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- Accelerating Foot-Throttle for use on Automobile-Engines
- Patent for an "improved form of foot pedal or foot throttle" (line 10) which "provides means for effectively controlling the speed of an engine by the action of the driver's foot against the foot throttle located in a convenient position on the floor of the car" (lines 13-17), including illustrations.
- Account-Book.
- Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Makes gas generators more automatic making them less dangerous and less likely to cause an explosion.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene-gas generator which automatically feeds carbid to the generator and in which the gas generated is washed within the bell.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for an improve to a Gas-Generator by controlling the liquid for decomposing the carbid in acetylene, by doing this the generation of gas is monitored and the waste of gas will not occur. This is an improvement to the Gas-Generator, this construct will have an automatic cut-off for the liquid-supply.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas machines, including instructions and illustrations.
- 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).
- Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.
- Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
- Adjustable Rack for Railway-Cars.
- Patent for improvements on racks in railway-cars including more storage for smaller items, an adjustable rack for children or elderly persons to be able to reach without needing to stand on the car seat, a titled hinge that allows a rack to be pulled for ward and pushed back, and other improvements.
- Adjustable Seat for Automobiles.
- Patent for the invention of adjustable seats for vehicles to provide a comfortable seating for travellers.
- Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union.
- Patent for an affordable and efficient coupling device for use "on valve rods of internal combustion engines, especially those used in automobiles and aeroplanes or on those motors or engines employing overhead valves and whereby the union or coupling may be readily and securely locked on a valve rod with sufficient resistance to withstand the strain of direct pressure" (lines 14-21).
- Adjustable Tongs
- Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
- Adjustable Window-Shade Hanger.
- Patent for a window-shade hanger that can be "adjusted to fit windows of various widths and shaderollers which vary in length and which may be readily put up and taken down." (lines 18-21) including illustration.
- Advertising Device.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
- Advertising Device.
- Patent for an advertising machine that is motor-operated and will display a succession of slides that can be shown during the day or at night. It includes a light to help show slides to the public, a shutter that automatically and intermittently displays slides, a lens for projecting slides on a distant screen, and a master slide to be shown with each slide. The patent includes illustrations.
- Advertising-Sign
- Patent for large outdoor advertising sign that is inexpensive to illuminate but still catches attention by providing the illusion of movement.
- Advertising-Sign.
- Patent for an advertisement sign with a translucent display band that illuminates different sections of letters, numbers, or figures, in various colors, giving the appearance of animation.
- Aerating Churn
- Patent for aerating churn. This design of churn is designed to aerate milk as it churns. Illustration included.
- Aerial Conveyor
- Patent for an aerial conveyor, specifically one that relates to "an aerial suspension car for aiding linemen in traveling along a suspended cable" (lines 9-11). It's primary function is to allow a wheeled car to be mounted on a cable and used to transport a person.
- Aerial Torpedo.
- Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
- Aerodrome
- Patent for an aerodrome which is a heavier than air flying machine powered by motorized propellers
- Agricultural Implement
- Patent for a novel and improved implement of this general character including a plurality of supporting members provided with ground working elements together with a body positioned upon said supporting members and wherein said said supporting members and body are capable of relative movement transversely of the direction of travel of the implement.
- Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.
- Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
- Air Cycle.
- Patent for a pedal power "aeroplane" (line 9) with improvements to driving pedals and controlling the flight path.
- Airship.
- Patent for improved airship design involving the containment of gas in an envelop and the passage of gas through multiple compartments with the purpose of facilitating, "steering or repairing of the machine." (line 17) including illustrations.
- Amusement Apparatus
- Patent for a fishing game for amusement parks which has a canal of liquid agitated to form a current with pictures of fish in it that when caught get the person fishing different prizes depending on the symbol they have on them.
- Amusement Device
- Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
- Andiron.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive andiron that can easily be moved and holds the logs in place. "The invention consists of an andiron having two dogs or members connected together and a fender removably connected to the front of said dogs and extending over the intervening space or opening" (lines 9-14).
- Angle-Cock.
- Patent for "a new and improved angle-cock so constructed that the plug cannot be turned by an unauthorized person without the knowledge of the engineer in charge of the train." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Animal-Shears
- Patent for an improvement in animal shears to "simplify and improve the construction of animal-shears, and render their operation more positive and reliable" (lines 11-13).
- 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.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in animal traps, including instructions and illustrations.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an improved self-setting trap that can capture and kill animals while preventing them from reaching the bait.
- Animal Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the base-board having the opposite recesses and the transverse shaft, the yoke having the spring-coils mounted on the projecting ends of the shaft in said recesses, the standard having the holding-rod, the trigger, and the guards or prongs secured in the base-board" (lines 20-26).
- Ant Trap
- Patent for an ant trap designed as a ring-shaped trough and which allows for the drainage of rainwater through a pipe fitted with a porous plug. Both walls of the trough are capped with inward and downward curved flanges.
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for an ant-trap using a portable receptacle with three different designs, each can be used as an individual trap or in any combinations to lure ants into the bottom of the receptacle without any means of escaping, including illustration.
- Antifriction Device for Sucker-Rods.
- Patent for a rod sleeve to protect the rod joints from damage or bending. The design also includes rollers to keep the rods centered in the casing to eliminate rubbing.
- Apparatus for Automatically Applying Germicides
- Patent for "a means for automatically applying an insecticide or germicide which will either kill or drive off the parasite, vermin, and other troublesome germ" (lines 16-19).
- Apparatus for Burning Garbage, &c.
- Patent for an improved apparatus for burning refuse and consists of a roasting chamber, a garbage grate, grates that slope and carry the product away after combustion, flues that open above the grates, and the wall partly closes on one end to let the products away after combustion.
- Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses.
- Patent for a new and useful apparatus for checking runaway horses, including instructions and illustrations.
- 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 Destroying Insects.
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
- Apparatus for Electroplating Small Metallic Articles.
- Patent for "apparatus for electroplating small metallic articles, and more particularly certain small clamps used in building fences" (lines 8-11), including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton
- Patent for a seed-cotton handling machine for use in cotton gins which as an improved elevator and feeding system.
- Apparatus for Killing Rodents
- Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
- Apparatus for Oiling Railway-Tracks.
- Patent for improvements in mechanism for “applying oil to curves and switches of street railway tracks” (lines 6-7) by using an “oil-tank [that] is arranged in the upper position of the hood or shield over the car-wheel. The valve is in the bottom of the oil-space and may be controlled by a lever arranged to turn or lift in the valve, and under the valve is arranged the oiling-wheel, which runs lightly on the track or face of the car-wheel and applied the oil." (Page 2, lines 69-76) Includes illustration.
- Apparatus for Separating Liquids.
- Patent for dehydrating petroleum oil emulsions through liquid seperation.
- Apparatus for Separating or Concentrating Ores
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating or concentrating ores through a flotation method.