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- Axle
- Patent for an axle. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Picker.
- Patent for a skeleton glove for picking cotton that protects the fingers from chafing from the plant through the use of metal or leather thimbles on the end of each finger of the glove.
- Egg Preserving Apparatus.
- Patent for a new and useful egg container for packing, storing, and preserving eggs.
- Fish-Hook
- Patent for a fish hook with additional hooks attached in order to ensure a caught fish remains on the hook.
- Garment-Supporter
- Patent for a benefit and specification of the garment supporters.
- Hot Box Cooler and Oiler
- Patent for a hot box cooler and oiler. This device is for cooling and lubricating journal boxes of railway cars. Illustration included.
- Insect-Destroying Machine.
- Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
- Insect-Destroying Machine
- Patent for an agricultural machine to remove insects (especially boll-weevils) from cotton plants.
- Insect Destroying Machine
- Patent for an insect destroying machine. Illustrations included.
- Insect - Destroying Machine.
- Patent for a machine developed for the removal of insects from cotton plants by means of rotary brushes on each side and crushing rolls below the brushes to kill the insects dislodged.
- Insecticide
- Patent for a type of insecticide for cotton and vegetable plants. Particularly effective for use against the "boll-weevil" of cotton plants.
- Padlock.
- Patent for a padlock which "has for its object to provide a lock which cannot be picked and which shall be strong and simple in construction." (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations.
- Quilting-Frame
- Patent for "a construction which will be cheap and simple in construction and efficient in its operation and which may be adjusted to hold the quilt with the proper degree of tension at all times" (lines 12-16).
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for a rail joint, which does need bolts to fasten it together.
- Rail Joint, Chair, and Tie.
- Patent for simple, reliable and efficient means to prevent the rails from spreading or sinking at the joins. Also to provide a metal tie designed to pass through the rail chairs at the rail joints.
- Rail Tie And Brace
- Patent for rail tie and braces. This invention is designed to couple opposite rails of the road-beds of railways allowing them to be adjusted as occasion requires. Illustration included.
- Rail Tie and Brace
- Patent for a rail tie and brace. Illustrations included.
- Railroad Joint and Chair
- Patent for a railroad joint and chair. Illustration included.
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for an improvement in rotary engines, specifically in engines where the piston is operated by direct and expansive force of steam.
- Sand Band
- Patent for a sand band. Illustration included.
- Soil map, Willis sheet
- Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
- Soil Survey of the Willis Area, Texas
- Text describes the area, history of settlement and agricultural development, climate, physiography and geology, soils, and agricultural conditions of the Willis area, Montgomery County, Texas.
- Stove-Damper.
- Patent for stove-damper by using “a damper-valve which not only subserves the usuall function of an ordinary cooking-stove damper which works over the smoke-exit flue, but also acts as a draft regulating device to provide for regulating the draft the damper is thrown to a closed position.” (Lines 19-26) Illustration is included.
- Tooth-Bender.
- Patent for a tooth bender for band saw teeth, which keeps the teeth in place for use and for grinding.
- Weed-Turning Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for a weed turning attachment for plows, which is adjustable to different size weeds.