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- Improvement in Processes for Preserving Wood.
- Patent for preserving wood from the ravages of marine insects (lines 7-8).
- Improvement in Scrapers.
- Patent for a horse-drawn excavator that includes a scoop attached to wheels.
- Improvement in Water-Proof Joints for Roofing-Boards.
- Patent for the improvement of water-proof joints for roofing-boards, including illustrations.
- 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 Insect-Destroying Compounds.
- Patent for "a mixture of the arseniate of soda and water, or arseniate of soda, dextrine, and water, prepared in certain proportions of the respective ingredients, for the purpose of destroying cotton-worms." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Presses.
- Patent for the improvement of cotton presses to bale cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an "invention to produce a cheap and convenient tie, which is durable, and which will not unlock should the rivet holding the button break from any strain on it, the button still holding by means of slots, and the strain being transferred to a slot in the end of the tie in which the button was riveted." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
- Patent for an improved cotton-chopping machine, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator," (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale - Ties.
- Patent for new and improved bale - tie, and to be applied to other things, such as barrels, tubs, bracelets, and ladies' garters.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in Skeleton Tillage-Plow.
- Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.
- Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Force - Pumps.
- Patent for new and improved force pump with three cylinders.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale ties, with description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps.
- Patent for a reusable scaffold clamp for assembling builders' scaffolds, eliminating the need for nails or bolts.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for an improved gang-plow with an adjustable crank-axle, mechanism to raise and lock the plows, and a brace for increasing rigidity.
- Improvement in Machines for Destroying Cotton Worms.
- Patent for a machine to distribute poison to destroy Cotton Worms, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings.
- Patent for the improvement of bale-tie fastenings, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for an improved bale-hoop tie, consisting of a tongue and slot locking device, which may be used for cotton or other bales, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for the improved design of a bale-hoop tie, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for improved bale-tie fastener with flattened hook.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for a secure cotton-bale tie which is "held securely in place on the hoop or band without depending therefor upon the elasticity of the bale" (lines 12-14), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Guards for Wire Bale-Ties.
- Patent for improving the method of tying the bales together whether it be cotton or hay so that the material will not get cut into by the wiring.
- Improvement in Animal-Traps.
- Patent for an improvement in animal traps to catch animals without bait, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Spike-Extractors.
- Patent for "an improvement in the class of nail-extractors in which a gripe or grapple formed of pendent springs or hinged jaws is employed." (lines 7-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.
- Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
- Washing-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in washing machines. The shaping and components are meticulously detailed and indicate they play a part in the said improvement.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
- Patent for "machines which are designed for distributing poison-dust over the leaves of plants for the destruction of insects, especially the worms which prey on the cotton-plant." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Harness.
- Patent for a new improvement in harness that "enables the detachment of the horse therefrom instantaneously" (lines 8-9) including illustration. It may also be called "safety harness" (line 10).
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Churn" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Presses.
- Patent for new improvement in press, including illustration.
- Improvement in Shingle-Bolting Machines.
- Patent for a shingle-bolting machine.
- Improvement in Animal-Traps
- Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.
- Improvement in Mechanical Movements.
- Patent for a specific arrangement of a single-cylinder engine and two shafts with connecting rods that can be used to drive boat propellers.
- Improvement in Portable Fences.
- Patent for portable fencing with sections that can be connected and set up in a particular area, or removed and put elsewhere at will.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a new cotton and corn planter, including illustrations.
- Improvement In Gun-Locks.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
- 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.
- Improvement in Permutation-Locks
- Patent for an improvement in permutation locks.
- Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-stalk pullers with beveled edges for firmer hold on the stalks.
- Improvement in Adjustable Saddle-Trees.
- Patent for "improvements in saddle-trees; and the invention consists in constructing the forward ends of the trees with the hinged connection between its sides, to allow lateral adjustment of the sides to and from each other..." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys
- Patent for improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys. This object is to be used with the brick chimney on top of the roof to provide air circulation. It consists of an iron-lined inner flue secured within an outer casing with suitable bottom and top perforation for establishing air current around the flue.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "means whereby the beam of a plow may be elevated or depressed at the front end according to the depth to which it is intended that the plow shall run, and held securely at several points of adjustment." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds
- Patent for improvement in insect,specifically cotton worms, destroying compounds . Included list of chemicals and measures of amount used.
- Improvement in Cotton-Stalk Cutters.
- Patent for an improvement to cotton-stalk cutters by way of an improved framework.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for bale ties that are designed "to have a series of holes in each end portion of the hoop, so that two keys can be used; also so that the hoop can be taken up short and again used on the compressed or repressed bale." (Lines 20-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Automatic-Gates.
- Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Farm-Gates" (lines 3-4) allowing persons riding to open and close a swinging gate.