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- Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.
- Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
- Center Foot for Cultivators
- Patent for "an improved center foot or standard which is adapted to be readily attached to and detached from a beam or beams of a cultivator adjusted thereon and adapted for the attachment of a shovel, plow, or sweep of any kind required" (lines 8-15).
- Combined Trousers Stretchers And Coat Hanger
- Patent for a combined trousers stretcher and coat hanger. Illustration included.
- Bedclothes-Clamp
- Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
- Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling.
- Patent for a new and useful apparatus for cleansing and preparing cotton for baling and ginning.
- Boiler Compound
- Patent for a boiler compound for purifying water in steam boilers, with ingredients included.
- Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines
- Patent for an automatic pump for internal combustion engines. Illustration included.
- Bale Tie Buckle
- Patent for bale tie buckle. Illustration included.
- Boiler Feeder
- Patent for boiler feeder. This invention is designed as a gravity feed automatic boiler. Illustration included.
- Automatic Electric Switch
- Patent for an automatic electric switch. This invention consists of a series of switches and a rotary switch run by electromagnetic key operating motor. Illustration included.
- Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton
- Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included
- Aerodrome
- Patent for an aerodrome/helicopter with improved wing design.
- Animal-Poke
- Patent for an animal poke that is worn on the head of the animal to prevent it from breaking or going underneath wire fences.
- Automatic Electric Switch
- Patent for an automatic electric switch. Illustration included.
- Auger-Bit
- Patent for an auger bit used for boring holes. Illustrations included.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a new and useful car coupling.
- Cooling Apparatus.
- Patent for a cooling apparatus for food that uses the process of evaporation of water to cool the apparatus.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal. Illustration included.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses." (line 6-7) including instructions and illustrations.
- Coin Controlled Vending Machine
- Patent for coin controlled vending machine. Illustration included.
- Car for Pneumatic Railways.
- Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the below the car and one above.
- Brace for Back and Legs.
- Patent for a new and improved back and leg brace. This design consists in "the combination of the belt, the straps secured to the belt, [other] straps secured to the [same] belt and extending downward V-shaped, the links at the lower ends of the straps, the [other] strap, the pads attached to the lower ends of the straps, and the necessary buckles to secure and adjust the device to the body of the wearer" (lines 54-62).
- Baling-Press
- Patent for improvements in construction of cotton baling-presses.
- Caster.
- Patent for a new and improved caster. This design consists in "the combination of a caster having an elongated stem provided with upper and lower annular supporting-shoulders, a poison-receptacle having a central opening in its bottom to receive the stem and provided with a central vertical tube having a top provided with an opening receiving the stem, said receptacle being supported by the lower shoulder, and a concavo-convex shield supported by the upper shoulder and arranged over the mouth of the receptacle and provided with a filling-orifice and having a pivoted cover" (lines 82-93).
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame or support, the lever-arms, the winch and the ropes connecting the said arms thereto, the follower, the toggle-jointed levers connecting the said follower with the frame, and the rods connecting the joints of the said levers to the lever-arms, with the follower and the fulcrumed levers, having their inner ends connected to the follower and their outer ends connected to [a different] follower whereby the said followers move simultaneously when the winch is turned" (lines 83-94).
- Boot Cleaner.
- Patent for a new and improved boot cleaner. This design "affords facilities for readily and conveniently scraping all parts of the boot or shoe. The heel is scraped on [a] semicircular portion located at the top of the arch, the sides of the sole by the arms, the upper hollow of the foot by the projections, [and] the toe by the lower side of the arch or bow" (lines 38-45).
- Churn.
- Patent for a simple and durable churn that quickly makes butter. The butter is churned by pumping a lever, which is connected to a strap that is wrapped around a rod, the rod goes into the container holding the cream and has hoops attached to it inside the container, and the pumping action makes the hoops quickly move back and forth.
- Cotton Carrier.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-carrier. This design consists in "the bottom having the ridged portion and the oppositely-inclined portions, said bottom being provided with a hook in front, the upright post in front for holding the lines, the posts upon the sides near the front, to which the mouth of the bag is secured to be held open, and the upright posts on the sides in the rear of the posts for holding the bags when filled" (lines 78-85).
- Car-Brake.
- Patent for a new and more effective brake for trains, with illustrations.
- 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).
- Churn.
- Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable frame having a fly-wheel mounted in bearings thereof, and a wrist-pin on said fly-wheel, of the lever pivoted to the frame at one end" (lines 95-98). Further, it consists in "carrying a pivoted dasher at its other end, said lever having a slot or opening to receive the wrist-pin, a crank-arm, a treadle pivoted to the frame at one end, and carrying a handle at its other end, and a rod connecting the treadle and crank-arm" (lines 1-6).
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination of sill having uprights or fulcrums, levers mounted upon the latter, a follow-block connected to the inner ends of said levers by loose joints, a vertically-sliding follower, rods connecting the outer ends of said follower with the outer ends of the levers, and mechanism for operating the follower . . . the follower moving vertically above the sill, levers pivoted to uprights or fulcrums upon the sill, and having inner beveled ends, a follow-block loosely jointed between the inner ends of said levers" (lines 64-77).
- Combination-Wrench.
- Patent for a combination wrench that combines a sliding-jaw wrench with a tallow box, hammer, nail claw, horseshoe-pick, plow-paddle, and screwdriver.
- Control Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engines
- Patent for an object that "[provides] economical mixtures when the engine is running under light load without affecting the power of the engine when running under a heavy load."
- Antiskid Device
- Patent for reinforcing the hinge of an antiskid device. Long studs on heavy foot plates on tires are used to brace the hinges not allowing them to wear down by dragging on the road surface.
- Car-Coupling
- Patent for "...certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings..." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
- Block or Follower for Baling-Presses.
- Patent for blocks or followers for baling presses that has an improved press block to facilitate the handling of the bagging that the bale is wrapped in so the bale can be held tightly.
- Controlling Mechanism for Exhaust-Gases of Internal-Combustion Engines.
- Patent for an improved controlling mechanism for accelerating the warming up of engines, especially automotive and marine engines. It can maintain a good working temperature while running at slow speeds so that the engine may operate economically in cold weather.
- Chopping Attachment.
- Patent for a chopping attachment for a cultivator. The attachment has an adjustable height in order to cut shorter and taller crops.
- Carbureter
- Patent for the carbureter for controlling the quality of the combustible mixture for internal combustion engines, such as automobiles requiring a wide range of variation in the proportion of fuel and air to efficiently and economically supply the demand.
- Bed Attachment
- Patent for bed attachments that can be stored under the ordinary bed.
- Improvement in Churn-Dashers.
- Patent for "construction and arrangement of a churn-dasher..." ( lines 13-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Tramper.
- Patent for an improvement in the "apparatus for tramping and packing cotton" and "for automatically feeding cotton to a tramper at predetermined intervals." The invention is to be used in a two-story ginhouse alongside a condenser and press box.
- Writing Instrument.
- Patent for a writing instrument for writing on stacks of carbon paper, which need heavy pressure to show on all the pages.
- Vehicle.
- Patent for a new and improved horse carriage. This design calls for "the rider [to] press the treadles so as to hold the wheels in contact with the ground. When sufficient speed has been acquired the treadles are released, and the springs will then raise the wheels from contact with the ground, and the momentum will then be sufficient to keep the wheel erect. Should it be inclined to tilt, it may easily be righted by pressing either treadle so as to throw the wheel on the tilting side in contact with the ground" (lines 61-74).
- Violin Tail Piece.
- Patent for a new and improved tail piece for violins. This design "has for its object to raise or lower the pitch of the strings simultaneously, when required" (lines 10-12).
- Water Elevator.
- Patent for a new and improved water elevator. This design "relates to improvements in water-elevators in which water is made to perform the operations heretofore performed by steam; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts . . . whereby the rarefaction of heated air is employed to raise or set in motion a continuous stream of water" (lines 14-21).
- Machine for Cutting Basket Splints.
- Patent for a new machine for cutting basket splints. This design is for a large ring with grooves of varying depths to receive pieces of timber, whereupon a horse pulls a knife-tipped sweep along the perimeter of the ring, gradually turning the timber into splints for baskets. The machine can be conveniently disassembled and stored when not in use, and it is simple and easy enough for a unskilled laborer to assemble.
- Luggage-Carrier.
- Patent for a luggage-carrier "particularly adapted for use in conjunction with motor cycles or similar wheeled vehicles" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Windmills.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Windmills" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.