Improvement in Curing Meat, &c.
Date: September 12, 1846
Creator: Allen, Augustus C.
Description: Patent for curing meat using an air-tight brine vacuum to heat and purify the meat, including illustrations.
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Brick-Machine.
Date: May 30, 1848
Creator: Wilson, Robert
Description: Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations.
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Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
Date: July 30, 1850
Creator: Milner, George B.
Description: Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
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Improvement in Fish-Hooks.
Date: April 11, 1854
Creator: Sigler, Henry
Description: Patent for "new and useful improvement in the Sockdolager Fish-Hook" (lines 4-5), including illustration.
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Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.
Date: July 5, 1859
Creator: Stockbridge, Elam
Description: Patent for the "improvement in Horizontal Cotton - Presses for compressing cotton, hay, and other articles and substances for baling; ..." (lines 3-6), including illustrations.
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Rotary Steam-Engine.
Date: August 16, 1859
Creator: Montjoy, George J.
Description: Patent for the improvement of the rotary engine through the arrangement of passages and system of pistons for a more simple construction with little friction, including illustration.
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Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.
Date: June 9, 1868
Creator: Milner, Thomas
Description: Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
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Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Raiford, Philip H.
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.
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Improvement in Fluting-Machines.
Date: January 14, 1873
Creator: Saunders, David R.
Description: Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
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Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.
Date: January 5, 1875
Creator: Cleary, Edward
Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
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