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- Propeller of Machinery to be used in Currents.
- Patent for a propelled water wheel that is attached to the back of a vessel that uses a current of water and stream power, including illustrations.
- Wire Fence.
- Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.
- Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion
- Patent for converting reciprocating into rotary motion by using “two vertically moving racks with a cog wheel on a small shaft between them which gears into the teeth of the racks” (lines 16-19), includes illustration.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for the improvement of the plow using braces and mold-board for a sturdy and very durable plow, including illustration.
- Improvement in Sewing-Machines.
- Patent for improvement in sewing-machines by using two cams, one to operate the needle-arm and another to operate the feed and shuttle movements, illustration is included.
- Chain-Link.
- Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
- Patent for the improvement to cotton-seed planters by connecting the wheel to the reciprocating stirrer to guide the seed from hopper to soil and covering it, including illustration.
- Improvement in Baling Press.
- Patent for improvement in baling press "for compressing cotton, hay, and other substances for baling" (lines 10-11).
- Improvement in Harvesters.
- Patent for improvements in mowers and reapers.
- Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller.
- Patent for an invention "to combine and arrange a cultivator, plow, harrow, and roller, with draught-wheels, axle, draught-pole, and an adjustable supporting-frame, in such a manner that the several parts can be used together or independently." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- 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 Gang-Plows.
- Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improved Ditching-Machine.
- Patent for improvement in ditching machine which “consists of a boring or ditching-auger, suspended from the frame of a truck, and having an enlarged head projecting in advance of the truck, and rotated, so as to bore out a groove as the truck is moved along, screwing the earth taken back through a trough, to an elevator which carries it up to a spout, chuting it to one side.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Sewing-Machine.
- Patent for improvements to the sewing machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Sewing Machines
- Patent for "a new Improved Sewing-Machine" that "has for its object to provide more useful and efficient machines than those now in use."
- Coffee-Roaster.
- Patent for a coffee roaster that intends to "supply a ready and cheap means of effectually stirring the grains of coffee while being roasted in any convenient and suitable vessel...(lines 6-9). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for "a gang-plow, which is so arranged that the beams can be adjusted sideways and up and down at will, and can be permanently secured in any desired position in either movement." (Lines 17-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.
- Patent for improvement in cotton scrapers and choppers by way of the innovative placement of plows.
- Improvement in Grinding-Mills.
- Patent for an improvement in grinding mills which purports to save time.
- Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges.
- Patent for "an apparatus in which the gases from one or more forges, instead of passing off unconsumed into the atmosphere, enter a furnace and are burnt therein, thereby furnishing heat for the generation of steam in a boiler connected with said furnace, which steam is used to drive a fan that impels a blast into each forge, and is also used to propel an engine that operates a hammer, the exhaust from the engine being conducted to the tuyeres of the forges through pipes in which are placed red-hot iron plates, which decompose the steam, taking up the oxygen, and liberating the hydrogen which is burnt in the forges." (Lines 12-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fluting Sad-Irons.
- Patent for "a new combination of fluting and sad-iron, of such kind that the upper fluting-roller will serve as handle for the sad-iron, there being thus no loose or separate parts required for the two functions." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
- Patent for a refrigeration apparatus "in which a continuous operation is maintained by means of a current of ether or other volatile fluid which liquefies at a low temperature." (Lines 18-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Belt-Fasteners.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in Belt-Fasteners. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Chairs.
- Patent for improvement in chairs consisting of self-adjusting chair-backs.
- Improvement in Hand-Vises.
- Patent for hand vise to use as a tool for mechanics to hold small articles, can be attached to bits or augers for gauging the depth of a hole bored, and also for countersinking such holes for screws.
- Improvement in bale-ties
- Patent for cotton bale ties, involving a lateral arm. 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 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 Bale-Tie Clamps.
- Patent for an instrument that tightens the ties used for bales of cotton.
- Improvement in Billiard-Tables.
- Patent for a design for a billiard table that can also be used as a Jenny-Lind table. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for improving cotton bale ties with buckle-tie plate and zinc-galvanized iron wire.
- Improvement in Cotton Presses
- Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improving on a plowing device. This apparatus has four independent and adjustable shovels attached together to work to cultivate a field.
- Improvement in Ironing-Machines.
- Patent for an ironing machine that includes a "movable table operated by a crank" (lines 16-17). Illustration included.
- Improvement in Portable Fences.
- Patent for "a simple, cheap, and portable fence...which can be readily folded up for transportation from place to place." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
- Improvement in Saddles.
- Patent for re-enforcing and strengthening the front of a saddle.
- Improvement in the Manufacture of Fertilizers.
- Patent for a process of treating waste animal matter from tallow-rendering factories with plaster-of-paris for use as fertilizer.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an improved bale-hoop tie, consisting of a tongue and slot locking device, which may be used for cotton or other bales, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for the improved design of a bale-hoop tie, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Ironing-Machines.
- Patent for a new ironing machine design, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for the improvement of the design of the bale-tie, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Guide-Wheels for Car-Trucks.
- Patent for a "device or attachment to car-trucks, &c., for preventing their being thrown off the track." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "means whereby the beam of a plow may be elevated or depressed at the front end according to the depth to which it is intended that the plow shall run, and held securely at several points of adjustment." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Truss-Bridges.
- Patent for an improved method of truss-bridge construction, "whether made with a single or double roadway and with or without a sidewalk upon one or both sides, so as to enable them to be made with less material and less expense than when made in the ordinary manner, and which shall at the same time have an equal or greater strength." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for "an improved cotton-press, which is mainly devised for use on smaller cotton-plantations for baling smaller crops in a very convenient and rapid manner, with considerable economy in power and hands." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvements In Bale-Ties
- Patent for improved Bale-Ties which is designed to unite the two ends of a binder placed around a compressed mass of cotton, hay, or moss.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement brick machines that includes "an endless chain of molds at the bottom of the press box [...] in combination with a pressing plate and a cut-off plate" (lines 18-22).