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- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator. illustration included.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an improved automatic acetylene-gas generator which allows the carbid vessel to recharge with carbid without permitting the escape of gas, and also to simplify the construction of the generator.
- Acetylene Gas Torch
- Patent for a acetylene gas torch. Illustration included.
- Adding-Machine.
- Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
- Adjustable Headlight-Reflector
- Patent for an adjustable headlight reflector for train engines which will shine the light straight in front of the train.
- Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.
- Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
- Adjustable Standard for Plows.
- Patent for improvements to foot pieces that allow for easy adjustment of plowing depth. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Advertising Clock
- Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
- Advertising Device.
- Patent for "a simple and inexpensive advertising device adapted to be placed on street corners and other public places and capable of exciting the curiosity and attracting attention, and thereby directing the attention of persons to the advertisement" (lines 11-16).
- Advertising-Shield for Vehicle-Wheels
- Patent for a shield for vehicle wheels that can be used for advertising.
- Aerating-Churn.
- Patent for an improved churn for aerating cream by forcing air down a pipe into the churn.
- Aeroplane
- Patent for an improvement to aeroplanes which includes movable horizontal and vertical planes (or curtains).
- Aeroplane.
- Patent for improving the fuselage for aeroplanes by "securing double strength throughout the body and [...] be light and durable" (lines 12-14). Provides rudder, landing gear, telescopic joint, and sprocket gear improvements, including illustrations.
- Aeroplane.
- Patent for an improved rotary airplane engine patterned after the Gnome type with extra blades attached to the engine cylinders.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for a device related to plows, with a corn-planter and a cotton-planter attachments, including instructions and illustrations.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for a new and improved sweep. This design consists "in a sweep of a suitable shape and construction having attached to each of its rear corners a vertical bar or wings, which extends parallel to the course of the plow and backward a suitable distance beyond the sweep proper . . . The object of [the] invention is to attach to the rear corners or wings of a sweep bars or runners, which rest upon the ground and steady the sweep and prevent it from wabbling or dodging while in use" (lines 14-25).
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Air Brake
- Patent for air brakes. Illustration included.
- Air-Compressing Apparatus.
- Patent for a new air compressing apparatus which employs two kinds of tanks called high pressure containers and low pressure containers charged by means of an air compressing engine.
- 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.
- Air-Cushion Tire.
- Patent for improvement to the air-cushion tire in terms of resilience, and an improved structure.
- Alarm Device
- Patent for an alarm device that is mounted on a house to warn of approaching wind storms.
- Amusement Device
- Patent for an amusement device. This invention uses a ballast and simulates the appearance and motion of a floating ship under way. Illustrations included.
- Anal Speculum.
- Patent for a new and improved anal speculum. This design is "to so construct the several parts that there will be no rough or raised edges to interfere with its insertion in the anal passage; secondly, to so construct [the] improved speculum that it may be readily used as a bi-valve or dilator; thirdly, to form a locking-joint on the meeting edges of the shells forming the speculum, whereby the sections are prevented from overlapping each other to avoid pinching or injury to the walls of the anal passage while the instrument is being inserted; fourthly, to provide a plug for [the] improved speculum" (lines 17-29).
- Andiron.
- Patent for improvement in andirons “which is so arranged as to permit ready access to the fireplace for the purpose of cleaning out the ashes and having a removable fender which is capable of being quickly and readily removed or placed in position to retain the fire and prevent the fire from rolling out the fireplace.” (Lines 47-54.) Illustration is included.
- Angle-Cock.
- Patent for "a locking device for the train pipe valve or plug, and a connection separate from the train pipe and under the control of the engineer, to manipulate the said locking device and secure the valve or plug in position." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Angle Cock Device
- Patent for "stop cocks for controlling the flow of fluids and more particularly to what are known as angle cocks for use in train pipes of air brake and other fluid pressure systems upon railway cars" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap that requires the animal to fully enter the jaws of the trap to reach the bait and that reliably springs the trap upon the entrance of an animal but not when refilling the bait in the trap.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved animal trap.
- 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.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for a live animal trap that uses a trigger and allows for live bait. Wire fabric is used to prevent animals from digging and escaping.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n a device for catching ants, the combination, with an open frame, of the end piece or trough, having a concave bottom and overturned edges" (lines 84-87).
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for a new ant trap design using a conical shape and reservoirs for holding kerosene to destroy ants, including illustrations.
- Antifriction Device For Sucker Rods Or The Like
- Patent for an antifriction-roller (part of a pumping mechanism) with a mounting that can be manufactured at a low cost, "quickly and readily applied to a rod at any point....and prevent it from bending...and, furthermore, interpose a minimum obstruction to the flow of the liquid in the casing" (lines 17-25)
- Antikicking Device for Automobiles.
- Patent for a device that catches the crank of hand crank automobiles which were typical of the early 1900s in the United States of America. The invention addresses controlling the motion of the crank and preventing the crank from causing injury.
- Apparatus for Aging Whisky.
- Patent for a barrel for heating and aging whiskey, which accelerates aging time. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- 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 Burning Unburnt Gas Products.
- Patent for a new "method for burning all of the products usually known as "waste products" and to eliminate the fumes and poisonous vapors." (lines 27-30) including instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus for Condensing Flue-Dust.
- Patent for an apparatus for "condensing and saving the flue-dust passing with the waste gases through the chimney of lead-smelting furnaces." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY DISTILLING CRUDE OIL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
- Patent for promoting the distillation of crude oil and other substances, separating the different parts of oil and impurities based on their weight.
- Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
- Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
- Patent for improvements to a device for exterminating insects, in particular corn weevils, including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for a steam-powered device for cleaning seed-cotton. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus For Emptying Barrels Or Other Receptacles Containing Liquids.
- Patent for a device to empty barrels and other receptacles containing liquids, including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom
- Patent for an apparatus for expressing the fluids out of paraffin compositions and separating the scale therefrom. Illustrations included.
- Apparatus for Extracting Wax from Plants
- Patent for "an apparatus for extracting wax from the candelilla plant and other species of plants of the class Myrica." (lines 9-12)
- Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton.
- Patent for an apparatus for handling lint-cotton that allows air to move freely without back pressure while putting the fiber into a bat. It has a "trunk into which a series of gins deliver, of a primary condenser having a high surface speed, so that it will rapidly remove the fiber and prevent the bat from building up of such thickness as to check the escape of air, and a second condenser having a slower surface speed and arranged to receive the lint from the first condenser and form it into a thicker bat" (lines 29-37).
- Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe
- Patent for a motorized construction vehicle which has a cement mixer and a trench digger on it that allows for the continuous laying of concrete pipes for irrigation.
- Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.
- Patent for improved apparatus for manufacturing carbureted gas at small cost for illuminating and general heating and power purposes.
- Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs
- Patent for a molding and printing device for forming hollow backed signs and name plates.