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- 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.
- 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 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.
- Attachment for Rocking-Chairs
- Patent for attachments for rocking chairs such as a rotary fan and platform for the rockers of the chair among other items including illustrations and instructions.
- Boiler Skimmer or Cleaner
- Patent for improvements for a boiler skimmer or cleaner with suitable valves to control the blowing off from scum, steam or water.
- Bundle-Tie
- Patent for a bundle tie particularly designed for mail packages. Illustrations included.
- Cotton Press.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton press. This design "consists in the combination of a shaft which is journaled upon the top of the press-frame, and provided with a driving-pulley, a clutch which is feathered upon the shaft, and which is operated by a lever which projects in the line of travel of the beater, a drum provided with a ratchet, a spring-pawl, and the brake by which the descent of the beater is controlled" (lines 13-21).
- Cotton-seed-separating machine
- Patent for a cotton-seed-separating machine for separating cotton seeds from the bolls.
- Crude-Oil Separator
- Patent for crude-oil separators mainly improves crude oil separators of baffle plate type.
- Device for Recovering Tools from Wells.
- Patent for a device to lift and recover tools, such as drill-bits, that have been dropped or lost in wells. The device features two prongs that may be engaged to grip or secure in a "biting hold" (line 50) various objects, illustrations included.
- Extension-Table
- Patent for "an improvement in center tables, seeking to provide a simple convenient construction of extension-table, Which can be easily extended or contracted, by which the objectionable center leg can be dispensed with, and in which the main or center portion Will be firmly supported at all times" (lines 7-13).
- Hen's Nest.
- Patent for a new and improved hen's nest. This design "relates to that type of hen-nest wherein a tilting platform is employed to protect the setting hen from intrusion while permitting her to freely pass to and from the nest. The objects of [the] invention are to improve the prior construction and to provide novel means whereby the hen setting or hatching chamber is separated from the passage containing the tilting platform by a division-wall having a rear doorway, in such manner that the eggs are isolated and in a measure hid and protected while the hen is seeking food" (lines 8-20).
- Improvement in Fence-Post Sockets.
- Patent for improvement in fencing where posts are held more securely with galvanized plates, sockets, and wires.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for a press that reduces the bulk of cotton, "allowing it to be baled into convenient form for transportation. It consists in a novel mode of attaching the side of the press-box, so that they can be speedily thrown down from the cotton after compression to allow its convenient manipulation. It also consists in a new mode of connecting the follower with its superposed lever, so that it can be readily turned up out of the way when the cotton is being filled into the press-box. It also consists in a peculiar mode of combining lever and the two followers to clamp and press the cotton in between them as if in a vise." (Lines 13-26) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Permutation-Locks. [PAGES MISSING]
- Patent for an improvement to combination locks. "It consists of various devices, which are operated by a revolving wheel having a number of projections or pins upon its periphery, which differ so materially from each other in shape that they can be easily recognized by day or night by the touch alone." (Lines 13-19) Illustration included.
- Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons
- Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.
- Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.
- Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
- Insect-Destroying Machine
- Patent for an agricultural machine to remove insects (especially boll-weevils) from cotton plants.
- Insect Destroying Machine
- Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroying Machines,"(lines 6-7) including description and illustrations.
- Life Raft.
- Patent for boat state rooms that convert into life rafts.
- Oil-Can Spout.
- Patent for an oil can spout that is used as a connection to a dispensing can which serves as a spout and as a stopper. This spout is easily installed and removed when desired, this spout also prevents accidental removal while handling.
- Paving for Streets and the Like
- Patent for paving for streets and the like invention relates to paving with specific constructions for high efficiency in resisting wear.
- Peanut-Planter.
- Patent for a peanut planter that dispenses a single peanut from the seed cans in to the feed wheel's cells.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow that has functional improvements in plows.
- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in a plow-beam "having a downwardly-projecting extension or arm at its rear end and a plow-standard pivoted to the beam in front of said extension, of a plate connecting said standard and extension and adapted to slide vertically thereon and an adjusting screw for operating said plate" (lines 1-7).
- Process Of and Apparatus for Separating and Grading Material.
- Patent for improvements in the process of and apparatus for separating and grading material. "Improvement upon our Patent #1,073,644, issued September 23, 1913, for a 'Separating table and process of separation'" (lines 14-17). Object of invention is to improve the general construction of separating table.
- Process of Apparatus for Sizing and Separating Comminuted Material
- Patent for new and useful improvements in process and apparatus for sizing and separating comminuted materials. This is the fifth patent and improves on the previous four patents.
- Process of making tire-fillers
- Patent for the process of making tire fillers that relates to the fillers for tire casings and the process of producing the same.
- Projectile.
- Patent for a new and improved projectile. This design consists "[i]n combination with the ellipsoidal projectile having a truncated base, a plano-concave sabot or driver whose plane face is contiguous to the base of the projectile, and whose periphery is grooved for the attachment of the charge-container" (lines 75-80).
- Sleeping-Shirt.
- Patent for a sleeping shirt designed to secure infants to the bed by removable shoulder flaps.
- Solar-Time Instrument.
- Patent for a new and improved solar-time instrument with "the telescopic tube provided at one end with a lens, and at the other end with a removable diaphragm having horizontal and vertical lines marked thereon" (page 2).
- Tire Traction-Lug
- Patent for tire traction-lug preventing slipping of the wheel in mud, sand, snow, slush, and other soft road-beds.
- Topical Remedy
- Patent for a topical remedy for the local treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis and gout.
- Vise for Drilling-Machines
- Patent for a vise for drilling-machines with a novel construction and combination of parts. The work is positioned and clamped under the drill.
- Water-Gap Gate.
- Patent for new and improved water gap gates to protect gates and barriers during natural interference, thereby preventing livestock injury.
- Wheel-Tire.
- Patent for improvement in automobile tires, resulting in more resilient tires that utilize internal spring coils that are encased in an elastic casing to protect against direct contact with the rubber tire.