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Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Stone.

Patent for improvement in the manufacture of Hydraulic Stone to furnish and improved artificial stone for use in different purposes that can resist weather changes without being affected.

Date: September 16, 1879

Creator: Dimelow, John

Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.

Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).

Date: September 23, 1879

Creator: Nette, August

Improvement in Strap-Protector and Buckle

Patent for improvements in strap-protector and buckle for harness in order for it to not become cracked or bent. Provides instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 21, 1879

Creator: Padgitt, Tom

Improvement in Vises

Patent for new construction for vises that will "enable the vise to be set and secutured in any desired position and thus hold the work in a position convenient to the operator" (lines 8-10).

Date: November 4, 1879

Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato C.

Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets

Patent for improved toilet cabinets in order to better arrange "cabinets for containing sewing, writing, and shaving materials and various other articles" (lines 8-10). Provides instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 4, 1879

Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato C.

Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools.

Patent for "an improved rotary hand-tool for dressing stone" (lines 7-8) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 2, 1879

Creator: Gilmore, Louis C.

Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons

Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.

Date: September 9, 1879

Creator: Gibson, William T.

Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.

Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.

Date: September 9, 1879

Creator: Richardson, John D.

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a medical compound consisting of magnesia, soda, potassium oxide, manganese, sodium chloride, acid phosphate of iron, sulfuric acid, and phosphoric acid. The compound is said to treat a wide variety of ailments.

Date: September 16, 1879

Creator: Coleman, George S.

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).

Date: September 16, 1879

Creator: Newman, Charles Elijah

Improvement in Lever-Powers.

Patent for a lever-power which applies "the power and resistance to the lever, so that they will change positions with relation to the fulcrum as the power end of the lever descends" (para. 2). The relation of the lever with the fulcrum is flexible, and allows for increased leverage.

Date: September 23, 1879

Creator: Franklin, Mathew Calhoun

Improvement in Sheet-Metal Hames

Patent for improvement in hames by constructing them of sheet metal in order to prevent flatenning and wear on the hame. Explains how sheet metal hames are also flexibile in many attributes and because of this they are beneficial in many ways. Illustrations provided.

Date: November 4, 1879

Creator: Brown, John S.

Improvement in Fire-Lighters.

Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 18, 1879

Creator: Craig, Samuel M.

Improvement in Saw-Sets

Patent for an improvement in a device which sets the teeth of a saw, with instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 18, 1879

Creator: Holton, Samuel

Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.

Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.

Date: December 16, 1879

Creator: Reager, Francis M.

Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.

Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.

Date: December 23, 1879

Creator: Burns, James

Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion.

Patent for an improvement to devices that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. It is comprised of a wheel on a rotary shaft that has has a groove that grips an angular nut mounted on a shaft.

Date: December 23, 1879

Creator: Howe, Milton G.