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- Adhesive and Method of Making the Same
- Patent for starch used for paper that can act as an adhesive coating. Illustrations included.
- Apparatus for Fusing Sulfer from Low Grade Ores
- Patent for the Apparatus for Fusing Sulfer from Low Grade Ores. This machine makes the extraction of sulfur from ores containing less than 20% sulfur, while also removing the impurities.
- Apparatus for Raising Liquids from Deep Wells.
- Patent for improvements for raising liquids from deep wells. "It has a particular application to the raising of fused sulfur from the well in the liquid state" (lines 14-16).
- Apparatus for Sulfur Mining
- Patent for "new and useful improvement" for sulfur mining by Mr. Robert Carmichael. This device has particular application for mining in subterranean environments, "by use of pumping a heated fluid down into contact with a sulfur strata" (lines 14-15).
- Attachment for Automobile Headlights
- Patent for an automobile headlight attachment capable of horizontal rotation.
- Attachment for Ice-Boxes.
- Patent for an attachment for ice-boxes which is "a vessel for the reception of ice and having a surrounding series of compartments for the reception of the matter to be refrigerated" (lines 11-14).
- Automatic-Cut-Off
- Patent for an automatic cut-off part for a steam inlet pipe.
- Barrel Support
- Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Barrel Supports (lines 5-6)."
- Breakwater.
- Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design "furnish[es] breakwaters for protecting harbors and roadsteads, and keeping open channels through bars at the entrances of harbors, the mouths of rivers, and in other places, and which shall not be liable to be destroyed by the marine worm" (lines 13-19).
- 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.
- Canal or Ditch Digging Machine.
- Patent for a canal or ditch digging machine that has a carriage and a mechanism that draws the carriage across the ground, and a boring-tool beneath the carriage. The boring-tool can bore at an adjustable angle.
- Coffee-Pot
- Patent for a simplified coffee pot that extracts coffee by using boiling water and the receptacle without changing the structure of the device.
- Combination Well-Packer and Setting-Tool.
- Patent for a well packer and setting tool for the prevention of intermingling between oil and water in a well when used by itself or with other pipes. The invention allows for the packer to be set using the setting tool which can then be removed once the packer is in place.
- Core-Discharge Apparatus.
- Patent for an Improvement in Core-Discharge Apparatus. It is meant to be used in connection with core drills in well or mine drilling. This improvement is meant to be carried to the surface by an air-lift pump.
- Cotton Chopper
- Patent for cotton chopper. This invention is on a wheel mounted frame and is adjustable for cutting out sections at desired intervals. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Harvester
- Patent for an improved cotton harvester for the purpose of increased efficiency, with illustrations and explanations.
- Cotton Picker
- Patent for a cotton picker. Illustration included.
- Design for a Clothes-Pounder.
- Design patent for a clothes-pounder that consists of a hollow conical body provided at an immediate point with a downwardly-dished diaphragm.
- Design for Sugar Cane Hook.
- Patent for a sugar cane hook that provides a pair of outwardly-branching and downwardly and inwardly curved hooks.
- Device for Distributing Insect Powder.
- Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "the combination of the body of the bellows and the perforate wall or sieve arranged longitudinally therein, dividing the bellows into two compartments, with a nozzle or an air-outlet communicating with one compartment, whereby material placed in the other compartment on the opposite side of the sieve is agitated by the operation of the bellows and delivered to the air-blast in a comminuted state" (lines 25-35).
- Ditch-Filling Machine
- Patent for a Ditch-Filling Machine, focusing on improved operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The upgraded machine boasts user-friendly features, making it easily operable, while simultaneously reducing production costs in comparison to its predecessor.
- Electro-Medical Belt
- Patent for "a suitable belt or other support carrying movable contact-plates, a galvanic battery, an induction-coil, connections between the battery and coil, and conductors connecting the secondary wire of the coil to the contact-plates through which the shock is to be conveyed, the contact-plates being provided with suitable binding-screws or other connectors, and also having suitable flaps or insulators for covering them when not in use" (lines 21-31).
- Electro Medical Belt.
- Patent for a new and improved electro-medical belt. This design "consists in a belt or support constructed of multiple-ply electro-conductive belting, which [the design] make[s] by inserting a conductor or conductors between the folds of a multiple-ply band with suitable contact-points at the surface, a sling supported by and movable on the belt for carrying the electric generator, also constructed of the electro-conductive belting, and having detachable connectors between its contact points and those of the belt-contact plates, consisting of disks or plates provided with tongues" (lines 18-29).
- Flour Sifter and Mixer.
- Patent for a "simply constructed" (line 11-12) flour sifter and mixer wherein the flour can be "thoroughly mixed without removal of the sifter" (line 12-13) including an illustration.
- Hanging Millstones.
- Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
- Hoisting Drum
- Patent for improvements to hoisting drums for use in drilling oil, gas, and water wells, with the object being "to employ a plurality of hoisting drums upon the same shaft so that the cable may be wound partly on one drum and partly on another" (lines 73-76) such that the danger of cable cutting is decreased and the speed of operation is increased, including illustrations.
- Hunting-Knife.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in hunting knives, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement for Apparatus for Cutting Glue.
- Patent for a design for a battery-powered wire glue cutter/slicer including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bee-Hives.
- Patent for a bee-hive that prevents insects (such as moths) from entering therein and maximizes the amount of honey collected from the hive, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
- Improvement in Car-Axle Bearings.
- Patent for improvement in car-axle bearings in which "it consists in a box having a chambered back for containing oil, and having grooves along the straight edges of its bearing-surface for receiving a wick, the ends of which extend through holes in the box into the oil reservoir.”
- Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
- Patent for the improvement of a cotton scraper "for general cultivation of drill-husbandry" (lines 17-18) and cotton crops, including illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters using a combination of an adjustable agitator and a movable self-adjusting stirrer, including illustration.
- Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters.
- 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.
- Improvement in Processes for Preparing and Drying Glue.
- Patent for a process of drying glue that uses superheated steam and a drying chamber.
- Improvement in Processes of Preserving Meats.
- Patent for a method of preserving and canning meat. This describes the inventor's process, as well as his method of reducing air inside the container using hypophosphite of lime.
- Improvement in Propelling Vessels.
- Patent for a hydraulic propeller that uses a current of water and steam power, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.
- Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of seed-planters using a rotary system to distribute seeds from a drum and into the soil, including illustration.
- Improvement in Soldering-Irons
- Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
- Improvement in the Manufacture of Fertilizers.
- Patent for a process of treating waste animal matter from tallow-rendering factories with plaster-of-paris for use as fertilizer.
- Improvement in Turning-Lathes for Wood.
- Patent for an improved machine for turning saddle-tress.
- Improvement in Vehicle Axle-Lubricators
- Patent for improvements to the design of axle lubricators, in which the oil reservoir is in the rear as opposed to the front.
- Improvements in Oil-Burners
- Patent for improvements to oil-burners. The text contains a description of the unique improvements and is accompanied by explanatory illustrations.
- Insecticide
- Patent for an insecticide specifically for insects that burrow into the shucks of corn. "The general object of my invention is to provide a compound capable, when affected by moisture incidental to the sweating of the corn in the crib, of generating a poisonous gas which will permeate the shucks and reach and destroy the insect within the shucks, where it cannot be destroyed by simply sprinkling the corn with a poisonous powder or solution" (lines 17-25).
- Life-Boat.
- Patent for an improved life boat that "consists principally of a central closed hull equipped with propelling machinery, and floats extending on the sides of the said hull and rigidly secured thereto, to support the hull in position." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Means for Preventing Clogging of the Working Barrels of Pumps.
- Patent for an apparatus that prevents the clogging of the working barrels of pumps.
- Means for Reducing Wear in the Working Barrels of Pumps
- Patent for a means of reducing wear in the working barrels of pumps. The pumps made in this wat are specially adapted for operations in water or oil wells where the fluid being pumped is is mixed with sand and sediment.
- Method of and Apparatus for Sulphur Mining
- Patent for a methodology and mechanical structure for the mining of sulfur using extendable concentric cylindrical tubes.
- Method of Sampling.
- Patent for improving methods of boring wells by "raising the cuttings from an earth boring drill to the surface" (lines 70-71), including illustrations.
- Milk-Cooler.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of water evaporation milk-coolers to make them more easily taken apart and arranged for shipping and preventing ants from entering the device and getting in the milk. Descriptions of the parts of the device and illustrations are included.