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- Improvement in Cotton-Presses
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in a cotton press. "Our invention has for its object to furnish an improved press for baling cotton as it comes from the gin, &c., &c." (lines 14-16).
- Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement to washing machines, in which "the novelty consists in allowing both cylinder and blades to be rotated or oscillated independently of each other." (Lines 17-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Portable Fences.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in fences made in sections or panels. It consists in the construction and arrangement of the brackets or supports for the panels.
- Improvements In Mosquito-Bar Frames
- Patent for improvement in Mosquito-Bar frames to be used on low Post Bed Steads.
- Improvement in Pile-Drivers.
- Patent for an improved pile-driver device which automates the release of the pile-driver hammer as well as including a perpendicular device which advances the device longitudinally as the work progresses.
- Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvesting machine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, illustration included.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties
- Patent for a new and improved cotton bale tie utilizing a simple and fast pronged buckle tie which is simple and cheap to manufacture.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties
- Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a detachable and re-useable cotton-bale tie, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.
- Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
- Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Folding and Portable Store-Shelving" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Saw-Mills
- Patent for an improvement in saw mills, with illustration.
- Machine for Binding Grain
- Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
- Improvement in Compound Engines.
- Patent for "a series of engines for working the steam over by exhausting it from the first into the second, and so on, for utilizing the pressure lost when steam is exhausted from a single engine into the air..." (lines 7-11) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like
- Patent for and improvement in propelling devices for street cars and the like, includes illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.
- Patent for "the invention of a new and useful Improvement in Combined Cotton Scraper and Chopper" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
- Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
- Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
- Improvement in fluting-iron
- Patent for an improvement in fluting iron, involving a hollow smoothing and glossing iron.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for "Improvements in Combined Plow and Cultivator" (lines 4-5), including illustrations.
- Improvements In Machines for Distributing Compounds for Destroying Cotton-Worms
- Patent for improvements on machines to distribute poison for cotton worms in the field. It consists of vibrating,sifting boxes combined with a suspension bar which is secured to the front of a horse saddle so the rider can shake the boxes to distribute poison powder to two rows of crops at a time.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for a new, improved gang-plow for preparing and cultivating land for planting. Illustrations included.
- Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines.
- Patent for a rattoon-cutting machine which is created to "rapidly pull up and cut into short lengths the stubbles and roots of sugar cane (styled "rattoon") which are left upon the ground after the crop has been gathered" (lines 5-9), includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Air-Cooling Apparatus.
- Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a refrigerator for the purpose of cooling and maintaining a low and dry temperature, for preserving fresh meats and vegetables, and for cooling rooms for any purpose." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improved train car-coupling, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
- Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of running up the follower, or against the small pulley for the purpose of running it down, by drawing the said level inward or outward." (Lines 15-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Working Glass.
- Patent for a blowing-engine that will make the glass-blowing process less laborious. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an improved, cheap and convenient bale-tie. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.
- Patent for improvements to carriage wheels, relating to the socketing ring that braces the spokes between the hub and the rim. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Automatic Fans.
- Patent for " a new and improved Table-Fan"
- Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid.
- Patent for a process to "reduce asphaltum to a liquid, and hold the same in a semi-fluid condition without heat, and which constitutes an entirely new article of commerce, and furnishes to the trade an article of asphaltum prepared and ready for use, without the labor, expense, and delay of melting, for paving and roofing purposes, and one most admirably adapted for use by manufacturers of varnish and japan." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to Liquid.
- Patent for improved “process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and holding the same in a fluid condition without heat or the use of dead-oils” (lines 31-34).
- Improvements In Vine-Rakes
- Patent for new and improved Vine-Rakes to use in everyday farming. Uses includes pulling fines from crops and preparing the ground for plowing or digging before planting crops.
- Improvements in Bench-Vises.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Sliding-Carriage Vise for Carpenter's Bench" (lines 3-5) includign instructions and illustrations.
- Improvements In Ironing-Machines
- Patent for new and useful improvements in the ironing machine. Machine has carrying case that is mounted on wheels and allows the iron to move over garments as it straightens out wrinkles.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
- Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers
- Patent for an improvement to the design of a rotary cultivator and chopper, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers.
- Patent for "the combination, in a cotton-sprinkler, having a fluid-vessel, of flexible ejecting hose, having flaring nozzle sprinklers, with hooks or fastening devices for holding the nozzles in elevated positions upon the vessels, whereby the driver has perfect control both over the flow and direction of the fluid, and is thereby enabled to inject the fluid upon the two rows of plants, without regard to their height or the uncertain movement of the horse between the rows, and to stop the flow by elevating and hooking the ejecting-hose to the upper corners of the vessel, thus rendering the device much more effective in directing the fluid than could possibly be effected by fixed distributing perforated cocks, and preventing unnecessary waste of the fluid." (Lines 13-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "plow mold-boards to which the black land of Texas, and other similar soils, will not adhere, so that a furrow can be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (lines 14-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Vegetable-Cutters.
- Patent for "vegetable-cutters adapted to cut a number of slices by a single stroke, in which a series of knives, arranged in two converging tiers, are used in conjunction with a centrally-disposed block for supporting the article to be sliced." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Brakes.
- Patent for "car-brakes that work automatically and without manual intervention as soon as the locomotive is stopped." (Lines 12-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Brakes.
- Patent for "a means for the automatic application of brakes to the cars of a railway-train; and it consists in a loosely-moving draw-bar attached to the car by means of bolts passing through a central longitudinal slot, and having its sides wrought into two rack-bars, which mesh with pinions upon two windlass-shafts; which arrangement, when the locomotive is "slowed," causes the impact of the cars to drive up the draw-bars and wind up cords upon the windlass-shafts, which communicated with and apply the brakes to the wheels." (Lines 11-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.
- Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement in bale-ties, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers.
- Patent for "an improvement in the bottle-stopper of Westel E. Hawkins, patented under date of August 4, 1874, and numbered 153,769" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Brick-Molds.
- Patent for improvement in brick-molds, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Farm Gates.
- Patent for "a gate herein I dispense with the use of hinges and other similar devices and prevent sagging; also that the operation of opening or shutting the gate, owing to its balanced and suspended condition, is attended with little or no exertion on the part of the operator..." (lines 84-90) including instructions and illustrations.