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- Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen.
- Patent for a new and improved fireplace screen. This design "is to provide a simple and efficient device which may be suspended in front of open fireplaces or grates for the purpose of preventing the frequent and sometimes fatal accidents which are directly due to the absence of reliable safe-guards. The invention consists of a series of shields or plates of suitable size and material, which are so connected that when not in use they may be easily drawn upward in succession side by side and compactly placed in an appropriate receptacle attached to the front of a mantel or to a wall above a fireplace" (lines 16-29).
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for an in-ground ant trap that prevents the ants from escaping once caught in the trap, including instructions and illustrations
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for a new ant trap design using a conical shape and reservoirs for holding kerosene to destroy ants, including illustrations.
- Anti-Friction Wagon Slide.
- Patent for a new and improved anti-friction wagon slide. This design "consists of flat side pieces provided with bolt-holes near their ends, and connected to diametrically-opposite points of nearly-cylindrical end pieces, which have holes through their axes for the reception of the roller-shaft. The recess is so formed that the lower portion of the end pieces shall bear against its ends when the frame is put in place. This arrangement, together with the bolts through the corners of the frame and the coupling-tongue, prevents any tendency of the frame to displacement" (lines 42-54).
- Automatic Poultry-Disinfector
- Patent for an automatic poultry disinfector that is applied to the chickens necks while they are eating.
- Baling Press
- Patent for baling press. Illustration included.
- Car-Ventilating System.
- Patent for a railroad car ventilating system that does require opening the windows.
- Coffee Mill.
- Patent for a new and improved coffee mill. This design consists of "the combination of the case having the chambers and the hopper, the burr or grinding disk, fastened to the lower end of the inner side of the hopper and to the upper side or top of the chamber . . . shaft, having a disk, revolving in a covered recess or chamber in the burr, bridge, screws, and handle" (lines 57-65).
- Coffee - Pot.
- Patent for a new and useful coffee pot, including instructions and illustrations.
- Combined Bag-Holder and Sifter.
- Patent for improvements in a combined bag-holder and sifter by using a supporting bracket secured to a wall, a bag-holder, a sifter located below the bag-holder, a detachable suspending connection between the sifter and the bag-engaging devices rising from the sifter. With this arrangement, the bag will be elevated into the proper position and to hold the bag against lateral movement while the sifter is being operated. The bag is to remain in proper position until the contents has been sifted entirely. Illustration is included.
- Combined Plow and Harrow.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and effective combined plow and harrow that can be used as a plow and harrow at the same time, or the operator can detach one and only use the other. The machine can be adjusted to better suit different types of soil.
- Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
- Patent for improvements in the construction and operation of cotton choppers and cultivators.
- Cultivator-Arch
- Patent for a cultivator arch designed to adjust and secure the beams of a plow. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for a cultivator attachment that allows the cultivator height to be adjusted for digging. Illustrations included.
- Dust Box.
- Patent for a new and improved dust-box. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a floor having an aperture cut into it and provided with a door flush with the surface of the floor, of a dust-box having a square bottom and diverging sides formed with outwardly-projecting flanges re-enforced upon their under sides by plates or bars and having strips secured to the inner sides, having their upper ends bent inward" (lines 76-83).
- Fly-Trap.
- Patent for a funnel-shaped fly trap for catching flies and other insects by either entrapment or drowning. Includes instructions and an illustration.
- Folding Ladder.
- Patent for a new and improved folding ladder. This design consists in "the combination, with main supporting-strips, of recessed auxiliary strips connected thereto, rounds formed with bows, sections which pass through the recesses of the auxiliary strips, and stops which bear against the main supporting strips, and strengthening strips, through which the bows of the rounds pass" (lines 77-84).
- Fountain-Brush.
- Patent for a fountain brush which allows for the attachment of a wiping cloth, and featuring a spring handle.
- Gate
- Patent for improvements in "construction of tilting gates and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be readily opened and closed at a distance fron either side of it by a person in a vehicle or on horseback" (lines 11-16).
- Gate.
- Patent for a gate that swings outward whenever it is unlatched that consists of an eye-joint that connects the gate to the post that turns vertically and horizontally, an extended toprail, a lever, and a pivot.
- Gin-Saw Filer and Gummer
- Patent for an improved gin saw filer and gummer. This model would yield sharp conical shaped teeth, and straighten bent or deformed teeth.
- Grain-Feeder and Band-Cutter for Thrashing-Machines.
- Patent for improvements to grain-feeders for thrashing machines design including illustrations.
- Grain Measure and Tally.
- Patent for improving the measurement of grain.
- Grain Measurer and Tally
- Patent for improvements in the construction and design of grain measurers and registers.
- Hame-Fastener.
- Patent for a hame fastener "by which the ends can be securely connected together, but which may be readily disconnected when desired." (lines 10-12). Illustrations included.
- Hedge.
- Patent for a new way to plant hedges, which "consists in an improved method of planting and training the cactus-plant (preferably of the species known as the 'scabbard' or 'brush cactus') to adapt it to form a thick and impenetrable fence which shall resist the attacks of cattle, and will grow regularly and evenly after the young plants have been properly trained" (lines 13-20).
- Horse Detacher.
- Patent for a new and improved horse detacher. This design "consists in two longitudinally-movable rods or bolts which are attached to the front axle and are adapted to engage the eyes of the thill-clips; the levers connected at their lower ends to the adjacent ends of the said rods or bolts; a ring embracing and adapted to slide on the upper arms of the said levers whereby they may be drawn together to disengage the outer ends of the rods or bolts from the thill-clips; the band or strap connected to the said ring, and means whereby the said strap may be drawn by the driver of the vehicle" (lines 13-25).
- Horse-Detacher.
- Patent for improvements in devices of attachments for wagons or similar wheeled vehicles, by improving “the attachment to the brake rod or shaft of the wagon, connected also with the bolts which secure the shafts or pole in the clips on the wagon-axle, by means of which the brake-shaft may be rocked so as to apply the brakes and stop the wagon, hold the shafts or pole, and thus disconnect them from the wagon.” (Lines 16-22) Illustration is included.
- Ice-Cream Freezer.
- Patent for an ice-cream freezer that "effectually and with slight labor freez[es] cream; to be so constructed as to freeze the cream into sticks of merchantable size and adapted for retail trade; and, furthermore, to provide for a simultaneous manufacture of ice, so that as the cream is frozen water may be congealed forming ice that may be subsequently employed in the freezer or otherwise" (lines 10-18).
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
- Patent for "a device that will chop cotton mechanically" (line 10-11) and require less labor including instructions and illustrations.
- Insect-Trap.
- Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
- Jack for Turning Fly-Wheels of Engines, &c.
- Patent for jacks for turning fly-wheels of engines, pulleys, etc. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Kitchen-Cabinet
- Patent for a new design and construction of kitchen cabinets.
- Kitchen-Cabinet
- Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, and in which provision shall be made for the safe-keeping of all the materials and ingredients used in bread-making and in ordinary cooking as well as for pies, cakes, cold victuals and the like" (lines 9-15).
- Kitchen-Cabinet.
- Patent for a kitchen-cabinet that is a "simple and convenient portable device provided with the necessary receptacles for flour, meal, spices and other condiments, as well as apparatus for grinding coffee, beating eggs, weighing, &c.; to provide means for adjusting such receptacles upon the frame of the cabinet to secure the desired height or distance from the floor; and furthermore to provide improved means for removing the flour and meal from the bins and sifting the same by the same operation" (line 9-20).
- Kitchen Cabinet
- Patent for a metal kitchen cabinet. This cabinet is designed to be portable and protect against vermin. Illustration included.
- Mattress-Making Machine.
- Patent for a mattress-making machine that presses the material and forces it into a mattress. The mattress is "suitably held at one end of the machine, guide-strips being provided to hold the material forming the filling for the mattress straight and smooth while being forced into the tick" (lines 19-23).
- Milk Cooler.
- Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design "has relation to that class of devices for keeping vessels containing milk or other fluids cool, in which water is drawn by capillary action from a receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the vessel, cooling the vessel and its contents by evaporation; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device, and more particularly to the top of the can and the cover for the same" (lines 21-30).
- Milk-Cooler.
- Patent for a combined water-cooler and refrigerator. "One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of devices of this character and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one capable of enabling the temperature of its contents to be readily controlled and quickly changed. A further object of the invention is to provide a combined water-cooler and refrigerator which may be advantageously employed as a churn-body" (lines 10-19). Includes specifications and illustrations.
- Nut Lock
- Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
- Overshot Fishing-Tool
- Patent for improvements to overshot fishing tools, particularly for the use of removing, fishing out, "tools, parts of tools and other articles from" bored or drilled wells (lines 20-21). These improvements are designed to be manufactured cheaply.
- Pipe-Wrench.
- Patent for a pipe-wrench that is a "pair of tongs [made] for holding rods or pipes of different diameter so that, when between the jaws, they will be held by an elastic cam pressure, without any further muscular exertion by the smith or expert mechanic who is about to work upon the rod or pipe" (lines 16-21).
- Pipe-Wrench.
- Patent for "a pipe-wrench with a pivoted jaw which shall rest at its rear end against a solid support when gripping the pipe, so that all strain shall be taken from its pivot, while the wrench shall also have a stationary jaw with two bearings for pipes of varying sizes to rest against and shall also have a setter to act against the rear of the movable jaw." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Plow Stock Or Standard.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in plow stocks or standards. including instructions and illustrations.
- Power-Hammer.
- Patent for a hammer operated by a treadle with improved springs for enhanced power.
- Process and Formula for Tanning Hides.
- Patent for the formula and processing used in tanning hides that is cheaper and more effective.
- Process for Tanning Hides.
- Patent for a novel process of tanning hides of various animals.
- Rack for Displaying Dry Goods
- Patent for improvements in construction of racks for displaying dry goods.
- Railway Rail Joint
- Patent for strengthening the nails and their meeting ends.
- Rake.
- Patent for a rake that is meant for raking loose stumps, brush, and similar articles from fields. The rake is pulled along, and two wheels form an axle where the rake is balanced. There are two rake-lifting levers.