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Breech-Loading Fire-Arm

Description: Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
Date: December 4, 1877
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Shawl-Strap and Head-Rest

Description: Patent for a head rest to be used in cars and other places and can be attached to a seat or shawl, including illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1879
Creator: McLane, Hiram H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cradle.

Description: Patent for a improved cradle with a fan attachment, including instructions.
Date: March 4, 1879
Creator: Reisor, Andrew S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Apparatus for Stretching Wire Fences.

Description: Patent for stretching wire from post to post in the construction of wire fencing, which includes directions how to secure the wire, includes illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1873
Creator: Mangham, Josiah T.
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Improvement in Churns.

Description: Patent for "a new and Improved Churn" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1874
Creator: Ewing, Nathaniel
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Improvement in Combination-Hoes.

Description: Patent for "hoes in which the blade is made detachable from the handle-eye, and the latter made to receive several blades or other attachments." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 4, 1877
Creator: Nelson, David A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Description: Patent for "an Improved Cotton-Bale Tie" (line 5) including illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1874
Creator: Krone, William
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Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
Date: July 4, 1871
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
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Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-cleaner that enhances the performance of cotton cleaning. It includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1873
Creator: Ralston, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fences

Description: Patent for an improvement in fences through the manufacturing of a fence or fence-paneling of hoop-iron, so that it may be sold in sections of any desired length, rolled up in compact form, easily and cheaply transported to any distance, and put up by the farmer with rapidity and facility.
Date: June 4, 1872
Creator: Brown, Floyd G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Floor-Clamps.

Description: Patent for an improvement in floor clamps, including illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1873
Creator: Foster, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Honey-Boxes for Bee-Hives

Description: Patent for the new and improved construction of bee-hives. Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1879
Creator: Connolly, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Description: Patent for improvements made to motors that power machinery, called "horse-powers." The specific improvements made are in the arrangement of mechanical pulleys from which the motor derives power, arranged in such a way that will not significantly increase the size or cost of the machine.
Date: February 4, 1873
Creator: Müller, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Lock-Faucets.

Description: Patent for a improvement in lock faucets, includes instructions and illustration.
Date: June 4, 1878
Creator: Seward, Marion F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Machines for Making Plow-Irons.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the design for machines for manufacturing plow irons, including illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1873
Creator: McGinty, James M. & Nolan, Thomas.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Paper-Clips.

Description: Patent for the improvement of paper-clips, made out of a single piece of metal. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 4, 1872
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Railroad-Switches.

Description: Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.
Date: September 4, 1877
Creator: Harding, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sheet-Metal Hames

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Vises

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.

Description: Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 4, 1877
Creator: Hart, Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements In Ironing-Machines

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in the ironing machine. Machine has carrying case that is mounted on wheels and allows the iron to move over garments as it straightens out wrinkles.
Date: May 4, 1875
Creator: Perrenot, George F
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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