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Improvement in Hair-Triggers
Date: August 24, 1869
Creator: Schenck, F.
Description: Patent for a hair-trigger for firearms.
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Improvement in Harness.
Date: June 25, 1872
Creator: Ellis, Ira
Description: Patent for an economically designed harness that can be attached and detached to the animal with greater simplicity.
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Improvement in Harvesters.
Date: April 21, 1857
Creator: Wilson, J. C.
Description: Patent for cutting grain in gavels at regular intervals along the track of the machine, including illustration.
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Improvement in Harvesters.
Date: November 12, 1867
Creator: Tucker, A. W.
Description: Patent for improvements in mowers and reapers.
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Improvement in Hoe-Handles.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Littleton, W. R.
Description: Patent for the improvement of hoe-handle tightening devices, including illustrations.
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Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Date: February 4, 1873
Creator: Müller, Joseph
Description: Patent for improvements made to motors that power machinery, called "horse-powers." The specific improvements made are in the arrangement of mechanical pulleys from which the motor derives power, arranged in such a way that will not significantly increase the size or cost of the machine.
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Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
Date: October 16, 1877
Creator: Fordtran, Eugene H.
Description: Patent for improvements on insect destroyers to be used in cotton fields, including illustrations.
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Improvement in Lamps
Date: August 3, 1869
Creator: Richer, F. C.
Description: Patent for the construction of a combined oil burning lamp and candlestick.
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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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Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers.
Date: September 27, 1859
Creator: Morrel, Z. N.
Description: Patent for the improvement of fertilizer-distributer which dispense fertilizers from a hopper with revolving arms that is mounted on top of a plow like machine, which would allow the fertilizers fall into the furrow. Including illustration.
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