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Improvement in soparatiug animal from vegetable fibers. No. 211109. Granted to 

 GeorgeM. Rice, AVorcester, Mass., January?, 1879. „,^^„^ ^ j. , ^ 



Improvement in machines for dressing hemp, Has, «fcc. No. ZlbbJ2. biranted to 

 Theodore Tebaw, of Lexington, Ky., May 20, 1879. 



Improvement in the manufacture of paper pulp and paper from grasses. No. 218J24. 

 Granted to Adolph Seyler, of Brooklyn, N. Y., August 5, 1879. 



Improvement in processes and machines for disintegrating ramie and other fibrous 

 plants. No. 219668. Granted to Albert Angell, of East Orange, N. J., September 16, 

 1879. 



Improvement in machines for cleaning and extracting fiber from fibrous plants, and 

 especially the leaves of pita {Agave Americana). No. 221365. Granted to Pedro San- 

 chez, of Tabasco, Mexico, November 4, 1879. 



Improvement in the treatunMit of pine leaves for the manufacture of paper, and for 

 other purposes. No. 221687. Granted to Albert W. Maas, of Meriden, Miss., Novem- 

 ber 18, 1879. 



