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Automobile-Headlight

Patent for a headlight design that turns with the front wheels, allowing the driver to illuminate the road ahead whether driving straight or turning.

Date: June 30, 1914

Creator: Fay, Peter J.

Patent for a signal of the nature indicated including a signal arm controlled in novel manner and movable from one position to another, the signal arm being inoperative in one position, and when moved to the other position being visible to other vehicles and pedestrians both in front and in rear, to warn them of the intention of the operator driver to turn.

Date: November 27, 1917

Creator: Deats, O.G.

Axle Box.

Patent for a new and improved self-oiling axle box. This design utilizes a sleeve with several small, oil-filled holes to be placed between the spindle and the axle box, which lubricates the machine and reduces friction. A nut keeps the spindle and axle box together.

Date: April 26, 1881

Creator: Barnes, Thomas J.

Bailing-Press.

Patent for Bailing Press including illustrations. The purpose of the bailing press was to improve "the bailing-press especially adapted for bailing cotton, which press is simple in construction, strong and durable, and operates rapidly" ( lines 9-12).

Date: November 24, 1885

Creator: Clark, Frank

Bale-Tie

Patent for a bale-tie fastener including illustrations.

Date: July 31, 1900

Creator: Cypher, David A. & Dayton, William L.

Baling - Press

Patent for a new and improved hay pressing or baling machine. This design "relates to presses or baling-machines, and more particularly to that class which are worked bu hand-power" (line 9 - 11).

Date: January 18, 1898

Creator: Younger, William Turner

Barrel Cover.

Patent for a new and improved cover for barrels. This design calls for downward-extending flanges with wings along the perimeter of the cover. These flanges hold the cover in place over the barrel opening, but they also allow for the cover to rest at an angle on the upper rim of the barrel so that one has access to the contents of the barrel without the cover touching the ground.

Date: May 29, 1883

Creator: Lane, Fernando Gustavous

Barrel Press

Patent for a barrel press.

Date: September 1, 1903

Creator: Schenck, August

Base Ball Game.

Patent for a new and improved board game. This design "consists of a game-board marked out to represent a baseball field and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, provision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs" (lines 13-22).

Date: June 3, 1890

Creator: Maxcy, John Wharton

Base-Ball Score-Card

Patent for a baseball score card that has spaces for putting the players name on the card from both teams on the same side.

Date: December 5, 1911

Creator: Dealey, Walter A.

Bell Cord Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved bell cord coupling. This design consists in "[a] cord connecting and tension device comprising essentially a shell or tube, a spiral spring, and a pair of slotted balls arranged therein, and a flat strip having round ends adapted to slide through said balls . . . [and] a sliding spring-encircled plate provided with screw-threaded and split end portions, and nuts fitted on the latter, in combination with a tube or shell, and balls arranged in said tube" (lines 89-10… more

Date: January 16, 1883

Creator: Tumey, Charles Henry

Blind-Slat Fastener.

Patent for improvements in blind-slat fasteners, in which it holds the blinds so that air can pass through. Illustration is included.

Date: December 14, 1909

Creator: Riley, John Brizendine

Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boiler flue cleaning devices, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 8, 1899

Creator: Kitchen, George C.

Box-Corner Protector.

Patent for a metal corner protector for boxes. The protector covers both the inner and outer corners of boxes to enhance grip and prevent protruding edges from damaging goods.

Date: February 10, 1914

Creator: Black, Katherine Mary

Breech-Loading Fire-Arm

Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).

Date: December 4, 1877

Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.

Brick Forming Machine

Patent for an inexpensive and efficient brick forming machine.

Date: 191X

Creator: Richmond, George E.

Brick Machine.

Patent for a new and improved brick machine. This design consists in "a mold-wheel mounted to revolve in the horizontal plane and provided with mold-cavities, of a vertically-movable plunger in each cavity, a door for each cavity hinged on the top of the wheel, the hinge plate or lug attached to the mold-wheel being slotted to allow a vertical movement of the hinge-pin, a curved arm pivoted over the top of the mold-wheel and extending over part of the same, and a spring acting on the swinging e… more

Date: November 23, 1886

Creator: Thaison, William

Brick Truck

Patent for a truck that is designed to make the transportation of bricks easier as well as the transportation of other materials.

Date: September 22, 1905

Creator: Sacks, Martin Kuno

Buggy-Spindle

Patent for a buggy spindle for "taking up lost motion in the axle box should it be too short or too worn" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.

Date: April 21, 1908

Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark

Bullet.

Patent for a new and improved bullet. This design calls for a cavity at the base of the bullet and a tube of flexible material to be inserted snugly into the cavity. This results in less wobbling after the bullet has been fired.

Date: October 12, 1880

Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.

Calendar

Patent for a circular perpetual calendar.

Date: April 14, 1908

Creator: Rowe, Charles E.

Canopy for Folding Beds.

Patent for a new and improved canopy for folding beds. This design "will automatically fold up within the bed when the same is closed, and will similarly open out with the opening of the bed without any other attention than the proper arrangement of the folds of the mosquito or fly netting" (lines 21-25). It consists in "an automatically raising and lowering canopy consisting of a raising-frame having vertical bars pivoted to the bed at the bottom and a horizontal connecting-bar at the top, a c… more

Date: July 19, 1892

Creator: Eva, Addison H.

Car Brake.

Patent for a new and improved car-brake. This design consists in "brake-shoes [which] are jointed by pivots to brake-blocks of the usual form, which are suspended from the truck-timbers by suitable suspending links or clevises, so that they may have a free longitudinal movement when acted upon by the actuating mechanism, and said blocks and brake-shoes are separated by transverse brake-bars, in order that they may be kept truly in-line with the car-wheels at all times" (lines 16-25).

Date: April 5, 1887

Creator: Greer, John William

Car Coupling

Patent for a rail car coupling. Illustration included.

Date: December 4, 1906

Creator: Yeiser, John Clarke & Story, Leonidas J.