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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

Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 25, 1877
Creator: Park, Hardy B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Goodin, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Carriage-Axle Boxes.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in carriage-axle boxes and spindles" (lines 3-5), includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Sitton, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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 Combined Cultivator and Planter.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a combined corn and cotton planter and cultivator" (lines 3-6), includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Skinner, Miles T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Convertible Cotton-Planter.

Description: Patent for improvement in convertible cotton-planters. The mechanism has a seed-dropping mechanism and a rear or side plow covers the dropped seed.
Date: December 20, 1877
Creator: Willie, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
Date: December 25, 1877
Creator: Domschke, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Planters.

Description: Patent for a "new and valuable improvement in cotton-planters" (lines 3-4), for planting cotton seeds, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Bronaugh, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved gang plow and cultivator" (lines 3-4), including instructions and illustrations. "This invention relates to a new agricultural machine which may be readily changed from a gang-plow into a cultivator, and vice-versa" (lines 15-17).
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Domschke, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Heater and Feeder for Steam-Boilers.

Description: Patent for "a new and valuable improvement in supplying feed-water to steam-boilers" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Hyde, James Boyd
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rifle-Barrels.

Description: Patent for a "new and useful improvement in firearms" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations. The invention provides "a gun-barrel with a number of cutters or plows for grooving the ball, said cutters or plows to correspond with with the number of guides or ribs which the gun is formed" (lines 20-25).
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Littlejohn, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Single-Trees.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Wooden Single-Trees" (lines 3-4), "for plows and other similar drafts" (lines 15-16), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Bass, Thomas Gibson
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

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Dawson, William Wyatt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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