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Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.

Description: Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
Date: June 1, 1875
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Speed-Measures.

Description: Patent for a "means for indicating the degree of speed with which an engine or train of cars is passing over a rail-road, and for enabling an engineer to regulate the speed of his engine to conform to the 'time' enjoined by his table, so that he will run at an even degree of speed, and be required neither to 'slow down' to save his schedule nor quicken the pace of his engine to make up lost time." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1875
Creator: Minton, Stephen F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Scale-Beams.

Description: Patent for "the movable weight used on scale-beams; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the weight to slip over the scale-beam, and with a roller, upon which the weight rests or is suspended, in combination with a locking device." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1875
Creator: Robinson, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seats for Water-Closets.

Description: Patent for an improved seat for water closets, including illustrations.
Date: July 13, 1875
Creator: Fabj, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Farm-Fences.

Description: Patent for "a cheap and easily-constructed fence, and one which neither small nor large stock will be able to jump over or pass through." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Rush, Alonzo & Yarbrough, Fisher
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1875
Creator: Smothers, Thomas T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Metallic Window-Blinds.

Description: Patent for "a blind which acts both as a barrier to the progress of flames attacking windows and as a convenient shutter for the common purposes, and is adapted to be adjusted and securely locked in an open or closed position." (Lines 21-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 10, 1875
Creator: Mackrell, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Machines for Washing Photographs

Description: Patent for "a new and improved apparatus for washing photographic prints after fixing, for the purpose of removing the double hyposulphite of soda and silver formed in the body of the paper during the process of fixing" (lines 6-11).
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Caylor, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Excavators

Description: Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Cole, Thomas Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sad-Iron Heaters.

Description: Patent for improvements to sad-iron heaters, including illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1875
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon Wesley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.

Description: 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.
Date: September 14, 1875
Creator: Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Flat-Irons.

Description: Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
Date: October 11, 1875
Creator: Sterzing, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Wilson, Joseph Erwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Spectacle-Frames.

Description: Patent for "spectacle-frames in which the bows are turned into a coil near the points where they are connected to the lens-hoops for the purpose of forming spring-joints, instead of the ordinary pivot-joints." (Lines 6-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 30, 1875
Creator: Stewart, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators

Description: Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
Date: December 7, 1875
Creator: Brodnax, David W., Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.

Description: Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Hawley, Abel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.

Description: Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Roosevelt, Lillian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Locomotive Earth-Excavators.

Description: Patent for "an earth-excavator, principally for use in making the road-beds for railroads, which shall not only do its work continuously, but which shall be equally efficient in throwing up an embankment or in making a deep cut." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1875
Creator: Hawley, Abel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.

Description: Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
Date: September 21, 1875
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Portable Fences.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in fences made in sections or panels. It consists in the construction and arrangement of the brackets or supports for the panels.
Date: January 12, 1875
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Description: Patent for a detachable and re-useable cotton-bale tie, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1875
Creator: Jones, Henry Bradly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Description: Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date: February 2, 1875
Creator: Reese, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.

Description: Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
Date: February 9, 1875
Creator: Erlenmeyer, Erwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press

Description: Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date: February 23, 1875
Creator: Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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