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- Improvement in Curing Meat, &c.
- Patent for curing meat using an air-tight brine vacuum to heat and purify the meat, including illustrations.
- Brick-Machine.
- Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations.
- Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
- Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
- Improvement in Fish-Hooks.
- Patent for "new and useful improvement in the Sockdolager Fish-Hook" (lines 4-5), including illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.
- Patent for the "improvement in Horizontal Cotton - Presses for compressing cotton, hay, and other articles and substances for baling; ..." (lines 3-6), including illustrations.
- Rotary Steam-Engine.
- Patent for the improvement of the rotary engine through the arrangement of passages and system of pistons for a more simple construction with little friction, including illustration.
- Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.
- Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
- Improved Mode of Preserving Meat.
- Patent for a process that claims to preserve meat. The patent includes only instructions and no illustrations.
- Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains.
- Patent for improvement in spark-conductors for railroad trains by using a “horizontal flue in sections and use “other devices to engage and disengage the sections, where by to arrest and extinguish sparks and conduct the smoke, ashes, and cinders to the rear.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for improvement in brick machines by “providing the mixing and grinding-shaft with arms at the bottom, adapted in form and arrangement for pressing the clay through the openings, in the bottom of the curb, into the moulds, below, which rest on ways above a sliding carrier, provided with brackets, for forcing the moulds out.” (Lines 26-34) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Machine for Cutting Stalks in the Field Preparatory to Plowing.
- Patent for improvement in machine for clearing cotton and corn-fields of the stalks after the crops have been gathered by “providing a revolving drum or roller with knives, set spirally around it, which cut the stalks of cotton or corn-fields into pieces of any desired length, for the purpose of being plowed under the surface for fertilizing, by rolling it over them.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
- Improved Anchor for Animals.
- Patent for improvement in animals’ anchor in which it allow the animals to graze without being twisted or wound up the rope by using the combination of a swiveled loop and a pivoted loop with each other, and a pin. “This pin is made with four wings, or radial longitudinal flanges, tapering to a point at its lower end and is readily forced into the ground, and easily drawn out, but will resist a very strong side-draught.” (Lines23-27) Illustration is included.
- Coffee and Teapot.
- Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants.
- Patent for improvement in insect destroyer by “placing a gas-generator on a wagon, in its lower chamber, a fire box is placed for creating sulphurous gas. A bellows attached to its lower end to regulate sufficient air in forming the sulphurous gas.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Furnaces.
- Patent for improvements in furnaces, using steam to create heat. It includes a description and illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds.
- Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
- Improvement in Rotary Subsoil-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement upon subsoil plows, using a series of spades arranged upon the same pulleyed rotary shaft, combined with furrow-opening plows.
- Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person
- Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
- Improvement in Carriage-Axles.
- Patent for improvements to carriage axles which include the addition of a sleeve, bearing, and linch-pin device.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses.
- Patent for improving the cotton and hay press.
- Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges.
- Patent for "an apparatus in which the gases from one or more forges, instead of passing off unconsumed into the atmosphere, enter a furnace and are burnt therein, thereby furnishing heat for the generation of steam in a boiler connected with said furnace, which steam is used to drive a fan that impels a blast into each forge, and is also used to propel an engine that operates a hammer, the exhaust from the engine being conducted to the tuyeres of the forges through pipes in which are placed red-hot iron plates, which decompose the steam, taking up the oxygen, and liberating the hydrogen which is burnt in the forges." (Lines 12-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Axle-Boxes, Sand-Bands, and Casings for Carriage-Wheel Hubs.
- Patent for improvements in combined axle-boxes, sand-bands, and casings for carriage-wheel hubs. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvements in Expanding Mandrels.
- Patent for improvements in expanding mandrels by way of an expanding-chuck.
- Improvement in Rotary Engines.
- Patent for rotary engines "driven by steam or other elastic agent, or which may be used for pumping water" (lines 29-32) to obtain "a more direct application of the force applied to drive the engine" (lines 39-40) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Gas from Oils.
- Patent for "machines for the manufacture of gas from oils, benzine, gasoline, &c.; and it consists in providing the tank or cistern with a retort constructed with an outer cylinder surrounding one or more cylinders or tubes, which inner cylinder is provided with perforated plates at the top and bottom thereof, and the space between said plates filled with sponge or other porous material, while the space or chamber between the inner and outer shell of the retort serves as a mixing-chamber for the oil and air before being forced through the sponge and delivered to the service-pipe." (Lines 17-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings
- Patent for an improved car-coupling that lets cars couple automatically when they run together and uncouple automatically in the event of an accident. Includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
- Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.
- 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.
- Improvment in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvement in digging or cultivation machines primarily adapted to the cultivation of cotton. Includes parts that can be added or removed from the machine, thereby reducing the number of machines needed for farm work. Includes illustrations and instructions.
- 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 Circular-Saw Mills.
- Patent for an improved Circular Sawmill with an " improved adjustable feed mechanism" (pg 1). Illustration Included.
- Improvement in railroad switches
- Patent for an improvement in railroad switches, including illustrations.
- Lubricating car-axles
- Patent for an improvement in axle lubrication involving an oil-elevator, axle-box and journal-box. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Fluting-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
- Improvement in Balanced Valves.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of balanced slide valves for steam and other engines, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in wagon hubs that includes one-piece attachment and spokes that can be cut by metal strips by exposed to no injury, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Carriage-Springs
- Patent for improved design for carriage-springs with included illustrations of the spring design as well as diagram of placement on a carriage/wagon.
- Improvement in Journal Boxes.
- Patent for axel shaft oil lubrication system that acts as a reservoir and saves the oil lubrication materials to be used repeatedly without waste.
- Improvement in Recording Instruments for Locomotives
- Patent for improvement in Recording Instruments for recording time, speed, and steam pressure of locomotives or cars or other machinery.
- Improvement in Policemen's Batons.
- Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Water-Proof Joints for Roofing-Boards.
- Patent for the improvement of water-proof joints for roofing-boards, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Standards for Vehicles.
- Patent for "a stanchion pivoted in a strong metal box adapted to be fastened to the side of the platform of the car or truck, the box being open at the top and at one end, so that the stanchion can be turned down on its pivot by the side of the platform, to be out of the way of loading the car or truck platform with goods which cannot be conveniently loaded when the stanchions are upright." (Lines 6-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
- Patent for an improvement in vapor burners used in self-generating gas burners.
- Improvement in Vehicle-Springs.
- Patent for "an improvement in springs for carriages" (lines 4-5), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Churn" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
- Cotton - Bale Ties
- Patent for tying the ends of cotton bale wires or bands.
- Improvement in Bed-Plates for Steam-Engines.
- Patent for the invention of a new improvement in bed plates for steam engines, allowing improved water-feeding and venting of exhaust steam.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for the improvement of the design of the bale-tie, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.
- Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.