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- Wire Fence.
- Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.
- Spring Bed-Bottom.
- Patent for the improvement of bedsteads using a spring bottom-construction with zig-zag wire, including 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.
- Rotary Pump.
- Patent for a "submerged pump of very simple construction... one which will be efficient in its operation and not liable to get out of repair" (lines 16-20), illustration included.
- Improved Grain-Meter.
- Patent for a more efficient grain-meter. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hot-Air, Steam, and Water-Gauge.
- Patent for improvements in hot air, harmonic steam, and water gauges: "In this invention several tubes pass through the boiler, some under and some above the water, through which currents of air are induced by the heat of the water or steam surrounding them" (lines 8-9).
- Improvement in Corn-Planters
- Patent for a construction that will act as a plow, and aid in the process of planting corn. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improved Anchor for Animals.
- Patent for improvement in animals’ anchor in which it allow the animals to graze without being twisted or wound up the rope by using the combination of a swiveled loop and a pivoted loop with each other, and a pin. “This pin is made with four wings, or radial longitudinal flanges, tapering to a point at its lower end and is readily forced into the ground, and easily drawn out, but will resist a very strong side-draught.” (Lines23-27) Illustration is included.
- Apparatus for Transmitting Power.
- Patent for a new invention which uses a combination of radiation and levers in order more efficiently transmit power. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Mill-Stone Dress.
- Patent for Mill Stone Dressing- the pattern on a mill stone for the better grinding of grains into flour. The furrows and grooves of the new design allow grain to be "milled... at greater speed (and)even distribution."
- Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.
- Patent for improvement in cotton scrapers and choppers by way of the innovative placement of plows.
- Improvement in Bedsteads.
- Patent for the improvement of bedsteads in order to make them more convenient and durable.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses.
- Patent for improving the cotton and hay press.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improvement in churns by using an oblong box with a diamond-shaped dash fixed in the box. The churning is done by rapidly swing the box back and forth until butter is obtained. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for an improved Cotton Chopper. The device is horse drawn with adjustable wheels, plows and drivers seat (pg 2). Illustration Included.
- Improvement in Tents.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in military tents that relates to folding tents including illustrations.
- Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims.
- Patent for a "new and Improved Extension Hat Brim" (lines 3-4) with folding arms to extend the brim, including illustrations.
- Improvement in extension hat-brims.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Extension Hat-Brim" (lines 3-4) which can be extended or folded back by the wearer. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Machines for Gumming Saws
- Patent for improvement in dressing and gumming saws, specifically saws used in a mill either circular or vertical. Patent includes labeled figure drawings and text descriptions.
- Improvement in Floating-Docks.
- Patent for an elliptic floating dock.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement in bale-ties, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers.
- Patent for "an improvement in the bottle-stopper of Westel E. Hawkins, patented under date of August 4, 1874, and numbered 153,769" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Brick-Molds.
- Patent for improvement in brick-molds, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Adjustable Cultivators"
- Bale-tie
- Patent for improvement in the construction of hooks used to join the ends of ties "for packages or bales of cotton, hemp, rags, or other substances in which a divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale is used, and the ends whereof are joined by a hook at one end of said band, arranged to interlock with any one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band" (para. 2).
- Improvement in Lifting-Jacks.
- Patent for improvement in lifting jack. This improvement is the vertical bar is notched to prevent slipping when lifting an item.
- Improvement in Adjustable Hammers for Fire-Arms.
- Patent for "the particular construction and arrangement of such swiveling striker with its locking devices, and its combination with a double-barreled gun, whereby a single hammer may be employed for both barrels, the striker being capable of such adjustment as to bring it within the range of either nipple, or into an intermediate position between the two, for the prevention of accidents." (Lines 17-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang and Sulky Plows.
- Patent for improvements in gang and sulky plows which "consists in an axle having the double crank of the transporting-wheel journaled upon the outer bend of said crank, working between the side beams of the plow-frame, and the connecting-rods pivoted, respectively, to the said bars and to the end and inner bend of said crank" (lines 17-23). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Portable Houses.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of portable wooden houses, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Water-Wheels.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of water-wheels, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Baling-Presses.
- Patent for improvements to presses used for baling cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improved Cotton-Press that will grant double work from an applied power, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Hooks for Suspending Meat.
- Patent for an improved meat suspending device that will prevent ants and insects from reaching meat, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Force-Pumps.
- Patent relating to "that class of force-pumps which are to be submerged and are double-acting" (lines 17-19). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Machines for Cutting Shingles.
- Patent relating to "that class of shingle-machines which form the shingles by means of a knife working sidewise with the grain" (lines 10-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Quilting-Frames.
- Patent relating to improvement "of quilting-frames made with folding ends and adjustable in width" (lines 10-12). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Child's Crib
- Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Governor for Water-Elevators.
- Patent for improvements on governor for water-elevator to alleviate problems of waste of water from overage of water and also allows for self-regulation of the supply of water. Included are instructions and illustrations.
- Rotary Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.
- Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement and Lime.
- Patent for improvement in“the manufacture of hydraulic cement or lime form rotten or decomposed limestone” (lines 66-68).
- Umbrella and Sun Shade.
- Patent for a new and improved (sun) umbrella. This design utilizes an adjustable metal frame that can be attached to a piece of equipment (e.g., a tractor) or worn comfortably by a person. This allows for hands-free use while being protected from the sun and/or rain.
- Mosquito Netting Frame.
- Patent for a new and improved mosquito netting frame. This design "consists of a mosquito-netting frame formed of two longitudinal rods removably fastened to uprights attached to the bedposts, and held by cords or wires passing from the outer ends of each of said longitudinal rods to the top of each upright. A transverse rod or bar is removably attached to the outer ends of said longitudinal bars or rods. . . . [The design] is simple in construction, light, durable, and convenient" (lines 9-18).
- Rotary Spading Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved rotary spading machine. This design "consists in the combination of a cylinder or drum armed with a series of spades or teeth, and mounted on a revolving shaft having a bearing or ground wheel, and a series of cleaning fingers or disks, which operate between the teeth of a second cylinder or drum which is mounted in a frame hung loosely on the main shaft of the machine, so as to rise and fall and adapt itself to the inequalities of the ground" (lines 21-30).
- Carriage Wheel.
- Patent for a new and improved carriage wheel. This design "consists in so constructing a carriage-wheel that the members thereof may be made interchangeable, and the whole may be made in a factory and shipped thence 'knocked down,' to be assembled and put together at any point to which the same may be shipped, not requiring, as is usual, the aid of a blacksmith or other skilled laborer" (lines 8-15).
- Tire Tightener.
- Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design calls for a wheel with a gap rather than a continuous ring, so a double-threaded bolt in the gap may be tightened or loosened to contract or expand the wheel and subsequently the tire.
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the rounded meeting ends of the main levers and the equalizing-link connecting the same; the rounded meeting ends of the toggle-levers concentrically arranged with reference to the sill-bearings; the perforated connecting-pin for the upper ends of each pair of toggle-levers, and the securing-bolts thereof passed through the heads of the toggle-levers; the end openings in the lower portion of the baling-box and the vertically-reciprocating doors in connection therewith" (lines 19-30).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rotary chopping-shaft, provided with the sliding gear-collar, the inner face of which is beveled round to form a shoulder, of a cross-piece, having a downwardly-extending perpendicular stop-piece" (lines 88-93).
- Fare-Box.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, fraud preventing fare-box for street-railways.
- Cotton Bale Binder.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton bale binder. This design "consists of a simple contrivance for binding cotton and other bales together when loaded on flat cars to prevent the load from being shaken apart and separated by the shocks and jolts of the car, and also to prevent the bales from being pulled off by cotton thieves, the said contrivance consisting of two or more hooks having pulleys or eyes strung on a rope, the rope being fastened to one of the eyes or pulleys forming one end of the binder, the hooks being caught in the bands of the bales" (lines 7-18).
- Fence.
- Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the bevel-end lap-joint top rails connected to and supported by the posts, the pendent panels consisting of series of horizontal rails interwoven in wire slings connected to the top rails, and links connecting the lower parts of the panels and the intermediate posts" (lines 20-27).