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Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for "an improved hub for buggy and other vehicle wheels, which shall be simple in construction, strong, and durable, and which will run with little friction." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Brown, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Expanding Mandrels.

Description: Patent for improvements in expanding mandrels by way of an expanding-chuck.
Date: January 23, 1872
Creator: Simons, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wardrobe-Beadsteads.

Description: Patent for a new and improved office-furniture that combines a desk, bookshelf, folding bed, hat-rack, and wash-basin, including descriptions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Sutcliffe, Wilson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Vapor-Burners.

Description: Patent for an improvement in vapor burners used in self-generating gas burners.
Date: June 23, 1874
Creator: Sawyer, Frederick A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.

Description: Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date: September 23, 1879
Creator: Nette, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Tug Attachments for Harness.

Description: Patent for improving the tug-harness attachments on a horse harness to better lock straps in place.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Brodnax, David W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvement in horse-drawn cultivators.
Date: April 23, 1872
Creator: Jordan, Hugh Paxton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Cultivators

Description: Patent for an improved cultivator, with adjustable wheel base, plow height and more (pg 1).
Date: July 23, 1872
Creator: Griffith, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fences.

Description: Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
Date: July 23, 1872
Creator: Lerick, Isaac N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Lever-Powers.

Description: Patent for a lever-power which applies "the power and resistance to the lever, so that they will change positions with relation to the fulcrum as the power end of the lever descends" (para. 2). The relation of the lever with the fulcrum is flexible, and allows for increased leverage.
Date: September 23, 1879
Creator: Franklin, Mathew Calhoun
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.

Description: Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Burns, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion.

Description: Patent for an improvement to devices that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. It is comprised of a wheel on a rotary shaft that has has a groove that grips an angular nut mounted on a shaft.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Howe, Milton G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fences.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in fences, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1873
Creator: King, Wilbur F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Key-Hole Guards.

Description: Patent for "a guard for key-holes of locks, to prevent the use of keys by unauthorized persons, the picking of the lock, and as a means for operating the bolt when fitted for that purpose." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for changes in the construction of a cultivator.
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Walker, Leander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person

Description: Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Raiford, Philip H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters.

Description: 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.
Date: January 23, 1872
Creator: Turner, Richard G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator

Description: Patent for a new gang-plow and cultivator design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: Thornton, Sterling C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Churns

Description: 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.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Gray, Whitley F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for an improved design of the plow consisting of a modified foot of the plow and curved blade. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Moore, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Grinding-Mills.

Description: Patent for the improvement of grinding-mills, including a description and illustration.
Date: July 23, 1872
Creator: Loy, George W. & Baker, Francis C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combination-Padlocks.

Description: Patent for "a padlock in which the permutation locking device is not permanently connected to the hasp; and said invention consists of a permutation device the fixed ends whereof are provided with sockets to receive the ends of a separate hasp, and be locked therewith by a notched bolt passing through the permutation device and both ends of the hasp, whereby the usual hinged connection of the parts is avoided, and the padlock made more secure and cheaper than when the parts are permanently unit… more
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaners.

Description: 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).
Date: April 23, 1878
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows

Description: Patent for improvements in the constuction of plows in order to obtain the "best" (line 50) results of "cleanness in furrow, lightness of draft, and facility afforded in constructin the plow" (line 51-52).
Date: October 23, 1879
Creator: Woodward, Lewis E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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