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- Account-Book.
- Patent for improvement in account-books by “dispensing a multiplicity of books in keeping accounts and to devise means for combining in one book and upon a single page thereof the features of the ledger, day-book, bill-book and bills-receivable book, said page to be so provided with perforation as to admit of the detachment of certain parts, leaving intake theat part of the page that is intended for permanent record.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172706/
- Adding-Machine.
- Patent for am adding machine by using two disks, one a units-disk with pins in multiples of ten, one a tens-disk, is an annular disk with pin surrounding the units disk, an outwardly spring-pressed holder having a beveled outer end frictionally engaging the pins of the tens-disk and a carrier having oppositely-beveled ends engaged a supplemental pin and one pin on the tens-disks, teeth in the adjacent faces of the holder and carrier, and an idle-gear between them to enable the adding operation. (Lines 50-62) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172691/
- Adjusting Device for Compressing-Rolls.
- Patent for adjusting devices for compressing rolls which “employed for compressing into a continuous thin sheet cotton fiber; and the objects in view are to provide a simple and convenient means for binding the rolls in contact, and when so bound to prevent any undesired yielding.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172724/
- Air-Chamber.
- Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165120/
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an improved animal trap for “catching small animals in a trap which will be ever set and in operative position for catching an animal and which will be automatically reset” (lines 10-13), illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172632/
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for improvements in animal-traps that would be capable of catching two animals; to set the trap, bait is placed upon the hooked ends of the bait-hooks, the jaws are elevated and retained in a position by the link-catches, which have the lower hooked ends engaging the trigger, which has its free end engaging the eye at the inner end of the bait hooks, thus setting the trap, (lines 66-73) ready to catch animals. Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172686/
- Animal-Tread.
- Patent for improvements in animal-treads when “animal is placed in the tread, the single or double tree being attached to the arm c’, and thus in addition to his weight he will have his strength to operate the tread. The function of the rope and weight is to keep the traces and tree from under the animal’s feet in case he should slack his speed, and thus prevent his tripping.” (Lines 59-66) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172719/
- Annunciator.
- Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172826/
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for an ant-trap using a portable receptacle with three different designs, each can be used as an individual trap or in any combinations to lure ants into the bottom of the receptacle without any means of escaping, including illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165108/
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for a new type of ant trap that captures ants by having them crawl up a wooden central chamber and then fall into a sheer metal pit. Includes illustrations. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172873/
- Anti-Friction Sucker-Rod Coupling.
- Patent for an anti-frictioin sucker-rod coupling. This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sectional sucker-rods for artesian, oil, and other wells, and has for its object to provide an improved construction of coupling-joint for connecting the sections of the rods together. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172921/
- Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
- Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172616/
- Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for delinting cotton seed: " Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for burning off or removing the lint from cotton seed" (lines 14-16). texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172775/
- Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton that “use a pneumatic tube, through which cotton is drawn by an exhaust-current.” (Lines17-19) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172717/
- Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172712/
- Apparatus for Handling Cotton.
- Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172797/
- Apparatus for Oiling Railway-Tracks.
- Patent for improvements in mechanism for “applying oil to curves and switches of street railway tracks” (lines 6-7) by using an “oil-tank [that] is arranged in the upper position of the hood or shield over the car-wheel. The valve is in the bottom of the oil-space and may be controlled by a lever arranged to turn or lift in the valve, and under the valve is arranged the oiling-wheel, which runs lightly on the track or face of the car-wheel and applied the oil." (Page 2, lines 69-76) Includes illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172755/
- Apparatus for Scouring Water-Ways.
- Patent for an improved apparatus for scouring water-ways by using water-discharge pipes and air-discharge pipes arranged at each side of the vessel. When “vessel is slowly moved forward while the water and air forcing pumps are working,..... direct force of the water-jets and air-jets will agitate and scatter and lift the dislodged particles and float them much higher and longer than would be the case were the water-jet pipes alone used.” (Lines 63-75) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172655/
- Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c.
- Patent for an improved apparatus for steaming and cleaning barrels for the reception of resin, turpentine, oils, molasses, sirups, and other like liquids. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth166856/
- Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers.
- Patent for the "improvement in supplying air to furnaces on steamers" (lines 5-6), including illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165091/
- Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.
- Patent for "lowering and detaching life and other small boats from large ships" (lines 5-7), including illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165057/
- Atomizer.
- Patent for improvements in atomizers or instruments for distributing powders or liquids in which it provided “provision for closing the exit-passage and preserve the strength of the medicated powders or fluid and permit of the carrying of the same within the body of the device without danger of spilling.” (Lines 17-21) The rubber bulb is detachable and is used as a powder-box or as a bottle for fluid. Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172746/
- Automatic Track Sweeping and Oiling Attachment for Street-Cars.
- Patent for improvements in automatic track sweeping and oiling attachments to street cars by having a transverse shaft carries a hub which has a series of brushes. When “the street car moves forward, the brushes on the transverse shaft are revolved, which sweep the rails and keep them clean.” (Lines 90-93) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172693/
- Axle.
- Patent for improvement in axles by using a “combination of a bar, two skeins and means for holding the skeins in place upon the bar,” (lines 17-18) includes illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172656/
- Baby-Walker.
- Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172679/
- Balance-Staff for Watches.
- Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172687/
- Bale-Box Attachment.
- Patent for improvements in cotton-presses, in which “it comprises two presser-rollers between which the cotton as it comes from the gin, is compressed, yielding bearings for one of the said presser-rollers, two guard-bars, one for each presser-roller, to prevent the cotton being carried out by the rollers, the ends of the guard–bars being threaded to receive nuts by means of which the attachment is clamped to the baling-box, and a conveyer to transfer the cotton from the gin to the said rollers.” (Lines 22-32) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172694/
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in baling presses: "This invention relates to baling presses provided with runners, (instead of the usual wheels,) to be removed about the field; and my objects are, to construct such a press in such a manner that it can be readily started down with but few stakes, second; to provide a rigid but removable side brace to prevent the press from canting, and third; to prevent the operating lever from canting or swinging upward or downward when in operation; and to promote simplicity" (lines 17-27). texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173700/
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a four-sided baling box/chamber with supporting-upright doors arranged at the top, at the front and one of the sides of the box. These doors can be hinged at diagonally-opposite corners of the box; locking-bolts are pivoted at the free end of the each door, the top door with locking-bar sliding through apertures in the uprights and the lever for operating the top door. Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172677/
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in baling-presses by “simplify and strengthen the frame and operating parts, to secure a better distribution of the strains between the operating parts and the frame, and to increase the speed at which the press may be operated by permitting the platen to rise and fall to a limited extent independent of the power mechanism, so that after the loose fiber is introduced the platen may be dropped instantly a portion of the distance to effect a partial compression of the charge by its weight before bringing the power mechanism into play.” (Lines 17-29) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172792/
- Bank-Protector.
- Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172639/
- Bed-Drawer Attachment for Bedsteads.
- Patent for improvement in bed-drawer attachments for bedsteads by “having bed-drawer arranged to slide beneath the usual mattress-support.” (Lines 8-10) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172794/
- Bee Hive.
- Patent for improvements to "that class of bee-hives or bee-houses having a series of compartments..." (lines 15-17) with instructions and illustrations. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169734/
- Beehive.
- Patent for improvements in beehives: "invention is to improve the construction of beehives and to provide a simple and efficient one, which will permit food to be readily supplied to the bees when desired and enable the apiarian to have him to cut bee entrances to the same." (lines 9-15). texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174774/
- Bicycle-Support.
- Patent for an improvement in bicycle supports that can be attached to any bicycle and supports it at an upright or near-upright position. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174675/
- Blind-Stop.
- Patent for improvements in blind-slat adjusters and locks by providing a plate to secure the cross-stile of the blind; in which the plate having a slotted right-angled portion. “A bar pivoted to the slat-rod and having its lower end bent at the right angle, a screw passed through the slat and provided with a handle. (Lines 96-99) “When the handle is turned to the left, the slats can be adjusted into any desired position, and when in their adjusted position all that it is necessary to do is to turn the handle to the right which binds the parts together and holds the slats against movement.” (Lines 82-87) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172764/
- Boiler Washing Machine.
- Patent for "Improved Washing Machine" in combination with a boiler, "and with a furnace on which the boiler rests". texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165235/
- Bolt for Doors.
- Patent for the improvement of bolt locks on double doors using a lever lock for safety and ease of locking and unlocking one or both doors, including illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165104/
- Book-Sewing Machine.
- Patent for improvements in book sewing machines, the descriptions are included by figures. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165133/
- Book-Support.
- Patent for improvements in book support: "book are held in an upright position on the shelves" (lines 9-10). texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173152/
- Boring and Mortising Machine.
- Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine." texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165029/
- Bottle-Case.
- Patent for a bottle holding case using wires to encircle the inner groove of the case as re-enforcement, then use metal bands or wires woven around the encircling wires; these metal bands or wires would then wove around the necks and bodies of the bottles to secure the bottles inside the case. Illustration is included texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172601/
- Bottle-Filling Machine.
- Patent for a bottle-filling machine in which "a number of bottles of equal capacity may be simultaneously filled from a common reservoir by the single movement of a lever" (lines 13-16), illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172619/
- Bracket.
- Patent for improvements in brackets that used to support shelf or for other purposes by using a combination of hinged brackets, a longitudinal wire formed with bends to receive the inclined portions of the brackets, and with hooks at its outer ends; this improved brackets “can be folded in close contact with the shelf, so as to occupy little space for shipment or storage.” (Lines 17-19) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172650/
- Breakwater.
- Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165075/
- Breast for Cotton-Gins.
- Patent for improvements in breasts for cotton gins: " My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of gin breasts for cotton gins and consists in providing in conjunction with a gin breast an adjustable "up-per circle" to facilitate the formation of the roll, to prevent the seed cotton from overflowing from the gin breast as the roll rotates, and preserve the proper degree of contact between the gin saws and the roll" (lines 12-20). texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173701/
- Brick-Machine.
- Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165028/
- Burglar-Alarm.
- Patent for a burglar-alarms by constructing “an alarm which would adapted and arranged to sound and to be operated at and by the raising of the window or opening of the door, and simultaneous with the sounding of the alarm to produce an illumination.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172667/
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in car-couplings by providing "a coupler which will without any adjustment couple two cars whose draw-heads are of different heights.” (lines 17-19) Illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172648/
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a combination of “a rod pivoted at its front end to the side of the draw-head and pivotally connected at its rear end..... when the draw-head is driven to the rear by the force of the blow received in coupling with another draw-head, the lug will be pressed to the front,” (lines 30-40) illustration is included. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172634/