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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 Cotton and Hay Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements in baling-presses. It consists of movable followers and a sliding drum that has a ratchet secured to a clutch and a shaft. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1879
Creator: Smithson, Richard T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Quilting-Frames

Description: Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date: January 16, 1877
Creator: Davis, Henry T.
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Jail Cells.

Description: Patent for new and improved jail cells. This design calls for cell walls constructed of vertical sections secured by through-bolts, tubular bars for the concealment of the through-bolts, wooden corner-posts and sill and head timbers, and outer and main walls lined with sheet-iron (with narrow windows lined with chilled cast-iron) (paras. 15-19).
Date: January 29, 1878
Creator: Thomas, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Wind-Wheels.

Description: Patent for an "invention [consisting] in the construction and arrangement of a dome which surrounds a wind-wheel" (line 14-16) including instruction and illustrations. Constitutes an improvement to then existing windmills.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Stephens, Lawrence E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for "improvements in cotton-presses, it's object being to produce a compact and efficient apparatus, adapted to be secure in the floor between the first and second stories of a building, in such a manner that the press-box can be filled and the cotton made up into bales in the upper story, while the pressing operation is effected from below." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1878
Creator: Thompson, Robert C. & Thompson, Joseph N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Expanding Mandrels.

Description: Patent for improvements in expanding mandrels by way of an expanding-chuck.
Date: January 23, 1872
Creator: Simons, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Inprovement in Sulky-Cultivators.

Description: Patent for an improved sulky cultivator which lists description on how to build the cultivator.
Date: January 10, 1871
Creator: Jordan, Hugh P
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, illustration included.
Date: January 26, 1875
Creator: Garner, John G.
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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.
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Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Caterpillars.

Description: Patent for an insecticide compound that combines Paris green, flour, and lime, which allows the poison, arsenic, to better adhere to cotton plants. Includes instructions.
Date: January 14, 1873
Creator: Whisenant, Green F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Compounds for Fish-Baits.

Description: Patent for a new compound to be used as fish bait, consisting of oil of anise, asafetida, cardamom-seed, golden, yellow, or black root, and buzzard root. Includes instructions.
Date: January 21, 1873
Creator: Goodman, Samuel A., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Description: Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
Date: January 13, 1874
Creator: Jackson, Thomas Rivers
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvesting machine, including illustrations.
Date: January 26, 1875
Creator: Miller, La Fayette Kohler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Tonic Remedies.

Description: Patent for a medicinal compound consisting of sulphate quinine, diluted sulphuric acid, purified chinoidine, sulphate iron, sulphate magnesia, peppermint oil, and saturated quassia-water. Includes instructions.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Rucker, Benjamin Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters.

Description: Patent for a medical compound prepared with whisky, gentian-root, cinchonabark, quassia and cloves which is intended as "a remedy for miasmatic fevers" (line 23) including instructions for the preparation and administration of the medicine.
Date: January 23, 1872
Creator: Turner, Richard G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1878
Creator: Payne, Joseph Mott
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Churns.

Description: Patent for the improved design of churns "in which the dasher-shaft is vertical and receives rotation by gearing at the top of the churn" (2nd para.), including illustrations.
Date: January 25, 1876
Creator: Davis, Henry T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Portable Houses.

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of portable wooden houses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1878
Creator: Boyd, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for an improvement in washing machines. The shaping and components are meticulously detailed and indicate they play a part in the said improvement.
Date: January 20, 1874
Creator: Eberhardt, T. C.
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
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