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Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators

Description: Patent for an improvement in Chain-Wheels consisting "in the construction and arrangement of a device for drawing water from wells, which shall be cheap, convenient, and free from danger, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth."
Date: October 15, 1878
Creator: Knipscheer, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Steam-plows.

Description: Patent for improvement in the apparatus for turning up soil with a steam plow.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Miller, Herman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Saw-Set.

Description: Patent for an invention "which can be used for setting the teeth of all kinds of saws by hand, and without requiring and intricate machinery" (lines 15-18). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: February 15, 1870
Creator: Harris, H. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sulky-Plows.

Description: Patent for sulky-plows.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Payne, Joseph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for improvement of planters.
Date: February 15, 1876
Creator: Albertson, Ichabod H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Motors for Operating Churns.

Description: Patent for "a simple and effective motive power for operating the dashers of churns; and it consists of a suitable frame-work provided with a fly-wheel, operated by a pitman attached to a bar projecting from brackets on the side of an ordinary rocking-chair, said fly-wheel being provided with cogs upon one side, which mesh into the cogs on a smaller wheel, which caries a crank for operating the dasher of the churn, a suitable belt being arranged upon the rim of the fly-wheel and around a small … more
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Crump, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Scrapers.

Description: Patent for improved road scraper with two-wheel vehicle and scoop pulled by a chain.
Date: July 15, 1873
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Distilling Turpentine.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in apparatus for distilling turpentine to permit continuous distillation.
Date: April 15, 1872
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Lamp-Burners.

Description: Patent for a new improvement for Lamp-Burners that helps prevent explosions, including illustrations.
Date: April 15, 1879
Creator: Beeman, Geraldo A. & Ramsey, Haley S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Spark-Arresters.

Description: Patent for improved construction of spark-arresters, "so that they will be more efficient, and yet simple in construction and not liable to get out of repair; and the invention consists of a metallic circular cone, with winding or arched flanges or wings, which extend toward the side of the shall, and they are covered by a plate, to the upper side of which a perforated cylinder is attached, so that all the sparks are arrested and thoroughly extinguished, while the smoke can pass out through the… more
Date: July 15, 1879
Creator: Lochner, Casper F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Odometers.

Description: Patent for an improvement to odometers used for measuring distance traveled in motor vehicles.
Date: July 15, 1879
Creator: Richardson, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons.

Description: Patent for an improvement to running-gears for wagons, including "improved means for connecting the front axle and reach of a wagon or other vehicle" (lines 6-8) and illustrations.
Date: July 15, 1879
Creator: Fowler, Joseph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fence.

Description: Patent for a new fence design that "can be adapted to any desired length, width, or height" (lines 14-15). The patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 15, 1870
Creator: Kerr, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Grinding-Mills.

Description: Patent for an improvement in grinding mills which purports to save time.
Date: November 15, 1870
Creator: Westmoreland, Joseph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.

Description: Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Dawson, Paul R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Handsaws

Description: Patent for an improved handsaw with changes made to the teeth, frame, and bolts.
Date: May 15, 1877
Creator: Shave, Levi & Reams, Sherwood Young
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeders for Thrashing-Machines.

Description: Patent for improvements in the design of band-cutters and feeders for thrashing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Andrews, Henry K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.

Description: Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Ames, Theodore George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gate-Hinges.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the design of gate-hinges, including illustrations.
Date: April 15, 1873
Creator: Stone, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Spades and Forks.

Description: Patent for a new improved and combined spade and fork to be used as a spade. It "consists in a sheet-metal sheath or pocket adapted to receive a fork and be secured" (lines 16-18 ) including illustrations.
Date: July 15, 1873
Creator: Stone, Heber
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Churns.

Description: Patent for a butter churn.
Date: December 15, 1874
Creator: Sreeves, Charles B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Coolers for Railroad-Car Journals.

Description: Patent relating to "an apparatus for cooling the journals and boxes of railroad-cars and other vehicles" (lines 27-29). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 15, 1879
Creator: Morris, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for improvement in bale-ties by using a “divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale, and the ends whereof are joined by a fastening at the one end of said band, arranged to interlock with an one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band for the purpose of binding or holding the bale together.” (Lines [11-17]) Illustration is included.
Date: February 15, 1876
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Dish and Clothes Washer.

Description: Patent for a combined dish and clothes washer that has a tilting shelf for draining, attached to the sink for washing.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Jackson, Ansberry Chapman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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