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Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.

Description: Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
Date: February 9, 1875
Creator: Erlenmeyer, Erwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press

Description: Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date: February 23, 1875
Creator: Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.

Description: Patent for "the invention of a new and useful Improvement in Combined Cotton Scraper and Chopper" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1875
Creator: McClaugherty, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in a cotton press. "Our invention has for its object to furnish an improved press for baling cotton as it comes from the gin, &c., &c." (lines 14-16).
Date: January 5, 1875
Creator: Crenshaw, William T. & Carothers, Robert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Machines for Washing Photographs

Description: Patent for "a new and improved apparatus for washing photographic prints after fixing, for the purpose of removing the double hyposulphite of soda and silver formed in the body of the paper during the process of fixing" (lines 6-11).
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Caylor, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for improved bale-ties, including illustrations.
Date: August 10, 1875
Creator: Jones, Henry Bradley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for improvement in bale-ties. "This invention relates to that class of ties or hoops for cotton-bales, in which the band of hoop iron is provided with rigid hooks, studs, or buttons, and matching perforations as means for adjustably uniting the ends."
Date: November 30, 1875
Creator: Powell, Amos N.
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 Vegetable-Cutters.

Description: Patent for "vegetable-cutters adapted to cut a number of slices by a single stroke, in which a series of knives, arranged in two converging tiers, are used in conjunction with a centrally-disposed block for supporting the article to be sliced." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1875
Creator: Goolsbee, John N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Locomotive Earth-Excavators.

Description: Patent for "an earth-excavator, principally for use in making the road-beds for railroads, which shall not only do its work continuously, but which shall be equally efficient in throwing up an embankment or in making a deep cut." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1875
Creator: Hawley, Abel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for "a press by means of which the cotton can be backed and pressed into the bale in small quantities at a time, by alternating pressing a quantity, then lifting the follower, and inserting more, and pressing again, and so on until the bale is formed." (Lines 19-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 16, 1875
Creator: Frost, Willis Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid.

Description: Patent for a process to "reduce asphaltum to a liquid, and hold the same in a semi-fluid condition without heat, and which constitutes an entirely new article of commerce, and furnishes to the trade an article of asphaltum prepared and ready for use, without the labor, expense, and delay of melting, for paving and roofing purposes, and one most admirably adapted for use by manufacturers of varnish and japan." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1875
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Carburaters

Description: Patent of an improvement for a carbureter that furnishes the apparatus for enriching the vapors of gasoline or other light hydrocarbon.
Date: October 19, 1875
Creator: Pollard, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Speed-Measures.

Description: Patent for a "means for indicating the degree of speed with which an engine or train of cars is passing over a rail-road, and for enabling an engineer to regulate the speed of his engine to conform to the 'time' enjoined by his table, so that he will run at an even degree of speed, and be required neither to 'slow down' to save his schedule nor quicken the pace of his engine to make up lost time." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1875
Creator: Minton, Stephen F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Tire-Tighteners.

Description: Patent for a device "for the purpose of tightening or loosening tires on wheels belonging to any kind of vehicles without shrinking or cutting the tires." (Lines 6-9) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Horton, Henry A. R. & Hayes, Amos P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of runni… more
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Knowles, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Description: Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters, including illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1875
Creator: Miller, Benjamin, F. & Reeves, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Pile-Drivers.

Description: Patent for an improved pile-driver device which automates the release of the pile-driver hammer as well as including a perpendicular device which advances the device longitudinally as the work progresses.
Date: January 22, 1875
Creator: McDermott, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.

Description: Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
Date: June 1, 1875
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Binding Grain

Description: Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
Date: February 13, 1875
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators

Description: Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
Date: December 7, 1875
Creator: Brodnax, David W., Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for an improvement to washing machines, in which "the novelty consists in allowing both cylinder and blades to be rotated or oscillated independently of each other." (Lines 17-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1875
Creator: Starr, Henry D.
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 Excavators

Description: Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Cole, Thomas Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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