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- Improvement in Angle-Plates for Doors.
- Patent for a strengthening bracket for improving angle-plates for door hinges, such that the door will be supported from sagging at the hinge.
- Improvement in Animal-Traps
- Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
- Improvement in Bale-Band-Tying Machines.
- Patent for a device that automatically ties bands of cotton bales by mechanical means.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for a new and improved bale-tie design with different buckle and band. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Bed-Plates for Steam-Engines.
- Patent for the invention of a new improvement in bed plates for steam engines, allowing improved water-feeding and venting of exhaust steam.
- Improvement in Brick-Presses.
- Patent for a "new and useful improvement in brick-presses by which bricks may be quickly and cheaply pressed by hand power from clay taken direct from bank or mixer" ( Lines 1-3 )including instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Churning-Machines
- Patent for improvement in mechanisms in operating churns. Includes a crank wheel and spindles for churning, as well as a better balanced upright position.
- Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys
- Patent for improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys. This object is to be used with the brick chimney on top of the roof to provide air circulation. It consists of an iron-lined inner flue secured within an outer casing with suitable bottom and top perforation for establishing air current around the flue.
- Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Caterpillars.
- Patent for an insecticide compound that combines Paris green, flour, and lime, which allows the poison, arsenic, to better adhere to cotton plants. Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-bale ties which consists of the construction of the loop-plate.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
- Patent for "an improved machine for scraping, chopping, and cultivating corn and cotton" (lines 10-12) with illustrations and instructions.
- 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 Fluting-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
- Improvement in Fluting Sad-Irons.
- Patent for "a new combination of fluting and sad-iron, of such kind that the upper fluting-roller will serve as handle for the sad-iron, there being thus no loose or separate parts required for the two functions." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and 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 Gun-Locks.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hand Cotton Pickers.
- Patent for a new method of picking cotton by hand, whereby 3 spindles remove the fibers from the bolls.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for an improvement of a baling press where the upright framing timbers allows any quantity of cotton to be placed in the bale and creates a uniformity of weight.
- Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.
- Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a new medical compound to treat "various diseases, more especially those which affect the bowels and digestive organs" (lines 34-36) which lists the ingredients.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.
- Improvement in Medicinal Extracts.
- Patent for the extract of Dasylirion graminifolium. This describes the method of acquiring the extract as well as illnesses the extra is purported to treat.
- Improvement in Nail-Extractors.
- Patent for an improved instrument for extracting nails which "will increase its effectiveness in equal ratio with the resistance offered by the object under operation" (lines 13-16) including instruction and illustrations.
- Improvement In Padlocks.
- Patent for improvements to Padlocks which can be opened with a key in conjunction with maneuvering the tumblers or locking-bolt.
- 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 Picket-Fences.
- Patent for secure, inexpensive picket-fence construction using various sizes of wood pieces and wire. It is meant for situations in which wood is scarce. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
- Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
- Improvement in Plates for Holding Screw-Cutting Dies.
- Patent for plates to hold screw-cutting dies, which allows the threads to be more accurately placed. Dies are also able to work for left handed dies as well as right handed dies.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Plow" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Policemen's Batons.
- Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Remedies for Dropsy.
- Patent for a medical compound to alleviate dropsy, consisting of grape-vine, spirits of niter, oil of grape-vine, extract of Spanish apple root, and common salt. Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Saddle-Tree Forks.
- Patent for an "improved saddle-tree fork, which shall be simple in construction, light, and durable, and which may be readily adjusted as a Texas saddle-tree or a muley saddle-tree"( line 6 )includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Sheet-Metal Vessels
- Patent for a cylindrical vessel made of sheet-metal rather than tin. Including a inward double hanging ledge and two layers of metal soldiered together.
- Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits.
- Patent for "Improvement in the Mode of extracting Flavors from Grain." (lines 3-4)
- Improvement in Vehicle Axle-Lubricators
- Patent for improvements to the design of axle lubricators, in which the oil reservoir is in the rear as opposed to the front.
- Improvement in Washing Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of washing machine mechanisms.
- 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.
- Improvements in Traction-Engines.
- Patent for improving traction engines for use in hauling on farms and farm roads. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Millstone-Drivers
- Patent for improvements in Millstone-drivers