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Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.

Description: Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Burns, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Windmills.

Description: Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Dewees, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sheet-Metal Vessels

Description: Patent for a cylindrical vessel made of sheet-metal rather than tin. Including a inward double hanging ledge and two layers of metal soldiered together.
Date: October 14, 1879
Creator: Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.

Description: Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date: September 23, 1879
Creator: Nette, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-Axle Boxes.

Description: Patent for improvement to car-axle boxes, specifically "Oil-Collectors for Railroad Journals" (line 6), including illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1879
Creator: Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bag-Fasteners.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1879
Creator: Terrell, Will
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements applicable to a gang of plows. Ability to adjust depth, security of plow arms, and can plow three rows at once.
Date: March 18, 1879
Creator: Gifford, George Lewis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for improvement to "class of bale-ties in which the bands are secured by means of a fastening or key which passes through slots in the ends of the band." (lines 13-16)
Date: April 2, 1878
Creator: Howard, William Henry; Broussard, Camille E. & Hutchins, Rush M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sand-Conveyers.

Description: Patent for a machine for "taking up and conveying sand into a suitable receptacle". Patent for breaking up sand and transferring it into a receptacle by means of circular cutters, conducting apron, inclined plate.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Garcia, Rufino C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Dining-Tables.

Description: Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 14, 1876
Creator: Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.

Description: Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date: April 11, 1876
Creator: Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Piano-Pedal Attachments.

Description: Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.
Date: March 14, 1876
Creator: Cheesman, Charles F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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