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- Improved Method of Feathering the Sails of Vanes of Windmills.
- Patent for a new windmill design with different sails and connections, including illustrations.
- Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.
- Patent for a machine that collects swaths of grain for threshing using hooked teeth arranged in rows, including illustration.
- Improvement in Harvesters.
- Patent for cutting grain in gavels at regular intervals along the track of the machine, including illustration.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement of gang-plows by arranging the plows in rows on to a fame which can be fastened to a wagon, when the wagon is in motion, it causes the plows to work in vertical motion. The height of the plow-frame can be adjusted. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvement in cultivators in which the plows can be adjusted by width, height and laterally to regulate the depth and angle of inclination. The plows, which can be operated by a foot device, may be simultaneously thrown from the ground. (Lines 73-76) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for a new and improved baling-press including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
- Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys
- Patent for improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys. This object is to be used with the brick chimney on top of the roof to provide air circulation. It consists of an iron-lined inner flue secured within an outer casing with suitable bottom and top perforation for establishing air current around the flue.
- Improvement in Flat-Iron Heaters.
- Patent for a device which rapidly heats a flat or smoothing iron utilizing a lamp with multiple burners which can be adjusted to raise the temperature of the flat iron to the desired degree.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for a butter churn.
- Improvement in Force - Pumps.
- Patent for new and improved force pump with three cylinders.
- Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines.
- Patent for a rattoon-cutting machine which is created to "rapidly pull up and cut into short lengths the stubbles and roots of sugar cane (styled "rattoon") which are left upon the ground after the crop has been gathered" (lines 5-9), includes illustrations.
- Improvement in stilts.
- Patent for an improved stilt involving a stilt-rod and a tube that can be slid. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Shingle-machine.
- Patent for to improve the construction of the shingle-machine known as the "Evarts Rotary Twelve-Block Shingle-Machine".
- Improvement in Stilts
- Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
- Improvement in Automatic Fan
- Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
- Improvement in Clod-Crushers.
- Patent for a land-drag and clod-crusher that will effectually crush the clods, level the land, and pack the soil, at one and the same operation.
- Improvement in Fluting-Irons.
- Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in brick-machines by which a new combination of construction materials is contrived.
- Improvement in remedies for constipation, &c.
- Patent for a new medical compound to treat constipation and related illnesses which lists the ingredients and dosages.
- Improvement in Bee-hives
- Patent for an improvement of a bee-hive enabling inspection of bees, protection of bees from moths, ventilation of the hive, and removal of honey without disturbing the brood-chamber.
- Improvement in land-drag and clod-crusher.
- Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "a perfectly-tight fastening - one that will not slip or give, and one that can be easily and quickly unfastened without cutting the band, or in any way injuring the part." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Buckles.
- Patent for "an improved method of manufacturing a buckle to secure the different part of harness, saddle, or bridle trimmings, by means of mechanical connections that will obviate the use or necessity or stitches or sewing of any kind, and yet retain the adjacent parts firmly and with a secure engagement." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Farm-Fences.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Fences"
- Improvement in Animal-Traps.
- Patent for improvement in animal-traps, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Targets for Shooting-Galleries
- Patent for a shooting gallery target that releases balls when hit in the center.
- Improvement in Traction-Engines.
- Patent for a traction engine "for running on common roads and rails, and to be used for drawing plows, and as a motive power generally" (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
- Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
- Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
- Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
- Lubricating Device.
- Patent for a new and improved lubricating device. This design consists of "[t]he combination, with the cross-head of an engine or other reciprocating part of machinery, and the guides or ways on which it works, of a reservoir for the lubricant, a wheel for taking up and applying the same to the friction-surface with which the wheel works in contact, and a spring for supporting the wheel" (para. 10). This design prevents dust and other pollutants from entering the reservoir.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in cultivators.
- Improvement in Machines for Oiling Slides and Glides.
- Patent for a new machine to be used for oiling slides and glides for engines, &c., includes illustration.
- Seed-planter.
- Patent for a machine that can plant any kind or size of seed or grain at any desired distance apart.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in fences using wire rails, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a medical compound consisting of magnesia, soda, potassium oxide, manganese, sodium chloride, acid phosphate of iron, sulfuric acid, and phosphoric acid. The compound is said to treat a wide variety of ailments.
- Improvement in Combined Land-Roller and Harrow.
- Patent for an improved version of a combined land-roller and harrow that allows for easier cleaning of its parts and adjustment of its rollers.
- Recording Ballot-Box.
- Patent for a recording ballot box to "indicate accurately and instantly the result of an election" (line 10-12).
- Spark-Extinguisher.
- Patent for a spark extinguisher "to prevent the burning of buildings and other combustible matter by steam engines" (lines 15-17).
- COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.
- Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).
- Child's Crib
- Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. This design is especially "for seeding cotton; but the machine is converted into a corn-planter by detaching the bottom of the hopper, removing the space-block, disconnecting the pitman, and then removing the slide, and substituting in lieu thereof a device composed of a bottom, having a seed-opening, and a bridge-form metallic striker, arranged across the same, and a dropper-slide, having dropper holes" (lines 95-2).
- Burglar Proof Safe.
- Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "relates to burglar-proof safes, the object being to provide a safe with non-explosive seams; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-17).
- Reflector for Lamps.
- Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design "consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, whereby the handle and reflector can readily be detached from the lamp-body and replaced thereon when desired" (lines 15-19). Further, the handle has a hole by which it can be hung.
- Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c.
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for treating and preserving. This design "insure[s] the complete and perfect treatment or impregnation of timber of varying hardness and density, and to provide a portable organization of apparatus by which timber at various points or stations along the line of a railroad can be treated with great facility, efficiency, and economy" (lines 12-19).
- Coffee and Spice Mill.
- Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
- Lamp and Reflector for Same.
- Patent for a new combination oil lamp and reflector. This design "has for its object the production of a lamp and a reflector adapted the one to the other, and in such points of construction as shall contribute to the effectiveness of both, in that no part of the former obstructs the rays of light reflected by the other, and both shall be of simple and cheap construction; and [it] consists in certain devices and combinations of devices" (lines 20-28).
- Wagon Brake.
- Patent for a new and improved wagon-brake. This goal of this design "is to provide an automatic brake for wagons and other wheeled vehicles running on dirt roads" (lines 11-13).