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Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Description: Patent for a press that reduces the bulk of cotton, "allowing it to be baled into convenient form for transportation. It consists in a novel mode of attaching the side of the press-box, so that they can be speedily thrown down from the cotton after compression to allow its convenient manipulation. It also consists in a new mode of connecting the follower with its superposed lever, so that it can be readily turned up out of the way when the cotton is being filled into the press-box. It also cons… more
Date: September 9, 1873
Creator: Nelson, David A.
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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties

Description: Patent for Improvement in the fastening of the metal bands used to tie cotton bales. Includes detailed description and three labled figures
Date: July 31, 1873
Creator: Cromer, Thomas
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Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Description: Patent for an improvement of a baling press where the upright framing timbers allows any quantity of cotton to be placed in the bale and creates a uniformity of weight.
Date: October 14, 1873
Creator: Müller, Joseph
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Improvement in Policemen's Batons.

Description: Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.
Date: October 14, 1873
Creator: Beery, Simon & McDonald, John W.
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Improvement in Compounds of Bitumen, Ore, &c.

Description: Patent for a new compound called Bitumenated Ore. "The product is a dense, durable, and economical composition, suitable for both small and massive structures, and for plastering and other purposes." (Lines 66-29)
Date: November 11, 1873
Creator: Lea, Pryor
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Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters.

Description: Patent for improvement to cotton and corn planters, including a hinged or pivoted frame to carry the plows which can be adjusted by foot levers. Illustration included.
Date: November 11, 1873
Creator: Penington, Asa, Jr.
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Improvement in Portable Fences.

Description: Patent for "a simple, cheap, and portable fence...which can be readily folded up for transportation from place to place." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Taylor, Byron L.
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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Description: Patent for improving cotton bale ties with buckle-tie plate and zinc-galvanized iron wire.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Quarles, Fred.
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Improvement in Adjustable Hats.

Description: Patent for a mechanism improving the ability to adjust the shape of a hat to fit different sized heads. The patent is for an "adjustable attachment for enlarging and contracting" the hat's design.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Cassiano, Ygnacio I.
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Improvement in Combination-Padlocks.

Description: Patent for "a padlock in which the permutation locking device is not permanently connected to the hasp; and said invention consists of a permutation device the fixed ends whereof are provided with sockets to receive the ends of a separate hasp, and be locked therewith by a notched bolt passing through the permutation device and both ends of the hasp, whereby the usual hinged connection of the parts is avoided, and the padlock made more secure and cheaper than when the parts are permanently unit… more
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Attachments for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for "a fan or blower conjoined with a box containing any of the various powdered poisons used for destroying vermin which infest growing plants, as cotton, potatoes, &c., operated by a pulley and band, running from the axle of the blower to a wheel on the supporting-axle of the cultivator, seeder, or other machine to which the apparatus may be attached." (Lines 19-27) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 30, 1873
Creator: Hurd, Charles T.
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Improvement in Cotton Choppers

Description: Patent for improvement in cotton choppers creating a more effective machine relating to the cultivating and chopping of cotton. Includes labeled figures and descriptive text
Date: August 16, 1873
Creator: Garrett, Joseph M.
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Lubricating car-axles

Description: Patent for an improvement in axle lubrication involving an oil-elevator, axle-box and journal-box. Includes illustrations.
Date: January 7, 1873
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
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Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved baling-press including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 30, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.
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Improvement in Cotton Presses

Description: Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Leoneard, Thomas Dunlap
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Improvement in Cotton-Plows.

Description: Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
Date: July 29, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
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Improvement in Bleaching Resins.

Description: Patent for a process to "bleach, clarify, and refine the commonest and lowest grade of resin, and such is now known to the trade as black resin, as to produce therefrom, by a cheap and simple means or process, an article as pure as extra pale, or resin which is the product of the virgin dip, and which for use in all the arts where the finest quality of resin is desirable or required, is equally as valuable." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
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Improvement in Bridges.

Description: Patent for an improvement in Bridges and Self-Supporting Roofs and Girders. The invention provides instruction for "the construction of truss-bridges and self supporting roofs and girders"..."by nailing or bolting securely together successive layers of plank joined at different points."
Date: September 23, 1873
Creator: Davis, Benjamin F.
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Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants.

Description: Patent for a method of destroying ants by digging a pit beside a colony, filling the hole with combustible materials and poisons, placing a pipe through the hole and into the mound, and then setting the pit ablaze.
Date: October 28, 1873
Creator: Dulany, John J. & Dreyer, Henry
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Improvement in Billiard-Tables.

Description: Patent for a design for a billiard table that can also be used as a Jenny-Lind table. Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Waldie, Samuel H.
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Improvement in Recording Instruments for Locomotives

Description: Patent for improvement in Recording Instruments for recording time, speed, and steam pressure of locomotives or cars or other machinery.
Date: September 26, 1873
Creator: Richardson, John D.
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Improvement in Carriage-Springs

Description: Patent for improved design for carriage-springs with included illustrations of the spring design as well as diagram of placement on a carriage/wagon.
Date: April 29, 1873
Creator: Richardson, J. D.
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Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers.

Description: Patent for improvement in receptacle for oils, molasses, or thick liquid that permit liquid to be surrounded by steam or water and changeable temperature.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Description: Patent for "a new machine for removing the destructive cotton-worms from the cotton-plants without injury to the plants, and for destroying the worms," which "consists in the arrangement of a movable frame, which is by animals drawn over the fields to straddle the rows of cotton, and which is provided with brushes for sweeping the worms from the plants, and with jointed bottom pieces or slides, which crush them on the ground." (Lines 15-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Helm, Jackson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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