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- Nail-Staple for Barbed Wire.
- Patent for a tool meant to assist with attaching fence wire to posts. The nail-staple supports the wire during application to the post, which allows it to be done by a single person, saving time and labor.
- Cattle-Guard.
- Patent for a cattle-guard "for preventing cattle from passing along a certain point of a railroad track from an inclosure (sic)" (lines 10-12) including instructions and illustrations.
- Cutting Implement
- Patent for a cutting tool which can be attached to the bottom of a shoe in order to chop cotton or other plants and pulverize ground. It is a sharp, flat, knife blade that affixes to the shoe with straps across the bridge and toe sections.
- Crossover
- Patent for cross-overs in railways to prevent collisions of trains traveling on intersecting track ways
- Improvement in Fence Posts.
- Patent for improvements in fence posts and has "for its primary object to provide a post which may be of extremely simple construction and operation and especially adapted for use in constructing wire fences" (lines 12-15) including instructions and illustrations.
- Railroad-Tie.
- Patent for a railroad-tie in which it will “maintain the gage standard when one rail is replaced by another rail having larger cross section than the original rail.” (Lines 21-23) Illustration is included.
- Lock.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Locks" (line 6).
- Window-Sash Fastener.
- Patent for a window sash fastener with improvement in locking device that hold it in any position or securely locked against movement, including illustrations.
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for a rail joint that connects the opposing ends of a pair of rails while allowing for necessary contractions and expansion of the rails due to atmospheric conditions. It also reinforces the portion of the joint at the meeting ends.
- Bale-Band Buckle
- Patent for a bale band buckle. Illustrations included.
- Box and Package Elevating Apparatus
- Patent for an elevator for boxes and packages. Illustrations included.
- Railway Crossing
- Patent for a railway crossing. Illustration included.
- Fireproof Covering
- Patent for a fireproof covering. Illustration included.
- Bale-Tie
- Patent for a bale tie made of aluminum which has a fastener attached to the band.
- Fly-Trap Shed
- Patent for a collapsible shed, which is equipped with a trap to catch flies when flies are being removed from cows in the shed through a water spray.
- Spike-Puller.
- Patent for a spike remover that firmly grips the spike being removed.
- Wrench.
- Patent for "a wrench having a sliding jaw and a handle pivoted to the shank in such a manner that a movement of the handle about the work" prevents the jaw to move (lines 13-16).
- Gate Closer
- Patent for a gate closer. This invention uses a counter weight to automatically closes a gate or door. Illustration included.
- Cotton Chopper and Weeder
- Patent for a cotton chopper and weeder. Illustration included.
- Fertilizer-Distributer.
- Patent for a fertilizer-distributer with "means for agitating and loosening up the fertilizing material and delivering the same through a series of discharge-openings, such series extending transversely of the path of movement of the machine across the field and controlled by individual and independently-operable feed slides or gates, whereby the machine may be used for simultaneously fertilizing adjoined furrows or as a broadcast fertilizer-distributer" (Lines 12-21).
- Gate.
- Patent for improvements in swinging gates which “can be opened in either direction and capable of being operated at a distance from either side of it by a person on horseback or in a vehicle.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
- Book
- Patent for a book with margin numbering which allows for page numbers to be visible with one glance, including illustrations.
- Plow Attachment.
- Patent for an adjustable plow attachment that is placed onto a plow blade and sweeps aside earth while "forming a load-bearing surface." (p. 1)
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
- Ventilator.
- Patent for a new and useful ventilator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Compound Engine.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in compound engines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Mechanism for Overcoming Dead-Centers.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in mechanism for overcoming dead centers, including instructions and illustrations.
- Fire-Screen.
- Patent for a portable, ornamental fire screen. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Governor for Steam-Engines.
- Patent for "a steam engine governor for shutting off the supply of steam to the engine in the event of the governor-belt breaking or slipping from the pulley, which is operatively connected with the weighted arms of the governor, so as to control the motion of the latter." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Mechanism for Overcoming Dead-Centers.
- Patent for a "mechanism for overcoming what are known in mechanics as 'dead-centers,' which occur in machines where a shaft is driven by means of a crank." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Wire-Stretcher.
- Patent for improvements in wire-stretcher for use in fence-building in which wire is secured to a fence-post, using horse power to hitch to the whiffletree and driven along close to the lines of posts. When wires are being leaded out, they are being stretched simultaneously. A lever is inserted in front of the spools as a final additional tension device to tighten and staple the wire to the fence-posts. Illustration is included.
- Suspension-Bridge
- Patent for improvements in suspension bridges "to increase the strength of the same and reduce the n-umber of parts and simplify the general construction of the same" (lines 10-12).
- Insecticide
- Patent for "a compound or composition for the extermination of ants, moles, salamanders, prairie-dogs, large rats, &c." (lines 11-13).
- Hammock or Swing.
- Patent for a new and improved hammock. This design consists in "the combination of a suspended canopy, consisting of a hoop provided with screw-eyes and having a textile covering and a mosquito-netting secured thereto and depending therefrom, with a basket consisting of a hoop, a suitably-constructed bottom, a cushion, and a guard . . . and supporting-ropes secured at their lower portions to the basket and to the guard, and having snap-hooks at their upper ends adapted to engage the screw-eyes in the hoop of the canopy" (lines 5-15).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the draw-head having the open space at its front end, the longitudinal groove in its side, extending rearward from said space, and the transverse recess at the rear end of said groove, the coupling bar resting in the groove and having a lug at its rear end" (lines 92-98). Said lug is "pivoted in the recess, and the hook at its front end arranged within the open space, and the spring having its rear end secured to the side of the draw-head in rear of the recess" (lines 1-4).
- Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "slides over opposite holes in the bottom of its hopper and a dropping-cylinder provided with seed-cups on its periphery and removable screws rising from within the cups, whereby it may be changed . . . so as to plant corn or cotton" (lines 59-65).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform . . . having a spring buffer and a projection adjacent to and to one side of the buffer . . . the catch pivotally secured below the same and having a series of coupling shoulders on one side, the spring, and the stop arranged to act upon the side of the catch from which the coupling shoulders project" (lines 89-98).
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame bearing the standards, of caster-wheels provided with shanks, which are vertically journaled in the bars at each side of said frame and in the ends of the cross-bar, the hand-lever which is secured at the forward end of the beam and pivotally connected to the center of said cross-bar and provided with a slot near its free end, the segmental upright, and the spring" (lines 16-25).
- Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for an more efficiently designed cotton chopper.
- Cane Mill.
- Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).
- Water Mill.
- Patent for a new and improved water mill. This design "relates to current water-mills, the object being to provide a mill of inexpensive and durable construction, having a wheel adapted to rise and fall with the tide, and thus to maintain a constant revolution and working of the mill. The invention consists in the combination of parts" (lines 11-18).
- Oil Press Mat.
- Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "relates to mats between which cakes of ground cotton or other oil-yielding seed are held while being subjected to the action of the press which separates the oil from the cakes. The invention has for its object to provide certain improvements in the construction of such mats, whereby they are made more efficient and durable than those in general use" (lines 9-17).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "an improved fastening for the ends of bale-bands, whether the latter be constructed of sheet metal or wire." (lines 18-21) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Door-Securers.
- Patent for a new and improved safety-locks for doors which consists of only three parts: a screw with sharp points, a nut, and a guard pivoted to the nut. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Combined Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for an improved combined planter, cultivator, and cotton-chopping tool with design specifications and directions for the usage of the tool, including illustrations.
- Improvement In Gin-Saw-Filing Machines.
- Patent for improved circular file for gin-file-machine.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for improved construction and arrangement of car-couplings.
- Improvement in Gin-Saw-Filing Machines.
- Patent for a "gin-saw-filing machine consisting, essentially, of a rotary and intermittingly movable file, of an intermittingly-operated feed and check device, and of adjustable reciprocating sharpening-files".