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- Air-Cooling Apparatus.
- Patent for an air cooling apparatus for air to be delivered into a room treated with moisture to reduce the temperature of the air without the use of ice.
- Artificial-Stone Composition
- Patent for "an artificial stone adapted for all purposes to which natural stone can be applied, and which can be given any desired shape while in a plastic state, or carved and polished after hardening" (lines 12-18).
- Automatic Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in car-couplers "wherein the link is automatically engaged with the draw-head of a second car and the link can be quickly disengaged when it needed uncoupling." (Lines 10-11) Illustration is included.
- Bag-Skid.
- Patent for a device that will protect cotton pick-sacks against wear and tear when being dragged on the ground.
- Bale-Tie.
- Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design utilizes a strap-iron binder with notches along the sides that allow for a bail to clamp firmly within them; thus, the bale is fastened.
- Barber's Paper Clip.
- Patent for a new and improved barber's paper clip. This design calls for "a clip formed by doubling upon itself a [flat] strip of metal," which will hold sheets of paper on which barbers can sharpen their razors. A hook exists on the opposite side, by which the paper clip can hang from the hot towel on the customer's face.
- Bed-Brace.
- Patent for a new and useful bed brace, including instructions and illustrations.
- Bee-Hive
- Patent for an improved hive, in which bees are fed and watered more efficiently and honey can be removed without the loss of bees. Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Box.
- Patent for a metal, rural, mail carrier supply box with various compartments for different supplies.
- Buckle
- Patent for "a fastening device for securely holding the meeting ends of straps together, and is particularly applicable to stirrup-straps, in which, because of the strain thereon, the ordinary fastener is quickly broken or the strap is torn from the same" (lines 9-15).
- Buckle.
- Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design utilizes two separate tongues that run freely along a middle bar, which lengthens the life of the strap by distributing pressure and allowing for broken out, frayed, or otherwise worn holes to be circumvented for new ones.
- Carbureter.
- Patent for a carburetor that automatically regulates oil based on how much air enters the carburetor.
- Corn-Husker.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn huskers, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton - Chopper.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers machine as the attachment to cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton Picking Device
- Patent for removing cotton from the stem and placing into the machine. The machine will also remove further elements that are not part of the cotton, and then place the cotton into a basket.
- Cotton Seed Separator
- Patent for a cotton seed separator. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator attachment that adjusts the beams to various distances apart.
- Door Operating and Locking Means
- Patent for improved locking means for sliding doors.
- Electric Railway.
- Patent for an electric railway that has the electric conductor on or under the ground, in a tube. The tube gets electricity to the trains via contact-pieces embedded in the tube, and it collapses whenever the train wheels go over it. The tube and conductor are kept safe in a u-shaped hanger underground.
- Exhaust-Steam-Actuating Damper-Regulator.
- Patent for exhaust-steam-actuating damper-regulator, including instructions and illustrations. This invention improves oil burning equipment for locomotives by "operating the dampers of the air inlet box to automatically close the dampers when the locomotive is standing and to open the dampers when the locomotive is running." (lines 12-16).
- Fan.
- Patent for a new and improved fan. This design "consists mainly, first, in the combination with a swinging bar of metal or wood, or both, carrying the fans, of a balance-weight located at an angle to the line of the bar for the purpose of retarding its backward movement; and, second, in the combination, with a shaft and a hinge-connection uniting the fan-holder clamp to the shaft, of a removable pin by means of which the fan may be caused to move positively with the shaft or swing independently of it, as may be desired" (lines 12-22).
- Fan Attachment.
- Patent for a new and improved fan attachment. This design "consists of an attachment for rocking-chairs, cradles, &c., and having an oscillatory arm adapted to hold a fan" (lines 9-11).
- Flexible Stay Bolt
- Patent for Flexible Stay Bolt
- Grubber
- Patent for a grubber. Illustration included.
- Harness Buckle.
- Patent for a new and improved harness buckle. This design calls for a central cross-bar, upon which the frame rests, with fold-able arms that form a loop beneath the side-bars with the assistance of metal pins (lines 57-62). This design eliminates the need for stitching the strap being buckled.
- Hay Press
- Patent for a hay press. Illustration included.
- Improved Saw-Gummer.
- Patent for a machine that uses a grindstone to sharpen rotary saws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for a new and improved bale-tie design with different buckle and band. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Cultivator" (lines 3-4) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
- Patent for a device to destroy "winged insects which are destructive to the cotton plants and other vegetation" (lines 19-21) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Machines for Making Plow-Irons.
- Patent for an improvement in the design for machines for manufacturing plow irons, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Picket-Fences.
- Patent for secure, inexpensive picket-fence construction using various sizes of wood pieces and wire. It is meant for situations in which wood is scarce. Illustration included.
- Improvement in Picket-Fences
- Patent for improvement for picket fences composed of zig zag settings with their upper ends brought in line and are connected and supported by wires and posts.
- Improvement in Rotary Cultivators.
- Patent for a machine for "opening ditches to drain land and form fences, and to grade railroads, &c." (lines 15-17) including illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement in seed-planters.
- Patent for a seed planter that drops seeds into the plow furrow, where a roller covers the seeds with dirt. Includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for a seed-planter that "may be attached to the leg of the attendant and operated by the natural movement of the attendant while walking along behind the machine" (lines 20-23), including illustration.
- Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
- Patent for the improvement of the seeding-machine by having a lever that allows the driver to operate the hopper-box, harrow, and smoothing-roller at any time, including illustration.
- Improvment in Cotton Cultivator.
- Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators: "designed more especially for cultivating cotton, scraping the earth away from the young plants, and thinning out the same" (lines 11-12).
- Ink-Bottle Holder for Desks.
- Patent for an ink bottle holder for desks, which prevents the ink from quickly evaporating.
- Insect-Powder Distributer.
- Patent for a poison distributor that has an adjustable discharge distance and does not clog. It is crank operated to generate a steady stream of poison.
- Machine for Gathering Cotton Squares
- Patent for a machine for gathering cotton squares. This invention is designed to gather boll weevil invested cotton and roll the cotton between rollers to kill eggs. Illustration included.
- Non-Refillable Bottle.
- Patent for a sealed bottle that cannot be refilled once the contents have been used, intended to prevent commercial fraud, including illustrations.
- Oil-Burning Equipment for Locomotives.
- Patent for improved oil burning equipment for locomotives including illustrations and specifications. Improvements are made in the construction of the fire box for full use of the oil fuel.
- Pliers.
- Patent for pliers that has one jaw fitted with ribs and the other with grooves. This allows the pliers to clamp onto and kink a wire in an improved way.
- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam, the slotted and braced standard, and the adjustable land-bar, of the winged attachment formed with perforated lugs, the plow-point formed with upper and lower extensions and secured to said attachment" (lines 95-100).
- Plow.
- Patent for an improvement to plows that allows adjustments to be made to them both vertically and angularly.
- Plow.
- Patent for improvements in plows that will break and bed the soil at a single operation while it was customary for a plow to have to go over the soil at least twice in order to break the soil. This invention is also meant to conserve time and labor and cultivate the soil more thoroughly.
- Plow Colter.
- Patent for a new and improved plow colter. This design calls for a colter that conforms to the face-curve of the plow shovel, thus forming a landside. The colter can be attached to and removed from either side of the plow standard.
- Plow-Stock.
- Patent for a strong and durable plow-stock that is "capable of receiving and operating in connection with any form of sweep, bull-tongue, or shovel plows, and [provides] means whereby the latter may be adjustably connected to the stock, and said stock readily adjusted, whereby the penetration of the plow may be increased or diminished in accordance with the character of plowing to be done" (lines 10-17).
- Poison-Distributer.
- Patent for a certain new and useful class of machines used for distributing poisons for the purpose of killing insects, including instructions and illustrations.