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- Chain-Link.
- Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
- Air-Chamber.
- Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
- Window-Fastener.
- Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.
- Improvement in Compositions Used as Building Materials.
- Patent for making a new kind of building and fencing materials by using farm waste and inorganic settable ingredients such as quick-lime, clay or soil. No illustration.
- Improved Water-Wheel.
- Patent for the improvement of the water-wheel using curved buckets over a spiral water passage to increase power and volume, including illustration.
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for an improved millstone-dress that produce less heat while grinding by employing a greater number of furrows, including illustration.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
- Patent for improvement in pump-drills for boring artesian wells by “combining pump-valves and pistons with a drill for boring artesian or other wells” (lines 21-23), including illustration.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for an improved plow to turn and reverse the mold-board by using a single bolt to secure the reversible mold-board onto the stock of a plow.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for the improvement of planting seeds using a single seed-slide and double tubes from seed box to distribute seeds to planting point in a more direct route than other seed-planters, including illustration.
- Improvement in Machines for Extracting Cotton and Corn Stalks.
- Patent for the improvement of pulling the roots of cotton and corn stalks while minimizing the damage to the soil, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- 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.
- Escapement for Timekeepers.
- Patent for the improvement in the escapement of the watch for a "more regular and less liable to get out of order" through wear (lines 23-24), including illustration.
- Improvement in Vitreography.
- Patent for an invention that is similar to an adhesive, which aids in the ornamentation of windows. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
- Improvement in Joining and Fitting Hoof-Hooks.
- Patent for "a new and improved Hoof-Hook or cleaner, for cleaning the hoofs of horses and mules" (line 3) including instructions and an illustration.
- Smith's Forge.
- Patent for "The improvements consists of a cast iron box" (line 12).
- Improvement in Bungs.
- Patent for improvement in bungs for beer and other barrels.
- Improvement in Saws.
- Patent for improvements to circular or straight saws that steady the saw and prevent vibration and buckling. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Saws.
- Patent for improvement in saws by way of the construction of beveled edged teeth with concave sides.
- Improvement in Trusses.
- Patent for improvements in the wiring and metal plates in self-adjusting trusses.
- Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.
- Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
- Improvement in Elevators.
- Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Methods of Forming Saw-Teeth.
- Patent for "a rule for giving to the backs of saw-teeth such an angle as will allow the teeth to be made of proper strength and at the same time to be chambered out and pointed so that they will cut the wood like chisels instead of scraping or tearing the wood." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improved Side-Saddle.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hat-Ventilators.
- Patent for improvement in mode of ventilating hats, bonnets, and or caps by “providing the inside of the head-coverings, at the point of contact with the head, with a liuing or an elastic spiral formed into a cushion, through which the air can freely circulate around the whole head.” (Lines 28-32) Illustration is included.
- Saw Tooth
- Patent for "Improvement in Saw Teeth" (line 3)
- Improved Compound for Treating the Human Hair.
- Patent for an improved compound for straightening, softening and renewing the human hair, ingredients and proportions are listed. No illustration.
- Improved Head-Rest.
- Patent for a new and improved head-rest for railroad-car seats and other seats, that can be applied to or removed from the back of seats without the use of clamp-screws, and are adjustable and adaptable to the convenience and comfort of different persons. It includes a description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
- Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
- Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
- Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Water-Wheels.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of water-wheels, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Toy Trumpets.
- Patent for improvements in toy trumpets in which in addition to making sound, the movement of air through the instrument also causes a disk on top of the instrument to revolve by the force of the air on paddles that form the bottom of the disk. The top of the disk will have decorative figures such as soldiers.
- Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
- Patent for an improved stalk-puller for use in pulling cotton-stalks in preparing the land for another crop.
- Improvement in Flat-Irons.
- Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Paper Boxes.
- Patent for improved techniques in folding paper boxes using a single piece of paper in which the bottom part is safely secured. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.
- 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).
- Improvement in Saddle-Trees.
- 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.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Postage or Revenue Stamps.
- Patent for an improvement in postage or revenue stamps. Patent for postage or revenue stamp "composed of two superposed sheets or layers, A B, the top layer carrying the printed designs, having parallel incisions therein, and the bottom layer being provided with adhesive material on the back". Patent for postage and revenue stamps that cannot be re-used.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
- Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
- Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Grain-Binders
- Patent for improved design of grain-binders.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
- Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
- Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvesting machine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
- Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator.
- Patent for "a new and improved gang plow and cultivator" (lines 3-4), including instructions and illustrations. "This invention relates to a new agricultural machine which may be readily changed from a gang-plow into a cultivator, and vice-versa" (lines 15-17).
- Automatic Gate.
- Patent for an improved automatic gate with levers, cam-blocks, camways, and cam-rods. It is centrally pivoting, uses a pulley, a cam groove, a forked bearing, chains, and chords.
- Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.
- Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.