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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."
- Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
- Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for millstone dress using mill stone.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.
- Patent for the "improvement in Horizontal Cotton - Presses for compressing cotton, hay, and other articles and substances for baling; ..." (lines 3-6), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Machines for Planting Cotton-Seed.
- Patent for a machine to clear top soil and dispense seed into soil when moving forward, including illustration.
- Portable Oven.
- Patent for outdoor use of the Dutch oven and skillet converting the cover of the Dutch oven as a way to suspend frying pan or gridiron over coals to heat, including illustration.
- Excavating and Grading Machine.
- Patent for a cultivating machine that pulverizes colds of soil using a revolving cylinder of blades, 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.
- Improved Saw-Gummer.
- Patent for a machine that uses a grindstone to sharpen rotary saws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Book-Sewing Machine.
- Patent for improvements in book sewing machines, the descriptions are included by figures.
- Improvement in Oscillating Steam-Engine
- Patent for improvements to steam-engines that employ oscillating cylinders for the drive-shaft.
- Improvement in Plows
- Patent for improvements in the construction of plow-beams to be attached to the front axles of a wagon.
- Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides
- Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
- Saw Tooth
- Patent for "Improvement in Saw Teeth" (line 3)
- Improved Side-Saddle.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Carriage-Axles.
- Patent for an easily replaceable and self-lubricating carriage axle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Photographing Children
- Patent for an improvement in machines for taking Photographs of small children.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.
- Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
- Improvement in Axles for Vehicles
- Patent for "an Improvement in Wagon-Axle Skeins" that "has for its object to furnish an improved iron axle for wagons and other vehicles which shall be stronger without being heavier than iron axles made in the ordinary manner."
- Improvement in Mattress and Cushion Tackers.
- Patent for improvement in fasten materials that are used for mattresses or cushion together without being drawn through and lifted by the needles. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Car-Trucks.
- Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
- Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines
- Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines" for which "the novelty consists in providing the tank with two separate apartments or boxes for containing, respectively, suds and clear water, and in arranging the separating partition so that an ordinary wringer may be attached thereto and used on the clothes as they pass from the suds-box to the clear-water box."
- Improvement In Cultivators
- Patent for an improved cultivator, with adjustable wheel base, plow height and more (pg 1).
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Grinding-Mills.
- Patent for the improvement of grinding-mills, including a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Combination Locks.
- Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for "washing-machines known as self-regulating machines; and consists in the arrangement for controlling at will the amount of pressure to be used, in combination with the construction of the feed and washing rollers." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and 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 Ant-Traps.
- Patent for catching burrowing insects, especially for large ants.
- Improvement in Combined Spades and Forks.
- Patent for a new improved and combined spade and fork to be used as a spade. It "consists in a sheet-metal sheath or pocket adapted to receive a fork and be secured" (lines 16-18 ) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Scrapers.
- Patent for improved road scraper with two-wheel vehicle and scoop pulled by a chain.
- Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
- Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
- Improvement in Farm-Fences.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in fence including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties
- Patent for Improvement in the fastening of the metal bands used to tie cotton bales. Includes detailed description and three labled figures
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for a new and improved hay and cotton press, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Cistern Tops and Filters.
- Patent for improvements to cistern covers, combining a cast iron, charcoal filled filter and specially shaped cast perforated iron lid with handles for removing the cover and for changing the charcoal.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a new and improved type of cotton bale tie utilizing an automatic leverr-clasp buckle fastener.
- 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 Gun-Locks.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.
- Improvement in Medicinal Extracts.
- Patent for the extract of Dasylirion graminifolium. This describes the method of acquiring the extract as well as illnesses the extra is purported to treat.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale ties, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for a new improvement to washing machines.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Cotton-Press" (lines 4-5) with illustration.
- 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 Plows.
- Patent for a new and improved turn-plow which "consists in several features of improvement, by which the preparation and tillage of soil may be done at less the usual expense, and more than the usual convenience to the farmer." (lines 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.