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Improvement in Brakes for Wagons and Cars.

Patent for "am improved brake for wagons, cars, and other vehicles which shall be simple in construction, convenient in use, and powerful in operation" (lines 19-22) including illustrations.

Date: June 24, 1879

Creator: Franklin, Mathew C. & Landrum, Nathaniel

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Angle-Plates for Doors.

Patent for a strengthening bracket for improving angle-plates for door hinges, such that the door will be supported from sagging at the hinge.

Date: October 14, 1879

Creator: Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Steam-Engines.

Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.

Date: July 1, 1879

Creator: Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.

Patent for a new piano forte design which "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and combination of the key-lever and its fulcrum and rest, a receiving-lever, a transmitting-eccentric, a secondary hammer, a principal hammer and its rest, and a damper-action and its connections, whereby greater simplicity and efficiency are obtained" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.

Date: May 27, 1879

Creator: Roedern, George O. V.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Pumps.

Patent relating to "improvements in double-acting pumps. The object is to devise a pump...[so] as to allow the admission of water at one end of and its discharge at the other" (lines 16-24). Includes instructions and illustration.

Date: July 1, 1879

Creator: Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-Axle Boxes.

Patent for improvement to car-axle boxes, specifically "Oil-Collectors for Railroad Journals" (line 6), including illustrations.

Date: August 5, 1879

Creator: Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sheet-Metal Vessels

Patent for a cylindrical vessel made of sheet-metal rather than tin. Including a inward double hanging ledge and two layers of metal soldiered together.

Date: October 14, 1879

Creator: Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Odometers.

Patent for an improvement to odometers used for measuring distance traveled in motor vehicles.

Date: July 15, 1879

Creator: Richardson, John D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Middlings-Purifiers.

Patent for a "machine for purifying the middlings in the process of making flour that will free them more completely from impurities that has heretofore been done, and to construct the parts of the machine so that air-blasts will be completely under control" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.

Date: June 3, 1879

Creator: White, Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.

Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.

Date: September 9, 1879

Creator: Richardson, John D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets

Patent for improved toilet cabinets in order to better arrange "cabinets for containing sewing, writing, and shaving materials and various other articles" (lines 8-10). Provides instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 4, 1879

Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Horse-Powers

Patent for an improvement in Horse Powers and in it's construction.

Date: September 2, 1879

Creator: Smith, William W. & Randall, John C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Making Apparatus.

Patent for an ice maker that more effectively handles the chemicals used to freeze water. Use of a more strategically placed condenser keeps steam and liquids separate.

Date: March 25, 1879

Creator: Lee, Charles B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Clay Grinder and Mixer.

Patent for a new clay grinder and mixer design which "will be found to be especially useful in connection with brick-machines" (p. 2) including illustrations.

Date: May 27, 1879

Creator: Kennedy, John M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for an easily converted machine that can plan corn, drill corn or cotton, or cultivate growing crops, including illustrations.

Date: February 11, 1879

Creator: Bowles, Talbot M. & Farmer, Joesph W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Mold-Boards for Plows.

Patent for an improved design for plow mold-boards that involves using holes and a water pump to keep the mold-board clear of earth.

Date: December 30, 1879

Creator: Fields, John W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for an improved Cotton-Press that will grant double work from an applied power, including illustrations.

Date: April 8, 1879

Creator: Matthews, James Hamilton. & Morehead, Charles Robert, Jr.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.

Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.

Date: December 16, 1879

Creator: Reager, Francis M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Traction-Engines.

Patent for improving traction engines for use in hauling on farms and farm roads. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 14, 1879

Creator: McGregor, Montague M. & Croxton, James C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for a bale-tie designed to "provide a simple, strong, durable, and easily adjustable tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc." (para. 4), using a hook, a band, and a beveled eye. The hook has a barb attached to the end, and is described as a double hook.

Date: September 16, 1879

Creator: Hill, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Street-Cars

Patent for an improvement to Street Cars to better navigate curves. Includes description and illustrations.

Date: August 26, 1879

Creator: Towell, Isaac

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Portable Steam-Engines.

Patent for an improved design related to reversible steam-engines meant to economize the space required by the engine and to provide a firm foundation that will allow it to be portable.

Date: December 30, 1879

Creator: Kriebel, Hosea K.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Animal-Traps.

Patent for an improvements in animal traps. It is similar to a hook and proper for mouse and rat.

Date: June 10, 1879

Creator: Milby, Frank Whitson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for "an improved fastening for the ends of bale-bands, whether the latter be constructed of sheet metal or wire." (lines 18-21) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 2, 1879

Creator: Camp, Ira M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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