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- Bale-Tie.
- Patent for a new and improved bale-tie that eliminates the need for buckles. This design achieves this with a hook and a U-shaped piece of iron to be riveted to the band, thus fastening the bale without buckles.
- Horse-Power.
- Patent for a new and improved "horse-power" (motor). This design utilizes a central pinion and a counter-wheel to accelerate the rest of the motor with minimal friction and minimal complicating of design.
- Improved Bridge.
- Patent for an invention that "is to provide certain improvements in the construction of bridges, whereby the parts thereof, of wood, may be readily removed for the substitution of others, when decayed or broken, without interfering with the use of the bridge or weakening it (lines 10-15)". The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improved in Medical Compounds or Liver Invigorators.
- Patent for a new medical compound to improve liver function.
- Improvement in Adjustable Hammers for Fire-Arms.
- Patent for "the particular construction and arrangement of such swiveling striker with its locking devices, and its combination with a double-barreled gun, whereby a single hammer may be employed for both barrels, the striker being capable of such adjustment as to bring it within the range of either nipple, or into an intermediate position between the two, for the prevention of accidents." (Lines 17-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Cooling the Air of Buildings.
- Patent for improvements to cooling apparatus for buildings, especially distilleries and breweries. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.
- Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meats and Vegetables
- Patent for "improvement in apparatus" for the use of "preserving meats, vegetables, fruits &c." (lines 5, 16-17) including construction specifications and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bailing-Presses.
- Patent for an improved bailing press consisting of "a novel arrangement of levers, connecting-bars, and cords, in combination with the follower and windlass, whereby the follower is worked in the downward direction for pressing, and in the opposite direction for elevating it to recharge the press, by the said windlass" (lines 5-11).
- 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 Bale-Ties
- Patent for an improved bale-tie whose frame is provided with an end bar having wedge-shaped catch.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for a new and improved bale-tie design with different buckle and band. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties
- Patent for a new and improved cotton bale tie utilizing a simple and fast pronged buckle tie which is simple and cheap to manufacture.
- Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeders for Thrashing-Machines.
- Patent for improvements in the design of band-cutters and feeders for thrashing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
- 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 Broom-Handles.
- Patent for improving a spring-hinge joint that secures the broom during transportation.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
- 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 Churns.
- Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and 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 Combined Wrench and Saw-Set.
- Patent for improvements in the "combination of a wrench with a saw-setting device attached to the sliding jaw thereof" (lines 17-19). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- 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 Compounds for Destroying Worms in Cotton-Plants.
- Patent for using a solution of water and arsenic for killing cotton pests.
- Improvement in Compounds for Fish-Baits.
- Patent for a new compound to be used as fish bait, consisting of oil of anise, asafetida, cardamom-seed, golden, yellow, or black root, and buzzard root. Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.
- Patent for improvements in baling-presses. It consists of movable followers and a sliding drum that has a ratchet secured to a clutch and a shaft. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvesting machine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for "improvements in cotton-presses, it's object being to produce a compact and efficient apparatus, adapted to be secure in the floor between the first and second stories of a building, in such a manner that the press-box can be filled and the cotton made up into bales in the upper story, while the pressing operation is effected from below." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in a cotton press. "Our invention has for its object to furnish an improved press for baling cotton as it comes from the gin, &c., &c." (lines 14-16).
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of corn and cotton cultivators, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
- Patent for an improved ditching machine design that will "easily and rapidly cut or excavate, on the surface of the ground, soil, clay, or soft stone, a ditch or trench of any reasonable width or depth suitable" (lines 33-37) including instructions and 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.
- Improvement in Earth-Boring Machines.
- Patent for improvements in earth-boring machines with new design and connections, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fire-Tongs
- Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.
- 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 Gang and Sulky Plows.
- Patent for improvements in gang and sulky plows which "consists in an axle having the double crank of the transporting-wheel journaled upon the outer bend of said crank, working between the side beams of the plow-frame, and the connecting-rods pivoted, respectively, to the said bars and to the end and inner bend of said crank" (lines 17-23). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for an improved gang-plow with an adjustable crank-axle, mechanism to raise and lock the plows, and a brace for increasing rigidity.
- 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 Harness.
- Patent for a new improvement in harness that "enables the detachment of the horse therefrom instantaneously" (lines 8-9) including illustration. It may also be called "safety harness" (line 10).
- Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
- Improvement in Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants.
- Patent for a wheeled, horse-drawn machine, "whereby plants are firs dampened with water and then overspread with poisonous powder, the latter being caused by the former to adhere to the plant" (para. 9).
- Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters.
- Patent for a medical compound prepared with whisky, gentian-root, cinchonabark, quassia and cloves which is intended as "a remedy for miasmatic fevers" (line 23) including instructions for the preparation and administration of the medicine.
- Improvement in Motors for Operating Churns.
- Patent for "a simple and effective motive power for operating the dashers of churns; and it consists of a suitable frame-work provided with a fly-wheel, operated by a pitman attached to a bar projecting from brackets on the side of an ordinary rocking-chair, said fly-wheel being provided with cogs upon one side, which mesh into the cogs on a smaller wheel, which caries a crank for operating the dasher of the churn, a suitable belt being arranged upon the rim of the fly-wheel and around a small pulley for setting in motion a rotary fan." (Lines 13-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Nails.
- Patent for a nail with hexagonal form with two sides nearly flat and beveled edges.
- Improvement in Pen-Holders.
- Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Pile-Drivers.
- Patent for an improved pile-driver device which automates the release of the pile-driver hammer as well as including a perpendicular device which advances the device longitudinally as the work progresses.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for an improved design of the plow consisting of a modified foot of the plow and curved blade. Illustrations included.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.