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- Escapement for Timekeepers.
- Patent for the improvement in the escapement of the watch for a "more regular and less liable to get out of order" through wear (lines 23-24), including illustration.
- Improvement in Compositions Used as Building Materials.
- Patent for making a new kind of building and fencing materials by using farm waste and inorganic settable ingredients such as quick-lime, clay or soil. No illustration.
- Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and Condensing Steam.
- Patent for improvement in apparatus for heating water, other liquids, and condensing steam.
- 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).
- Improved Mode of Preserving Meat.
- Patent for a process that claims to preserve meat. The patent includes only instructions and no illustrations.
- Improved Cosmetic.
- Patent for improvements in the composition of cosmetics for removing freckles or tan-discoloration, including a description.
- Improved Stitching-Horse.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of stitching-horses by re-configuring the original constructions, in order to make them better for users. The patent includes instructions and a single illustration.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for improvements in presses for hay, cotton and similar substances, by making the machine portable and the box that holds hay or cotton is adjustable vertically and horizontally. Illustration is included.
- Improved Compound for Treating the Human Hair.
- Patent for an improved compound for straightening, softening and renewing the human hair, ingredients and proportions are listed. No illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
- Patent for improvements in cotton picking machines.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses
- Patent for "a new and improved cotton-press" (line 3) using a stationary toothed wheel, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds for Treating Chills, Fever, &c.
- Patent for the improvement of medical compounds for treating chills and fevers. The patent states the components of a "True Ague Pill."
- Improvement in Wasing-Machines.
- Patent for improvements in washing machines.
- Improvements in Machines for Making Paving-Blocks.
- Patent for the improvement in machines for making paving-blocks.
- Safety-Harness
- Patent for a harnesses for horse-carriages designed to enable the instant detachment of the horse. Includes illustrations.
- 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 Circular-Saw Mills.
- Patent for an improved Circular Sawmill with an " improved adjustable feed mechanism" (pg 1). Illustration Included.
- Improvement in railroad switches
- Patent for an improvement in railroad switches, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a purgative medical compound consisting of a variety of plant materials.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for an improvement of a baling press where the upright framing timbers allows any quantity of cotton to be placed in the bale and creates a uniformity of weight.
- Improvement in Picket-Fences.
- Patent for secure, inexpensive picket-fence construction using various sizes of wood pieces and wire. It is meant for situations in which wood is scarce. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Policemen's Batons.
- Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants.
- Patent for a method of destroying ants by digging a pit beside a colony, filling the hole with combustible materials and poisons, placing a pipe through the hole and into the mound, and then setting the pit ablaze.
- Improvement in Picket-Fences
- Patent for improvement for picket fences composed of zig zag settings with their upper ends brought in line and are connected and supported by wires and posts.
- Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
- Patent for a cotton-planting machine which "consists in a distributing-drum, having seed-openings through it, and inclined distributing-agitators inside of it, said drum being applied to turn in a frame which is pivoted to the beam of a shovel-plow, whereby the roller will accommodate itself to inequalities of surface passed over, and uniformly discharge the seed in the drill-rows, after which a drag or coverer will cover up the seed." (Lines 18-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Planters
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Cotton-Planter" (lines 3-4) with "construction and means to adjust the furrow-opener" (lines 6-8) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bed-Plates for Steam-Engines.
- Patent for the invention of a new improvement in bed plates for steam engines, allowing improved water-feeding and venting of exhaust steam.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an "invention to produce a cheap and convenient tie, which is durable, and which will not unlock should the rivet holding the button break from any strain on it, the button still holding by means of slots, and the strain being transferred to a slot in the end of the tie in which the button was riveted." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for bale ties that are designed "to have a series of holes in each end portion of the hoop, so that two keys can be used; also so that the hoop can be taken up short and again used on the compressed or repressed bale." (Lines 20-24) Includes instructions and 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 Construction of Jails.
- Patent for improvement in construction of jails; in which a system of flues in between layers of a double floor provide ventilation through grates in the walls and upper layer of the floor, without compromising security.
- Improvement in Portable Fences
- Patent for an improvement to portable fences so that they can be "easily and cheaply constructed in sections, and then quickly put together and firmly braced and supported." (lines 14-17) Illustration included.
- Improvement in Single-Trees
- Patent for "a new and Improved Single-Tree and Breast Yoke." (lines 3-4) Includes specifications and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivator and Chopper.
- Patent for an improvement in cultivators and choppers which will allow for the adjustment by height and width.
- 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 Plows.
- Patent for "an improved plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use as a subsoil-plow, as a turning-plow, as a scraper and cultivator, and as a scraper, cultivator, and hiller, and which shall be simple in construction and effective in operation in either capacity." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Rotary Cultivators.
- Patent for a machine for "opening ditches to drain land and form fences, and to grade railroads, &c." (lines 15-17) including illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
- Patent for "a new and useful machine for Plowing"
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improved cotton press: "Our invention consists of a contrivance for driving the screw, which works the follower by a worm when doing the work, and a toothed wheel when returning the follower; also, of a removable case which receives the pressed bale and carries it away on a truck to be tied, while another box takes its place to receive the next bale" (lines 8-15). Includes illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
- Patent for "a machine for ironing clothing by means of a revolving heated roller, under which is passed a reciprocating table, on which the clothing is placed." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Ventilators and Protectors for Roofs.
- Patent for improvements in ventilators and protectors for roofs relating to "a ventilating combing or ridging for roofs of houses" (lines-15-16) including illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
- Patent for "an improvement in the class of neck-yokes having a swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole; and it consists in providing the neck-yoke with a central enlargement or boss, and connecting the tube which slips on the end of the carriage-pole with the yoke by means of rings having perforated ears to receive the ends of a pivoted bar, to which the pole ring or tube is swiveled." (Lines 11-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Pessaries.
- Patent for an improved uterine supporter with changes to the arrangement of the wings, with illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
- Patent for improvements on insect destroyers to be used in cotton fields, including illustrations.
- Earth-Augers.
- Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design calls for "a hinged door having its edge folded or bent to form an air-tube . . . [and] a pair of hemi-cylindrical doors having on one or both an air duct or ducts," as well as interchangeable bits with a shouldered and threaded shank and a nut combined and arranged in a novel way (paras. 12-15).