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- Combined Shawl-Strap and Head-Rest
- Patent for a head rest to be used in cars and other places and can be attached to a seat or shawl, including illustrations.
- Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.
- Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Adjustable Hats
- Patent for an improvement to adjustable hatband which includes directions and illustrations.
- 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 Angle-Plates for Doors.
- Patent for a strengthening bracket for improving angle-plates for door hinges, such that the door will be supported from sagging at the hinge.
- Improvement in Animal-Traps.
- Patent for an improvement in animal traps to catch animals without bait, including 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 Bag-Fasteners.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improvement to "class of bale-ties in which the bands are secured by means of a fastening or key which passes through slots in the ends of the band." (lines 13-16)
- Improvement in Car-Axle Boxes.
- Patent for improvement to car-axle boxes, specifically "Oil-Collectors for Railroad Journals" (line 6), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Coolers for Railroad-Car Journals.
- Patent relating to "an apparatus for cooling the journals and boxes of railroad-cars and other vehicles" (lines 27-29). Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Dining-Tables.
- Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
- 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 Fences.
- Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Gun-Locks.
- Patent for "a novel application of hair-trigger catch to the main trigger, which operates together with a holder and separate springs." (Lines 30-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Kilns.
- Patent for an improvement in the construction of kilns.
- Improvement in Medicinal Extracts.
- Patent for the extract of Dasylirion graminifolium. This describes the method of acquiring the extract as well as illnesses the extra is purported to treat.
- Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.
- Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Ox-Bows.
- Patent for improvements to ox-bows so that they "shall not require bending, and which may be made in parts of the country where timber suitable for bending is scarce" (lines 9-12).
- Improvement in Piano-Pedal Attachments.
- Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Planters, Cultivators, and Stalk-Choppers.
- Patent for a combined planter, cultivator, and chopper.
- Improvement In Rotary Valve And Seat.
- Patent for an improvement in the construction of a rotary valve and seat. Specifications for the new construction and illustrations are included.
- Improvement in Saddles.
- Patent for re-enforcing and strengthening the front of a saddle.
- Improvement in Sand-Conveyers.
- Patent for a machine for "taking up and conveying sand into a suitable receptacle". Patent for breaking up sand and transferring it into a receptacle by means of circular cutters, conducting apron, inclined plate.
- Improvement in Scrapers.
- Patent for a horse-drawn excavator that includes a scoop attached to wheels.
- Improvement in Sheet-Metal Vessels
- Patent for a cylindrical vessel made of sheet-metal rather than tin. Including a inward double hanging ledge and two layers of metal soldiered together.
- Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
- Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
- Improvement in Station-Indicators.
- Patent for improvements in railroad-station indicators to indicate to passengers the next stations and the distances between them.
- Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
- Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
- Improvement in Windmills.
- Patent for the improvement of windmills, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Windmills.
- Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
- Improvements in Bench-Vises.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Sliding-Carriage Vise for Carpenter's Bench" (lines 3-5) includign instructions and illustrations.
- Manifold-Writing Tablet.
- Patent for writing platform which allows for the creation of carbon copies.
- Plow.
- Patent for improvements applicable to a gang of plows. Ability to adjust depth, security of plow arms, and can plow three rows at once.