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Improvement in Door-Securers.

Description: Patent for a new and improved safety-locks for doors which consists of only three parts: a screw with sharp points, a nut, and a guard pivoted to the nut. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1879
Creator: Hine, Miller J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Well-Augers.

Description: Patent for an improved well-auger, includes instruction and illustration.
Date: May 21, 1878
Creator: Glass, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Wheel-Plows.

Description: Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
Date: September 21, 1875
Creator: Flow, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Escapements for Time-Pieces

Description: Patent for inprovements in escapements for time-pieces involving levers and duplex escapements as a way of improving force and regularity in time-pieces. Patent gives instructions and provides illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1879
Creator: Laughlin, Abner G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Stalk-Chopper

Description: Patent for an improvement in corn and cotton stalk-choppers, allowing for the stalks to be turned under by the plow and prevent their interference with the machine.
Date: May 21, 1872
Creator: Richards, Augustus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for the improvement of washing machines, using two washboards. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1872
Creator: Harper, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a new improvement to washing machines.
Date: July 21, 1874
Creator: Mitchell, Daniel Chasteen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Strap-Protector and Buckle

Description: Patent for improvements in strap-protector and buckle for harness in order for it to not become cracked or bent. Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1879
Creator: Padgitt, Tom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Ventilators.

Description: Patent for improvement in ventilators which combines a bell-mouthed vane with white induction and black eduction pipes for the purpose of introducing fresh air and eliminating foul air from an enclosed area.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Moyer, Alexander L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows.

Description: Patent for improvement in sulky attachments for plows. This invention allows farmers to "apply any kind of plow to the sulky-frame" (1).
Date: August 21, 1876
Creator: Langsford, Samuel P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.

Description: Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Hawley, Abel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.

Description: Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Roosevelt, Lillian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in folding tables.

Description: Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
Date: March 21, 1876
Creator: Arnold, James Edwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date: November 21, 1876
Creator: Yarborough, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Piles for Bulk-Heads and Other Structures.

Description: Patent for improvements in piles for bulkheads: "The object of the present invention being to provide a concrete-faced bulk-head composed of piles, each of which may be sunk in position by continuously forcing the sand from beneath the lower end of the pile" (lines 15-19), with illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1877
Creator: Parry, Morgan L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Soldering-Irons

Description: Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
Date: March 21, 1877
Creator: Stevens, Hennell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.

Description: Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
Date: September 21, 1875
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters

Description: Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, which allows for adjusting to plant less or more seeds as desired.
Date: May 21, 1872
Creator: Richards, Augustus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Nails.

Description: Patent for a nail with hexagonal form with two sides nearly flat and beveled edges.
Date: January 21, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the design of corn and cotton cultivators, including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Description: Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1871
Creator: Sivley, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for improvement in a combined seed-planter, fertilizer-distributer, and cultivator by attaching some prongs to a dropping-wheel for the purpose of taking hold of the cotton-seed and draw it out of the hopper. This dropping-wheel can be covered with a case when planning seeds and, removed if fertilizer is to be distributed with small seeds. Illustration is included.
Date: November 21, 1876
Creator: Flatau, Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hopples.

Description: Patent for improvement in hopples: "consists of a metallic band composed of three equal parts, two of which are hinged to a third, and provided with a fastening, by means of which it may be secured to the leg of the animal" (lines 14-19).
Date: August 21, 1877
Creator: Melton, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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