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- Aerial Torpedo.
- Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
- Airship-Destroyer.
- Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
- Aquarium.
- Patent for an ornamental suspension aquarium with easily removed plug or stopper for refreshing the water with illustrations.
- Attachment for Riding-Cultivators and Other Agricultural Implements
- Patent for an attachment for riding cultivators and other agricultural implements which has an adjustable point that allows the same depth of furrow to be made across undulating ground.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
- Carriage Top.
- Patent for an adjustable carriage top for protection from the weather. Accompanied by illustrations.
- Coffee-Roaster.
- Patent for a coffee roaster that intends to "supply a ready and cheap means of effectually stirring the grains of coffee while being roasted in any convenient and suitable vessel...(lines 6-9). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- combination lock
- Patent for a combination lock. Illustration included.
- Combination Tool
- Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
- Combination-Tool.
- Patent for a tool that is comprised of a hammer, wrench, staple puller, wire cutter, and a claw. Includes illustrations.
- Combined Corn and Cotton Seed Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design is "to simplify the means employed for providing at will recesses of different depths in the wheel, and also to provide means whereby a recess of both greater width and depth can be provided for cotton-seed than for corn, whereby the cotton-seed can be fed from the hopper in a more certain, free, and efficient manner than heretofore" (lines 23-31).
- Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy.
- Patent for a new and improved faucet with a toy attachment. This design "relates to faucets for soda-fountains and the like; and it consists in providing the same with a jointed figure or automaton adapted to be operated by the escaping fluid" (lines 21-25).
- Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper.
- Patent for a novel bottle stopper. This design "consists in certain improvements in [bottle stoppers] whereby the outpouring fluid may be utilized to set in motion an automaton attached to said stopper" (lines 18-21).
- Copy-Holder
- Patent for a copy holder.
- Corn and Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
- Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton Gin.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "has for its object to so attach the front and rollers to the device that the rollers may be cleaned and freed from trash, burrs, and seed, when necessary, without stopping the gin" (lines 14-18).
- Cotton-Pest-Destroying Machine
- Patent for a machine that destroys boll weevils and other agricultural pests. It distributes moisture and poisonous powder that adheres to plants.
- Cotton-Pest-Poisoner
- Patent for an insect destroyer specifically designed for use in the treatment of cotton plants. The cotton-pest poisoner is in the form of a powder that can be scattered over the plants.
- Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the frame, the wheels, the axle provided with the fingers, and the spout attached to the under side of the frame, of the hopper having a slot in its bottom decreasing in width from its forward to its rear end, plates, adjustably secured to the bottom of the hopper, the vertical shaft journaled in the hopper, and the horizontal arms on the said shaft" (lines 92-100).
- Cotton Treating Apparatus and Process
- Patent for cotton treating apparatus and process, cleaning the cotton as it is removed from bolls and then formed in to bales.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "ha[s] for its object the provision of strong and reliable means whereby any desired number of plow-shovels may be used and the distance between the said plows regulated or adjusted at will by very simple means. A further object is to provide means to enable all the plows, excepting two, to be removed, to adapt the device to be used to lay off rows at a predetermined distance apart to prepare for sowing" (lines 9-19).
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide an improved cultivator which can be very quickly and easily adjusted to adapt the device for marking out or laying off the roads or hills; to provide improved means whereby the shovels or blades are caused to always occupy the same relative position to each other, and adjust themselves when the beams of the harrow or cultivator are adjusted, and finally, to provide improved means for adjusting the shovels at any desired angle, so that they can enter or penetrate the soil to different depths" (lines 14-25).
- Doubletree Attachment
- Patent for a doubletree attachments. Illustration included.
- Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
- Patent for fan attachment for sewing machines: "adapted to be readily applied to a machine and capable of family an operator effectively without interfering with the work of the machine" (lines 12-15).
- Flower-Pot.
- Patent for a flower-pot that doesn't damage the roots of the plant while transplanting the plant. The pot has a removable bottom and sides made from sheet metal with clasps.
- Game Apparatus.
- Patent for a game device, designed for any number of players and in a bowling alley setting or similar. Included are illustrations of the device and instructions for building the device and how to play the game.
- Gate.
- Patent for an automatically opening and closing gate including instructions and illustrations.
- Half-Car Unloader
- Patent for an improved and simplified mechanism of Half-Car Unloaders, which unloads earth materials such as coal and ore from a railroad car more easily and effectively by lifting up a train car, unloading its contents, and placing it back on the railroad track.
- Half-Car Unloader.
- Patent for the improvement of Half-Car Unloaders as it "relates to the handling of material in bulk and has special reference to a device arranged to enable railroad cars such as are sued for hauling coal, ore, and other like material to be unloaded by a single operation." (lines 13-18)
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvement in cultivators by using adjustable screw-rods from the ends of short laterally-vibrating levers to suspend the cultivator-beams in the front; the levers are arranged to be operated by an attendant’s feet. Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Fence-Post Sockets.
- Patent for improvement in fencing where posts are held more securely with galvanized plates, sockets, and wires.
- Improvement in Fifth-Wheels for Vehicles.
- Patent for improvements made to fifth-wheels for vehicles, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang-Plow.
- Patent for improvement in gang-plow by using an adjustable slotted cross-bar to enable the “plow-beams to oscillate, so that their landsides are always vertical, however uneven the ground may be.” (Lines 20-21) “This tool can also regulate the depth of the plows in the ground whereby the depth of furrow is adjusted.” (Lines 24-25) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for "a gang-plow, which is so arranged that the beams can be adjusted sideways and up and down at will, and can be permanently secured in any desired position in either movement." (Lines 17-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for improvement in plows: "The invention consists in so attaching a revolving disk, cutter, or colter to the beam of the plow that it will rotate on its own axis, and vibrate laterally, to accommodate itself to the line of draft or direction of the beam of the plow; also, in the means used by which the revolving cutter or colter is attached to the beam of the plow, and having the means of swiveling or turning in the beam to accommodate itself to the line of draft of the plow" (lines 22-31) including illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
- 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.
- Improvement in Vises
- Patent for new construction for vises that will "enable the vise to be set and secutured in any desired position and thus hold the work in a position convenient to the operator" (lines 8-10).
- Improvement in Water-Drawers.
- Patent for an improved water drawer, includes instructions and illustration.
- Insecticide
- Patent for a compound for destroying weevils, rats and mice.
- Insecticide
- Patent for a recipe for insecticide for the Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil.
- Key-Ring Holder.
- Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
- Knockdown Show-Case.
- Patent for a showcase that may be easily taken apart for transportation or storage. It is also easy to replace broken panes of glass, and the parts "mutually brace and support each other" (lines 20-21).
- Locking Device for Forms
- Patent for a locking device for forms that will not crush the edges of circular forms.
- Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences.
- Patent for "improvement in machines for building and rerolling wire fences" (lines 4-6), with instructions and illustrations.
- Magazine-Projectile
- Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
- Medicine Case.
- Patent for a new and improved medicine case. This design is "to provide a series of receptacles for the medicine to be taken or administered, said receptacles being of different colors, to avoid mistakes or errors in the distributions of the medicines; to provide means for accurately indicating the medicine to be taken; to indicate the time which said medicine shall be taken; to provide means for holding a spoon or other article within the cases for taking the medicine when in a liquid or powder form" (lines 15-25).
- Multiple Submarine Destroyer
- Patent for a munitions delivery system designed for anti-submarine warfare. Specifically, this devise is a multi-stage explosive that periodically (period of deployment determined by depth measurement) deploys first a primary detonating charge, followed up by the detonation of multiple, smaller charges scattered by the primary explosion, ensuring an area of effect should the primary canister miss it's intended target. The patent notes that should the canister actually make contact with an object on it's bottom facing, all explosives in the canister will be triggered at once.