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- Abrading Element For Tire-Patch Containers
- Patent for an improved tool that is affixed to tire-patch containers. It is used for abrading the surface of a tire to effectively roughen it (without the use of sandpaper) to allow the adhesion of a patch. Includes illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator that automatically feeds carbide into the water tank and cleans the feed valve.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for certain new an useful improvements in acetylene gas apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an Acetylene gas generator with an improved building method for holding the carbide tank above the generator tank.
- Activated-Sludge Treatment.
- Patent for a method that dehydrates sewage for easier removal.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjustable Bicycle-Rest.
- Patent for a new and useful adjustable bicycle-rest, including instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Support and Bracket for Shade-Rollers and Curtains
- Patent for a support for roller shades and window curtains. Illustrations included.
- Adjustable Trace Connector
- Patent for an adjustable trace connector. Illustration included.
- Aerial Vehicle
- Patent for an aerial vehicle. Illustrations included.
- Aerocompass.
- Patent for an aerocompass, which improves upon a compass combined with inclinometers or map-boards. It is intended for use on submarines, airplanes, or in an area when it would be difficult to use a regular compass.
- Aeroplane.
- Patent for an airplane (or aeroplane) which provides a large number of control surfaces adjustable by the pilot, including a moveable engine.
- Aeroplane-Tail.
- Patent for improvements to the tail of aeroplanes. This invention is to be used to help control the flight of planes or heavy projectiles, and would not have effects on the equilibrium or be difficult to use.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for "the production of simple and inexpensive means whereby the ordinary farming implements--such as plows, cultivators, and the like--may be readily convert to the sulky or wheeled type." (line 11-15) including instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Brake.
- Patent for train air-brakes to provide set brakes and same auxiliary pressure on all cars regardless of the brake cylinder piston travel distance.
- Air-Cycle
- Patent for an air cycle that allows a person to fly by pedaling. Illustrations included.
- Air Intake Device.
- Patent for an air intake device for automobiles and other internal combustion engines. Provides novel and improved heated air supply for carburetors during cold weather. Adjustable to admit unheated air in various proportions according to the air temperature and weather.
- Air-Ship.
- Patent for a self-propelled, navigable air ship. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Supply-Valve Attachment
- Patent for a valve add on for a carburetor in order to control the air flow.
- Airship
- Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
- Airship
- Patent for a dirigible airship for aerial navigation, "to provide the balloon or gas bag with aeroplanes which serve to steady the balloon during the flight of the ship, and to increase the lifting power of the balloon when the ship is under motion, the arrangement being such as to enable said aeroplanes to be converted into a parachute, should the balloon or gas bag become deflated" (lines 20-28).
- Airship
- Patent for an airshape. This invention is of a helicopter design. Illustration included.
- Animal-Poke.
- Patent for an animal-poke that is "placed over the animal's neck and provided with spurs, whereby the animal is pricked when he attempts to pass a fence or other barrier" (lines 9-12). This invention doesn't prick the animal while it is grazing and is more comfortable to wear than similar animal-pokes.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal trap, particularly desgned for rodents and birds, which is able to trap animals without having to be manually reset each time. Illustrations included.
- Animal Yoke Or Poke.
- Patent for a new and useful animal yoke or poke, including instructions and illustrations.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "consists in a frame which is adapted to be placed over the ant-hill, so as to surround the entrance thereto, and provided with parallel surrounding flanges or sides which converge to each other and lead to an exit-spout . . . [and] is to provide an ant-trap which is adapted to catch the ants both on their attempt to leave the hill or to return to it, whereby the entire colony may be exterminated" (lines 9-21).
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side pieces, of the traps located between opposite ends of said side pieces and separated by an inclosed space, the openings communicating with said traps and the slides for closing said openings" (lines 61-66).
- Anti-Friction Sucker-Rod Coupling.
- Patent for an anti-frictioin sucker-rod coupling. This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sectional sucker-rods for artesian, oil, and other wells, and has for its object to provide an improved construction of coupling-joint for connecting the sections of the rods together.
- Antifreezing Appliance for Water-Pipes.
- Patent for anti-freezing appliance for water supply and drain pipes of residences and buildings. The object is provide a device connected with the main and service lines of a hours supply water system for the purpose of avoiding interfering with the operation of the service.
- Antirefilling Bottle.
- Patent for a bottle that can be easily sealed but cannot be resealed after opened. There is a groove in the neck of the bottle, and the cork is placed below the groove. The cork is hollowed out and a plug is placed in the cork. The cork is hollowed out and a plug with a groove around it is placed in the cork.An elastic compressible locking-ring fits in the gap the groove in the bottle and the groove in the plug create.
- Antiseptic Shaving Outfit.
- Patent for a more compact and improved version of an antiseptic shaving outfit, including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Administering Medecine to Live Stock.
- Patent for for a device to efficiently administer medication to live stock.
- Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
- Patent for improvements to an apparatus that softens and compresses cotton, and prevents clogging and breakage. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus For Cleaning Dishes.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in apparatus for cleaning dishes, including instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus for Extracting Minerals from Ores.
- Patent for an apparatus that extracts minerals, especially sulfur, from ores. The apparatus features new and useful improvements, creating an automatic extraction that separates the minerals in a pure state.
- Apparatus for Extracting Oil
- Patent for a device for extracting cotton seed oil which ensures even cooking of the seeds by constant stirring.
- Apparatus for Generating and Carbureting Hydrogen.
- Patent for an apparatus that will improve the cost efficiency of producing gas. Specifically, this invention details a "main tank which produces hydrogen and an auxiliary tank wherein the hydrogen is mixed with crude petroleum oil and thereby given its illuminating and combustible properties" (lines 18-23).
- Apparatus for Handling Brick.
- Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Heating and Ripening Honey.
- Patent for a device that quickly heats and ripens honey, employing a hot water tank containing a pipe coil through which the honey is poured and strained upon exit.
- Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers.
- Patent for an "apparatus for kindling fires in locomotives; and it is intended to provide an improved apparatus by which the fires may be rapidly and economically kindled and steam may be gotten up without much of the tedious delay now ordinarily incident to raising steam in a cold locomotive-boiler." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus for Protecting Electrical Circuits.
- Patent for an apparatus for protecting electrical circuits, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 537,932) issued to the inventor. This patent consists of "an electrical circuit, an alarm or indicator, a continuously-operating signal-transmitter at the protected structure operating to affect or influence the alarm or indicator, and a second or duplicate continuously-operating signal-transmitter located at the watchman's station, operating in unison with the first-named signal-transmitter to affect the alarm or indicator equally and oppositely as regards the first-named transmitter, whereby a signal is sounded or an alarm given only when the two transmitters are out of unison or when one is changed, varied, or interfered with in an unauthorized manner" (lines 72-86).
- Apparatus for Treatment of Oil Emulsions.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for treatment of oil emulsions by providing a means that will greatly assist in the separation of water from oil emulsions and which will aid the re-absorption or retention of gas.
- Apparatus for Vaporization and Distillation of Petroleum and Other Hydrocarbon Oils.
- Patent for a device that helps in the distilling process of gasoline.
- Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
- Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
- Arch-Bar for Cultivators
- Patent for arch bar for cultivators that connects the respective cultivator rigs together.
- Artesian Well Borer.
- Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "will be actuated by the weight of the connecting-rods and sink-wells in rock, gravel, earth, or sand without the use of water" (lines 13-16). It consists "[i]n an earth or rock auger, the combination, with a tube and a shank reciprocating in said tube and adapted to operate the auger, of dogs adapted to be projected through the tube by the reciprocation of the shank to engage the well-casing and hold the said tube from rotary movement" (lines 62-68).
- Artificial-Stone Composition
- Patent for "an artificial stone adapted for all purposes to which natural stone can be applied, and which can be given any desired shape while in a plastic state, or carved and polished after hardening" (lines 12-18).
- Artificial Tooth.
- Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).