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- Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c.
- Patent for an improved apparatus for steaming and cleaning barrels for the reception of resin, turpentine, oils, molasses, sirups, and other like liquids.
- Improvement in Adjustable Hats.
- Patent for a mechanism improving the ability to adjust the shape of a hat to fit different sized heads. The patent is for an "adjustable attachment for enlarging and contracting" the hat's design.
- Improvement in Ant-Traps.
- Patent for catching burrowing insects, especially for large ants.
- Improvement in Ant Traps
- Patent for the improvement of Ant traps, including to illustrated and labeled figures.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Stretching Wire Fences.
- Patent for stretching wire from post to post in the construction of wire fencing, which includes directions how to secure the wire, includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Balanced Valves.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of balanced slide valves for steam and other engines, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Tie Clamps.
- Patent for an instrument that tightens the ties used for bales of cotton.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for fastening iron or other bands on cotton-bales or packages that put up with iron bands, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bed-Bug Exterminators.
- Patent for "a machine for exterminating bed-bugs by steam." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- 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 Bleaching Resins.
- Patent for a process to "bleach, clarify, and refine the commonest and lowest grade of resin, and such is now known to the trade as black resin, as to produce therefrom, by a cheap and simple means or process, an article as pure as extra pale, or resin which is the product of the virgin dip, and which for use in all the arts where the finest quality of resin is desirable or required, is equally as valuable." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bridges.
- Patent for an improvement in Bridges and Self-Supporting Roofs and Girders. The invention provides instruction for "the construction of truss-bridges and self supporting roofs and girders"..."by nailing or bolting securely together successive layers of plank joined at different points."
- Improvement in Carriage-Springs
- Patent for improved design for carriage-springs with included illustrations of the spring design as well as diagram of placement on a carriage/wagon.
- 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 Combination-Padlocks.
- Patent for "a padlock in which the permutation locking device is not permanently connected to the hasp; and said invention consists of a permutation device the fixed ends whereof are provided with sockets to receive the ends of a separate hasp, and be locked therewith by a notched bolt passing through the permutation device and both ends of the hasp, whereby the usual hinged connection of the parts is avoided, and the padlock made more secure and cheaper than when the parts are permanently united." (Lines 6-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Adjustable Fire-Fenders, Grates, and Andirons.
- Patent for improvement in fire-fender and grate with separable andirons that is adjustable to different fireplaces, and which can be adapted for wood or coal.
- 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 Compounds for Destroying Caterpillars.
- Patent for an insecticide compound that combines Paris green, flour, and lime, which allows the poison, arsenic, to better adhere to cotton plants. Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Compounds for Fish-Baits.
- Patent for a new compound to be used as fish bait, consisting of oil of anise, asafetida, cardamom-seed, golden, yellow, or black root, and buzzard root. Includes instructions.
- 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 Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a new and useful seed-planter for corns and cottons, including instructions and illustrations.
- 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 Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for improved cotton-bale tie with a small s-shaped bar and cross-ribs on the bands.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a new and valuable improvement in Cotton-Bale Tie, 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 Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for improving cotton bale ties with buckle-tie plate and zinc-galvanized iron wire.
- Improvement in Cotton Choppers
- Patent for improvement in cotton choppers creating a more effective machine relating to the cultivating and chopping of cotton. Includes labeled figures and descriptive text
- Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-cleaner that enhances the performance of cotton cleaning. It includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators.
- Patent for a new improvement for a cotton-cultivator with different tools and connections, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
- Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for a new and improved baling-press including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Presses
- Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses.
- Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
- Patent for "a new machine for removing the destructive cotton-worms from the cotton-plants without injury to the plants, and for destroying the worms," which "consists in the arrangement of a movable frame, which is by animals drawn over the fields to straddle the rows of cotton, and which is provided with brushes for sweeping the worms from the plants, and with jointed bottom pieces or slides, which crush them on the ground." (Lines 15-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
- Patent for "an apparatus for exterminating cotton-worms by ejecting liquid poison upon the cotton-plants" (lines 6-8). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
- Patent for a wheeled vehicular device to destroy cotton worms that can be connected to a horse or a wagon. It carries a poisonous cotton-worm destroying agent and disburse this substance on crops or foliage to deter worms.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of corn and cotton cultivators, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvements to a cultivator "which, for convenience of operation, may be attached to the wheels or frame of any ordinary wagon or cart, or it may be operated independently of either of the above by attaching the draft animals directly to the main or principal beam to which the plow-points are connected." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of corn cultivators, including illustrations.
- 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 Dumping-Platforms.
- Patent for a new cart-loader design "for dumping earth into carts or other receptacles" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Excavators.
- Patent for improvement in earth excavators combining a plow, rotating cylinder, and helical plate.
- 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 Farm-Fences.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in fence including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fence-Post Sockets.
- Patent for improvement in fencing where posts are held more securely with galvanized plates, sockets, and wires.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in fences, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in filters for Cane Juice, Oils, and Other Dense Liquids
- Patent for Improvement in filters for Cane Juice, Oils, and Other Dense Liquids with description of the improved liquid strainer and three illustrated figure drawings.
- Improvement in Floor-Clamps.
- Patent for an improvement in floor clamps, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Fluting-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
- Improvement in Gate-Hinges.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of gate-hinges, including illustrations.