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Improvement in Buckles.

Description: Patent for an improved, multi-piece harness-buckle that is attachable without the need of sewing, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: March 12, 1878
Creator: Carnes, William J., Jr.
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Improvement in Brick-Presses.

Description: Patent for a "new and useful improvement in brick-presses by which bricks may be quickly and cheaply pressed by hand power from clay taken direct from bank or mixer" ( Lines 1-3 )including instructions and illustration.
Date: May 14, 1878
Creator: Moore, Andrew A.
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Improvement in Gang and Sulky Plows.

Description: Patent for improvements in gang and sulky plows which "consists in an axle having the double crank of the transporting-wheel journaled upon the outer bend of said crank, working between the side beams of the plow-frame, and the connecting-rods pivoted, respectively, to the said bars and to the end and inner bend of said crank" (lines 17-23). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1878
Creator: McCormick, John Robert
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Horse-Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved "horse-power" (motor). This design utilizes a central pinion and a counter-wheel to accelerate the rest of the motor with minimal friction and minimal complicating of design.
Date: January 29, 1878
Creator: Randall, John C.
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Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.

Description: Patent for a cotton-hoe with interchangeable blades (one smaller and the other larger), for "chopping cotton" (line 15) and garden use, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: March 5, 1878
Creator: Moore, Joseph M.
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Improvement in Camp-Stoves.

Description: Patent for "an improved stove for camp and other uses, that may be reduced to small and compact size for transportation and readily put up for use." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1878
Creator: Vollbrecht, Louis P.
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Improvement in Railway-Gates.

Description: Patent for "automatically operating slide-gates which are operated by pressure on treadles, and are suitable for use either as farm-gates or railroad-gates." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 28, 1878
Creator: McCaffrey, James M. & Larkin, James
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Improvement in Fruit-Pickers.

Description: Patent for an improved fruit-picking tool explaining the construction and usage of the tool, including illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1878
Creator: McConnell, William V. & Dickerson, Charles M.
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Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Description: Patent for an "improvement in car-couplings; and it consists in the arrangement and combination of devices whereby the pin is supported in a raised condition; also in a spring-slide for holding up the link ready for coupling with another car." (lines 13-18)
Date: July 2, 1878
Creator: Gassaway, John H.
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Improvement in Pumps.

Description: Patent for improvement in the means by which cotton plants are watered, protected from pesticides and fires. It provides for a mechanism by which poison and water may be more easily distributed to the plants.
Date: July 30, 1878
Creator: Helmecke, Friederich Andreas
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Improvement in Pumps.

Description: Patent for "a pump having two barrels of different diameters, the larger being subjacent to the smaller, and each provided with a valved piston, said pistons being both secured to the same piston-rod, in combination with a weight, arranged to counter-balance the added weights of the water-columns above the smaller and below the larger piston." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 24, 1878
Creator: Beeman, Geraldo A. & Mason, John T.
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Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes.

Description: Patent for the improvement in car-journal boxes. This invention "relates to oil-boxes used upon journals of car-axles, the object being to prevent the lid from shaking off of the oil-stop or oil-packing surrounding the axle to be removed and replaced by a new one without removing the box from the journal."
Date: October 15, 1878
Creator: Alexander, Francis M.
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Improvement in Car-Axle Bearings.

Description: Patent for improvement in car-axle bearings in which "it consists in a box having a chambered back for containing oil, and having grooves along the straight edges of its bearing-surface for receiving a wick, the ends of which extend through holes in the box into the oil reservoir.”
Date: December 3, 1878
Creator: Stratton, Asa E., Jr.
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Bee Hive.

Description: Patent for improvements to "that class of bee-hives or bee-houses having a series of compartments..." (lines 15-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1878
Creator: Walton, George Slaughter
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