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- Accident Brake Appliance
- Patent for an accident brake appliance for trains.
- Account-Index.
- Patent for an account index card holder with “superposed parallel arms” (lines 111-112) that allow portions of the front and reverse side of each card to be visible. The holder and its supports may be used with a system for organizing, tracking, and indexing accounts.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for a generator that runs on acetylene gas with a component that releases excess gas in the event the gasometer is overcharged, including illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator designed to prevent from being overcharged with carbide. Illustrations included.
- Actuating Device for Circuit Closers
- Patent for an actuating device for circuit closers. Illustration included.
- Adjustable Book Support.
- Patent for a new and improved book rest. This design consists "of an upright pivoted in a support or base, a sliding lower supporting cross-bar, an upper sliding supporting-bar, both bars having sockets upon their rear sides sliding upon the upright and provided with set-screws, and leaf-clamps consisting of a piece of spring doubled at one end to form slides sliding upon the arms of the upper cross-bar, forming curved yielding portions, forming transverse eyes at the other ends, having flat blocks hinged at the said eyes, and provided with thumb-pieces" (lines 72-83).
- Adjustable Crib or Bed.
- Patent for improvements in Adjustable Cribs or Beds for children to sit beside the bed of the mother or guardian of the child. Made to be "easily and quickly attachable to or connected with any make of" (lines 17-19) the adult's bed "so that the mattresses of the bed and crib will be perfectly even or flush, without space...between them" (lines 20-22). Includes illustrations.
- Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.
- Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
- Adjustable Pilot.
- Patent for Improvements in Adjustable Pilot for locomotives
- Adjustable Shade or Curtain Support.
- Patent for adjustable and curtain supports, including instructions and illustrations.
- Aeroplane
- Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
- Aeroplane.
- Patent for aeroplane construction to include improvements to air motor protection to minimize resistance and the use of air cups to direct the full force of air to the motor shaft, including illustrations.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for an agricultural implement related to ground treating. The implement introduces a novel mounting for a colter that will keep it in line with the draft beam, as well as aids in holding the soil-turning elements in place.
- Agricultural Implement
- Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
- Agricultural Implement
- Patent for an agricultural implement. Illustrations included.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for "attachments for planters, cultivators and the like" (lines 8-10) "whereby the implement will be permitted to yield to uneven ground" (lines 11-12).
- Agricultural Machine
- Patent for a tool to destroy weeds. This invention reuses several parts from farming tools.
- Air Blast Apparatus for Cotton Gins
- Patent for an air blast apparatus used for cleaning cotton gins. Illustration included.
- Air-Blast Cotton-Gin
- Patent for airing out the lent from the brushes on the ginn. This also uses less power than the ones before.
- Air-Brake
- Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
- AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.
- Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
- Air Ship.
- Patent for air ship design lifted by balloon with vertical adjustable sails. Accompanied with illustrations.
- Airship
- Patent for an airship of improved construction, which allows for the operator to change their positions to propel, raise, lower and steer the ship.
- Airship-Destroyer.
- Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
- Alarm for Incubators
- Patent for an alarm that sounds upon the temperature in an incubator either increasing or decreasing.
- Amusement Apparatus.
- Patent for improvements to the Amusement Apparatus that can be more easily constructed and supports swimmers by the use of horizontal and vertical bars on each side of the device with the horizontal bars rotate independently. Includes illustration.
- Anchor Post
- Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
- Animal-Poke
- Patent for an animal poke that will go over the head of a horse, cow, or related animal, preventing it from getting under, over, or through fences, slacking bent wires, or prevent it from otherwise damaging or mutilating fences of all kinds.
- Animal Tag.
- Patent for a new and improved animal tag. This design "consists in an animal-tag formed of a tube provided with a removable cover and an elongated staple for the strap, by which this tube is held to the animal" (lines 11-14).
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal. Illustration included.
- Animal Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame, of the spear fitted to slide therein and provided with a notched shank, spring for forcing the spear down, and the trigger pivoted to the frame and provided with a forked plate at its lower end, and with a toe for engaging the notch of the shank of the spear" (lines 8-15).
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an animal trap that allows an animal, most suitably animals of the rodent species, to enter a rectangular box from any of its four sides through a gate formed of downwardly inclined wires pivoted above each of said openings inside of the box. When an animal enters the trap, they are unable to leave because of the downwardly bent ends of transverse bars secured to the said inclined wires.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for a trap to catch small animals
- Animal Trap or Dip
- Patent for a trap for small animals. Illustrations included.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a tank of water to be buried in the ground and a collar of cheap material to be attached to the tank and placed over the mouth of an anthill. The concave nature of the collar prevents ants from climbing out of it, so they are forced into the water tank, where they drown; the design is cheaper and less toxic than previous designs.
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for an ant-trap with an inflexible bottom with a hole in the middle, a perpendicular section rough on the inside and smooth on the outside, and the perpendicular smooth sides are attached to the edges of the bottom. The trap has a device that prevents the ants from running around the trap.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n an ant-trap, the combination, with a trough formed with a top [that is] flanged . . . of a box connected thereto by a tube terminating in a disk . . . [and] of the connecting-tubes, box, and fence" (lines 62-68).
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "has for its object the production of a simple, cheap, and effective device whereby the ants are confined to a space within the circle of the trap, speedily captured, and exterminated. It consists in a trap constructed with a circular flanged pit provided with tubes leading therefrom to a central ant-receptacle; also, in the details of construction of the trap" (lines 8-16).
- Antifriction Decive for Sucker-rods and Couplings
- Patent for an improved method of connecting sucker-rods, couplings, or ropes so as to minimize wear and extend the life of the materials, with illustrations.
- Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods.
- Patent for an antifriction device designed to protect the rod (sucker rod), rope, or coupler from wear. A sucker rod joins the components of a piston pump in an oil well.
- Antifriction device for sucker rods.
- Patent for "an improved antifriction device for use in connection with inclosed traveling rods and the like to reduce the wear occasioned by the rubbing of the rod in its casing, and at the same time to so far reduce the area of said antifriction device which projects from the rod as to interpose the least possible obstruction to the free passage of material in the casing."
- Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds
- Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
- Apparatus for Building Concrete Structures.
- Patent for an apparatus for building concrete structures that includes the method or process of erection.
- Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil
- Patent for an apparatus for burning crude oil in stoves.
- Apparatus For Cementing Wells.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton
- Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
- Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton
- Patent for machine that cleans harvested cotton.
- Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles
- Patent for an apparatus for controlling trolley poles. "This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling trolley poles employed for effecting electrical connection between a trolley wire and a motor on a car, and has for its object to provide improved means for automatically throwing the trolley into position to be placed in engagement with the trolley wire" (line 9-15). Illustrations included.
- Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.