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Carbureter

Patent for Carbureter and it uses.

Date: April 1, 1912

Creator: Carpenter, John C.

Process For Treating Crude Oil

Patent for a process to treat crude oil.

Date: March 8, 1912

Creator: Barnickel, William S.

Process of Purifying Flour During The Manufacture Thereof

Patent for a mechanism related to the purifying of flour during manufacturing.

Date: May 23, 1912

Creator: Smith, George Thomas

Patent for application to introduce an invention of useful paint. The purpose of the paint was to treat woods and prevent them from their enemies, such as worms. This paint can preserve the woods from fire which can render the name fireproof. The further development on this can safe woods from being cracked, peeled or run.

Date: July 6, 1912

Creator: Mott, Theodore

Explosive Engine

Patent for a type of internal combustion engine using gunpowder as its fuel.

Date: August 16, 1912

Creator: Conner, Louis C.

Safety Hat Pin

Patent for a safety hat pin for protection against workplace injuries, including illustrations.

Date: November 29, 1912

Creator: Donaldson, James Macon

Garden Implement

This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.

Date: November 9, 1912

Creator: Ward, John Swayze

Monkey Wrench

Patent for a type of monkey wrench in which the movable jaw of the wrench is mounted upon the fixed jaw so that it is easily shifted upon the disengagement of a detent for the fixed jaw. This allows the wrench to be held in any desired adjusted position with relation to the fixed jaw.

Date: October 18, 1912

Creator: Joseph Mensik

Cultivator

Letter of proposal from Warner E. Smith to the United Patent Office to put forth his invention on cultivator to improve the existing one. His invention on cultivator is for cleaning beds where the plants planted down deep in the ground. It is ideal for reeding the surface of the ground from weeds. With his proposal, Smith provided the diagram or drawing to give detail on how it is done.

Date: October 19, 1912

Creator: Smith, Warner E.

Guano Distributor

Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.

Date: July 19, 1912

Creator: H. D. Pate

Adjustable Trace Clip

Patent for Adjustable Trace Clip. "The invention relates to an adjustable trace clip, and has for its primary object to provide a clip of this character in which the connecting strap between the back and belly bands may be adjusted with relation to the trace so as to permit the back band to properly fit the animal and also allow the longitudinal adjustment of the trace" (lines 9-16).

Date: May 24, 1912

Creator: Bradfute, Benjamine F.

Advertising Device

Patent for an Advertising Device. This device provides "a series of hinged leaves so mounted that those exposed to view have the experience of being part of a book." (lines 14-17). "A further object is to provide means which will conceal the operating mechanism, and mystify the observer" (lines 23-25), with a "supporting structure and a dummy provided with a movable hand...for turning said movable shaft as the leaves are turned" (lines 3-13).

Date: April 6, 1912

Creator: Friedman, Bernard Z.

Carbureter.

Patent for a carbureter that vaporizes liquid fuel, specifically kerosene, for use as an explosive charge in an internal combustion engine.

Date: July 10, 1912

Creator: Mack, John Rodney.

Delinter

Patent is for a Delinter. It provides a means for mechanical separation of cotton seeds from fiber as a new way of cotton ginning.

Date: April 24, 1912

Creator: Mullen, Joseph D.

Wire-Splicer.

Patent for a wire splicer, or a device that connects distinct wires by looping them together. Illustrations included.

Date: September 30, 1912

Creator: Martin, Enoch

Electric-Lamp Attachment.

Patent for an electric-lamp attachment, "the primary object of this invention being the provision of a lamp socket attachment of supporting means in combination with a switch, whereby the current energizing the filament of an incandescent lamp is so controlled as to produce different degrees of incandescence in the filament and thus produce different degrees of radiance to produce a dim or a highlight as may be desired" (lines 9-18). Illustrations included.

Date: April 23, 1912

Creator: McNeel, William Pinkney

Automobile-Jack.

Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.

Date: August 29, 1912

Creator: Bouldin, W. Claughton

Projectile

Patent for Projectile. "The present invention relates to projectiles and has particular reference to a shell which is adapted to be fired from a gun to penetrate the object aimed at and subsequently explode therein. An important object of the invention is to provide a projectile of the above mentioned character, so constructed so that the same will have a high armor penetrating efficiency and a very large explosive material carrying capacity, whereby the explosion of the shell subsequently to i… more

Date: August 16, 1912

Creator: Douglas, William M.

Lace-Rack.

Patent for an improved design for a lace-rack, or a container to stow away lace boards. Illustrations included.

Date: August 3, 1912

Creator: Jones, Laurence E.

Pump

Patent for a pump. This invention is designed to improvement pumps, by addition of a dish-like deflector within the water box that forces water down into the well preventing leakage around the pump head.

Date: November 11, 1912

Creator: Dubuque, Arthur A. & Voight, Phillip H.

Railway-Switch Operating Means.

Patent for switching the line on a railway track including an example and illustration.

Date: October 21, 1912

Creator: Phillips, Carroll

Separator-Guard.

Patent for a separator-guard for spinning frames. It prevents "the yarn from being entangled in or caught by the devices for attaching the separators to their support" (lines 15-17). Illustrations included.

Date: July 5, 1912

Creator: Pitts, Arthur

Rotary Engine

Patent is for a rotary engine. The design of this rotary engine includes an inlet and exhaust that also prevents internal leakage of working fluid under pressure.

Date: May 8, 1912

Creator: Bennison, Samuel

Fastening Device

Patent for Fastening Device which relates to "improvements in fastening devices and more particularly to latches and cooperating strikes such as used in fastening gates, etc. One object of my invention is to provide a strike for such latching means which is easily and quickly put in place, which is easily adjustable to different heights of the latching member, which is easily and quickly adjustable to different horizontal positions of the latching member, and which is so constructed that it is … more

Date: May 31, 1912

Creator: Torian, William H.