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- Acetylene-Gas Machine
- Patent for an acetylene gas machine designed to " automatically feed different grades of carbid successfully in variable quantities according to the amount required" (lines 9-11).
- Adding-Machine.
- Patent for an adding-machine meant to "add fixed amounts of money received or to calculate the number of days a laborer has worked or the number of fractions of days" (lines 14-17). Mounted keys have mechanisms that rotate a ratchet wheel or disk. "Secured to the shaft upon which this ratchet wheel or disk is mounted is a rate-indicator, consisting of a disk divided off into radial sections, and also divided by lines running parallel to the circumference of said disk, dividing the same up into sections, which indicate money advanced on pay-roll, addition column, total amount at a fixed rate, and the number of days worked by any workman" (lines 25-34).
- Addressing-Machine.
- Patent for an improved addressing machine, which will "paste, cut, and attach the slip simultaneously, or with one operation" (lines 26-27), with instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Arch and Beam-Balance for Cultivator-Frames
- Patent for an adjustable arch and beam balance for cultivator frames which allows the draft tongue to be lifted up and down.
- Adjustable Arch for Cultivators
- Patent for an adjustable arch for cultivators.
- Adjustable Hoe
- Patent for improvement in "the construction of hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and inexpensive hoe, of strong and durable construction." (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
- Adjustable Shelf Bracket
- Patent for a new shelf bracket "which is angularly adjustable, and has for its object the provision of a novel shelf bracket which is adapted to be secured upon a ladder, table, post, or other place, and which may be angularly adjusted so as to form means for supporting articles in a horizontal position." (Lines 14-19) including illustrations and instructions.
- Aerodrome
- Patent for an aerodrome/helicopter with improved wing design.
- Animal-Stock.
- Patent for an improved animal-stock that holds animals during branding, dehorning, castrating, &c. It looks like an open-topped cage where the operator puts the animal, and the animal cannot move. The invention is on a platform and can tip to one side and a chain is tied from the top of the machine to the bottom of the frame.
- Anti-Friction Wagon Slide.
- Patent for a new and improved anti-friction wagon slide. This design "consists of flat side pieces provided with bolt-holes near their ends, and connected to diametrically-opposite points of nearly-cylindrical end pieces, which have holes through their axes for the reception of the roller-shaft. The recess is so formed that the lower portion of the end pieces shall bear against its ends when the frame is put in place. This arrangement, together with the bolts through the corners of the frame and the coupling-tongue, prevents any tendency of the frame to displacement" (lines 42-54).
- Apparatus for Burning Garbage.
- Patent for an apparatus for burning garbage that is made up of a roasting chamber, a grate to hold the garbage, two furnaces, a passage for the ashes, a third furnace connected to the passage, flues, a smokestack, non-combustible absorbent material around the flues and beneath the grate, and flues beneath the grate.
- Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds
- Patent for an apparatus for chilling and whitening lard compounds that produces stiffer lard.
- Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.
- Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
- Apparatus for Enteric Lavage.
- Patent for an enteric lavage for the use of emptying the bowels of any liquid after use of an enema. The device will remove the waste and deposit it into a separate receptacle.
- Apparatus for Generating and Carbureting Hydrogen.
- Patent for an apparatus that will improve the cost efficiency of producing gas. Specifically, this invention details a "main tank which produces hydrogen and an auxiliary tank wherein the hydrogen is mixed with crude petroleum oil and thereby given its illuminating and combustible properties" (lines 18-23).
- Apparatus for Loading Wagons.
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for loading wagons. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform having the opening and the trap-doors, the fastening devices to secure the trap-doors when closed and to permit the same to open, and the counter-weights connected to the trap-doors" (lines 24-28).
- Apparatus for Molding and Sinking Concrete Piling
- Patent for methods and apparatus for forming and sinking piles, blocks, slabs, and concrete.
- Apparatus for Obtaining a Vacuum.
- Patent for a new and improved vacuum. This design utilizes a liquid pump, plates, tubes and valves to make "about as perfect a vacuum . . . as can be obtained by an ordinary pump" (lines 53-55).
- Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.
- Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion.
- Patent for improved apparatus for separating liquids in emulsion (relates to improved apparatus for separating one liquid from another) when found in emulsion and has especial reference to means for rapidly and effectually dehydrating petroleum oil emulsion.
- Arch-Bar for Cultivators
- Patent for arch bar for cultivators that connects the respective cultivator rigs together.
- Artificial Fly Fish Hook
- Patent for an artificial fly fish hook. Illustration included.
- Artificial Tooth.
- Patent for an artificial tooth with an improved crown so that "it can be attached to the gold cap that has been made to fit the end of the root that is to be crowned, the manner of attaching being materially facilitated" (lines 15-19).
- Attachment for Cultivator-Beams
- Patent for an attachment for cultivator beams designed to help adjust cultivators while in usage. Illustrations included.
- Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars
- Patent for "a brake of simple and inexpensive construction, that may be readily attached to steam or tramway cars, that is automatic in its working, and to do away with the brake-beams now employed, which through their breaking down are two-thirds of the causes of car derailments" (lines 19-26).
- Automatic Fire Alarm
- Patent for an automatic fire alarm. Illustration included.
- Automobile-Elevator.
- Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
- Automobile-Radiator
- Patent for an automobile radiator which does not leak.
- Automobile Signal
- Patent for a signal of the nature indicated including a signal arm controlled in novel manner and movable from one position to another, the signal arm being inoperative in one position, and when moved to the other position being visible to other vehicles and pedestrians both in front and in rear, to warn them of the intention of the operator driver to turn.
- Back-Band Buckle
- Patent for a back band buckle which tightens when it is pulled on.
- Bag-Rack
- Patent for a rotating bag rack for use in stores.
- Bale Band Tie
- Patent for a bale band tie. Illustration included.
- Bale-Forming Machine.
- Patent for improvement on a bale forming machine that will operate easily, positively, and automatically. This invention described for forming and automatically securing wires around bales of hay and other like materials. It has a special object that is an improved form of clutch for connecting the wire twisters and needles and disconnecting them from a driving means. The clutch will permit the plunger in the bailing chamber to perform a predetermined number of strokes after the completion of the bale to be tied.
- Bale Tie Securing Device
- Patent for device that will replace destroyed bale ties.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a baling press made up of a vertically movable core that moves up as it gets wrapped up in the internet, supporting drums, a feed apron that presses the material to the core, a pivoted swinging frame with a compression roller, a bale support, a mechanism that lifts the frame when the bale is finished, and a rack-and-pinion mechanism that raises the compression roller that moves up to let the bale get bigger, and a mechanism that rotates the rack-and-pinion.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a power baling press.
- Baling Press
- Patent for a baling press. This is an invention designed for use in baling cotton. Illustrations included.
- Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved band-cutting and feeding attachment for thrashing machines. This design receives grain bundles "upon an endless traveling apron provided with teeth or claws, and by it conveyed under rotary cutters, which sever the bands, the grain being then scattered or spread out by a vibrating rake into a thin sheet as it passes to the toothed cylinder. The invention relates more particularly to the construction and arrangement of parts" (paras. 3-4).
- Barrel-Stand.
- Patent for improvments to barrel stands and related to the "object in view being to provide a simple, and convenient stand for holding barrels and casks and permitting the same to be readily turned with slight exertion from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa" (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
- Barrel-Truck.
- Patent for a new barrel truck or wheeled dolly design for moving barrels or boxes more easily, including illustrations.
- Beamless Brake
- Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
- Bed-Robe For Invalids.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bed robes for invalids, including instructions and illustrations.
- Bedstead
- Patent for a bedstead on rubber wheels which allows easy removal of the wheels to fit the bed through narrow doorways.
- Bedstead Attachment.
- Patent for a new and improved bedstead attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails and head and foot boards, of the plates having angular projections provided with wedge-shaped grooves and small inclined recesses at their upper parts, and the plates having the tapering wedge-shaped projections provided with the lugs integrally formed with their upper portions and adapted to engage the recesses, whereby when the projecting engaging portions of the plates . . . wear and become loose they are prevented from disjointure by the engagement of the lugs" (lines 83-94).
- Bench-Dog
- Patent for a bench dog for holding boards while they are being cut.
- Blade-Holder
- Patent for a new and useful improvements to a blade holder. It can hold any form of razor blades can be securely held and easily released. The holder allows blades to be inserted safely and then hold blades firmly into place.
- Blind-Slat Adjustor
- Patent for a blind slat adjuster which can hold the blinds in a variety of different positions.
- Body-Armor.
- Patent for "an armor adapted to be employed without the use of securing-straps and which, while protecting the shoulders of the wearer, will permit of the use of his arms and shoulders, as, for instance, in executing the manual of arms, without such movement being retarded by the weight of one of the body-plates." (Lines 16-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Boiler Cleaning Compound
- Patent for a boiler cleaning compound for steam-boilers and furnaces to prevent buildup from hard water.