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Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1875
Creator: Harper, Derastus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wardrobe-Beadsteads.

Description: Patent for a new and improved office-furniture that combines a desk, bookshelf, folding bed, hat-rack, and wash-basin, including descriptions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Sutcliffe, Wilson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the construction of cotton-scrapers, "which is secured to the stock or standard so as to project out to one side of the cultivator-shovel" (lines 14-16) including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Hill, Abner R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion.

Description: Patent for an improvement to devices that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. It is comprised of a wheel on a rotary shaft that has has a groove that grips an angular nut mounted on a shaft.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Howe, Milton G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.

Description: Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date: September 23, 1879
Creator: Nette, August
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 Tug Attachments for Harness.

Description: Patent for improving the tug-harness attachments on a horse harness to better lock straps in place.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Brodnax, David W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Key-Hole Guards.

Description: Patent for "a guard for key-holes of locks, to prevent the use of keys by unauthorized persons, the picking of the lock, and as a means for operating the bolt when fitted for that purpose." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Reciprocating Churns.

Description: Patent for an invention that, "relates to certain improvements in motive power for churns, its object being to provide a compact system of automatically-operating gearing, that may be readily attached to the top of an ordinay churn" (lines 7-11). Illustration included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Miller, Noah J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Buckles.

Description: Patent for improvements in buckles used for multiple purposes including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Carnes, William James Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for a new, improved gang-plow for preparing and cultivating land for planting. Illustrations included.
Date: March 23, 1875
Creator: Scheumack, Stephen S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fences.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in fences, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1873
Creator: King, Wilbur F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person

Description: Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Raiford, Philip H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for an improved design of the plow consisting of a modified foot of the plow and curved blade. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Moore, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Cultivators

Description: Patent for an improved cultivator, with adjustable wheel base, plow height and more (pg 1).
Date: July 23, 1872
Creator: Griffith, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Churns

Description: Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Gray, Whitley F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for "an improved hub for buggy and other vehicle wheels, which shall be simple in construction, strong, and durable, and which will run with little friction." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Brown, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fences.

Description: Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
Date: July 23, 1872
Creator: Lerick, Isaac N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Description: Patent for a new and improved construction and combination of parts used by machines that convert either into a cotton or corn planter, including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Rhea, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Description: Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: McRae, Daniel M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Pump-Buckets

Description: Patent for new and improved pump-buckets, which are more cheaper and much more durable. The much improved pump-buckets fasten together with chains as well as metal plates.
Date: June 23, 1877
Creator: William, Mayfield D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Railway-Tracks.

Description: Patent for improvements in the adjoining of railway tracks.
Date: July 23, 1878
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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