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- Adjustable and Detachable Bow for Spectacles.
- Patent for a temple bow for spectacles which is secured to a lens frame and is adjustable to “accommodate the angle of vision of the wearer” (lines 89-90). The connection joints between the bow and lens frame allows adjustment without bending or twisting the bow, providing a more durable bow and frame.
- Air Pump
- Patent for an air pump for the delivery of air to the tire of a wheel.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an animal trap meant to trap animals that burrow in the ground, such as prairie dogs. The trap catches the animal when it leaves its den and the animal cannot escape the trap.
- Apparatus for Molding Hollow Concrete Walls
- Patent for an apparatus that is a mold for crafting hollow concrete walls. Illustration included.
- Attachment for Fishing-Floats.
- Patent for a device to attach fishing floats to fishing lines.
- Automobile-Tire
- Patent for the improvement of cushion tires. The improvement produces a more resilient tire, less susceptible to punctures.
- Axle-Setting Machine
- Patent for a axle setting machine that can be used on any type of axle, has its own lever, and doesn't touch the inside of the axle collar.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a baling press. Illustrations included.
- Bed-Robe For Invalids.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bed robes for invalids, including instructions and illustrations.
- Calculating-Machine
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in calculating machines. Whereby substantially correct calculations may be registered or recored without using a series of superfluous or immaterial numbers. The machine will round prices up to the nearest cent. For example, $0.024 becomes $0.02 while $0.025 becomes $0.03. Illustrations included.
- Car Coupling
- Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Casing-Pulling Device.
- Patent for providing a casing pulling device of simple, compact and durable construction that will permit it being lowered into a well casing without being obstructed in its descent by irregularities or bends in the casing so as to ensure proper operation.
- Clutch Clamp.
- Patent for a new and improved clutch-clamp. This design "is to provide a simple and effective device for lowering or hoisting the pipe or rods of pumps into bored wells or other places, such as mines or shafts, and without injury to the pipe or rod, such device being not only readily and easily handled in connecting it to or disconnecting it from the object to be raised or lowered, but capable of being manufactured at comparatively small cost" (lines 20-29).
- Cotter-Pin Puller
- Patent for cottor-pin puller that is useful to pull cotter pins that are secured in shafts, fly wheels or any other devices without bending or twisting or damaging them.
- Cotton-Harvester
- Patent for a cotton harvester that aides in picking the most difficult part of cotton to pick by hand. Includes instruction and illustrations.
- Counterbalancing Device for Pumps.
- Patent for a counterbalancing device for windmill pumps, which reduces friction and lateral pull on the pump.
- Cultivator
- Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
- Draft Device
- Patent for a draft device for agricultural machines. Illustrations included.
- Electric Prod Pole
- Patent for electric prodding pole used for corraling animals.
- Electrically-Operated Door.
- Patent for am electrically-operated door. This device has mechanisms that are when stepped on automatically open and close the door.
- Embroidery Attachment.
- Patent for an embroidery attachment for sewing machines.
- Engine.
- Patent for new steam engine design with illustrations
- Equalizing Device for Pump-Rods.
- Patent for an improved equalizing device for pump-rods used in hand or windmill pumps that increases the operating efficiency and decreases the manufacture cost of the device.
- Family Record Keeper
- Patent for a family record keeper that could preserve certificates of birth, marriage, and death, in a manner that would protect them from the elements.
- Flooring or Ceiling Jack.
- Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
- Flying-Machine
- Patent for a monoplane flying machine. Illustrations included.
- Freezing-Plug.
- Patent for freezing plug. This device prevents pipes from bursting when frozen.
- Gearing
- Patent for improvements in gearing, "especially adapted for use in connection with wind mills and other devices" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
- Governor
- Patent for Governor that improves upon a speed controlling mechanism, specifically for controlling a reciprocating element like an engine piston, including illustration and instructions. This application is a division of an earlier application (Serial Number: 843, 812 submitted June 08, 1914).
- Gripper for Printing-Presses
- Patent for a gripper for printing presses designed to hold the paper during printing more effectively. Illustrations included.
- Hasp-Fastener
- Patent for a hasp fastener for doors.
- Hoisting Device.
- Patent for an inexpensive device that is meant to hoist, lift, or extract stumps, stones, or other heavy objects. It also stretches wire and can act as a vehicle jack.
- Ice-Cream Freezer
- Patent for an ice cream freezer that may also be used as an egg beater or a churn. Illustrations included.
- Ice-Tray
- Patent describing a "combined water-cooler and ice tray [...for] the cooling of water by ice without the ice coming in contact with the water" (lines 9-12).
- Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
- Patent for improved maneuvering and loading of firearms while riding horseback.
- Jack.
- Patent for a jack for lifting heavy loads on railroads, which has an automatic steady movement of the load up and down without adjusting the jack settings.
- Lawn-Mower.
- Patent for lawn mower with special stationary blades; designed to improve the operation of the rotary blades with which the stationary blades come into contact, thus "insuring an easy running, and a perfectly clean and smooth shearing of the grass, and prevent any shock, grinding or clicking, when the contact is made" (lines 8-11).
- Lifeboat
- Patent for a lifeboat that "prevents the boat from capsizing" (lines 19-20) or sinking.
- Liquid-Fuel Burner.
- Patent for a liquid fuel burner, which will burn semi-refined petroleum efficiently.
- Marker.
- Patent for improvement in markers "used in filing and card index cabinets" (lines 6-7).Meant to "provide a light, simply constructed V-shaped device" (lines 11-13), to mark the location of papers or files that have been temporarily moved from a filing system.
- Method of Collecting and Conveying Water.
- Patent for a new and useful method of collecting and conveying water.
- Pipe Wrench.
- Patent for a new and improved pipe wrench. This design consists, "with the stationary jaw provided with a shank and an inclined portion on the shank, of a movable jaw, also provided with a shank, having an inclined portion on it and pivotally connected to the stationary jaw, and a loop pivoted to the stationary jaw and engaging with the shank of the movable jaw, whereby the said two inclined portions are retained in working position" (lines 85-94).
- Plow Attachment.
- Patent for a plow attachment, which holds the plow wheel in place.
- Pocket-Knife.
- Patent for a pocket knife that includes a wet stone built into its detachable handle. The handle may be taken off in order for the user to sharpen retractable blades attached to the pocket knife. This improvement upon the pocket knife design may be employed to the handle portion of any knife such as butcher knives or hunting knives.
- Powder Blower
- Patent for a new and improved powder blower used to insert powder medicine into the vagina, including illustrations and instructions.
- Powder-Ejector
- Patent for a vaginal powder ejector. Illustrations included.
- Pump-Filter.
- Patent for a pump filter, designed for double acting air pumps, that prevents the passage of foreign matter (oil, dust, dirt) from the pump outlet.
- Pump-Jack.
- Patent for an improved version of "operating pumps and similar apparatus" (lines 8-9).