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- Railway Signaling Mechanism
- Patent for a railway signaling mechanism. This invention "relates to certain new and useful improvements in electric railway and block signaling in which means are provided for indicating in the engine cab to the engineer the condition of the road ahead" (lines 9-13). Illustrations included.
- Improvement in Seed-Planters.
- Patent for improvement of planters.
- Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes.
- Patent for the improvement in car-journal boxes. This invention "relates to oil-boxes used upon journals of car-axles, the object being to prevent the lid from shaking off of the oil-stop or oil-packing surrounding the axle to be removed and replaced by a new one without removing the box from the journal."
- Telephone-Transmitter.
- Patent for "a simple transmitter in which the greatest volume of sound may be transmitted without causing grating or rattling." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of cultivators using adjustable blades and is adaptable to use different types of blades for a variety of other uses, including illustration.
- Automatic Ore and Pulp Sampler
- Patent for a automatic ore and pulp sampler. This invention represents a settling tank to accumulate particles. Illustration included.
- Automatic Ore And Slime Separator
- Patent for a automatic ore and slime separator. This invention is designed to separate the sand and other solid particles from water. Illustration included.
- Automatic Silt And Sand Separator.
- Patent for an automatic silt and sand separator that settles and discharges sand, slimes and any foreign matters.
- Slime Separator and Classifier
- Patent for a pulp separator and classifying apparatus. Illustrations included.
- Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.
- Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Peanut Digger.
- Patent for new and useful improvements to a machine for harvesting or digging peanuts, including instructions and illustrations.
- Clothes-Line.
- Patent for Clothes-Line that is to supply an endless amount of clothesline in order to facilitate easy placement and/or removal of clothing from the line.
- Improvement in Brooms.
- Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
- Hame-Fastener.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive hame-fastener that has "two adjustable parts, one of which is provided with hooks to be engaged by means on the other part" (lines 11-13). The invention is adjustable and does not unlock or disengage accidentally but can easily be unlocked on purpose.
- Hub-Attaching Device.
- Patent for device to attach vehicle wheel hubs to axles and spindles without screw-threads, including description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeders for Thrashing-Machines.
- Patent for improvements in the design of band-cutters and feeders for thrashing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Safety-Casing Clamp
- Patent for a tool that supports the drilling and operating of oil and gas wells. Specifically, the patented tool allows a strong method of sealing the smaller casing inside the larger casing, as the larger casing is pulled out of the well. Includes illustrations.
- Brick-Machine.
- Patent for a brick machine that is "effective, yet simple and durable, machine especially adapted to receive bricks from a stiff-mud mill and re-press them and also to provide a means whereby the machine will be automatic in its action." (Lines 7-12) Illustrations included.
- Vehicle Axle Box.
- Patent for a new and improved axle box for vehicles. This design consists of a novel combination of spindle, detachable and reversible bearing-sleeve, interposed elastic sleeves, hub, axle-box, and lubricator (lines 74-90).
- Double Acting Cylinder Pump
- Patent for double acting cylinder pumps capable of continuous operation and a continuous stream of water, including illustration.
- Coffin
- Patent for a lightweight and sturdy coffin made of two solid pieces of baked or burned clay which can be sealed with cement and secured further with nuts and bolts.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator that throws the dirt out of the way to allow the plants to be chopped more easily.
- Combination-Tool
- Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
- Horse Collar.
- Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "is to supply a cheap, durable, easy fitting and self adjusting or flexible horse-collar for farm and other use, and which shall readily adapt itself to the form of the animal, and thereby obviate those abrasions which are so common with the use of a rigid and unyielding collar. To these and other ends [the] collar is made for the most part of what is known as "moss-yarn," with its strands or fibers arranged and the body of the collar subjected to pressure in a mold or press" (lines 9-20).
- Audiphone
- Patent for a audiophone which reproduces sounds at their original volume and timbre through the use of diaphragms vibrated by an electric signal.
- Steering Attachment for Automobiles
- Patent for a steering attachment for automobiles, more specifically automobiles of Ford. This invention helps to provide stiffer friction for the steering wheel which provides stability when the driver no longer has a grip on the steering wheel. This helps keep the steering wheel from veering off and stays on track.
- Torpedo Receptacle
- Patent for a torpedo receptacle. This invention is an improvement for use with railroad lanterns. Illustration included.
- Two-Way Faucet.
- Patent for "a two-way faucet adapted for attachment to a hydrant or other source of supply and also for connection with a hose, whereby water my be obtained for general or household purposes without the necessity of the water passing through the rubber hose, which would render the water unfit for domestic use or for culinary purposes." (Lines 13-20) Illustration included.
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the frame, drum, the power-ropes to be wound thereon, and the platen combined with the levers having rounded upper and lower ends to operate in rounded sockets in the said platen and the upper part of the frame and the toggle-joints near the centers of the said levers, comprising the rounded projection on one of the members adapted to fit a corresponding cavity or recess in the adjacent end of the other member, the lateral ears and the pin to pass through said ears and the rounded projection" (lines 12-23).
- Axle Lubricator.
- Patent for axle lubricator. This invention makes it so that manual lubrication of spindles is eliminated.
- Check for Draft Apparatus.
- Patent for a check attachment for a draft apparatus that pulls rope from the apparatus to effect the draft on the object "which will automatically lock the pull rope against movement under the influence of tension of the apparatus when the force applied to the rope to the effect such tension is removed" (lines 20-24).
- Bed Attachment
- Patent for bed attachments that can be stored under the ordinary bed.
- Improvement in Lamp-Burners.
- Patent for a new improvement for Lamp-Burners that helps prevent explosions, including illustrations.
- Filter.
- Patent for a new and improved filter. This design is for "[a] filter consisting of sections secured together at their meeting edges by a lapped joint, the upper edge of [a] section being fitted wholly within [another] section and forming a shoulder for the support of a screen-plate, and the body of filtering material above, a shoulder on [a] section below [the] shoulder, and screen plates resting on and held to the shoulders by the weight of the body of filtering material, whereby, when the filter-sections are inverted, the [other] shoulder serves to support [the] screen and the filtering material above" (lines 45-56).
- Boring-Tool for Oil-Wells and the Like.
- Patent for new and improved boring tools. The combined wheel bit and reamer is intended to simultaneously bore and ream.
- Indicator
- Patent for an indicator. This indicator if for the use with cars as a means for moving a belt that displays the name of streets. Illustration included.
- Self-Adjusting Umbrella-Holder.
- Patent for a self-adjusting umbrella holder that is worn on the body to allow the users hands to be free.
- Wire Tightener.
- Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design "has for its object to provide a novel, simple, economical, and efficient implement or tool for tightening wire fences by forming twists or loops in the fence-strands to take up the slack, and to provide a novel implement of this type wherein a rod or bar can be conveniently applied to increase the leverage in turning the implement to form the twists or loops" (lines 8-16).
- Tooth Cleaning Implement
- Patent for a tooth cleaning implement. This invention is designed to get between the teeth. Illustration included.
- Cotton Topper
- Patent for a cotton topper. This invention is designed to deal with weeds and is attached to the frame of an ordinary cultivator or plow. Illustrations included
- Automobile-Jack.
- Patent for an automobile jack designed to be attached to a beam embedded in a garage's concrete floor, with an added safety mechanism to prevent collapse. Including instructions and illustrations.
- Antifriction Hollow-Tube Sucker-Rod for Deep Wells
- Patent for a "simple and inexpensive means for coupling the tubular sections of the sucker rod together and guiding said rod with little or no friction into the well casing or tube" (lines13-17). This object is to be used in "pumping water, oil, and other liquids from deep wells"(lines 11-12).
- Nutcracker
- Patent for nut crackers designed for use in cracking pecan nuts. It is a simple device that can be readily attached to a table or other support and is quickly adjustable for different sized nuts.
- Washing Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design has a reversible trough, "having bearings for the detachable rollers and provided with a pair of flat springs affixed rigidly to opposite sides and at opposite ends of the trough, hooked screw-bolts having thumb-screws, and shaft of the main roller" (lines 1-6).
- Spindle-Upsetting Device
- Patent for a spindle-upsetting device designed to stave up the spindle of a vehicle axle for the purpose of restoration. Illustrations included.
- Metal Packing-Case for Food Products.
- Patent for "a new and useful packing-case for food products" (lines 13-14), particularly for cured meats. It protects "against flies, souring, shrinking, &c., than the ordinary forms of packing" (lines 20-21). It is made from metal, stamped into a packing-case.
- Internal Combustion Engine.
- Patent for an internal combustion engine consisting of a valve and cynlinder. The engine is made to avoid dead air space commonly present in valve casings.
- Transmission-Gearing.
- Patent for an improved gear set adapted for transmitting power to the main driving wheels of farm tractors, the gear set embodying simple and efficient means of effecting a reversal of travel without any chance of gear stripping, as well as the whole transmission gearing encompassing less space.
- Self Centering Axle Lathe
- Patent for a self centering axle lathe. Illustrations included.
- Oven
- Patent for an oven that may be used with open burners such as gas or oil burners. Illustrations included.