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Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses

Description: Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1877
Creator: Methvin, Boling J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.

Description: Patent for improvements on insect destroyers to be used in cotton fields, including illustrations.
Date: October 16, 1877
Creator: Fordtran, Eugene H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Automatic Fans.

Description: Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
Date: November 3, 1877
Creator: Boone, John Baxter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Post-Hole Diggers

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in Post-Hole Diggers.
Date: November 20, 1877
Creator: Armstrong, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.

Description: Patent for improvements to machinery for cleaning cotton by passing the raw material over various sizes of mesh and using air to draw out dirt.
Date: November 27, 1877
Creator: Donovan, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Baling-Presses.

Description: Patent for a baling press "intended for compressing and re-pressing cotton for shipment" (para. 4), and is created using a "simple and efficient" (para. 2) design.
Date: November 27, 1877
Creator: Drake, John
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 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 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 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 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 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

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

Improvement in Blow-Guns and Arrows.

Description: Patent for an improved design of the blow-gun and arrows consisting of the broader boar for the blow gun, an arrow fastening cord, and arrow-shafts with grooves. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: White, Luther C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Buckles

Description: Patent for a new and improved buckle for use with hame-straps, breech-straps, etc. The patent contains an explanation of the buckle and various illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Melton, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bridle Attachments.

Description: Patent for "a bridle of novel construction for training and taming horses; and it consists in the combination of brace and guide-reins, neck and crupper straps, sureingle, and collar." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 10, 1877
Creator: Cummings, Seton S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Billiard-Cushions.

Description: Patent for improvement in billiard-cushions. Patent for removable billiard table cushion.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Mansur, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
Date: July 31, 1877
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Quilting-Frames

Description: Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date: January 16, 1877
Creator: Davis, Henry T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Reciprocating Churns.

Description: Patent for an invention that, "relates to certain improvements in motive power for churns, its object being to provide a compact system of automatically-operating gearing, that may be readily attached to the top of an ordinay churn" (lines 7-11). Illustration included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Miller, Noah J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "an improved gang-plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plows to take or leave land, and which will enable the wheels to be adjusted closer to or farther from the plows, as may be desired." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1877
Creator: Cummins, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Reciprocating Churns

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in the construction of churns, whereby dashers are caused to rotate very rapidly, thus greatly facilitating the process of producing butter; also, the churn and its supporting frame-work being constructed and arranged in sections permits of it being taken apart very readily, and packed in a very small space for shipment." (lines 12-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1877
Creator: Welch, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid

Description: Patent for a new and useful process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and the patent includes a list of solvents suitable for use in the process.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car Brakes and Starters

Description: Patent for improvements in rail road-car breaks, starters, and checkers. "The nature of the invention consists in certain constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts" (lines 19-21).
Date: April 24, 1877
Creator: Marean, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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