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Hydraulic Pump.

Patent for a pump that operates "a pump-rod designed especially to dispense with valves, valve-cages, or other impedimenta to the flow of liquid" (lines 40-44). It is capable of pumping liquids to elevated heights.

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Clarkson, William

Hydraulic Pump

Patent for a hydraulic pump with "means for automatically supplying water to the pressure-pipe while the pump is working to replenish waste or leakage." (Lines 18-20) Includes instructions or illustrations.

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Clarkson, William

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for improvement in bale-ties. "This invention relates to that class of ties or hoops for cotton-bales, in which the band of hoop iron is provided with rigid hooks, studs, or buttons, and matching perforations as means for adjustably uniting the ends."

Date: November 30, 1875

Creator: Powell, Amos N.

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.

Date: June 1, 1875

Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.

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 … more

Date: June 1, 1875

Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.

Improvement in Carriage-Axle Boxes.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in carriage-axle boxes and spindles" (lines 3-5), includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 11, 1877

Creator: Sitton, William A.

Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is incl… more

Date: May 18, 1869

Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.

Improvement in Cotton Pickers.

Patent for improvements in cotton pickers which require less labor than manual efforts.

Date: January 5, 1915

Creator: Scheble, Eugene S.

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.

Patent for improvement in cotton scrapers and choppers by way of the innovative placement of plows.

Date: November 8, 1870

Creator: Hale, Nathan

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.

Date: November 17, 1874

Creator: Hale, Nathan M.

Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Patent for a new and improved hay and cotton press, including illustrations.

Date: July 3, 1874

Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Patent for a "means for driving cotton-gins and other light machinery by animal power; and it relates to that form of animal-power apparatus termed the vertical tread-wheel." (Lines 6-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 12, 1874

Creator: Powell, James M.

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for Improvement in Rotary Engines concerning "the arms of the frame" (lines 9), which are powered by steam and "steam valves with arms" (line 17) including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.

Date: February 5, 1878

Creator: Evens, George

Improvement in Sulky-Plows.

Patent for an invention of a new and improved sulky-plow, "which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plow to take or leave land, and to work at any desired depth in the ground, which will enable the plow to be readily raised from the ground" (lines 13-17). Illustrations included.

Date: February 20, 1877

Creator: Riddle, William N.

Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.

Patent for "an improved wheel-cultivator, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use in marking the ground, covering the seed, and cultivating the plants." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 25, 1876

Creator: Riddle, William N.

Incubator Regulator.

Patent for an incubator with an automatic regulator for the flame of an incubator or heating lamp. The invention also provides an improved regulator arranged to raise or lower the wick of an incubator lamp in accordance with the heat in the incubator itself.

Date: January 15, 1918

Creator: Harris, Luster. F. & Williams, Walter. L.

Insect Collecting Machine

Patent for insect collecting machine. This invention is for use with cotton plants. Illustrations included.

Date: March 7, 1911

Creator: Meek, Ada

Irrigating Apparatus.

Patent for new and useful improvements in irrigation apparatuses. The design includes "a system of surface irrigation comprising a main supply tank, a series of reservoirs, pipes connecting said tank and reservoirs" (lines 95-98). It is intended to allow for irrigating large and small plats of land simply and efficiently.

Date: October 12, 1920

Creator: French, Horatio Benjamin