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- Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Worms in Cotton-Plants.
- Patent for using a solution of water and arsenic for killing cotton pests.
- Improvement in Saw-Sets.
- Patent for a simply constructed device for setting the teeth of saws. Includes illustrations and descriptions of its parts and usage.
- Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers
- Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
- Inprovement in Sulky-Cultivators.
- Patent for an improved sulky cultivator which lists description on how to build the cultivator.
- Improvement in Fire-Tongs
- Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.
- Improvement in Pen-Holders.
- Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in washing machines.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
- Improvement in Washing Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of washing machine mechanisms.
- Improvement in Rectifying High-Wines.
- Patent for an improved mode of rectifying high wines using a new apparatus.
- Improvement in Furnaces for Producing Hydrogen and Treating Ores
- Patent for an improvement on heating furnaces, having an external water tank and steam tank and an orifice for the admission of steam from the water chamber.
- Improvement in Rotary Subsoil-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement upon subsoil plows, using a series of spades arranged upon the same pulleyed rotary shaft, combined with furrow-opening plows.
- Improvement in Tenoning-Machines
- Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.
- Improvement in Grinding-Mills
- Patent for an improvement in grinding-mills, combining the operative mechanism with spindles - in which the both the grinding stones obtain relative surface speeds only half the actual speed of the stones.
- Improvement in Rotary Engines.
- Patent for improvements in valves used in rotary engines.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for changes in the construction of a cultivator.
- Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person
- Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
- Improvement in Current-Wheels.
- Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Carriage-Axles.
- Patent for improvements to carriage axles which include the addition of a sleeve, bearing, and linch-pin device.
- Improvement in Elevators.
- Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
- 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 Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
- Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
- Improvement in Bedsteads.
- Patent for the improvement of bedsteads in order to make them more convenient and durable.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses.
- Patent for improving the cotton and hay press.
- Improvement in Wagon-Sheet and Tent
- Patent for an improvement in wagon sheet coverings / tent. The improvement is in the sides of the wagon sheet can be extended by loosening straps to fall the length to the ground and be staked to the earth. This gives a tent to sleep under after a day of traveling.
- Improvement in Brooms.
- Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
- Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.
- Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Steam-plows.
- Patent for improvement in the apparatus for turning up soil with a steam plow.
- Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers.
- Patent for an improvement for an instrument to stretch and tie a band around a cotton bale.
- Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
- Patent for improvements on machinery for the manufacture of ice.
- Improvement in Wheel-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).
- Improvement in Combination Locks.
- Patent for improved combination locks, with a bolt that is locked or unlocked by the combination of spindles and pivoted buttons. The invention combines the spindles in to an "annular ring having letters or numbers and a series of different shaped pegs or combinations of letters or figures or both jointly" (pg 1).
- Improvement in Railway-Car Trucks.
- Patent for improvements in railway car trucks.
- Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of wheel-cultivators, combining a plow and cultivator. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Gate-Latches.
- Patent for improvements in gate latches: "to provide a self closing latch, simple in its construction and easy f operation" (lines 18-19).
- 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.
- 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.
- Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.
- Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.
- Improvement in Ice-Machines.
- Patent for improvements to the construction of "of the various parts of the [ice machine], whereby the reconversion of the ether into liquid before it reaches the freezing-vessel or chamber is better assured" (para. 3).
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "a new buckle or tie for holding the ends of the bands of cotton-bales" (lines 18-19) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Methods of Forming Saw-Teeth.
- Patent for "a rule for giving to the backs of saw-teeth such an angle as will allow the teeth to be made of proper strength and at the same time to be chambered out and pointed so that they will cut the wood like chisels instead of scraping or tearing the wood." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Saws.
- Patent for improvements to circular or straight saws that steady the saw and prevent vibration and buckling. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Soldering-Irons.
- Patent for "an apparatus to be used with the common soldering-iron, whereby the same can be heated and kept heated continually while the iron is used." (Lines 6-9) Includes instructions and illustrations.