Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator.
Date: August 13, 1867
Creator: Adams, Jesse
Description: Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators.
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Improvement in Cultivators.
Date: January 15, 1861
Creator: Alexander, J. T. D.
Description: Patent for the improvement of cultivators using adjustable blades and is adaptable to use different types of blades for a variety of other uses, including illustration.
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Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides
Date: July 20, 1869
Creator: Bean, W. O.
Description: Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
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Improvement in Machines for Extracting Cotton and Corn Stalks.
Date: February 19, 1861
Creator: Bishop, Josiah
Description: Patent for the improvement of pulling the roots of cotton and corn stalks while minimizing the damage to the soil, including illustration.
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Bolt for Doors.
Date: June 26, 1860
Creator: Bonney, N. W.
Description: Patent for the improvement of bolt locks on double doors using a lever lock for safety and ease of locking and unlocking one or both doors, including illustration.
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Improvement in Cultivators.
Date: June 4, 1861
Creator: Cain, Shugar M.
Description: Patent for a plow called the "The Texas Cultivator" (line 7) that uses left and right wings and diamond plows that may be used to plow either side of stock to eliminate additional operators and time for the same job, including illustration.
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Ant-Trap.
Date: August 7, 1860
Creator: Cottingham, G. W.
Description: Patent for an ant-trap using a portable receptacle with three different designs, each can be used as an individual trap or in any combinations to lure ants into the bottom of the receptacle without any means of escaping, including illustration.
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Air-Chamber.
Date: June 18, 1861
Creator: Creuzbaur, Robert
Description: Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
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Improvement in Plows
Date: July 6, 1869
Creator: Cummins, A. G.
Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of plow-beams to be attached to the front axles of a wagon.
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Hanging Millstones.
Date: May 29, 1860
Creator: Dance, G. P.
Description: Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
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