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- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for the improvement of the plow using braces and mold-board for a sturdy and very durable plow, including illustration.
- Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels.
- Patent for improvements in steering vessels: "by means of rotary paddle wheels the blades of which are arranged parallel to keel" (lines 21-23).
- Improvements in Mattress-Stuffers.
- Patent for an improved mattress stuffer with a horizontal case and a hinged cover.
- Improvement in Fluting Sad-Irons.
- Patent for "a new combination of fluting and sad-iron, of such kind that the upper fluting-roller will serve as handle for the sad-iron, there being thus no loose or separate parts required for the two functions." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for a new arrangement of posts, rails, and false posts in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for improvements in presses for hay, cotton and similar substances, by making the machine portable and the box that holds hay or cotton is adjustable vertically and horizontally. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Gin Feeder
- Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including endless apron, toothed cylinder, and toothed equalizing and distributing bars. Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.
- Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "a new buckle or tie for holding the ends of the bands of cotton-bales" (lines 18-19) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improved Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in portable press by dividing the pressing-chamber into two parts, one of which is fixed to the wagon-frame, the other part is movable. “The movable part contains the follower, adapted to be titled with it, and operated by the winding-drum, cords, wheel and the wings, working in the horizontal slots in the sides of these parts.” (Lines 81-85) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Button-Hole Scissors.
- Improved Button Hole scissors, where the scissors may be "adjusted vertically for suitable Cutting Hole length"(pg 2). The scissors have a "v-shaped" button hole cutter that can be adjusted to pierce the fabric at a desired depth and a tracing wheel.
- Improvements In Machines for Distributing Compounds for Destroying Cotton-Worms
- Patent for improvements on machines to distribute poison for cotton worms in the field. It consists of vibrating,sifting boxes combined with a suspension bar which is secured to the front of a horse saddle so the rider can shake the boxes to distribute poison powder to two rows of crops at a time.
- Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-lint rooms. These rooms are used with gins that seperate the seeds from the cotton.
- Improvement in Transplanters
- Patent for an improvement in transplanters, intended for use in transplanting cotton or other plants.
- Improvement in Truss-Bridges.
- Patent for an improved method of truss-bridge construction, "whether made with a single or double roadway and with or without a sidewalk upon one or both sides, so as to enable them to be made with less material and less expense than when made in the ordinary manner, and which shall at the same time have an equal or greater strength." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Metallic Window-Blinds.
- 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.
- Improvement in folding tables.
- Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
- Improvement In Shoe-Lacings
- Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
- Improvement in Nail-Extractors.
- Patent for an improved instrument for extracting nails which "will increase its effectiveness in equal ratio with the resistance offered by the object under operation" (lines 13-16) including instruction and illustrations.
- Improvement in Paper-Clips.
- Patent for the improvement of paper-clips, made out of a single piece of metal. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Fences
- Patent for an improvement in fences through the manufacturing of a fence or fence-paneling of hoop-iron, so that it may be sold in sections of any desired length, rolled up in compact form, easily and cheaply transported to any distance, and put up by the farmer with rapidity and facility.
- Improvement in Mattress and Cushion Tackers.
- Patent for improvement in fasten materials that are used for mattresses or cushion together without being drawn through and lifted by the needles. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in rail-fence by using “triangular-shaped posted or couplings; it consists in arranging posts of a triangular form and a certain construction diagonally with the rails forming the body of each panel, so that long and short rails may be utilized.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Fire-Tongs.
- Patent for improvement in fire-tongs with legs forked below the joint and riveted together.
- Improvement in Cotton-Worm-Poison Distributers.
- Patent for new and valuable improvement in cotton-worm-poison distributer (distributor) to secure to a saddle upon a horse.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-bale ties which consists of the construction of the loop-plate.
- Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Caterpillars.
- Patent for an insecticide compound that combines Paris green, flour, and lime, which allows the poison, arsenic, to better adhere to cotton plants. Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-cleaner that enhances the performance of cotton cleaning. It includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gate-Hinges.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of gate-hinges, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
- Patent for a "compound for killing the cotton-worm and other insects that infest, eat, and damage the leaves of the cotton-plant," which "consists in combining a poisonous, an adhesive, and a diffusive ingredient in one and the same compound." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters.
- Patent for improvement to cotton and corn planters, including a hinged or pivoted frame to carry the plows which can be adjusted by foot levers. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Cotton Choppers
- Patent for improvement in cotton choppers creating a more effective machine relating to the cultivating and chopping of cotton. Includes labeled figures and descriptive text
- Improvement in Automatic-Gates.
- Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Farm-Gates" (lines 3-4) allowing persons riding to open and close a swinging gate.
- Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.
- Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for bale ties that are designed "to have a series of holes in each end portion of the hoop, so that two keys can be used; also so that the hoop can be taken up short and again used on the compressed or repressed bale." (Lines 20-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
- Patent for "machines which are designed for distributing poison-dust over the leaves of plants for the destruction of insects, especially the worms which prey on the cotton-plant." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a detachable and re-useable cotton-bale tie, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties
- Patent for a new and improved cotton bale tie utilizing a simple and fast pronged buckle tie which is simple and cheap to manufacture.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an improved cotton-bale tie, which is a metallic hoop having an opening and protruding metal lugs on one end through which the other end, having openings that correspond to the lugs, is passed and secured with same.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improved bale-ties, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in a cotton press. "Our invention has for its object to furnish an improved press for baling cotton as it comes from the gin, &c., &c." (lines 14-16).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for an automatic car-coupling that is designed to be operated from either side of the car. The danger of an operator passing between cars to couple or uncouple the cars is avoided in this invention, and the coupling can be adapted to couple cars that have draw-bars to unequal height. The coupling can be manually operated if wished.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for "car-couplers of the link-and-pin type which couple automatically and are provided with unlocking-levers operated from the top and side of a car, and designed to avoid the necessity of passing between the cars to couple or uncouple the same." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cartridge-Loading Machine
- Patent for improvements to the machine originally patented on August 10, 186 by Edward A. Franklin of Brenham, patent no. 347,268.
- Cotton or Corn Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists "[i]n combination with the hopper of a corn or cotton planter, a vibrating sector provided with two median pins . . . and a seed-slide having the vertical stud projecting up between said pins, whereby the seed-slide will be intermittently and alternately struck by the two pins and reciprocated in opposite directions" (lines 58-65).
- Beverage Shaking and Mixing Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved beverage shaker and mixer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame provided with arms at right angles thereto and the main drive-wheel journaled therein, gear-wheels journaled at the ends of the arms, provided with wrist-pins and meshing with the drive-wheel, a shaker-bar connected to the wrist-pins of the gear-wheels and having a loop or opening for the insertion of the shaft of the drive-wheel, and the cups or tumbler-holders attached rigidly to the shaker-bar" (lines 27-36).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "of a draw-head, a depending hook pivotally mounted therein, a transverse pin arranged on the bottom of the mouth of the draw-head and provided intermediate its ends with a notch to permit the passage of the lower end of the hook, a spring for holding the notch away from the hook, and means for sliding the pin to bring the notch opposite the hook" (lines 83-91).
- Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock.
- Patent for "an apparatus for filling barrels with soap-stock or other thick liquid of similar consistency, the object being to provide a machine whereby the barrels may be filled quickly through the bung-hole." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Electric motor.
- Patent for improved electric motor used in motor vehicles "which may be associated directly with the driving-wheel of a motor-vehicle" (lines 40-41), bypassing the need for other power-transmitting mechanisms. Includes instructions and illustrations.