenings for Boilers.
- Patent for improvement of tube-fastenings for boilers which will secure flues in steam-boilers, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Spurs.
- Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
- 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 Suspender-Buttons
- Patent for an improved suspender button with a description and illustrations attached.
- Improvement in Street-Cars
- Patent for an improvement to Street Cars to better navigate curves. Includes description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines
- Patent for "... an improved washing-machine which shall be simple in construction, convenient in use, easily operated, and effective in operation." (lines 12-15)
- Improvment in Spray-Nozzles
- Patent for an improvement on spray nozzles for use with force pumps. These force pumps are used for spraying insecticide on cotton to protect the crop from cotton-worms and other insects.
- Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Stone.
- Patent for improvement in the manufacture of Hydraulic Stone to furnish and improved artificial stone for use in different purposes that can resist weather changes without being affected.
- Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
- Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
- Improvement in Strap-Protector and Buckle
- Patent for improvements in strap-protector and buckle for harness in order for it to not become cracked or bent. Provides instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Vises
- Patent for new construction for vises that will "enable the vise to be set and secutured in any desired position and thus hold the work in a position convenient to the operator" (lines 8-10).
- Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets
- Patent for improved toilet cabinets in order to better arrange "cabinets for containing sewing, writing, and shaving materials and various other articles" (lines 8-10). Provides instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools.
- Patent for "an improved rotary hand-tool for dressing stone" (lines 7-8) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons
- Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.
- Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.
- Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a medical compound consisting of magnesia, soda, potassium oxide, manganese, sodium chloride, acid phosphate of iron, sulfuric acid, and phosphoric acid. The compound is said to treat a wide variety of ailments.
- Improvement in Double-Acting Force-Pumps.
- Patent for a double-acting force pump that has "single cylinder and hollow piston-rod operate in connection with the upper and lower cylinder-valves, and with a valved piston adapted to have a reciprocal motion independent of and upon the hollow piston-rod, to discharge the water from both sides of the piston with a double action and in a continuous stream through said hollow piston-rod" (para. 2).
- Improvement in Lever-Powers.
- Patent for a lever-power which applies "the power and resistance to the lever, so that they will change positions with relation to the fulcrum as the power end of the lever descends" (para. 2). The relation of the lever with the fulcrum is flexible, and allows for increased leverage.
- Improvement in Sheet-Metal Hames
- Patent for improvement in hames by constructing them of sheet metal in order to prevent flatenning and wear on the hame. Explains how sheet metal hames are also flexibile in many attributes and because of this they are beneficial in many ways. Illustrations provided.
- Improvement in Fire-Lighters.
- Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Saw-Sets
- Patent for an improvement in a device which sets the teeth of a saw, with instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.
- Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.
- Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion.
- Patent for an improvement to devices that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. It is comprised of a wheel on a rotary shaft that has has a groove that grips an angular nut mounted on a shaft.
- Improvement in fences
- Patent for improvement in fences. Inventor created removable, adjustable fences with wire loop hinges.
- 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 Planter and Cultivator.
- Patent for an easily converted machine that can plan corn, drill corn or cotton, or cultivate growing crops, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.
- Patent for a new piano-forte action made of sheet-metal, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Lamp-Burners.
- Patent for a new improvement for Lamp-Burners that helps prevent explosions, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fifth-Wheels for Vehicles.
- Patent for improvements made to fifth-wheels for vehicles, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Dumping-Cars.
- Patent for improvements to Dumping-Cars used for loading locomotives with wood or coal, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in fences using wire rails, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Saw-Cleaning Attachments for Cotton-Gins.
- Patent for a "new and useful Saw-Cleaning Attachment for Cotton-Gins" (lines 3-4) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.
- 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.