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- Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
- Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
- Cotton - Bale Ties
- Patent for tying the ends of cotton bale wires or bands.
- Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.
- Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
- Improved Washing-Machine.
- Patent for a machine for washing and wringing clothes, which can be used with a furnace for heating the water but has legs for support when being used separately from a furnace. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
- Patent for a new and improved process of production and distillation of turpentine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Automatic Detaching Hook.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvements Hooks"
- Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
- Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
- Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.
- Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for a bale-tie designed to "provide a simple, strong, durable, and easily adjustable tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc." (para. 4), using a hook, a band, and a beveled eye. The hook has a barb attached to the end, and is described as a double hook.
- Improvement in Ballast-Distributing Cars
- Patent for ballast-distributing design with new design in changing rails and weight from car to car, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bee-hives
- Patent for an improvement of a bee-hive enabling inspection of bees, protection of bees from moths, ventilation of the hive, and removal of honey without disturbing the brood-chamber.
- Improvement in Blow Offs For Boilers
- Patent for Improvement in Blow Offs For Boilers provides details of the construction of the blow off device with two labeled Figures and descriptive text. Also includes the significance of the blow off device and how it will improve locomotive travel by conserving water.
- Improvement in Bridges.
- Patent for an improvement in Bridges and Self-Supporting Roofs and Girders. The invention provides instruction for "the construction of truss-bridges and self supporting roofs and girders"..."by nailing or bolting securely together successive layers of plank joined at different points."
- Improvement in Cane-Seats for Chairs.
- Patent for improvement in cane-seats for chairs by simplifying the process of dispensing the drawing of the cane through the chair-frame; thereby reduce materials used to produce the chairs. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for "an improved car-coupling simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective and reliable in operation." (lines 12-14) e.g., including illustration.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in link and pin car-couplings, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Churn-Dashers.
- Patent for "construction and arrangement of a churn-dasher..." ( lines 13-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improving a butter church mechanism.
- Improvement in Cloth-Registers
- Patent for an improvement to a cloth-register that indicates the measurement in yards of particular goods. Includes illustration and description.
- Improvement in Combination Locks.
- Patent for improved combination locks, with a bolt that is locked or unlocked by the combination of spindles and pivoted buttons. The invention combines the spindles in to an "annular ring having letters or numbers and a series of different shaped pegs or combinations of letters or figures or both jointly" (pg 1).
- Improvement in Combined Awning and Shutter.
- Patent for a "combined fire and burglar proof shutter and awning" (line 5-6).
- Improvement in Combined Land-Roller and Harrow.
- Patent for an improved version of a combined land-roller and harrow that allows for easier cleaning of its parts and adjustment of its rollers.
- Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
- Patent for an improvement in combined planter and cultivator that can be can modified for use in a cultivator, a gang breaker-plow or a seed planter. Includes illustration and description.
- Improvement in Combined Spading, Plowing, and Stalk-Cutting Machines.
- Patent for an earth working machine that can be used for spading, plowing and stalk-cutting by arranging “a series of spades in a plane parallel with the axis of the machine and interposed spades in planes at right angles thereto, all attached to a reciprocating cross-bar.” (P. 2, lines [29]-[33].) The spades are adjustable in height and, it can be removed to use as a cultivator. For stalk-cutting, the plows may be removed. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay.
- Patent for a method of combining bitumen, water, and clay for such purposes as plastering.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
- Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a new and valuable improvement in Cotton-Bale Tie, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Gin Feeder
- Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including endless apron, toothed cylinder, and toothed equalizing and distributing bars. Includes instructions and illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
- Patent for an improved cotton-picking machine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses
- Patent for a new and improved Cotton-Press. The invention relates to the press on which a Patent (No. 150,573) was granted May 5, 1874, to William B. Hollowell. It consists of a duplicate master-wheel on the drum for working the follower; also an improved contrivance for connecting the pitman to the lever and to its pivot, whereby the machine is rendered more efficient and may be lighter for a given strength.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for a new and improved baling-press including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.
- Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
- Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
- Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Double-Acting Force-Pumps.
- Patent for a double-acting force pump that has "single cylinder and hollow piston-rod operate in connection with the upper and lower cylinder-valves, and with a valved piston adapted to have a reciprocal motion independent of and upon the hollow piston-rod, to discharge the water from both sides of the piston with a double action and in a continuous stream through said hollow piston-rod" (para. 2).
- Improvement in Dough Kneaders and Cutters.
- Patent for new U-shaped dough kneader and cutter, with illustrations
- Improvement in Faucets.
- Patent for "an improved faucet, which shall be so constructed that it will not be liable to be injured by being screwed into and out of the cask, which will not be liable to leak, which will have the button of the valve-stem protected from accidental injury, and shall be simple in construction and easily operated." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fence-Post Sockets.
- Patent for improvement in fencing where posts are held more securely with galvanized plates, sockets, and wires.
- Improvement in Fences.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in fences, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
- Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
- Improvement in Fish and Animal Traps
- Patent for an improvement in the design of traps intended for catching fish or animals. Includes illustration.
- Improvement in Gate-Latches.
- Patent for improvements in gate latches: "to provide a self closing latch, simple in its construction and easy f operation" (lines 18-19).
- Improvement in Guards for Sheep-Shears.
- Patent for "an improved attachment that serves both as a guide and guard for preventing the cutting of the sheep in shearing, and by which even unskilled workmen can use the shears and cut the wool close to the skin without hurting the sheep, with by the point or edge of the blades." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for a press that reduces the bulk of cotton, "allowing it to be baled into convenient form for transportation. It consists in a novel mode of attaching the side of the press-box, so that they can be speedily thrown down from the cotton after compression to allow its convenient manipulation. It also consists in a new mode of connecting the follower with its superposed lever, so that it can be readily turned up out of the way when the cotton is being filled into the press-box. It also consists in a peculiar mode of combining lever and the two followers to clamp and press the cotton in between them as if in a vise." (Lines 13-26) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Horse-Powers
- Patent for an improvement in Horse Powers and in it's construction.
- Improvement in Hydraulic Packings
- Patent for an improvement in hydraulic packing for use in hydraulic rams. Includes illustration and description.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
- Patent for an insecticide that kills ants via fumigation. Ingredients include sulfur, charcoal, potassium cyanide, arsenic, and coal tar.
- Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
- Patent for an improvement in ironing-machine which can iron clothes quicker and better with very little physical labor. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
- Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
- Improvement in Kilns.
- Patent for an improvement in the construction of kilns.
- Improvement in land-drag and clod-crusher.
- Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.