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- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "consists in a frame which is adapted to be placed over the ant-hill, so as to surround the entrance thereto, and provided with parallel surrounding flanges or sides which converge to each other and lead to an exit-spout . . . [and] is to provide an ant-trap which is adapted to catch the ants both on their attempt to leave the hill or to return to it, whereby the entire colony may be exterminated" (lines 9-21).
- Antifreezing Outlet-Valve for Tanks.
- Patent for a new and improved "valve-operating mechanism which cannot be rendered inoperative by ice forming in the tank, and also whereby the valve itself cannot become frozen" (lines 26-30) including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Administering Medecine to Live Stock.
- Patent for for a device to efficiently administer medication to live stock.
- Apparatus for Cooling Water.
- Patent for a water-cooling apparatus composed chiefly of a subterranean cistern and a water-supply source.
- Artificial Stone.
- Patent for artificial stone made of a special combination of cement that hardens and stays hard under water. It also does not conduct heat.
- Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for a new and improved attachment for plows. This design "has relation to devices for guiding or directing shovel-plows, sweeps, or cultivator-plows, and thus release in a great measure the strain upon the arms of the plow[person] consequent upon directing the plow in its proper course; and it consists in the detailed construction of a device or attachment of that class" (lines 12-19).
- Automatic Computing and Weighing Scale
- Patent for automatic computing and weighing scale.
- Balancing Device for Cultivators or the Like
- Patent for a balancing device for cultivators or the like.
- Baling-Machine
- Patent for a baling machine. Illustrations included.
- Baling Press.
- Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a press for baling cotton and other fibrous materials.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
- Bedstead.
- Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design consists of a frame with tension wires "extending diagonally across the bed-frame to the side pieces thereof at points intermediate between the corner posts, and independent tension devices to which the ends of the wire are connected, whereby a longitudinal and lateral strain is exerted upon the bed-frame when the wires are adjusted" (lines 1-7).
- Bedstead Brace.
- Patent for a new and improved bedstead brace. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails, the end rails, and posts, of the hooks secured to the inner faces of said posts, the eyes on the inner sides of the side rails and located a slight distance apart, the wires secured to the hooks and passing through the eyes, the plates having openings, through which the wires pass and the screw bolt and nut connecting said plates" (lines 60-68).
- Brick-Kiln.
- Patent for an improvement for continuous and semi-continuous kilns, to decrease resulting moisture "without materially lessening their fuel economy" (page 1, lines 50-51), including illustrations.
- Calculator.
- Patent for a calculator "in which a bar having a series of numbers thereon slides in a frame or base also provided with a series of numbers" (lines 10-12). It is meant for quickly adding numbers.
- Calendar Clock
- Patent for calendar clock. Illustration included.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for an automatic car-coupler that operates without someone having to go to between the cars. It is simple and compact.
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for an improved car coupling that is automatic and safer than regular couplings.
- Car-Door Cleat and Fastener.
- Patent for "a simple and comparatively-inexpensive car-door cleat and fastener designed for use on cars for transporting cotton and other highly-inflammable merchandise and capable of effectually excluding sparks from the interior of the car and of preventing the same from entering between the edge of the door and the doorway." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cattle-Guard
- Patent for a cattle guard to prevent cattle from treading upon railroad tracks. Illustrations included.
- Chimney-Jacket
- Patent for a chimney jacket construction for naval vessels. Illustrations included.
- Churn.
- Patent for a churn, which is run by a foot treadle attached to a wheel that turns the dasher in the churn.
- Churn.
- Patent for improvements in churns; specifically, improvements in the construction of the cylinder and the churn-dasher. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Clod-Crusher
- This patent is for a clod crusher. The purpose of this patent is to make clod crushing more effective and efficient through the action of the cutting members and not by the weight of apparatus alone.
- Cloth-Winding Machine.
- Patent for a cloth winding machine, which measures cloth for cutting and then winds the rest of the bolt of cloth back up.
- Colter Attachment.
- Patent for a new and improved colter attachment for plows. This design "consists of a slicing colter or knife attachments to the mold-board, the object of which is to slit or cut the furrow-slice into narrow strips at the same time that it is turned up by the mold-board" (lines 7-11).
- Combination-Tool.
- Patent for a combination tool for pipe fitters and mechanics. The tool can be combined with a number of separate tools, including a die-stock and tap. The tool is foldable when not in used.
- Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle and the wheels, provided with the sleeves, one of which is provided with the spur-wheel of the reach bar secured to the axle, the sleeve mounted on the said bar and provided with the pinion, the arms secured to the sleeve, the curved rods adjustably secured to the arm, and the blades secured to outer ends of the said rods" (lines 8-17).
- Corn and Cotton Planter
- Patent for improvements to corn and cotton planters, including illustrations.
- Corn And Cotton Planter
- Patent for Corn and Cotton Planter
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
- Cotton Gin.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design consists of an "endless wire-gauze band or apron, bound at its sides with strips of flexible material, such as leather . . . and provided on its inner side with slats, in combination with the saw-shaft, the condenser-roller, and the upper roller, around which the band passes, provided with longitudinal channels . . . in [a] cylinder and [a] wiper" (lines 81-92).
- Cotton-Loader.
- Patent for “improvements in apparatus for loading cotton bales (either gin or compress) onto box cars, especially with a view of utilizing the head room or space usually left unoccupied between the roof of the car and the bales stacked on the floor in the prevailing practice of loading cars” (lines 36-42) including instructions and illustrations.
- Coupling
- Patent for a coupler for railway cars. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator
- Patent for a cultivator for carrying plows. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator
- Patent for improvements in cultivators and includes illustrations and instructions.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Curtain-Pole
- Patent for a curtain pole. Illustrations included.
- Cut-Out.
- Patent for a telephone wire cutout for use in manually grounding the telephone line during a storm.
- Dental Instrument.
- Patent for an improved dental instrument with a pointer and plunger combination to precisely locate the opening of the root canal and fill it effectively. The simple construction with few parts efficiently produces a compact tool with low production costs.
- Double-Action Pump
- Patent for "double-action submerged force-pumps which can be operated by any suitable power, but particularly adapted for operation by windmills provided with variable gearing...simple in construction and strong and durable and in which there are no parts which can be disarranged during operation and from which all valves may be removed without disturbing the pipe and which will maintain a continuous flow of water during operation."
- Double-Row Stalk-Cutter.
- Patent for a double row stalk cutter, which has rotating stalk cutters.
- Drag-Saw.
- Patent for a simple and efficient drag-saw that can be easily transported and adjusted. The saw can also be lifted during operation if necessary. It has a frame, a longitudinally-grooved guiding-bracket attached to the frame, a reciprocating pitman-head that slides into the frame, a crank-shaft that operates the pitman-head, an arm that carries the saw with a pivotal connection to the pitman-head, a saw-frame secured to the pitman-head's outer end, an adjustable strap between the saw-carrying arm and the saw-frame for adjusting the saw-frame, a spring between the arm and the pitman-head, a saw-lifting lever fulcrumed on the machine-frame, a pendent stirrup carried by the lifting-lever and slotted to control the saw-carrying arm, and a guiding-bracket with a slot where the stirrup slides and another slot where the arm moves.
- Drive for Motor-Vehicles
- Patent for the drives of motor vehicles, which provides the means to the front wheels can be driven by a motor without the interfering with the action of the steering wheel.
- Drop-Feed for Seeders and Planters.
- Patent for a drop feed device that dispenses individual seeds (particularly peas) for planting. It attaches to a planter, dropping seeds when activated by the motion of the planter's wheels. A seed guard prevents clogging.
- Electric Railway-Signal.
- Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
- End-Gate Fastener
- Patent for improvements in wagons' and similar vehicles' end gate fasteners, of which provide a firm lock and are readily and quickly disengaged as needed, with illustration.
- Feed-Cutter.
- Patent for a feed cutter that has a casing that makes up tilted side walls with transverse openings, a reciprocating knife that sits between the casing walls, a link that connects the knife to the casing, a feed trough, and a staple that engages the trough.
- Flour-Bin.
- Patent for a flour-bin that keeps the flour and meal separated and sifts them separately. This patent has "a novel formation of a stirrer to prevent the banking of the flour or meal in the bin, and which can be cheaply manufactured and when in use will offer a minimum amount of resistance to the contents of the bin agitated thereby" (lines 16-21). The bin is easily cleaned.