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- Boring and Mortising Machine.
- Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine."
- Improvement in Fish-Hooks.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in the Sockdolager Fish-Hook" (lines 4-5), including illustration.
- Cotton-Cleaner.
- Patent for a machine that cleans cotton by placing the seed into a rotating cylinder it is carried and removed using air presser through spiral fan blades and pins to rid impurities, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Feeders for Cotton-Gins.
- Patent for the improvement of cotton-gin by feeding cotton in a uniform manner of removing sand and dirt, separating hulls, leaves, and imperfect pods for improved quality and reducing physical labor, including illustration.
- Improvement in Gun-Locks.
- Patent for gun locks: "This invention relates to the arrangement of a complete hair trigger for Colt's revolving pistols, which is so constructed that it may be adjusted to anyone of said pistols without the assistance of a gunsmith, the only tool required for the purpose being a screw driver." (lines 21-26.)
- Improved Medical Preparation.
- Patent for an invention of a powder that is said to aid in curing scurvy. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
- Improved Bridge.
- Patent for an invention that "is to provide certain improvements in the construction of bridges, whereby the parts thereof, of wood, may be readily removed for the substitution of others, when decayed or broken, without interfering with the use of the bridge or weakening it (lines 10-15)". The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Turbine Water-Wheels.
- Patent for a new turbine water wheel, which is said to alleviate past problems with older model turbines. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement for Axle-Boxes for Vehicles
- Patent for an improvement in axle-boxes for vehicles which incorporates an adjustable tube that may take up the wear on its ends.
- Improvement in Beverages and Sirups from Mustang Grapes.
- Patent for manufacturing a syrup by mixing brown sugar, water, and Mustang grapes.
- Improvement in Whiffletree-Fastenings.
- Patent for the improvement of whiffletree fastenings, relating to the means by which single-trees are attached to a double-tree. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Dumping-Platforms.
- Patent for a new cart-loader design "for dumping earth into carts or other receptacles" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for improved plow-stock applying multiple plow-irons to the same plow-frame.
- Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments
- Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
- Improvement in Compounds of Bitumen, Ore, &c.
- Patent for a new compound called Bitumenated Ore. "The product is a dense, durable, and economical composition, suitable for both small and massive structures, and for plastering and other purposes." (Lines 66-29)
- 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 Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material.
- Patent for mixing mineral or fossil substances with bituminated clay, creating a product that "is a dense, durable, and economical composition, suitable for building both small and massive structures, and for other purposes" (lines 54-57).
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a new and improved type of cotton bale tie utilizing an automatic leverr-clasp buckle fastener.
- Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.
- Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
- Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers
- Patent for an improvement to the design of a rotary cultivator and chopper, including illustrations.
- Improvement for Apparatus for Cutting Glue.
- Patent for a design for a battery-powered wire glue cutter/slicer including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Beef-Steak Tenderers.
- Patent for improvement in beef-steak tenderer by mounting “two studded or pointed rollers on to a stand; the rollers are arranged one above another, in order to mash the steak by rolling the meat between the rollers.” (Lines [6-9]) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Flat-Irons.
- Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Processes for Preparing and Drying Glue.
- Patent for a process of drying glue that uses superheated steam and a drying chamber.
- Improvement in Station-Indicators.
- Patent for improvements in railroad-station indicators to indicate to passengers the next stations and the distances between them.
- Improvement in Processes of Preserving Meats.
- Patent for a method of preserving and canning meat. This describes the inventor's process, as well as his method of reducing air inside the container using hypophosphite of lime.
- Improvement in Tonic Remedies.
- Patent for a medicinal compound consisting of sulphate quinine, diluted sulphuric acid, purified chinoidine, sulphate iron, sulphate magnesia, peppermint oil, and saturated quassia-water. Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Umbrella-Supporters.
- Patent for "a simple and convenient device for supporting and carrying a parasol or umbrella in such a way as to leave the hands free, and which will enable the parasol or umbrella to be tilted or inclined forward or back, or to either side, as may be required" (lines 8-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvements in Wind-Wheels.
- Patent for an "invention [consisting] in the construction and arrangement of a dome which surrounds a wind-wheel" (line 14-16) including instruction and illustrations. Constitutes an improvement to then existing windmills.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in fences, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
- 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).
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
- Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
- Patent for an improvement on neck-yokes that have a "swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole" (line 18-19).
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for improving the washing machine by being operated by a spring-motor.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Carriage-Axle Boxes.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in carriage-axle boxes and spindles" (lines 3-5), includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
- Patent for a "new and valuable improvement in cotton-planters" (lines 3-4), for planting cotton seeds, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Heater and Feeder for Steam-Boilers.
- Patent for "a new and valuable improvement in supplying feed-water to steam-boilers" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Rifle-Barrels.
- Patent for a "new and useful improvement in firearms" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations. The invention provides "a gun-barrel with a number of cutters or plows for grooving the ball, said cutters or plows to correspond with with the number of guides or ribs which the gun is formed" (lines 20-25).
- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an improved bale-tie with a description of the tool and specifications for its usage, includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for an improved combined planter, cultivator, and cotton-chopping tool with design specifications and directions for the usage of the tool, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fire-Extinguishers for Lint-Rooms.
- Patent for a fire-extinguisher for lint-rooms with design specifications and instructions on operating procedures and usage, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fruit-Pickers.
- Patent for an improved fruit-picking tool explaining the construction and usage of the tool, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Water-Drawers.
- Patent for an improved water drawer, includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Planter and Cultivator.
- Patent for an easily converted machine that can plan corn, drill corn or cotton, or cultivate growing crops, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows
- Patent for a plow for use in heavy or wet lands, including illustrations.
- Attachment for Wheel-Plows.
- Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
- Construction of Roofs.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of roofs, including instruction.