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- Adding-Machine
- Patent for improvements to adding machines, which is key-operated and includes a vertically disposed shaft and a means to actuate the sliding plate.
- Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
- Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
- Automatic Street Car Coupling
- Patent for automatic street car coupling.
- Automatic Weighing-Scale.
- Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
- Body-Bolster
- Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
- Bread-Cutter
- Patent for a bread cutter which can cut multiple loaves of bread in succession and cuts of the crust of the bread.
- Broom-Rack.
- Patent for an improvement in a device to hold brooms and items with handles by simplifying the design and making it more resistant to strain.
- Churn
- Patent for a churn that can produce butter in very short period of time with minimal effort.
- Combination Claw and Pinch Bar
- Patent for a combination claw and pinch bar that is adapted for use with railway tracks. Illustrations included.
- Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine.
- Patent for an improved combined automatic vending and money changing machine. It has "a locking mechanism constructed to lock said article and change-delivery mechanisms when a coin inserted by a purchaser is of less value than the article desired by him, and [a] mechanism for unlocking both of said delivery mechanisms while the purchaser's said coin remains in the machine and adjusting bot of said delivery-mechanisms to thereafter deliver an article corresponding to the value of said coin" (line 1-10).
- Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.
- Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
- Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper
- Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for a cotton-gin that "has for its object to provide means for operating upon or permitting lint cotton, wool and other fibrous material to be ginned from a roll by means of saws as is commonly done in working seed cotton without injury to the mechanism" (lines 12-17).
- Design for a Music-Indicator
- Patent for an "ornamental design for a music-indicator" (lines 11-12).
- Device for Feeding Envelops to Type-Writing Machines.
- Patent for "a device for feeding envelops to type-writing machines, the object being to construct a device of the character described which is adapted to be mounted on the carriage of the machine and feed envelops to be addressed continuously and automatically to the platen on said machine." (Lines 26-32) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Dog or Stop Device for Baling-Presses.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable stop-device or dog used in baling presses with a pressure-chamber in a plunger or traverser reciprocates. The invention operates automatically and retaines the material being pressed inside the pressure-chamber. The dog pivots on the side of the pressure-chamber and is enabled to move freely.
- Electric Gas-Lighter
- Patent for a gas lighter that is designed to be durable and reliable, with an improved method of controlling the supply of gas to the burner.
- Elevated Railway.
- Patent for a new elevated railway, consisting of the arrangement and parts described. Patent for "a new and improved elevated railway structure for moving cars or vehicles." (line 14) including perspective views, description and illustrations. Patent for a new elevated railway design including illustrations.
- Elevated Railway.
- Patent for improvements to elevated railways via the new and different way parts are combined and arranged.
- Fan Spring-Motor
- Patent for a portable fan spring motor.
- Fare-Receiver and Automatic Change-Maker.
- Patent for a fare box and change maker mean to improve on fare-receivers and automatic change-makers that "automatically deliver the correct change to a passenger or other person, who deposits in the machine a coin of greater value than is the regulation fare" (lines 16-19).
- Flexible Joint
- Patent for a flexible joint provides "an improved and simplified device that is simple, durable and reliable in construction and effective and efficient in operation" (lines 10-13).
- Flue Beading Tool
- Patent for a flue beading tool. Illustration included.
- Flue Expander
- Patent for a flue expander. Illustration included.
- Game Apparatus.
- Patent for a new game apparatus that can be playing indoors or outdoors and made in both large and small sizes "in which the elements, of chance, skill, and endurance constitute important factors in the successful playing of said game." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
- Glazier's Table
- Patent for a table that holds window glass in place for assembly. Illustrations included.
- Governing Mechanism
- Patent for a governing mechanism. This invention relates to governing a plurality of engines in unison. Illustration included.
- Grease-Trap.
- Patent for a grease trap "in which the grease is designed to be removed from the trap automatically and the object of my invention is to cause the water passing through the trap to carry the grease out with it" (lines 8-12).
- Improvement in Bale-ties.
- Patent for "an improvement on the patented bale-tie" (lines 15-16) which includes lugs to "lock" the tie (line 22) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Collars.
- Patent for a device improving the speed and efficiency of shirt collar fastening, as well as the securing of items such as scarves and ties, including illustrations.
- Improvement to Lifting-Jacks
- Patent for the improvement of the lifting jack which allows the user to "lower the lifting bar by a step-by-step movement as well as to elevate the lifting bar by such a movement (lines 12-14). Includes instructions and illustration."
- Locking Device for Car-Doors.
- Patent for a locking device for a sliding train car capable of locking automatically upon close, including illustrations.
- Locomotive.
- Patent for an improved locomotive or traction-engine, with a series of water-shells, each containing "a series of fire-flues, a feeding-water heater, a pipe discharging steam" (lines 118-121), and a double-action plunger-pump.
- Machine for Cutting and Scoring Box-Blanks
- Patent for the mechanical cutting and scoring of box blanks with illustrations.
- Magazine-Hammer
- Patent for a new Magazine-Hammer. The new and improved Magazine-Hammer consists of a setting hammer head, carrying handle, feed device for nails, tacks, or like fasteners, discharge device, and mounted setting tube. This Magazine-Hammer improvement allows the operator to drive fasteners with one hand and manipulate an object with one free hand.
- Measuring and Proportioning Machine.
- Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.
- Music-Indicator.
- Patent for a music indicator, which shows sheet music notations and the name of the note and major and minor chords on a device, which is placed over the keyboard of a piano to show where the different notes are for use in teaching music.
- Oil Expressing Box Package Shaping Machine.
- Patent for a machine which shapes boxes for packaging extracted oils, with description of parts and illustrations.
- Osteopathic Table
- Patent for improvements in Osteopathic Tables by adding mechanical parts to facilitate ease of movement and manipulation of the human body for "correcting and curing physical irregularities of the spine and ribs" (lines 19-20), includes instructions and illustrations.
- Piano-Hammer.
- Patent for a piano hammer, which has a strip of striking material that can be moved over to a new section when one section wears out, to increase the life of the hammer.
- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to double-mold-board plows, such as lister or middle-breaking plows. Its principle features are the depressed center bar, the removable point upon the center bar, and the removable shares" (lines 8-12).
- Range-Finder For Small-Arms.
- Patent for an improved Range-Finder for Small-Arms at an inexpensive price which can be attached at any rifle specifically designed and used in the United States Army.
- Roller Bearing
- Patent for improvement on roller bearings that include spaced rings and multiple rollers.
- Rotary Engine
- Patent for a rotary engine. Illustration included.
- Signal-Lantern.
- Patent for a gas-burner signal lantern, instead of an oil-burner signal lantern, that indicates whether or not the track is all clear of trains; includes instructions and illustrations.
- Stationary Boiler.
- Patent for a new and useful improvements in stationary boilers for " marine, locomotive, and stationary purposes" (line 14- 15).
- System of Electrical Operation.
- Patent for an electrical system, which reduces the amount of power used to run a generator when there is low usage of the generator, thereby saving fuel.
- System of Electrical Operation.
- Patent for an electrical system to power generators, which can reduce the power flow to the generator during low usage periods.
- Tax-Calculating Device
- Patent for a tax calculating device that will calculate the percentages of the total tax that need to go to different agencies.
- Tie-Plate
- Patent for a tie plate that sticks firmly to the ties, keeps out moisture, and is lighter than other tie plates.