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- Cart-Saddle
- Patent for a more animal-friendly saddle to attach a horse to a cart by adjusting the way the girth is handled as the cart is loaded.
- Design for Sash-Holder.
- Patent for "the design [of] a sash or window-frame fastener" (lines 28-30).
- 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 Ant Traps
- Patent for the improvement of Ant traps, including to illustrated and labeled figures.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Working Glass.
- Patent for a blowing-engine that will make the glass-blowing process less laborious. Includes instructions and 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 Automatic Fans.
- Patent for " a new and improved Table-Fan"
- Improvement In Bagasse-Furnaces.
- Patent for improvements in Bagasse Burners or Furnaces.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement to "class of bale-ties in which the bands are secured by means of a fastening or key which passes through slots in the ends of the band." (lines 13-16)
- Improvement In Bale-Ties.
- This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an improved, cheap and convenient bale-tie. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Baling-Presses.
- Patent for improvements to presses used for baling cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
- 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 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 improvement upon train car coupling. Invention includes use of draw-heads, drop-gates, etc.
- Improvement In Car-Seat Locks.
- This patent is for the usage of car seats and how they perform. It was created to improve the mechanics of locking a reversible car-seat.
- Improvement in Carriage-Springs
- Patent for improved design for carriage-springs with included illustrations of the spring design as well as diagram of placement on a carriage/wagon.
- Improvement in Chairs.
- Patent for improvements in chairs: "the back, seat, foot rest, and head rest are all self adjusting, and operated by the natural movements of the occupant" (lines 11-13).
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Collars.
- Patent for a device improving the speed and efficiency of shirt collar fastening, as well as the securing of items such as scarves and ties, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
- Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
- Improvement In Corn And Cotton-Seed Planters.
- This patent is an upgraded corn and seed planter machine that plants corn, cotton, and other types of seeds for mass production. The machine is aligned with the surface of the ground. It does not converse with the plows that are attached to it, freeing up the machine to release seeds proficiently with ease.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers and Cultivators
- Patent for a improved version of the cotton-chopper, used for the cultivation of cotton. This is a new arrangement of part of the cotton-chopper as it fits in with the complete machine.
- Improvement In Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaners.
- Patent for "a device for quickly cleaning the saws of cotton-gins when they become gummed. It consists in a series of knives that are supported by a movable bar or frame, and may be thrust between the saws when the saws are to be cleaned (para. 4-5).
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of running up the follower, or against the small pulley for the purpose of running it down, by drawing the said level inward or outward." (Lines 15-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improved Cotton-Press that will grant double work from an applied power, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvement in horse-drawn cultivators.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of corn cultivators, including illustrations.
- 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 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 Distilling Turpentine.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in apparatus for distilling turpentine to permit continuous distillation.
- Improvement in Electro-Magnetic Engines.
- Patent for "a new practical application of electro-magnetism to machinery for the purpose of moving the same and keeping it in motion, and developing a degree of force which is only limited by the reduced proportion of power applied. The invention consists principally in the transmission of electro-magnetic power through compressed air for motor purposes, and the mechanism and combination of machinery necessary for that purpose." (Lines 12-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in fences, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fifth-Wheels for Vehicles.
- Patent for improvements made to fifth-wheels for vehicles, including illustrations.
- Improvement in filters for Cane Juice, Oils, and Other Dense Liquids
- Patent for Improvement in filters for Cane Juice, Oils, and Other Dense Liquids with description of the improved liquid strainer and three illustrated figure drawings.
- Improvement In Fine-Proof Cotton-Lint Rooms.
- This patent is a receiver that is portable and provides a unique way of catching the lint that is ejected from a cotton-gin when in use. The portable receiver helps to prevent fires.
- Improvement in Fire-Escape Ladders.
- This patent was created for the improvent of fire escape ladders. The inventor gives a comprehensive look at his invention via his image.
- Improvement in Furnaces.
- Patent for improvements in furnaces, using steam to create heat. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Gate-Hinges.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of gate-hinges, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.
- Patent for an "invention to prevent the breaking of glass globes used in kerosene lamps as reservoirs for the burning fluid; and this invention consists in the application around the reservoir of a rubber ring let into a groove, but projecting sufficiently to receive the concussion in case the lamp is overthrown." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hame Fasteners
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in hame-fasteners. "This fastening can be readily fastened and unfastened without taking off the gloves, and with cold and benumbed fingers, and when fastened will hold the hames securely" (lines 35-38). Including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hooks for Suspending Meat.
- Patent for an improved meat suspending device that will prevent ants and insects from reaching meat, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Horse-Powers.
- Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
- 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 Lamp-Burners.
- Patent for a new improvement for Lamp-Burners that helps prevent explosions, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Leather-Cutting Gages
- Patent for improvement in leather cutting-gages in order to negate the need for the set-screw at the end of the gage handle that is needed to hold the rule. The document contains instructions and illustrations of the device.
- Improvement in Machines for Tightening Iron Bands on Bales.
- Patent for an apparatus that consists of "a series of metal bars to be inserted between what is known as the 'channel bars or teeth,' both on the upper and lower platens of a compress used for compressing cotton-bales, which bars thus inserted shall be so attached to the channel-bars that, by the force of springs, the said bars will be kept below the surface of the teeth on the platens, allowing ample space to insert the iron bands to be used in tying the bales, in the same manner as they are now universally inserted." (Lines 13-23) Includes 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 pill composed of podophyllin, leptandrin, butternut bark extract, rhubarb extract, extract of "jalap," capsicum, quinine sulfate, and salicin. The pill is said to treat a wide variety of diseases.