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- Tractor
- Patent for "novel features of construction and combinations of parts" in tractors to ensure a steady, even pace of travel and allow for traversing uneven landscape while maintaining a level setting, including illustrations and instructions.
- Wheel-Operated Lift Mechanism
- Patent for a wheel operated lift mechanism designed for agricultural implements with wheels which can raise the frame of the agricultural implement for easy access to the wheel. This tool is adjustable to raise or lower the frame for easy access to the wheel to disconnect it.
- Tank for Oil Burners
- Patent fora tank for oil burners. This invention is designed to supply burners with crude oil. Illustration included.
- Walking-Cane.
- Patent for a walking cane which is made of two intertwined sections of spiral steel wires, which can be painted different colors creating a noticeable object that can be used by sports fans to show support for their team at games,
- Wire-Fence-Stay Machine.
- Patent for wire working machines, specifically for automatically making wire fence stays. This machine can be operated manually and it is portable.
- Bale-Tie
- Patent for a tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
- Cotton Picking Apparatus.
- Patent for cotton-picking apparatus. This apparatus supports complete removal of the cotton from plant without foreign objects or harm to plant.
- Tube-Vulcanizing Apparatus.
- Patent for a tube-vulcanizing apparatus "and in such connection, it relates more particularly to an apparatus for repairing inflatable tubes for wheel tires." (lines 10-13)
- Heading Holder Attachment for Type Writers
- Patent for a head holder attachment for type writers. This invention is for the purpose to make a removable attachment that holds prearranged headings.
- Gas-Compressor.
- Patent for gas compressors for ice and refrigeration machines, with instructions and illustrations.
- Process of Desulfurizing Oil or Distillate
- Patent for a process of desulfurizing oil or distillate.
- Nut and Bolt Lock
- Patent for a new nut and bolt lock design that is reliable and can lock permanently if needed, including illustrations.
- Silo
- Patent for a silo composed of sections that can be arranged to modify the capacity as needed, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Ant Traps
- Patent for the improvement of Ant traps, including to illustrated and labeled figures.
- 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.
- Fire Alarm System
- Patent for a new and improved fire alarm system. This alarm system will allow the room on fire to be identified and alert the fire department that there is a fire in that house. Using a minimum number of wires, for safety, this alarm signals only one bell no mater the room on fire.There is also a self test feature within this system.
- Fire-Alarm System.
- Patent for "an alarm system consisting of an electric circuit within which as thermally operated circuit closer was placed, which was adapted to sound an alarm when the circuit closer had been closed by an operation of the thermal elements of the circuit closer." (lines 78-84) including instructions and illustrations.
- Automatic Fire-Alarm System.
- Patent for an automatic fire alarm system with a simple arrangement of alarm devices (positioned throughout different rooms) with sound or visual indicators for fire awareness and closer thermal circuits (assisted with spring contact and circuit closer). The automatic fire alarm system will have a more immediate reaction by making an alert noise or visual and propping open the spring contact.
- Improvement in Wheel-Plows
- Patent for a wheel plow designed to be simple, durable, easily controlled, and of light draft.
- Peanut Digger.
- Patent for new and useful improvements to a machine for harvesting or digging peanuts, including instructions and illustrations.
- Heater for Gaseous Fluids.
- Patent for "an attachment for use in connection with internal combustion engines whereby heavy oil...may be advantageously used as fuel" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
- Root and Stalk Pulling Machine
- Patent for a root and stalk pulling machine. Illustrations included.
- Washing-Machine.
- Patent for an improved washing machine "in which is employed a rotary agitator or dasher with blades, and it has for its objects among others to provide an improved construction whereby better results are attained, the construction simplified and made cheaper, less liable to become inoperative or injured and easier to operate" (lines 16-22). It has a cover with a hinged lid.
- Ink-Bottle.
- Patent for improvements in in bottles: "it consists, essentially, of a hexagonal or analogous polygonal shaped body having dip cups arranged adjacent to one and thereof at such angles as to regulate the flow by turning the body and bringing it to bear on different bases." (lines 12-17).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a baling-press meant to bale cotton. In this machine, "the power as applied to the plunger is increased in proportion to the resistance offered by the material being baled and whereby the forward movement of the plunger is automatically checked at the limit of its path and is returned to its initial positioin without effort upon the part of the operator" (lines 10-17).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a baling-press for cotton and uses a compression chamber and a head or compressor block to compress the cotton. The invention is more effective and more expeditious than other baling-presses.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
- Elevated Drafting Rule
- Patent for instrument used in drafting and ruling straight lines.
- Geometrical Instrument
- Patent for a geometrical instrument. This instrument is used to create a straight edge with pivoted blades, like a protractor, to be used for laying protracted angles, etc.
- Tape-Measure.
- Patent for a tape measure with a claw on one end that the user can affix to a surface to hold one end of the measuring tape and aid in the measuring process.
- Lumber-Kiln
- Patent for a "kiln proper . . . constructed with special reference to combustion of cinders or sparks, and thereby preventing their escape into the chamber containing the lumber" (lines 7-10)
- Tire-Casing.
- Patent for a new type of puncture-proof tire casing.
- Field Thrashing-Machine.
- Patent for a field thrashing-machine that can be carried into a field and harvests the tops of standing grain as it is carried forward. The machine also thrashes the grain, separates the grain from the chaff, and delivers the grain in a receptacle.
- Gearing.
- Patent for a speed transmission device that simply and efficiently changes the gears in an automobile especially at fluctuating speeds.
- Electrode for Secondary Batteries.
- Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.
- Hame Tug.
- Patent for a new and improved hame-tug. This design "relates to a hame and trace attachment, having for its object to provide a simple, strong, and durable device to connect the front end of the trace chain or strap to the hame, whereby the movement of the said chain or strap is prevented from wearing the parts, and thus necessitating frequent repair or replacement" (lines 9-16).
- 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.
- Mattress
- Patent for a mattress. This invention relates more particularly to the pattern of the blank from which the casing is made to provide a simple and durable structure and may be rolled or folded when not in use.
- Book-Holder for Reading-Stands.
- Patent for "a book holder especially designed to receive large books for reference, such as a dictionary for example, and to so construct the mechanism of the holder that a cradle will be provided for the reception of the book, which cradle will be adapted to be carried upward and outward from the holder in a manner which will bring the book in proper position for consultation, and which mechanism will also act to lower the book, without jar or injury to it, within the holder when the book is no longer required." (Lines 14-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Reading-Stand.
- Patent for a simple, durable, and economic reading stand that has two desks, one of which is adjustable so that a person can read while sitting at any angle. The second desk is capable of holding heavy books. Both stands are vertically adjustable. The stand can be constructed to hold a lamp in addition to books.
- Oil Burner for Heating Purposes
- Patent for an oil burner for heating purposes. This is an improvement for the burning of liquid and gaseous fuel burners.
- Poultry Drinking-Fountain.
- Patent for a poultry drinking fountain, which run water from a water tank to the the water trough and cuts off automatically when the trough is full.
- Animal Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the base-board having the opposite recesses and the transverse shaft, the yoke having the spring-coils mounted on the projecting ends of the shaft in said recesses, the standard having the holding-rod, the trigger, and the guards or prongs secured in the base-board" (lines 20-26).
- Churn.
- Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the standards, the longitudinal bars connecting the same, the driving-shaft journaled on the upper bars, the counter-shaft journaled on the lower bars and provided with a crank-disk at one end, gearing between the driving-shaft and the counter-shaft, the balance-wheel on the counter-shaft, the rock-shaft journaled on the upper bars and provided with the oppositely-extending crank-arms between the said bars, the crank arm depending from the end of the rock-shaft, [and] the pitman" (lines 88-99).
- Churn.
- Patent for improvements to churns, "and has special reference to what are known as 'vibrating-dasher' churns." (lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Churn Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved churn-motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame, the rock-shaft arranged longitudinally in the top of the same and having the arm and the cross-head, the dasher-rods pivoted to the cross-head, the crank-shaft journaled transversely in the frame below the rock-shaft and having the fly-wheel and the pulley, the pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the arm, the driving-shaft arranged transversely in the frame, the pulley thereon, and the belt connecting the pulleys" (lines 64-74).
- Clasp
- Patent for a new and improved clasp. This design "compris[es] a base and a reversely bent or inclined retaining or clamping arm formed of a single continuous wire with an eye at one end thereof and a bend or enlargement at the other end thereof, the frame or base being substantially rectangular, and the upward bent arm extending through the eye at one end of the base and having the bend or enlargement at the other end arranged near or against the end bar at the opposite end of the frame" (lines 66-76).
- Fencing - Machine
- Patent for a new and useful Wire-Fence Machine, including illustrations and instructions.
- Washing-Machine
- Patent for improvements to cylinder washing machines.