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- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for improvement of planters.
- Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
- Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
- Improvement in Animal-Traps.
- Patent for improvement in animal-traps, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Horse-Powers.
- Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
- Improvement in ventilating cars, &c.
- Patent for a system which prevents ashes and cinders from railroad engines from entering the train cars and also allows for ventilation of the cars. Includes illustration.
- Improvement in Umbrella-Supporters.
- Patent for "a simple and convenient device for supporting and carrying a parasol or umbrella in such a way as to leave the hands free, and which will enable the parasol or umbrella to be tilted or inclined forward or back, or to either side, as may be required" (lines 8-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in folding tables.
- Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
- Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of ditching-machines by way of new construction techniques.
- Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
- Patent for "a machine for ironing clothing by means of a revolving heated roller, under which is passed a reciprocating table, on which the clothing is placed." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Chairs.
- Patent for improvement in chairs, which provides adjustable shoulder supports and back (inclination and height), with intended advantages of better lung capacity and spinal alignment. The chair can be adjusted to fit all sizes of bodies. It is noted that some of the adjustable features could be incorporated into other furnishings such as beds or lounges. An additional feature of the chair is a retracting spring to assist the user in exiting the chair.
- Improvement in Pessaries.
- Patent for an improved uterine supporter with changes to the arrangement of the wings, with illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Stilts
- Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent to improve the construction of the mold-board of the plow described in Letters Patent No. 163,352, "to make it more effective in preventing the black lands of Texas and other sticky and waxy soils from adhering to it, and to enable a proper furrow to be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Buckles.
- Patent for "an improved method of manufacturing a buckle to secure the different part of harness, saddle, or bridle trimmings, by means of mechanical connections that will obviate the use or necessity or stitches or sewing of any kind, and yet retain the adjacent parts firmly and with a secure engagement." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- 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.
- Improvement in Ventilators and Protectors for Roofs.
- Patent for improvements in ventilators and protectors for roofs relating to "a ventilating combing or ridging for roofs of houses" (lines-15-16) including illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
- Patent for an improved stalk-puller for use in pulling cotton-stalks in preparing the land for another crop.
- Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.
- Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-choppers by way of vertical rock-shafts.
- Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
- Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
- Improvement in Dining-Tables.
- Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
- 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.
- Improvement in cellular-wall building-blocks.
- Patent for a building block that has an offset in the middle that allows one side of the block to make the outer wall while the other side makes an inner wall while leaving space between the two walls. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in remedies for constipation, &c.
- Patent for a new medical compound to treat constipation and related illnesses which lists the ingredients and dosages.
- Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
- Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
- Patent for "a certain new and useful improvements in Ironing-Machines"
- Improvement in Detaching Horses
- Patent for improvements for a device used to detach a horse or horses from a vehicle. Included illustration shows 3 elevation views of the detacher.
- Improvement in Clod-Crushers.
- Patent for a land-drag and clod-crusher that will effectually crush the clods, level the land, and pack the soil, at one and the same operation.
- Improvement in land-drag and clod-crusher.
- Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.
- Improvement in Painter's Scaffold-chairs.
- Patent for use of house-painters and others an improved scaffold-chair that may be elevated and lowered at pleasure by the person sitting on the scaffold.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in car-couplings with illustrations.
- 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 Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improved cotton press: "Our invention consists of a contrivance for driving the screw, which works the follower by a worm when doing the work, and a toothed wheel when returning the follower; also, of a removable case which receives the pressed bale and carries it away on a truck to be tied, while another box takes its place to receive the next bale" (lines 8-15). Includes illustrations and instructions.
- Bale-tie
- Patent for improvement in the construction of hooks used to join the ends of ties "for packages or bales of cotton, hemp, rags, or other substances in which a divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale is used, and the ends whereof are joined by a hook at one end of said band, arranged to interlock with any one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band" (para. 2).
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement in bale-ties by using a “divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale, and the ends whereof are joined by a fastening at the one end of said band, arranged to interlock with an one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band for the purpose of binding or holding the bale together.” (Lines [11-17]) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement in bale-ties by reducing a series of motions to fasten and unfasten the tie to simply just one single motion. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton.
- Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.
- Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton
- Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
- Improvment in Apparatus for Drying Hides.
- Patent for "an improvement in apparatus for drying hides"
- Improvement in Tool-Holders for Grinding
- New and valuable Improvement in Tool-Holders, which are designed for holding tools in contact with the periphery of a grindstone.
- Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator.
- Patent for improvement in a combined seed-planter, fertilizer-distributer, and cultivator by attaching some prongs to a dropping-wheel for the purpose of taking hold of the cotton-seed and draw it out of the hopper. This dropping-wheel can be covered with a case when planning seeds and, removed if fertilizer is to be distributed with small seeds. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Single-Trees
- Patent for "a new and Improved Single-Tree and Breast Yoke." (lines 3-4) Includes specifications and illustrations.
- Improvement in Running-Gears.
- Patent for running-gear on carriages that "consists mainly in improvements in the connections of the axles with the springs, perch, and other parts" (para. 5), with illustrations.
- Improvement in Automatic Fan
- Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
- Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
- Patent for "an improvement in the class of neck-yokes having a swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole; and it consists in providing the neck-yoke with a central enlargement or boss, and connecting the tube which slips on the end of the carriage-pole with the yoke by means of rings having perforated ears to receive the ends of a pivoted bar, to which the pole ring or tube is swiveled." (Lines 11-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers.
- Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
- Improvement in Bee-hives
- Patent for an improvement of a bee-hive enabling inspection of bees, protection of bees from moths, ventilation of the hive, and removal of honey without disturbing the brood-chamber.
- Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
- Patent for "a new and useful machine for Plowing"
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses
- Patent for a new and improved Cotton-Press. The invention relates to the press on which a Patent (No. 150,573) was granted May 5, 1874, to William B. Hollowell. It consists of a duplicate master-wheel on the drum for working the follower; also an improved contrivance for connecting the pitman to the lever and to its pivot, whereby the machine is rendered more efficient and may be lighter for a given strength.
- Improvement in Bale-ties.
- Patent for "an improvement on the patented bale-tie" (lines 15-16) which includes lugs to "lock" the tie (line 22) including instructions and illustrations.