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- Abdominal Support
- Patent for an abdominal support in pants which is held up by leggings.
- Abdominal Supporter.
- Patent for a new and improved supporter for the abdomen during pregnancy. This design "consists of an abdominal sack for the support of the abdomen in pregnancy, which is contrived with supporting-bands adapted for supporting it from the shoulders of the wearer, where the weight can be best sustained, and so as to entirely avoid the belt commonly used, and thus relieve the stomach and liver from the pressure and irritation which it produces" (lines 7-15).
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for improving acetylene gas generator designs with the use of an added specification in the form of a new apparatus. Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Acetylene Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in acetylene gas generating and storing apparatus to "provide a simple, compact, and economical means for automatically said gas" (line 10 - 13).
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for improving an Acetylene-Gas Generator. To eliminate a check valve between the generator and the gasometer, this will purify the gas and keep siphoning off of water from occurring.
- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
- Adding and Subtracting Machine
- Patent for an improved adding and subtracting machine adapted to be attached to the end of a lead pencil. It is readily manufactured and simple in construction.
- Adding Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved adding machine. This design "consists in the combination, with a box, of a spindle in the same, a sleeve surrounding the spindle, a hand on the spindle, a hand on the sleeve, devices for turning the spindle from the sleeve, a cog-wheel revolving from the spindle, and an extra hand in connection with the cog-wheel" (lines 10-16).
- Adding-Machine
- Patent for an adding machine that is simple and can be manufactured at a small cost.
- Adding Machine
- Patent for a machine that adds numbers together using "key actuated accumulating wheels" to reach the desired sum, including illustrations.
- Adjustable Book-Cover
- Patent for a book cover that can be adjusted to fit any book size.
- Adjustable Brace for Doors or Gates and Cover for Same
- Patent for an adjustable brace for doors or gates. It is designed to prevent sagging.
- Adjustable Nailless Horseshoe.
- Patent for an adjustable horseshoe with cost efficient, replaceable fittings. Illustrations included.
- Adjustable Stand or Support for Mirrors
- Patent for a mirror stand. Illustrations included.
- Adjustable Table.
- Patent for a new and useful adjustable table, including instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Vehicle-Headlight
- Patent for a headlight for a vehicle that is able to direct the light towards both sides of the road rather than only straight ahead.
- De-Aerator
- Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
- Aerial Projectile
- Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
- Aeroplane.
- Patent for an aeroplane with a propeller, which is "pivotally mounted and adjustable into different positions relative to the planes in order to produce either a rising movement or thereof or a driving movement in a horizontal or other plane" (lines 26-30).
- Aeroplane
- Patent for an aeroplane. The invention is designed to vary the curvature of the plane from front to rear and by this means the plane may be so adjusted as to reduce the "head resistance" to a minimum. The invention is also trying to find the suitable means for manipulating the adjustable sections whereby the movable sections. This invention aims to provide a machine that is strong, durable, efficient, and comparatively simple to construct.
- Aeroplane
- Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
- Aeroplane
- Patent for an airplane with improved steering capabilities and adjustments for atmospheric conditions.
- Agricultural Implement
- Patent for an implement to cut and destroy weeds and other toxic plants.
- Agricultural Machine
- Patent for a cotton chopping machine which can cut plants at regular intervals.
- Air-Lock for Mines and Tunnels
- Patent for an air lock to remove water, polluted air, and heat from mines and tunnels and force in fresh air. Illustrations included.
- Air Pipe Coupling
- Patent for the air-pipe coupling. This invention relates to improvements in couplers for air other liquid pipes. The improvement is primarily designed for connecting the fluid pipes of an air brake system between the locomotive and coaches of railway trains.
- Alarm Device.
- Patent for an alarm device "to be used in connection with a boiler and operatively connected with the steam whistle, whereby when the water falls below a certain level in the boiler the mechanism will automatically operate to blow the whistle" (lines 11-16). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Amalgamator.
- Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up through them" (lines 14-24).
- Anesthetic Holding And Dispensing Apparatus
- Patent for an anesthetic holding and dispensing apparatus. Illustration included.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an animal trap "having a vestibule which will be operated by the weight go the animal entering the same to close the entrance-door and open an exit-door into a receiving compartment or cage" (line 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Animated Sign
- Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
- Ant-Trap
- Patent for an ant trap with a removable bottom which allows the trap to be emptied easily.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for an in-ground ant trap that prevents the ants from escaping once caught in the trap, including instructions and illustrations
- Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate
- Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
- Antiskidding Device
- Patent for an anti-skidding device to be used in tires and other traction wheels.
- Antislipping Device for Tires
- Patent for a device intended to decrease slippage of vehicle tires on roads that are either damaged or otherwise hard to navigate due to weather conditions.
- Aparatus for Cleaning Lechuguilla, Henequen, and Analogous Fibrous Plants.
- Patent for an improved apparatus for scraping lechugilla, henequen, and analogous fibrous plants. This apparatus scrapes the stalks of the plants mechanically and separates the pulp from the fiber of the plant so that the fiber will be cleaned and ready for use.
- Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil
- Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
- Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for delinting cotton seed: " Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for burning off or removing the lint from cotton seed" (lines 14-16).
- Apparatus for Forcing Beer from Kegs.
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for forcing beer from kegs. This design "relates to an improved method of keeping atmospheric pressure upon beer or other aerated liquid contained in a keg or similar receptacle, so as to prevent the same from becoming stale or flat from the evaporating of its dissolved gas. It consists in improvements in the apparatus by means of which the above-stated result is accomplished; and it further consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 16-25).
- Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.
- Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
- 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 Handling Cotton.
- Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit.
- Apparatus for Making Soap.
- Patent for a new and improved soap-making machine. This design "consist[s] of grease and soda tanks, the latter tank having a diaphragm . . . a register-tank, pipes leading from said grease and soda tanks to said register-tank, a pivoted converter, a rotary shaft in said converter and blades, a shaft journaled in uprights attached to said converter and provided with a crank and a bevel wheel, the latter gearing with a bevel-wheel on said rotary shaft in the converter, and removable furnaces for said grease tank and converter" (lines 21-32).
- Apparatus For Protecting And Preserving Poles And The Like
- Patent for add-on device to shield existing electric posts and poles from decay over time and weather damage.