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- Improvement in Presses.
- Patent for pressing cotton, hay, and tobacco with moveable notches for more control in producing bales and using less power than previous presses, including illustration.
- Improvment in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for the improvement in pressing cotton, hay, and tobacco with moveable bale-boxes and a more rapid-working press, including illustration.
- Pessary.
- Patent for an improved pessary, as an instrument to support for the uterus against prolapse, including illustration.
- Improvement in Machines for Polishing Marble, &c.
- Patent for an improved machine that rubs and polishes marble using a sand and water box moving forward and backward to polish the stone without man power and tools, including illustration.
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for an improved millstone-dress that produce less heat while grinding by employing a greater number of furrows, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters using a combination of an adjustable agitator and a movable self-adjusting stirrer, including illustration.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
- Patent for improvement in pump-drills for boring artesian wells by “combining pump-valves and pistons with a drill for boring artesian or other wells” (lines 21-23), including illustration.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for an improved plow to turn and reverse the mold-board by using a single bolt to secure the reversible mold-board onto the stock of a plow.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for the improvement of planting seeds using a single seed-slide and double tubes from seed box to distribute seeds to planting point in a more direct route than other seed-planters, including illustration.
- Hanging Millstones.
- Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
- Bolt for Doors.
- Patent for the improvement of bolt locks on double doors using a lever lock for safety and ease of locking and unlocking one or both doors, including illustration.
- Medical Compound.
- Patent for a cough syrup formula made from various plant extracts, to treat inflammatory diseases. No illustration.
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for improvement in millstone-dress by “making each of the main grooves in five sections, in combination with shoulders and inclined planes” (lines 17-19), including illustration.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement of gang-plows by arranging the plows in rows on to a fame which can be fastened to a wagon, when the wagon is in motion, it causes the plows to work in vertical motion. The height of the plow-frame can be adjusted. Illustration is included.
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for an ant-trap using a portable receptacle with three different designs, each can be used as an individual trap or in any combinations to lure ants into the bottom of the receptacle without any means of escaping, including illustration.
- Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of seed-planters using a rotary system to distribute seeds from a drum and into the soil, including illustration.
- Cotton-Cleaner.
- Patent for a machine that cleans cotton by placing the seed into a rotating cylinder it is carried and removed using air presser through spiral fan blades and pins to rid impurities, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Feeders for Cotton-Gins.
- Patent for the improvement of cotton-gin by feeding cotton in a uniform manner of removing sand and dirt, separating hulls, leaves, and imperfect pods for improved quality and reducing physical labor, including illustration.
- Chain-Link.
- Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
- Patent for the improvement to cotton-seed planters by connecting the wheel to the reciprocating stirrer to guide the seed from hopper to soil and covering it, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of cultivators using adjustable blades and is adaptable to use different types of blades for a variety of other uses, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
- Patent for the improvement of a cotton scraper "for general cultivation of drill-husbandry" (lines 17-18) and cotton crops, including illustration.
- Improvement in Machines for Extracting Cotton and Corn Stalks.
- Patent for the improvement of pulling the roots of cotton and corn stalks while minimizing the damage to the soil, including illustration.
- Steam-Boiler.
- Patent for the improvement for steam boilers by having a detachable fire-box for a portable boiler with little maintenance and efficient as a steam generator, including illustration.
- Cotton-Cleaner.
- Patent for a machine that uses revolving brush cylinders, stationary brushes, and stripping boards to prepare cotton for ginning, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for a plow called the "The Texas Cultivator" (line 7) that uses left and right wings and diamond plows that may be used to plow either side of stock to eliminate additional operators and time for the same job, including illustration.
- Air-Chamber.
- Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
- Improvment in Steam-Plows.
- Patent for one machine that plows, sows, roles and harrow soil in one operation or separately, including illustrations.
- Improved Saw-Gummer.
- Patent for a machine that uses a grindstone to sharpen rotary saws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Tanning.
- Patent for improvements in tanning materials: "extractive matter for the manufacture of leather from the wood and bark of the mesquit - a tree of extensive growth on the prairies of western and north western Texas" (lines 9-13).
- Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels.
- Patent for improvements in steering vessels: "by means of rotary paddle wheels the blades of which are arranged parallel to keel" (lines 21-23).
- Improvement in Rotary Engines.
- Patent for improvements in rotary engines.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for improvements in fences: "simple and cheap construction, strong, and durable" (lines 21-22).
- 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.