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- Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved band-cutting and feeding attachment for thrashing machines. This design receives grain bundles "upon an endless traveling apron provided with teeth or claws, and by it conveyed under rotary cutters, which sever the bands, the grain being then scattered or spread out by a vibrating rake into a thin sheet as it passes to the toothed cylinder. The invention relates more particularly to the construction and arrangement of parts" (paras. 3-4).
- 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).
- Design for Sash-Holder.
- Patent for "the design [of] a sash or window-frame fastener" (lines 28-30).
- Earth-Augers.
- Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design calls for "a hinged door having its edge folded or bent to form an air-tube . . . [and] a pair of hemi-cylindrical doors having on one or both an air duct or ducts," as well as interchangeable bits with a shouldered and threaded shank and a nut combined and arranged in a novel way (paras. 12-15).
- Improvement for Machines for Washing Photographs.
- Patent for an improved machine for washing photographic prints allowing metallic or other rigid plates to be washed in addition to flexible prints.
- Improvement in Adjustable Hats
- Patent for an improvement to adjustable hatband which includes directions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Automatic Fans.
- Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
- Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
- Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "an improved fastening or tie for cotton-bales, &c.; and it consists of two angular plates, secured at the rear part to one end of the band generally used in baling cotton, &c., and the front part thereof being provided with V-shaped jaws, which engage with angular slots in the opposite end of the band." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Baling-Presses.
- Patent for a baling press "intended for compressing and re-pressing cotton for shipment" (para. 4), and is created using a "simple and efficient" (para. 2) design.
- Improvement in Ballast-Distributing Cars
- Patent for ballast-distributing design with new design in changing rails and weight from car to car, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bee-Hives
- Patent for bee-hives to more easily retrieve honey from the combs, which also gives extremely specific instructions on four different types of bee-hives.
- Improvement in Billiard-Cushions.
- Patent for improvement in billiard-cushions. Patent for removable billiard table cushion.
- Improvement in Blow-Guns and Arrows.
- Patent for an improved design of the blow-gun and arrows consisting of the broader boar for the blow gun, an arrow fastening cord, and arrow-shafts with grooves. Illustrations included.
- 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 Bridle Attachments.
- Patent for "a bridle of novel construction for training and taming horses; and it consists in the combination of brace and guide-reins, neck and crupper straps, sureingle, and collar." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Buckles
- Patent for a new and improved buckle for use with hame-straps, breech-straps, etc. The patent contains an explanation of the buckle and various illustrations.
- Improvement in Car Brake and Starter.
- Patent for improvements in car brakes "of novel and simple construction" (lines 24-25).
- Improvement in Car Brakes and Starters
- Patent for improvements in rail road-car breaks, starters, and checkers. "The nature of the invention consists in certain constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts" (lines 19-21).
- Improvement in Car-Couplings
- Patent for car coupling device that attaches cars automatically when moved together while also detaching if one or more cars come off the tracks.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for improved construction and arrangement of car-couplings.
- Improvement in Carriage-Axle Boxes.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in carriage-axle boxes and spindles" (lines 3-5), includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Churns
- Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
- Improvement in Combination-Hoes.
- Patent for "hoes in which the blade is made detachable from the handle-eye, and the latter made to receive several blades or other attachments." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Awning and Shutter.
- Patent for a "combined fire and burglar proof shutter and awning" (line 5-6).
- Improvement in Combined Cultivator and Planter.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a combined corn and cotton planter and cultivator" (lines 3-6), includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Convertible Cotton-Planter.
- Patent for improvement in convertible cotton-planters. The mechanism has a seed-dropping mechanism and a rear or side plow covers the dropped seed.
- Improvement in Convertible Wagon-Bed and Hay-Rack.
- Patent for "an ordinary wagon-bed with sides and a rear end board or gate, which are both adjustable and removable, and attach slats or bars to said sides and end-board in such manner that they may be extended laterally when requires, to practically increase the width of the wagon-bed." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and 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 Cotton and Hay Presses
- Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.
- Patent for improvements to machinery for cleaning cotton by passing the raw material over various sizes of mesh and using air to draw out dirt.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners
- Patent for a device that enhances the performance of cotton-cleaner machinery.
- Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
- Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a cotton-picking machine" (lines 15-16) using wire brushes on rods and chains, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
- Patent for a "new and valuable improvement in cotton-planters" (lines 3-4), for planting cotton seeds, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed and Corn Planters
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton seed and corn planters which lists the design specifications.
- 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 Ditching and Excavating Machines.
- Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Door-Checks.
- Patent for "a device for holding the doors in open position, which is readily applied to the door and worked without noise or jamming; and the invention consists of a holder or knob, with recessed front end, attached to the base-board, and of a counter-sunk door plate or case provided with a rubber block, that binds on the recessed part of the holder to retain the door in open position." (Lines 10-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Earth-Augurs.
- Patent for a new auger design for "boring and excavating wells" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Faucets.
- Patent for a faucet "which is inexpensive in its construction, easily repaired, and efficient in operation" (lines 7-8), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Faucets.
- Patent for "an improved faucet, which shall be so constructed that it will not be liable to be injured by being screwed into and out of the cask, which will not be liable to leak, which will have the button of the valve-stem protected from accidental injury, and shall be simple in construction and easily operated." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for a rope-and-pulley fire escape apparatus, including illustration.
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for improving fire-escapes and provides a portable instrument that "may be used for letting persons directly down from buildings, or for carrying them from the upper stories of buildings to others buildings at a distance" (lines 9-12).
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes and Extension-Ladders.
- Patent for a truck-mounted "portable extension-ladder that may be used by firemen in gaining access to buildings, and may also be used as a fire escape" (lines 15-17) including illustration.
- 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 Gang-Plows.
- Patent for "an improved gang-plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plows to take or leave land, and which will enable the wheels to be adjusted closer to or farther from the plows, as may be desired." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for improvements to the gang-plow consisting of "an adjustable frame, within which two or more ordinary plows can be arranged to form the gang, said frame being constructed so as to enable one set of plows to run deep, while the other set can be made to run shallow." (Lines 15-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.