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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 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 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 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 Brooms.

Description: Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Anderson, Edward Americus
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 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 plow-stocks.

Description: Patent for an improvement on the plow stock that allows the user to use different plow blades and standards, depending on what kind of plowing needs to be done. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Price, James Alvin
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 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 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 Sulky-Plows.

Description: Patent for sulky-plows.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Payne, Joseph M.
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 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 Ant-Traps.

Description: Patent for catching burrowing insects, especially for large ants.
Date: July 15, 1873
Creator: Rubarth, Leander
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 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 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 cellular-wall building-blocks.

Description: Patent for a building block that has an offset in the middle that allows one side of the block to make the outer wall while the other side makes an inner wall while leaving space between the two walls. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Farm Gates.

Description: Patent for "a gate herein I dispense with the use of hinges and other similar devices and prevent sagging; also that the operation of opening or shutting the gate, owing to its balanced and suspended condition, is attended with little or no exertion on the part of the operator..." (lines 84-90) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1875
Creator: Snider, Tunis
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 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 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.
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
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