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- Baling Press.
- Patent for improvements to press for making bales of hay.
- Belt Fastener
- Patent for a belt fastener. Illustration included.
- Buggy-Axle
- Patent for a buggy-axle that has the hub of the wheel so arranged as to rotate with the stub axle of the device, holding the wheel in place.
- Cattle Guard
- Patent for a cattle guard that will turn horses, cattle, mules, etc.
- Combined Brace and Angle-Bar for Vehicle-Bodies.
- Patent for braces and angle bars on vehicle bodies that improves the brace to hold buggy beds together with illustration that shows improvements. "When these braces are secured on the bed they will prevent the adjacent parts of the bed from splitting, spreading or dropping down and they will hold the ends and sides, as well as the bottom of the bed securely in place" (lines 61-66).
- Combined Plow and Fertilizer-Distributer.
- Patent for an improved combined plow and fertilizer-distributor that better feeds the fertilizer from the hopper or container to a depositing boot, from which the material is discharged into the furrow formed by the plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Cleaning Machine.
- Patent for an improvement for cotton-cleaning machines that removes harmful debris from cotton before passing the cotton into the cotton gin. The improvement uses brushes and air blowers to collect and divert debris.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for an improvement to "shovel-plows" that "is adapted to cultivate between the rows of corn, &c., and one in which the rearwardly-extending moldboards can be adjusted [...] in case the rows are close together or far apart. The cultivator is also arranged so that the depth of the furrow can be regulated" (lines 14-21).
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator, which can be adjusted to different widths and depths of rows.
- Cut-Off Valve.
- Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "the valve-seat of [the] slide-valve, the entrances of whose steam passages form seats for auxiliary valves pivoted to [the] yoke on a rod, whose stud occupies said slot in upper portion of [the] arm pivoted to [the] pendant from [the] main valve-rod and terminating in [the] tappet, the same being combined with the adjustable stops" (lines 55-63).
- Gage.
- Patent for a gage that has a beam with a saw kerf at one end, a clamp made up of a tube with parallel wings that are inserted into the kerf, a scribing point in the tube, "and means for clamping the separated ends of the beam tightly against the parallel wings of the clamp" (lines 57-59).
- Improved Suspender for Scissors.
- Patent for a means to suspend scissors by a pulley method. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in car-couplings with illustrations.
- Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.
- Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Teeth for Cotton-Gin Saws.
- Patent for new useful improvement of the cotton-gin saws that consists of the dress or shape of the teeth, includes instructions and illustrations.
- Insectifuge Fertilizer for Cotton.
- Patent for an insectifuge fertilizer for cotton, which promotes the growth of the cotton plant and prevents boll weevils and cotton worms from attacking cotton plants by making them distasteful to the insects through the application of a mixture of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of soda, sulfate of copper, and crushed decorticated cotton seed.
- Letter Clasping Device
- Patent for a letter clasping device. Illustration included.
- Level.
- Patent for a spirit level, which measures more accurately than other models and allows quicker calculation of where the wood needs to be moved to be level.
- Mail Bag Fastening.
- Patent for a new and improved mail-bag fastener. This design "is to provide a fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly manipulated to fasten or unfasten the bag. To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots and carried by an overlapping flap, the said slide being adapted to engaged headed studs that are secured to one side of the main portion of the pouch and passed through apertures formed in the other side of the pouch" (lines 7-16).
- Means for Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires.
- Patent for an automatically inflating tire which allows the tires to be inflated evenly at all times. "Should the air escape from the tire due to a puncture or leak the rim will be prevented from injuring the tire casing, as said casing will be prevented from becoming deflated" (lines 17-21). Motorists will no longer need to drive on flat tires waiting for repairs.
- Means for Raising Journal-Boxes.
- Patent for raising journal-boxes on a railroad car to easily renew the brasses or do other necessary tasks.
- Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "has for its object to provide a motor of the class . . . that shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, cheapness, durability, and general efficiency; and to these ends [the] invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 17-23).
- Oil Press Mat.
- Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "is to flexibly connect the metal plates or leaves of a three-leaved oil-press mat in such manner that when the mat with the bags of meal interposed between its leaves is subjected to pressure for the purpose of expressing the oil the parallelism of the leaves will be maintained and endwise shifting of the same prevented. A further object is to provide a fastening . . . which shall be stronger, more durable, and more positive in its functions" (lines 31-41).
- Pencil Attachment
- Patent for device that continuously applies mucilage to the penil without rendering it sticky.
- Pipe Wrench or Clamp
- Patent for a pipe wrench or clamp. Illustration included.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow with an adjustable pitch and share.
- Plow.
- Patent for a plow that can be easily and inexpensively adjusted to plow shallower or deeper.
- Riveting-Mandrel.
- Patent for a riveting-mandrel "for riveting the overlapping ends of sheet metal to form pipes, tubes, or the like" (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
- Saddle Stirrup
- Patent for stirrups. This invention is designed to be automatically detached from the stirrup strap in the case of the rider being thrown. Illustration included.
- Shovel Plow
- Patent for a shovel plow. Illustration included.
- Spring-Motor Apparatus.
- Patent for a spring loaded dasher for use in churns that results in automated turning of the dashers.
- Stock Collar.
- Patent for a new and improved stock-collar. This design is "for the purpose of positively and unmistakably identifying cattle and other like stock, and to obviate the necessity of marking and branding cattle, &c., which shall be light, simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective for the purposes designed, easily attached to and removed from the necks of cattle, &c., which shall be cheap and inexpensive of manufacture, and not liable to become lost, misplaced, broken, or detached by the animal in its efforts to release itself" (lines 16-26).
- Train-Indicator
- Patent for a train indicator that displays numbers or letters that can be easily changed.
- Well-Auger.
- Patent for a well-boring auger is designed to improve the drilling process by multi-functional features of the auger that can be placed inside of a well-casing to cut a hole or can be used itself to cut through the casing.