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- Improvement in Gun-Locks.
- Patent for gun locks: "This invention relates to the arrangement of a complete hair trigger for Colt's revolving pistols, which is so constructed that it may be adjusted to anyone of said pistols without the assistance of a gunsmith, the only tool required for the purpose being a screw driver." (lines 21-26.)
- Improvement in Baling Press.
- Patent for improvement in baling press "for compressing cotton, hay, and other substances for baling" (lines 10-11).
- Improvment in Cotton Cultivator.
- Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators: "designed more especially for cultivating cotton, scraping the earth away from the young plants, and thinning out the same" (lines 11-12).
- Smith's Forge.
- Patent for "The improvements consists of a cast iron box" (line 12).
- Improvement in Vitreography.
- Patent for an invention that is similar to an adhesive, which aids in the ornamentation of windows. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
- Improved Medical Preparation.
- Patent for an invention of a powder that is said to aid in curing scurvy. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
- Book-Sewing Machine.
- Patent for improvements in book sewing machines, the descriptions are included by figures.
- Improved Mode of Extracting Essences.
- Patent for improvements in extracting essences from objects inserted into a new contraption. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator.
- Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators.
- Improvement in Coffee-Pot.
- Patent for improvements to a coffee pot. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
- Patent for "a simple, practical combined planter and cotton and corn cultivator, which shall be easily adjusted and operated, and shall be cheap and durable" (lines 11-12). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improved Ship-Viameter.
- Patent for improvements in ship viameters.
- Improved Grain-Meter.
- Patent for a more efficient grain-meter. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- 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).
- Improvement in Harvesters.
- Patent for improvements in mowers and reapers.
- Improved Apparatus for Fumigating Plants.
- Patent for improvements in fumigating implements.
- Improvement in Field Threshing-Machine.
- Patent for "a new threshing-machine, which is arranged upon wheels, so that it can be drawn over the field" (lines 12-15) and make the process for which it was built: more efficient. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improved Medical Compound.
- Patent for improvements in medical compound.
- Improved Cosmetic.
- Patent for improvement in cosmetics by using various chemicals to enhance the cosmetics in which it “can remove freckles or tan-discoloration from the skin, and for improving the complexion.” (Line 5-6) Formula for the improved cosmetic is included. Instructions on how to prepare the cosmetic and how to use the cosmetic are described. There is no illustration.
- Improved Medicinal Preparation.
- Patent for improvements made the medicinal preparations generally used for poultices. The patented improvement involves the application of dried and powdered leaves, stalks, and joints of the cactus opuntia or cockinifer.
- Improvement in Bungs.
- Patent for improvement in bungs for beer and other barrels.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
- Patent for improvements in cotton choppers.
- Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Harvesters.
- Patent for improvements in reaping and mowing machines.
- Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.
- Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Machine for Drawing and Spinning Cotton
- Patent for a machine that improves the process of spinning and drawing cotton. The patent includes an illustration and instructions.
- Improvement in Cotton Picker and Cleaner.
- Patent for an invention that "relates to certain novel improvements on machinery which is designed for rapidly and thoroughly cleaning and picking the interior grades of cotton, and the badly picked and ginned cottons, and for effecting this result without cutting or in any manner damaging the cotton fiber"(lines 19-25). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Hats
- Patent for "a new and improved ventilated hat...which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification" (lines 3-5). including instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Corn-Planters
- Patent for a construction that will act as a plow, and aid in the process of planting corn. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Joining and Fitting Hoof-Hooks.
- Patent for "a new and improved Hoof-Hook or cleaner, for cleaning the hoofs of horses and mules" (line 3) including instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for a new cultivator in the form of a wheel, which includes instructions and an illustration.
- 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 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.
- Improved Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in portable press by dividing the pressing-chamber into two parts, one of which is fixed to the wagon-frame, the other part is movable. “The movable part contains the follower, adapted to be titled with it, and operated by the winding-drum, cords, wheel and the wings, working in the horizontal slots in the sides of these parts.” (Lines 81-85) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Threshing-Machine.
- Patent for improvements in threshing-machine for threshing grain, with the improved machine, “grain may be threshed and separated from the straw in a very rapid and perfect manner, and without bruising or injuring the straw in any way.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
- Patent for improvement in combined planter and cultivator by “combining instruments such as hoppers, plow-beans, brace-bars, foot-levers and many others that required for preparing the ground, planting the seed, and cultivating the plants and which may be easily adjusted for the various uses.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Hat-Ventilators.
- Patent for improvement in mode of ventilating hats, bonnets, and or caps by “providing the inside of the head-coverings, at the point of contact with the head, with a liuing or an elastic spiral formed into a cushion, through which the air can freely circulate around the whole head.” (Lines 28-32) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for improvement in seed-planters by using a combination of lock-lever, bars, set-screw and a tongue to “construct accurate planters in which the planting may be readily done in exact check row, and which will allow the dropping device to be instantly thrown into or out of gear when desired.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Gang-Plow.
- Patent for improvement in gang-plow by using an adjustable slotted cross-bar to enable the “plow-beams to oscillate, so that their landsides are always vertical, however uneven the ground may be.” (Lines 20-21) “This tool can also regulate the depth of the plows in the ground whereby the depth of furrow is adjusted.” (Lines 24-25) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Needle-Threaders for Sewing-Machines.
- Patent for improvement in needle-threaders for sewing machines by using an “eyelet-frame that formed by two equal parallelopipeds. These parallelopipeds are being kept together by two springs and may be separated by pressing the pins toward each other.” (Lines 32-35) “The axis of a conical eyelet will be laid in the joint planes of the parallelopipeds, its apex in the front side, its basis in the opposite side of the eyelet-frame, through which eyelet the thread has to pass when the instrument is used and applied to the machine-needle.” (Lines 37-42) This instrument can be used with curved or straight needles. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for improvement in seed-planters that is able to plant different kinds of seed by simply adjust the position of the lower ends of the end-plates in the seed-box. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains.
- Patent for improvement in spark-conductors for railroad trains by using a “horizontal flue in sections and use “other devices to engage and disengage the sections, where by to arrest and extinguish sparks and conduct the smoke, ashes, and cinders to the rear.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for improvement in brick machines by “providing the mixing and grinding-shaft with arms at the bottom, adapted in form and arrangement for pressing the clay through the openings, in the bottom of the curb, into the moulds, below, which rest on ways above a sliding carrier, provided with brackets, for forcing the moulds out.” (Lines 26-34) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Buckles.
- Patent for improvement in buckles “which does not require to be sewed to either of the straps which it is to connect, and which will securely fasten and hold the said straps of bands in any desired position.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Machine for Cutting Stalks in the Field Preparatory to Plowing.
- Patent for improvement in machine for clearing cotton and corn-fields of the stalks after the crops have been gathered by “providing a revolving drum or roller with knives, set spirally around it, which cut the stalks of cotton or corn-fields into pieces of any desired length, for the purpose of being plowed under the surface for fertilizing, by rolling it over them.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Wrench.
- Patent for improvements in monkey wrenches.
- Improved Horse-Power.
- Patent for an improvement in horse-powers (tread-powers) by changing the construction and arrangement of the driving wheels.