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- Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
- Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
- Device for Ringing Bells.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of devices for ringing bells, including illustrations.
- Improved Head-Rest.
- Patent for a new and improved head-rest for railroad-car seats and other seats, that can be applied to or removed from the back of seats without the use of clamp-screws, and are adjustable and adaptable to the convenience and comfort of different persons. It includes a description and illustrations.
- Improved Side-Saddle.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
- Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
- Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
- Patent for improvement in breech-loading fire-arms.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
- Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvesting machine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
- Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.
- Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
- Improvement in Elevators.
- Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Eyeglasses.
- Patent for improvements to eyeglasses to accommodate facial differences.
- 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 Flat-Irons.
- Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator.
- Patent for "a new and improved gang plow and cultivator" (lines 3-4), including instructions and illustrations. "This invention relates to a new agricultural machine which may be readily changed from a gang-plow into a cultivator, and vice-versa" (lines 15-17).
- Improvement in Grain-Binders
- Patent for improved design of grain-binders.
- Improvement in Ironing-Tables.
- Patent for ironing tables in use with ironing machines. Consist of adjustable frame for stretching and holding garments for ironing.
- Improvement in Methods of Forming Saw-Teeth.
- Patent for "a rule for giving to the backs of saw-teeth such an angle as will allow the teeth to be made of proper strength and at the same time to be chambered out and pointed so that they will cut the wood like chisels instead of scraping or tearing the wood." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Paper Bags.
- Patent for an improvement in paper bags with design specifications and a description of their functionality and usage, including illustrations.
- 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.
- Improvement in Postage or Revenue Stamps.
- Patent for an improvement in postage or revenue stamps. Patent for postage or revenue stamp "composed of two superposed sheets or layers, A B, the top layer carrying the printed designs, having parallel incisions therein, and the bottom layer being provided with adhesive material on the back". Patent for postage and revenue stamps that cannot be re-used.
- Improvement in Saddle-Trees.
- Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Saws.
- Patent for improvements to circular or straight saws that steady the saw and prevent vibration and buckling. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Saws.
- Patent for improvement in saws by way of the construction of beveled edged teeth with concave sides.
- 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 the Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement
- Patent for the improvement in the manufacture of hydraulic cement with specifications for the manufacturing process and a description of usage.
- 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 Toy Trumpets.
- Patent for improvements in toy trumpets in which in addition to making sound, the movement of air through the instrument also causes a disk on top of the instrument to revolve by the force of the air on paddles that form the bottom of the disk. The top of the disk will have decorative figures such as soldiers.
- Improvement in Trusses.
- Patent for improvements in the wiring and metal plates in self-adjusting trusses.
- Improvement in Water-Wheels.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of water-wheels, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Well-Augers.
- Patent for an improved well-auger, includes instruction and illustration.
- Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
- Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.
- Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
- Saw Tooth
- Patent for "Improvement in Saw Teeth" (line 3)
- Solar-Time Instrument.
- Patent for a new and improved solar-time instrument with "the telescopic tube provided at one end with a lens, and at the other end with a removable diaphragm having horizontal and vertical lines marked thereon" (page 2).