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- Adjustable End Die.
- Patent for improvements to adjustable end dies. These improvements allow convenient rethreading of bolts while it is engaged with an object.
- Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton.
- Patent for a machine for separating and cleaning hulls and trash from seed cotton. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a boll threshing machine.
- Adjustable Flat Die.
- Patent for improved adjustable flat dies which provide different sizes of cutting dies to the cutting device.
- Bottle Holder.
- Patent for a bottle holder, to hold ink bottles to a surface such as a desk or table. It is designed to be both a permanent or detachable fixture.
- Combination Lock and Jack.
- Patent for a combination lock and jack to prevent automobile theft. The jack locks the operating levers of an automobile to prevent them from moving, and the lock prevents its removal. The jack can also be detached and collapse for easy storage.
- Ink-Bottle
- Patent for an ink bottle with screw threads allowing it to be screwed and unscrewed into a holder or desk; ink bottle can also be removed for cleaning or filling.
- Building Construction.
- Patent for a building construction method. After completion of typical foundation and framework construction, "interlocking slabs or tiles are secured to the framework to form an outer covering or sheathing for the building." The interlocking method requires no cementing of material yet still allows water to be shed. "Provision is also made for fastening slabs or tiles to the framework in a manner permitting rapid assembly of parts" which reduces building time. The invention can be applied to doors and windows as demonstrated in the illustrations.
- Locomotive Driving-Box.
- Patent for improvements in locomotive driving boxes. Designed to "eliminate the necessity of removing the driving wheels" (lines 13-14) to replace the crown brasses, "eliminate the necessity of removing the driving box" (lines 16-17) to avoid lateral wear, and eliminates the necessity of expensive machine work.
- Pump-Actuating Mechanism.
- Patent for improving measuring pumps "by providing a pump actuating means so constructed that a continuous movement of the crank in one direction will cause a reciprocation of the piston in both directions" (lines 29-33), with illustrations.
- Sod Cutting and Disintegrating Machine.
- Patent for a sod cutting and disintegrating machine that has a wheel-supported frame, inclined elevator, plow attached to the elevator, front truck, and disintegrating rollers.
- Saw-Handle.
- Patent for improvements in saw-handles. Invention provides for adjustable and detachable means for clamping of a saw blade. The device includes a "head member, means for clamping the end of a saw blade" (lines 19-20).
- Peanut-Harvester
- Patent for a peanut harvester that uproots the peanut and lifts it for delivery to a carrier. This harvester also includes a pair of colters that roll alongside the row of peanuts to cut grass and loosen the soil, this includes a mechanism for raising and lowering the digging structure and fingers to guide to stems of the plants so that they are not cut.
- Nutcracker.
- Patent for a nutcracker with an adjustable jaw and a smaller number of parts.
- Door Fastener
- Patent is for door locking device for fasteners that can be carried around in a pocket. It is an improvement on models in circulation.
- Cotton-Boll Picker
- Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.
- Automatic Brake.
- Patent for automatic wagon brake which removes the strain on draft animals when the vehicle is descending down an incline.
- Clock Attachment
- Patent for an improved clock attachment to operate "a series of alarms or signals arranged in different rooms of a building or in other separated stations for simultaneously sounding the alarms or for operating the signals at predetermined times." (lines 11-17) including illustrations.
- Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutter
- Patent for a stalk cutting machine adapted for cutting corn and cotton stalks after the stalks have been stripped
- Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines
- Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
- Cotton Boll Threshing Machine.
- Patent for a cotton boll breaking mechanism and a means for breaking cotton bolls which are not opened sufficiently for the cotton to be picked.
- Wrench
- Patent for improvements in wrenches, particularly relating to the type generally known as the spanner wrench. The object of this invention is to provide an improved spanner wrench including means for reliably retaining the wrench head in proper position with relation to the object being rotated.
- Truss.
- Patent for improvements to trusses, which uses "a pair of spring hangers each carrying a pad of particular construction and arrangement" (lines 9-11). Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Type-Writer Line-Shift.
- Patent for line shifter attachment for typewriter which makes it possible for the typewriter to print characters above or below the standard line of print. This attachment makes the typewriter useful for taking stenographic notes.
- Switch.
- Patent for a switch mechanism for use on railroads. The switch can be installed without cutting the railroad tracks. Instructions and illustrations are included.
- Improvement in Clasps.
- Patent for improvement in clasps "especially adapted for garment supporting" (lines 9-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- Knockdown Frame
- Patent for improvements to the knockdown frame for easy setup and take down and for supporting a block and tackle. This invention also provides a device for locking the fall rope of a block and tackle after the load is raised.
- Excavator
- Patent for excavator.
- Composition of Matter for Use in Killing Trees and Other Vegetable Growths
- Patent for a composition or recipe for tree and plant killer
- Support for Telegraph and Telephone Wires.
- Patent for a circular metal support for telegraph and telephone wires; including illustrations.
- Fender.
- Patent for a device "to be secured to the prow of a ship or vessel and which projects forwardly therefrom for the purpose of protecting the vessel against injury from a collision" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
- Seed Cotton Cleaner
- Patent for a cleaner for seed cotton, in preparation for supplying the cotton to gins.
- Wire Stretcher
- Patent for wire stretcher.
- Detachable-Blade-Connecting Device For Tools.
- Patent for detachable blade connecting device for tools, the importance of which lies in the fact that this tool provides "simple and efficient means for detachably supporting interchangeable blades which may be quickly removed and replaced" (lines 16-19).
- Attachment for Plows
- Patent for "improvements in attachments for plows for the purpose of cutting roots, sods, and the like, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed attachment which not only provides a suitable cutting implement but likewise includes a removable landslide." (9-15)
- Wrench.
- Patent for a wrench that can hold round-headed fastening elements (bolts) so as to prevent from turning in the same direction. The wrench can be held while the jaws grip and hold the round heads of bolts.
- Weather Strip or Seal for Sliding Window-Sashes.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Weather Strip or Seal for Sliding Window-Sashes" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
- Plow.
- Patent for a reinforced plow shoe that eliminates frictional wear on the landside bar and reduces wear on the landside plate of the plow.
- Hay-Press.
- Patent for hay-presses relating to the arraignment and and construction of the means for operating the plunger of the press whereby reciprocation of the plunger may be secured by the revolution of an arm or lever whereby a single or double reciprocation of the plunger during a single revolution of the arm or lever may be secured as desired.
- Rail-Joint
- Patent for rail joints which "requires no extra plates or parts like the usual joint; that is stronger and more durable; that it is more readily assembled and that the parts are efficiently united; that only one bolt is required..." (lines 9-14).
- Nutcracker.
- Patent for a nut cracking device.
- Door-Operator.
- Patent for a device that is a means of mounting a train car door by which it may be easily opened or closed, and especially easily fixed when stuck.
- Dasher for Churns.
- Patent for a more buoyant and compact churn dasher.
- Car-Door Cleat.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car door cleats or guards, including instructions and illustrations.
- Combined Funnel and Dipper.
- Patent for a ladle with an attached funnel for pouring the liquid out.
- Compressor.
- Patent for a refrigerating machine compressor, which compresses more gas, cools the compressor with the incoming gas, and uses excess heat to dry the gas coming in.
- Beam and Shank Attachment
- Patent for a beam and shank attachment for attaching harrows to cultivators.
- Back-Band Hook
- Patent for "a simple and inexpensive construction of hook which is capable of ready and convenient adjustment and with which different articles of cloth, such as may be on hand, may be used as a back-band, and also so formed as to prevent cutting or tearing of the back-band with which it is used and to be quickly and positively clamped in position on the band" (lines 13-21).
- Brining and Syruping Machine
- Patent for a brining and syruping machine for filling large numbers of cans of fruit or vegetables with syrup quickly like in a factory setting.
- Buggy-Top Support
- Patent for a buggy top support which has springs in it to absorb shocks from bumps and is compact.
- Buckle
- Patent for an improved buckle that will hold straps in place, particularly those straps with irregularly sized and spaced openings.