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- Automatic Signal System
- Patent for an automatic signal system for use with railways. Illustrations included.
- Emergency Rail-Brake.
- Patent for "a new and improved emergency rail-brake" (lines 1-5).
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for a rail joint, which is long lasting and rigid.
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for improvements to the joints for railway rails to prevent "bumping of the wheels against the ends of rails and the cross ties adjacent to the joints" (lines 16-18) including illustrations.
- Railway-Crossing
- Patent for crossings for railway tracks and particularly to means for closing the cut in the rails made for the flanges of the wheels, and the object is to provide sliding members which can be easily operated to close the slot or cut in the crossing rails for the flanges of the wheels so that a continuous tread will be formed for every wheel that passes over the crossing and to provide a mechanism for the tracks.
- Railway-Crossing.
- Patent for a railway crossing track, which does not jar the train's wheels as it passes over the crossing.
- Pneumatic Rail-Brake.
- Patent for a pneumatic rail brake, which operates automatically to prevent derailment.
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for a rail joint, which is rigid and locks in place.
- Wrench.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in monkey-wrenches to "provide an improved construction of the same whereby the clamping-jaws may be quickly and readily adjusted to the nut or tap which is to be engaged thereby" (line 19-23).
- Plow Cultivator and Irrigator.
- Patent for an underground irrigating plow that consists of a draft bar, crank arms, plow beams that front ends swivel on the crank arms, a ratchet rod with chain spools, a ratchet lever that is attached to the ratchet rod, chains that are attached to the plow beams and the spools, braces that are attached to the crank arms, and a double-tree.
- Improvement in Dumping-Platforms.
- Patent for a new cart-loader design "for dumping earth into carts or other receptacles" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
- Wagon Brake.
- Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists "[i]n a wagon-brake, the combination of the lever, provided with a pawl having the heel, the ratchet-wheel, and the catch, having the projecting portion . . . [and] a break-lever provided with a brake-lock, the ratchet-wheel, [and] barrel connected to the cord by a brake-lever (lines 92-100).
- Calf and Cow Weaner.
- Patent for calf and cow weaner.
- Blacksmith's Tongs
- Patent for blacksmith's tongs. Used to handle and manipulate different sizes of rods and bars that are round.
- Riding-Saddle
- Patent for a riding saddle.
- Quilting-Frame
- Patent for improved quilting frame which may be set up easily, and folded down and stored when not in use. Additionally, the improved design provides for fabric to be secured on all sides, and for the operator to adjust the angle of the fabric.
- Improvement in Tug Attachments for Harness.
- Patent for improving the tug-harness attachments on a horse harness to better lock straps in place.
- Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators
- Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
- Cotton-Scoop.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton scoop and is "adapted to have its tines yield to facilitate its insertion in a mass of cotton" (lines 13-14).
- Hay-Press Power.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in Baling-Presses" (lines 1-5) including illustrations and explanations.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a new cotton chopper that improves on previous models to build them better, give a cheap and good model that can be adjusted while moving it around, adjust how deep it wants to go and to the environment. Other goals are to create a cotton chopper that can be a good rotary harrow that can clean what it calls a row, deals with unwanted growth, and that can work after seeds have been sown.
- Power Device for Baling Presses.
- Patent for a new and improved power device for baling presses. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in power devices for baling-presses of that class wherein is employed a disk rigidly fixed to the shaft of the crank and a disk loosely mounted on said shaft; and it has for its object to improve upon prior constructions of this character. [This design] hinge[s] the lugs on the loosely mounted disk, and, preferably, place a spring between the said lug and the disk, so that either the weight of the lug or the force of the spring will project or suspend the lug" (lines 13-24).
- Trace Carrier.
- Patent for a new and improved trace carrier. This design "consists in a frame having an oblong slot . . . for the passage of the back-band, and which has the trace-hook formed as a portion of it, in combination with a pivoted triangular-shaped bar or bars, which are loosely connected to the frame, and which close in the oblong opening . . . to clamp or hold the back-band . . . to provide a buckle and back-band hook which can be attached to either a cloth or leather back-band by frictional contact . . . prevent[ing] the necessity of . . . forming tongues upon the buckles" (lines 14-30).
- Trace Carrier.
- Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "is to provide the trace-carrier with a locking-brace, which is held in a closed position by the chain, which prevents all possibility of the chain from becoming detached from the carrier while in use" (lines 16-20). To this end, it consists, "with the body having a strap-fastener and an outwardly and upwardly extending hook, of a locking-plate, which is hinged at its upper end to the upper portion of the body, and its lower end provided with an inner perforated projection through which the said hook passes, and a shorter projection" (lines 78-85).
- Deep Well Pump.
- Patent for a new and improved well pump. This design consists in "the timber bed arranged on the bottom of the well, in combination with two superposed metallic cylinders connected by a stock, said stock being provided at the bottom with inwardly-turned flanges made fast to said bed" (lines 55-60).
- Pump.
- Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "consists in the combination, with a suitable base or support which rests upon the bottom of the well and is provided with cogs upon its upper surface, of a rotating cylinder and delivery-pipe, a crank-shaft journaled in the cylinder and provided with a pinion upon its outer end, a connecting-rod at its inner one, and a vertically-moving piston" (lines 13-20).
- Bird-Cage
- Patent for "bird-cages of the circular kind, wherein the main-frame wires have a band at their lower ends and a single tie-wire arranged diametrically across the band. . .to utilize the single diametrical tie-wire as a support for an inverted interiorly screw-threaded connecting-cap, and to combine with such a device a pan" (lines 10-12 and 17-23).
- Clothes-Pin
- Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
- Paddle-Wheel
- Patent for a paddle wheel. Illustrations included.
- Mechanical Power.
- Patent for a new and improved engine. This design "relates to a combined room-ventilator and fly-hand; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be simple in its construction and thoroughly efficient and effective in its operation. With these ends in view the invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 9-17).
- Convertible Dust-Pan.
- Patent for a convertible dust pan, which does not require stooping over to sweep up dirt into the pan and can also be used as a shovel.
- Windmill.
- Patent for windmill that is cheap and highly efficient with a simple manufacture.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper, which can be attached to a planter.
- Cotton-Cleaner
- Patent for an apparatus that is designed to clean cotton before it is placed in a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
- Rail Tie and Fastener
- Patent for "a novel and improved rail-tie and fastener which will support and hold the rails in a substantial manner and prevent displacement and spreading thereof, so as to avoid wrecks or accidents and consequent loss of lives and property" (lines 11-16), including illustrations.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a simple and effective car coupling that is partially automatic, "and in case of accident or breakage the said device is adapted to be used after the manner of an ordinary car-coupling" (lines 17-19).
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for a cylinder shaped animal trap for small furry animals.
- Stalk Rake
- Patent for stalk rake. Illustration included.
- Impelling Device for Bowling-Hoops.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in impelling devices for bowling hoops, including instructions and illustrations.
- Advertising Device.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
- Brace.
- Patent for a new and improved brace. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the cistern or its equivalent having internal circumferential seats and the brace-sections having edge flanges fitted to said seats and having such flanges cut away at one end, whereby the section may fit at one end in the end of the adjacent section" (lines 30-36).
- Breast-Strap
- Patent for a breast strap with snap hooks that reduces wear on the strap.
- Farm and Garden Implement.
- Patent for a new and improved tool rack. This design "consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, whereby the device may hold implements of various kinds—such as the hoe, rake, a fork, shovel-blade, a trowel, and similar hand-tools—by simply detaching one tool from the holder and inserting another" (lines 12-18).
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for a cultivator attachment that keeps the cultivator beams properly separated.
- Insecticide Composition.
- Patent for an insecticide to kill red ants and "other noxious insects" (line 9).
- Post-Hole Auger
- New and useful improvement in Post-Hole Augers. With this construction the auger will its way easily and rapidly into any kind of soil.
- Engine-Starting Device.
- Patent for an engine starting device that does not require the use of a battery.
- Horseshoeing-Rack.
- Patent for improvements to a frame in which a horse can be held into a convenient position for elevating the hoof to apply a horse shoe. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Rake.
- Patent for a rake for raking machine for cleaning fields of stalks or trash.
- Combined Door-Bell and Mail-Receiver.
- Patent for a door-bell joined with a tray or card-receiver, which is installed in a door. "When pulled out it will bring said tray outside the door to receive a card, letter, or package or any mail-matter, and when released will carry it inside the door again" (lines 11-15). The bell goes off when the tray, which has a toothed edge that engages the bell-hammer, is released.