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- Bridle Bit.
- Patent for a new and improved bridle bit. This design "consist[s] of curb-plates provided with the mouth-bar and having the upper ends provided with slots and the lower ends formed with longitudinal slots, and the cheek-plates loosely fitted to the outer ends of the mouth-bar and having their opposite ends formed with openings for the attachment of the head-stall and reins" (lines 72-79).
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper, which can operate in uneven soil and attaches to a cultivator.
- Wire - Fence Machine.
- Patent for a new and useful wire-fence machine. This design is to "provide a simple, compact, light, and comparatively inexpensive machine adapted to be transported with facility to enable a single operator to readily distribute" (line 10 - 13).
- Collar Attachment
- Patent for a collar attachment to be used with fold down collars to provide a means to hold the collar closed, with illustrations.
- Necktie
- Patent for a pre-made necktie. This is a pre-made four in hand necktie that is designed to be adjustable to various neck sizes and made to not tear a shirt collar.
- Vehicle Top Support
- Patent for a vehicle top support. Illustration included.
- Buckle
- Patent for a buckle. Illustration included.
- Toboggan-Slide.
- Patent for a toboggan slide for use in amusement parks that is easily taken up and down and includes guard rails and ant-friction devices to help guide the toboggan down the slide. It also provides a method of easily moving toboggans from one slide to another.
- Car-Door.
- Patent for "an improved freight car door so supported that it will not be shaken or jarred off and can be easily opened and closed at all times no matter how heavily loaded the car may be." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Valve for Engines.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in valves for steam engines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Stalk Knocker.
- Patent for a new and improved stalk knocker. This design consists in "the combination, with the running-gear of a wagon, of a frame-work mounted thereon and provided with vertically-adjustable hangers at its rear end carrying stalk-knockers and their shaft, a diagonal adjustable brace connecting the hanger and the frame-work, and a driving-pulley formed in sections, having spoke-embracing lugs, and connected to the knocker-shaft by means of a belt" (lines 10-18).
- Awning.
- Patent for a new and improved awning. This design consists in "[t]he awning frame, consisting of the pivoted curved rods, pivoted sectional braces pivotally connected to said rods, and the holding or suspending bars pivoted to said rods and having series of adjusting-apertures engaging pins or studs of said braces" (lines 74-79).
- Water Heater
- Patent for a water heater. This invention relies on the heat of a smokestack of the oven to heat the water. Illustrations included.
- Plant-Supporting Device
- Patent for a simple form of a plant supporting and sticking device for gardeners and agriculturalists, with illustration (lines 10-15).
- Vehicle-Wheel
- Patent for a Vehicle-Wheel. This patent is an improvement over the other patents that this inventor submitted before. It will improve and strengthen the wheel by replacing rivets and bots, and instead use clips and springs.
- Clothes Pounder
- Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
- Hydraulic Motor
- Patent for hybraulic motor. Illustration included.
- Construction of Railroad-Beds.
- Patent for a railroad-bed design that is used to support railroad tracks.
- Clothes-Pounder.
- Patent for improvements in atmospheric clothes pounders: "Dividing the outer section into compartments so that air in escaping is distributed evenly from all sides of the pounder instead of escaping in a body from one side, whenever the pounder strikes a wad or knot of cloths and is tipped sidewise; it also makes the suction better" (lines 49-55).
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustrations included.
- Device for Stripping Wheels from Shafts
- Patent for a device for stripping wheels from shafts. Illustrations included.
- Adjustable Colter-Clamp
- Patent for a colter clamp that may be fastened to a plow beam. Illustrations included.
- Fiber Separating Machine
- Patent for machines for separating the textile fiber of various plants, and has for its objects generally to simplify such machines, perfect their product, and avoid waste (lines 11-15) with illustrations.
- Brake Mechanism For Hand Cars
- Patent for a brake mechanism for rail hand cars.Illustration included.
- Driving Mechanism
- Patent for a driving mechanism. The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient mechanism for transforming reciprocatory motion into rotary motion. It can be adapted in order to connect to other mechanisms.
- Platform Treadle For Hand Cars
- Patent for a platform treadle for hand cars. Illustration included.
- Tire-Setting Implement.
- Patent for a tire setting tool, which resembles tongs for forcing the tire onto a metal vehicle wheel.
- Packing-Gasket
- Patent for a packing gasket comprising a soft metal sleeve formed to a non-leaking joint between connected pipes.
- Pumping-Engine.
- Patent for a pumping engine that pumps air, water, oil, or other agents. It was designed to be used for air pumps on locomotives, inflating tires on automobiles, pumping water in steam operated machines, and other uses.
- Transmitting-Gear for Windmills.
- Patent for an improved transmitting-gear for windmills "which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to impart a long stroke to the pump-rod or other device to be actuated" (lines 11-14), including one illustration.
- Weighing Machine
- Patent for a weighing machine. Illustration included.
- Buggy-Top Retainer
- Patent for a buggy top retainer designed to keep the top of a buggy stable as it is driving over rough terrain. Illustrations included.
- Scissors or Shears.
- Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
- Machine for Separating Fiber from Stalks.
- Patent for a machine that separates fibers from the stalks and leaves of a variety of plants, including ramie, flax, pineapple, and sisal.
- Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
- Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
- Measuring and Drawing Tool.
- Patent for an improved, simple, and durable measuring and drawing tool that is easily adjusted and used to find bevels, pitches, degrees, and lengths in framing roofs. It has other purposes as well. "The invention consists of a plate in the shape of an eighth of an octagon having four sides, and a straight edge pivoted on the side plate and indicating thereon" (lines 14-17).
- Metallic Railway-Tie.
- Patent for a metallic railway tie, which can expand and hold the track in place.
- Pneumatic Tire
- Patent for pneumatic tire (for use on motor vehicle wheels) with application to inner tubes that are employed within the outer casing of tire. Tire provides self-sealing inner tube for piercings or punctures.
- Process of Saturating Oils
- Patent for the process of saturating oils. This is a continuation of the treating and improving petroleum hydrocarbons application serial number 792615 filed 1913-09-30.
- Grain Door
- Patent for a railway car door that is designed to assist with loading and unloading of grain
- Book or Music Leaf Turner.
- Patent for a music page turner, which can be operated by a lever or foot pedal.
- Window Light Regulator
- Patent for a window light regulator. The light regulator is designed of two shades. The first shape is dark and the other is transparent. Illustration included.
- Swing.
- Patent for a swing that consists of a frame, a wooden horse to ride on, a U-shaped hanger that is attached to the seat in the back and front, a pulley-like rocker attached to the top of the frame, a bolt that is securing the rocker to the hanger, two bars that go from the horse seat to the pulley, and a chord that attaches the two bars and goes around the top of the pulley.
- Fire-Arm.
- Patent for an improvement to adjusting rifle barrels and holding those adjustments in place. Includes illustrations.
- Plow.
- Patent for a reinforced plow shoe that eliminates frictional wear on the landside bar and reduces wear on the landside plate of the plow.
- Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c.
- Patent for the improvement of "the construction of spring trips, and to provide a simple and inexpensive spring trip, capable of being constructed of sufficient strength to enable it to be employed on stirring and breaking plows as well as cultivators, planters and the lighter class of agricultural implements" (lines 12-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Tire-Tightener.
- Patent for a Tire Tightener that tightens the tire by expanding the felly of the wheel.
- Sewing-Awl.
- Patent for an improvement upon the sewing awl that is designed to work well with leather workers. The sewing awl is made to be "adaptable to work with a break or tension device, capable of restraining a thread holding spool against free rotation to prevent excessive undesirable slack or looseness of the thread" (lines 15-19) as illustrated and described.
- File Case.
- Patent for a new and improved file case. This design "[t]he combination, with a case, of the pockets constructed in a series of a single piece of material having partitions formed by long folds connected at the bottom by short folds . . . [and t]he combination, with the folded pockets, of the file case having its sides constructed to overlap a part of the ends of the pockets, and an elastic follower with thumb-pieces arranged to bind with the sides of the case by straightening" (lines 9-24).
- Traction Engine.
- Patent for an improved version of traction engine with ambulatory wheels that improve the design, including instructions and illustrations.