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- Antiskidding Device
- Patent for an anti-skidding device to be used in tires and other traction wheels.
- Awning-Lock
- Patent for a novel locking attachment for awning locks. Device locks so that is it inaccessible from the outside, therefore providing security from intruders.
- Battery
- Patent for an improvement on batteries. Meant to increase insulation and plate stability inside the battery.
- Boll-Weevil Catcher.
- Patent for agricultural devices and more particularly to a device to be attached to a cultivator for catching boll weevil or the like, during the cultivation of cotton.
- Brush.
- Patent for a brush that provides adjustable handle for variety of uses and great saving of time and labor. The brush is durable and not excessively heavy.
- Churn.
- Patent is for a churn that accelerates the process.
- Churn-Power.
- Patent for a new and improved motorized churn. This design "has for its object to provide a means for converting a rotary into a reciprocating movement and regulating the range of the reciprocating mechanism" (lines 15-18).
- Churn Power.
- Patent for a new and improved motorized butter churn. This design is of "a simple and efficient device for converting a rotary into a reciprocating motion, which may be either vertical or horizontal, and is especially adapted to the various kinds of churns, washing-machines, and the like now in the market" (lines 13-18).
- Combined Window-Awning And Fire-Protector.
- Patent for a collapsible window awning.
- Cord Wood Machine
- Patent for cord wood machine. This machine is designed for splitting wood. Illustration included.
- Cord Wood Saw Cradle
- Patent for cord wood saw cradle. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Buncher.
- Patent for an implement to thin and bunch young cotton plants, including illustrations.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopping wheel which can be attached to any style of plow or cultivator. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for "a cheap and simple machine adapted to chop or hoe cotton and simultaneously plow or hill the same; furthermore, to adapt the chopper to form stands composed of any number of plants and at any distance apart, and, finally, to provide means for raising and lowering the plows out of and into operative position and throwing the chopping mechanism into and out of gear, which means are controlled in a convenient manner by the driver or operator" (lines 10-20).
- Cotton-Scraper.
- Patent for "cotton-scraper which can be applied to a shovel or other plow generally applied for cultivating cotton and which will admit of the scraper-blade-vertically, laterally, and angularly with respect to the line of motion-thereby adapting the attachment to the condition and nature of the soil, so as to secure the best results possible." (lines 8-17).
- Crosscut Band-Saw.
- Patent for improvements in crosscut band-saws, in particular, a portable, power-driven crosscut band-saw used for lumbering wood. Designed with motor seated in light metal framework and intended to be operated by two persons. Meant for increased productivity through reduction in sawing time and ability to cut the tree within inches of the ground.
- Crossing for Railway-Tracks.
- Patent for incorporating durable gaps within railway-rails to improve performance, with illustrations.
- Cultivator
- Patent for Cultivator.
- Device for Filling Ice-Cream Cones.
- Patent for a device which holds an ice cream cone during the filling process preventing breakage and/or contamination of the cone, including instructions and illustrations.
- Double Speed Engine
- Patent for a double speed engine. Illustrations included.
- Dressing Millstones.
- Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding every kind of grain into meal flour &c., &c." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
- Egg Tester
- Patent for an egg testing device to allow an egg to be placed in one side and removed from the other after testing for a more efficient flow in "candling" each of the eggs.
- Fish and Rat Trap
- Patent for fish and rat trap that can catch bait robbers as well as fish to reduce the nuisance for fishermen. The device contains a sensitive trigger release mechanism that can be activated under water at any point.
- Garden-Hoe Cultivator.
- Patent for "a combination garden hoe and cultivating implement ... which has a number of interchangeable working elements and ... can be quickly adjusted for use as a drill opener, solid sweep, hoe, or turning plow" (lines 12-20).
- Grass and Weed Cutter
- Patent for devicd for the cutting of grass and pulling of weeds from the root. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for improvements to a cultivator "which, for convenience of operation, may be attached to the wheels or frame of any ordinary wagon or cart, or it may be operated independently of either of the above by attaching the draft animals directly to the main or principal beam to which the plow-points are connected." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for an improvement of a baling press where the upright framing timbers allows any quantity of cotton to be placed in the bale and creates a uniformity of weight.
- Improvement in Horse-Powers.
- Patent for improvements made to motors that power machinery, called "horse-powers." The specific improvements made are in the arrangement of mechanical pulleys from which the motor derives power, arranged in such a way that will not significantly increase the size or cost of the machine.
- Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms.
- Patent for discharging buckshot without reloading and with the precision of firing "a single bullet fired from a barrel of proper bore to fit it" (lines 17-18), including illustrations.
- Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers
- Patent for an improvement to the design of a rotary cultivator and chopper, including illustrations.
- Insertible Saw-Tooth.
- Patent for an insertible saw tooth, which does not require the use of a separate holder.
- Loose-Leaf Binder.
- Patent for a loose-leaf binder for medicine prescriptions, which is easier to open and close than previous ones.
- Mill-Stone Dress.
- Patent for Mill Stone Dressing- the pattern on a mill stone for the better grinding of grains into flour. The furrows and grooves of the new design allow grain to be "milled... at greater speed (and)even distribution."
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
- Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for improvement in millstone-dress by “making each of the main grooves in five sections, in combination with shoulders and inclined planes” (lines 17-19), including illustration.
- Motor
- Patent for a new and improved motor. This design's "object is to provide a motor possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness, easy operation, and general efficiency" (lines 11-14).
- Noise Deadening Means for Drain Pipes
- Patent for a means by which to deaden disagreeable noise generated by draining water through metallic pipes possessing an outlet elbow. Illustration included.
- Nut Lock
- Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
- Petroleum-Oil-Burner
- Patent for an oil burner for providing heat, light, and for cooking or baking. It super heats steam in two steam chambers to generate more heat.
- Planter
- Patent for plows whereas a seeder attachment is provided, to allow ordinary one or two horse plows to be readily converted into a planter adapted for planting grains of all kinds.
- Portable Pump, &c.
- Patent for improvement to a pump "adapted for attachment to small vessels containing oil, water or any other liquid" (lines 10-12) that includes a better means of securing the pump.
- Pump.
- Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "is to provide an engine or apparatus . . . in pumps of that class known as "force-pumps" . . . which is simple and durable in construction, and which is of large working capacity. . . . [The design] attain[s] the purposes of [the] invention by . . . the pump-buckets or caging and that part of the delivering-pipe containing the . . . valves in the plungers . . . [and] the ball-valves" (lines 9-28).
- Railroad-Tie.
- Patent for railroad ties and especially for a fie made from a log of wood.
- Railway Gate
- Patent for improved railway gate which functions as cattle-guard and prevents foot traffic on railroad bridges, and opens and closes automatically for trains.
- Rivet-Set.
- Patent for an improvement in rivet-sets which having various sizes of holes and cavities for cutting and setting; it can be riveted by hand or machine. Illustration is included.
- Roller Bearing
- Patent for improvement on roller bearings that include spaced rings and multiple rollers.
- Sash Holder And Fastener.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in sash holders and fasteners, including instructions and illustrations.
- Screw-cutting Die.
- Patent for a screw-cutting die, including illustrations. The invention includes "a die-plate of special construction, adapted to cut either right or left hand threads" (lines 12-13).
- Storage Bin
- Patent for Storage Bin. This device is a container which seeks to control the temperature of vegetables in storage bins.
- Suspenders.
- Patent for "improved means for supporting trousers and drawers, or two garments of similar form, simultaneously by the same suspenders" (lines 12-14) including instructions and illustrations.