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- Acetylene-Gas-Generating Apparatus.
- Patent for "improvements in apparatus for generating acetylene , and comprises the novel features." (lines 8-10) including illustration.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator, which is chiefly operated by the fall of a gas-bell.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for a acetylene gas generator with an improved valve for sending carbide into the generator which is more efficient and cheaper to make.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for "improvement in acetylene-gas generators, and has for one object to provide an exceedingly- simple apparatus of this description in which the pipes and connections are closed , and thus protected from freezing by the effects of atmospheric changes; and a further object of my invention is to remove the possibility of an explosion taking place during the manipulation of the machine." (lines 9-17) including illustrations.
- Acetylene - Gas Generator
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gas generating apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Bench Hook.
- Patent for a new and improved bench hook. This design "consists in a bench-hook constructed with a plate carrying a sliding bar, to which is adjustably secured a hook. The sliding bar and hook are locked in place by a clamp and cam attached to the plate, and the plate and its attachments are locked to the bench-front by a stationary lug attached to the plate, and a moveable lug attached to a lever pivoted to the said plate and locked in place by a cam, so that the said hook can be readily adjusted upward, downward, forward, and backward" (lines 20-30).
- Adjustable Book-Cover.
- Patent for adjustable book covers. More protection with use of thicker paper, with adjustable feature is highly important as is also the slit and tongue.
- Adjustable Hoe
- Patent for improvement in "the construction of hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and inexpensive hoe, of strong and durable construction." (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
- Adjustable Pipe-Wrench.
- Patent for an adjustable pipe wrench "in which the opposing jaws of the wrench are maintained at an angle to each other, so hat they converge toward their extremities, thus enabling a firmer hold to e obtained upon the pope or other article to be gripped by said jaws." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Shade-Support
- Patent for an adjustable window shade support.
- Adjustable Window-Shade Support.
- Patent for an adjustable window shade support that can readily attach a shade to a window frame and the roller can be adjusted to any desired location or elevation.
- Advertising Attachment for Scales.
- Patent for improvements in advertising attachments for scales to "provide an attachment of the character specified, wherein a series of display members are provided, mounted to be moved into different positions, to bring different matter into different positions, and controlled to movement by the stepping onto the weighing platform of the one to be weighed." (lines 11-18)
- Advertising Device
- Patent for Advertising Device
- Advertising Exhibitor and Phonographic Annunciator
- Patent for an advertising exhibitor and phonographic annunciator that shows changing advertisements and has a recording reading them out.
- Advertising-Machine.
- Patent for an advertising machine that reverses the travel of the apron that is used to connect with, and where, the display sign is printed. It also easily and efficiently reverses the driving mechanism once the apron is completely unwound from one of the rollers. The patent includes illustrations.
- Aerial Navigating Apparatus.
- Patent for an aerial navigating apparatus with more details of combinations, construction, and presentation of parts.
- Air-Brake.
- Patent for "a direct air brake system [that is] adapted to be used in combination with an automatic system, whereby the brakes can be applied by either the automatic or quick system, or the direct, or by both, as the conditions may require" (lines 8-13).
- Air-Brake Governor
- Patent for an air brake governor improvement that regulates the pressure of fluid or air in the braking system as to prevent it from braking with too much pressure.
- Air-Compressor.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements for air-compressors" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Lift Pump
- Patent for an air lift pump. Illustrations included.
- Air Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved air-motor. This design is of an "air-motor, consisting of an engine, single-acting air-pump, air-receiver, and the double-acting exhaust-pump, with the valves and connections . . . [and] the levers and segments" (lines 81-87).
- Air-Pump
- Patent for an automobile air pump that can be power driven from a car motor. This pump can be driven from the rear wheel of a car.
- Airship.
- Patent for an airship with multiple gas bags inside an outer enclosing casing, which maintain the buoyancy of the airship in case one or more of the smaller bags should rupture. This airship also supports one or more persons other than the pilot, has an "envelop adapted to serve as a parachute in the event of danger", and can "alight upon and rise from the surface of a body of water".
- Amusement Apparatus
- Patent for an amusement apparatus of the character set forth with and inclined place made of a number of pivoted sections which may be simultaneously moved into horizontal position to form steps or seats and be held in such position by trip device provided with a target which latter upon being hit by a thrown ball will release the several sections of the inclined plane of steps and permit them through the weight of one or more persons thereon to aline one with the other and form a continuous inclined plane or sliding board down which the persons who were seated or standing upon the steps will be caused to slide and be thrown into a body of water over which the apparatus is erected.
- Andiron
- Patent for improvements to andiron or "fire-dogs".
- Andiron.
- Patent for an andiron that combines with a gated screen including illustrations.
- Animal-Poke
- Patent for an animal poke worn on the head of cattle to prevent jumping outside the field which allows the cow to graze freely while wearing the poke.
- Animal-Poke.
- Patent for improvements in animal-poke by providing a device which is arranged for convenient application to an animal, so as not to interfere with the grazing and drinking thereof, and will effectually prevent the animal from destroying fences and also from pushing and fighting other stock. (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
- Animal-Poke
- Patent for an animal poke which is worn around the belly of the cow or other animal, and pokes the animal when it pushes against a fence and has a hook attached to the back of the poke which will catch onto the fence if they try to go underneath or over the fence.
- Animal-Poke.
- Patent for "a light and effective head-frame for horned cattle, designed to prevent their going through or injuring wire fences or from goring persons or animals." (Lines 14-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Animal Power.
- Patent for a new and improved engine. This design has a "tread-wheel on which the animal is placed, and which is provided with a cog-wheel on its under side to mesh with a pinion placed on one end of the crank-shaft, a connecting-rod which is attached at one end to the crank and at the other to a pivoted lever . . . a second connecting-rod which is fastened to the upper end of the pivoted lever . . . a balance-wheel, and the main driving-shaft provided with a number of arms, each one of which carries a planet-wheel for the purpose of moving around a fixed wheel" (lines 15-29).
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal trap. Illustration included.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for a small animal trap which consists of a cage suspended in the air on a spring system which drops when an animal disturbs the bait.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an improved animal trap that can catch a large variety of animals, including fish, and does not injure the animals. Bait is placed in the trap, and the door on one end is spring-activated. A hinged door on the top is where the operator can take out the animal.
- Animal Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for Improvements in Animal Traps. This trap is a "self and everset trap" (lines 11-12) with the primary purpose of creating a trap that is "efficient of operation, economical of construction, and sanitary" (lines 14-15).
- Ant-Trap
- Patent for an ant trap,with illustrations. Purpose of the invention was to be efficient more efficient in both cost and use in comparison to other ant traps being sold at the time.
- Anti Friction Journal.
- Patent for a new and improved anti-friction journal. This design "relates to anti-friction devices adapted especially for hoisting pulleys; and it has for its object to provide a device in which the shaft or axis of the main hoisting-pulley shall be supported or mounted upon the peripheries of wheels of a considerable diameter as compared with that of the hoisting-pulley, whereby the friction may be lessened to the greatest possible extent" (lines 24-32).
- Anti-Friction Wagon Slide.
- Patent for a new and improved anti-friction wagon slide. This design "consists of flat side pieces provided with bolt-holes near their ends, and connected to diametrically-opposite points of nearly-cylindrical end pieces, which have holes through their axes for the reception of the roller-shaft. The recess is so formed that the lower portion of the end pieces shall bear against its ends when the frame is put in place. This arrangement, together with the bolts through the corners of the frame and the coupling-tongue, prevents any tendency of the frame to displacement" (lines 42-54).
- Anti-Oscillating Attachment for Street-Cars.
- Patent for an improved anti-oscillating attachment for street-cars. It has a car truck, equalizing pivoting bars secured between the truck ends, cushions on either side of the bars, adjustable bolts that hold the bars in place, and springs between the bolts.
- Antileak Composition.
- Patent for improvements in antileak composition in order to prevent leaks in liquid holding containers like radiators, boilers, etc.
- Antiskidding Vehicle Wheel-Tire.
- Patent for an antiskidding vehicle wheel tire that has tread structure which prevents slippage or skidding of the tires on wet or icy roads.
- Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way.
- Patent for a device to automatically take photographs of persons as they walk over a pressure sensor. The inventor suggests the device be used for ticket fare enforcement.
- Apparatus for Burning Lime.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.
- Apparatus for Cleaning Deep Wells.
- Patent for a device that uses hot steam to clean caked-on paraffin, mud, and other substances out of oil well pumping apparatuses.
- Apparatus for Cleaning Deep Wells.
- Patent for a device that assists in cleaning deep wells that have caked material in the pumping apparatus by using hot steam.
- Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars
- Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
- Apparatus For Destroying Insects
- Patent for an apparatus for destroying boll weevils on cotton. Illustration included.