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Carbureter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
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Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in wagon hubs that includes one-piece attachment and spokes that can be cut by metal strips by exposed to no injury, including illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: McNalley, Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Water-Elevators.

Description: Patent for improvements to water-elevators using water-vessels which are suspended from a chain or cord, also known as endless carriers.
Date: August 18, 1877
Creator: Wright, Martin Van Buten
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Improvement in Tenoning-Machines

Description: Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.
Date: April 18, 1871
Creator: Bourland, Melton S.
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Improvement in Sulky-Plows.

Description: Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Payne, Joseph M.
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Improvement in Vibrating Propellers

Description: Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
Date: February 18, 1873
Creator: Macowitzky, Charles P.
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Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for an improvement in waching machine design, including illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Millegan, William E.
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Improvement in Sprinklers.

Description: Patent for an improved sprinkler.
Date: January 18, 1876
Creator: Melcher, John C.
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Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton

Description: Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Drake, James A. & Singer, Edgar C.
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Improvement in Tube-Expanders.

Description: Patent for improvements to tube expanders with springs rigidly secured at one end, detachable rolls, and the ability to fit tubes of different sizes.
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Rooney, Hugh L
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Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers.

Description: Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
Date: April 18, 1876
Creator: Harper, Elijah S., Sr.
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Improvement in Ironing Apparatus

Description: Patent for improvement to an ironing apparatus to "produce a cheap portable ironing-machine, with which any capable person (and even children) can with very liggle fatigue and labor, do the ironing for a large family in a very short time".
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Martin, James
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Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.

Description: 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.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: De Force, Samuel A.
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Improvement in Faucets.

Description: 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.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Lempert, William S.
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Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.

Description: 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).
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Perry, Elton
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Improvement in Saddle-Trees.

Description: 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.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Still, Henry C. & Still, Joseph R.
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Improvement in Single-Trees.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Wooden Single-Trees" (lines 3-4), "for plows and other similar drafts" (lines 15-16), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Bass, Thomas Gibson
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Improvement in Fish and Animal Traps

Description: Patent for an improvement in the design of traps intended for catching fish or animals. Includes illustration.
Date: September 18, 1872
Creator: Hartcourt, John T.
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Improvement in Fire-Lighters.

Description: 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.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Craig, Samuel M.
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Improvement in Saw-Sets

Description: Patent for an improvement in a device which sets the teeth of a saw, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Holton, Samuel
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Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvements to a cultivator "which, for convenience of operation, may be attached to the wheels or frame of any ordinary wagon or cart, or it may be operated independently of either of the above by attaching the draft animals directly to the main or principal beam to which the plow-points are connected." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1873
Creator: Hinckley, Jacob B.
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Improvement in Scew-Propellers.

Description: Patent for "means for guiding pivoted propeller-blades so that they can open and close readily and uniformly. It also consists in a new mode of applying a spring there-to so that the obliquity or resistance of the blades will be automatically graduated." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1873
Creator: Wilson, Martin M.
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Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Description: Patent for a mixture of "amargosa" root, Jamaica ginger, glycerin, and simple syrup for use in treating illnesses of the bowels.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Putegnat, Joseph L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sawing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and valuable sawing-machine is combined and, "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the vibrating beam, vertically-sliding block, and flanged support," (pg. 3) e.g...including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Westmoreland, Joseph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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