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Improvement in Brooms.

Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.

Date: August 15, 1871

Creator: Anderson, Edward Americus

Improvement in Bedsteads.

Patent for the improvement of bedsteads in order to make them more convenient and durable.

Date: August 8, 1871

Creator: Baldwin, Thomas B.

Improvement in Medical Compounds for Treating Chills, Fever, &c.

Patent for the improvement of medical compounds for treating chills and fevers. The patent states the components of a "True Ague Pill."

Date: October 10, 1871

Creator: Bevill, Robert

Improvement in Elevators.

Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.

Date: June 13, 1871

Creator: Bishop, Josiah

Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.

Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.

Date: December 5, 1871

Creator: Bond, Virgil A.

Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers

Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).

Date: January 3, 1871

Creator: Booton, Sinclair

Improvement in Tenoning-Machines

Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.

Date: April 18, 1871

Creator: Bourland, Melton S.

Improvements in Machines for Making Paving-Blocks.

Patent for the improvement in machines for making paving-blocks.

Date: October 24, 1871

Creator: Brooks, Samuel Wallace

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for "a new buckle or tie for holding the ends of the bands of cotton-bales" (lines 18-19) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 19, 1871

Creator: Brown, Floyd G.

Improvement in Wheel-Plows.

Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).

Date: September 5, 1871

Creator: Coreth, Rudolph

Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.

Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.

Date: August 15, 1871

Creator: Dawson, Paul R.

Improvement in Wagon-Sheet and Tent

Patent for an improvement in wagon sheet coverings / tent. The improvement is in the sides of the wagon sheet can be extended by loosening straps to fall the length to the ground and be staked to the earth. This gives a tent to sleep under after a day of traveling.

Date: August 13, 1871

Creator: Fitzgerald, M. M.

Improvement in Fluting Sad-Irons.

Patent for "a new combination of fluting and sad-iron, of such kind that the upper fluting-roller will serve as handle for the sad-iron, there being thus no loose or separate parts required for the two functions." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 14, 1871

Creator: Franklin, Edward A.

Improvement in Fire-Tongs

Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.

Date: January 17, 1871

Creator: George, Alfred M.

Improvement in Pen-Holders.

Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.

Date: January 24, 1871

Creator: George, Alfred M.

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).

Date: September 12, 1871

Creator: Hall, William N.

Improvement in Saw-Sets.

Patent for a simply constructed device for setting the teeth of saws. Includes illustrations and descriptions of its parts and usage.

Date: January 3, 1871

Creator: Harris, Henry A.

Improvement in Grinding-Mills

Patent for an improvement in grinding-mills, combining the operative mechanism with spindles - in which the both the grinding stones obtain relative surface speeds only half the actual speed of the stones.

Date: May 9, 1871

Creator: Hensley, Henry