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- Cotton Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
- Flushing Apparatus.
- Patent for a flushing apparatus to be used to flush tanks that are normally kept empty. It is also "an improved siphon for emptying the tank, and also an improved mechanism for starting the siphon" (lines 22-24).
- Improvement In Corn And Cotton-Seed Planters.
- This patent is an upgraded corn and seed planter machine that plants corn, cotton, and other types of seeds for mass production. The machine is aligned with the surface of the ground. It does not converse with the plows that are attached to it, freeing up the machine to release seeds proficiently with ease.
- Reproducing Device for Graphophones.
- Patent for a reproducing device for graphophones improving the objects that transmit sound to the horn or like element and provide a new means to mount the tone arm. It further improves the means for mounting the needle on the device.
- Tile-Machine.
- Patent for a tile pipe molder that "expeditiously and cheaply make subirrigating pipe right at the side of the ditch where it is to be laid" (lines 10-13).
- Seed-Planter Attachment.
- Patent for "seed-planter attachments; and it has for its object to provide a new and useful machine of this character adapted to simultaneously plant two rows of corn, cotton, or other seed at any desired distance apart and to also provide means for marking the third row at any width from the planter." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Picker.
- Patent for a skeleton glove for picking cotton that protects the fingers from chafing from the plant through the use of metal or leather thimbles on the end of each finger of the glove.
- Car Door Fastening.
- Patent for a new and improved car-door fastening. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a staple, a hook-hasp, key, and a key-plate, whereby several advantages are obtained . . . for securing the sliding doors of box-cars and other railway-cars" (lines 8-14).
- Vehicle-Wheel
- Patent for new and useful improvements to the Vehicle-Wheel. Tire may be formed into a disk wheel constructed with nuts, bolts, rivets, and screws to compensate for any regular and irregular pressure stresses a tire may be subjected to on a road. A further improvement is to provide a more resilient disk wheel to have more durability and longer use on the road.
- Automatic Sand Trap
- Patent for an automatic sand trap related to automatic devices for separating suspensions into two products and is concerned with the separation of sand from water for dam building and like purposes.
- Automatic Separator and Evaporator.
- Patent for an improved automatic separator and evaporator which controls the intake with an included air-lift or jet-ejector, including illustrations.
- Feed Spout Barrier
- Patent for "a feel spout barrier for slime thickeners, settling tanks, separating tanks and the like" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
- Slime-Pulp Thickener.
- Patent for a machine used in the wet milling process. It allows proportionate distribution of liquids to aide during the thickening process.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for "pin-and-link car-couplings to enable the same to couple automatically and to be readily uncoupled without going between cars, and to provide means for holding the link in substantially a horizontal position for guiding it into the mouth of a draw-head to avoid going between cars and guiding the link by hand." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Device for Slicing Fish.
- Patent for new and useful improvements to a device for slicing fish into smooth and even slices, including 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.
- 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).
- Metallic Railway-Tie.
- Patent for a metallic railway tie, which can expand and hold the track in place.
- 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.
- Tractor
- Patent for "novel features of construction and combinations of parts" in tractors to ensure a steady, even pace of travel and allow for traversing uneven landscape while maintaining a level setting, including illustrations and instructions.
- Wire-Fence-Stay Machine.
- Patent for wire working machines, specifically for automatically making wire fence stays. This machine can be operated manually and it is portable.
- Silo
- Patent for a silo composed of sections that can be arranged to modify the capacity as needed, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Ant Traps
- Patent for the improvement of Ant traps, including to illustrated and labeled figures.
- Root and Stalk Pulling Machine
- Patent for a root and stalk pulling machine. Illustrations included.
- Washing-Machine.
- Patent for an improved washing machine "in which is employed a rotary agitator or dasher with blades, and it has for its objects among others to provide an improved construction whereby better results are attained, the construction simplified and made cheaper, less liable to become inoperative or injured and easier to operate" (lines 16-22). It has a cover with a hinged lid.
- Churn.
- Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the standards, the longitudinal bars connecting the same, the driving-shaft journaled on the upper bars, the counter-shaft journaled on the lower bars and provided with a crank-disk at one end, gearing between the driving-shaft and the counter-shaft, the balance-wheel on the counter-shaft, the rock-shaft journaled on the upper bars and provided with the oppositely-extending crank-arms between the said bars, the crank arm depending from the end of the rock-shaft, [and] the pitman" (lines 88-99).
- Washing-Machine
- Patent for improvements to cylinder washing machines.
- Mail Bag Catchers and Deliverer
- Patent for a mail bag catcher and deliverer. This invention is designed for the retrieval and delivery of mailbags by passing trains. Illustration included.
- Feed Trough.
- Patent for a new and improved feed trough. This design "is to provide a portable feed rack and trough adapted to hold a quantity of feed and to discharge the same as is found necessary" (lines 10-13). It consists in "a platform mounted on runners and provided at its sides with troughs, bins arranged at the ends of the platforms and provided at the lower ends of their sides with openings" (lines 99-102). It further consists in "slides arranged in . . . recesses and adapted to vary the size of said openings, strips arranged on the outer edges of the inclined bars, and set-screws connecting the strips" (lines 3-7).
- Elevated Railway.
- Patent for improvements in elevated railways: "provide simple means for regulating and adjusting the weight of the car so as to throw the preponderence thereof upon either the upper or the lower track or to equally divide the weight so that each track bear a like proportion" (lines 12-17).
- Grading Apparatus.
- Patent for improvements in grading apparatus to make it "comparatively simple and inexpensive in construction" (line 10) and readily adjustable.
- Vehicle-wheel.
- Patent for a vehicle wheel that does not wear down as quickly as those currently used and that better absorb shock. The text explains the different parts of the new wheel and why it is an improvement over current wheels.
- Deposit File
- Patent for a deposit file. Illustration included.
- Invalid-Bed.
- Patent for attachment to beds for invalids. This device allows the invalid to be raised or placed in the sitting position.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for improvements in baling presses "in which the necessary motion may be imparted to the plunger in a rapid and effective manner, and which shall be productive of considerable saving of labor and power" (lines 15-19)
- Improvement in Horse-Powers.
- Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
- Apparatus for Cooling Journal-Boxes on Railway-Trains
- Patent for an apparatus for cooling journal boxes on trains by sending water to the journal boxes from a water system installed in each car.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvement in automatic car-couplings “in which the coupling-pin (worked by a rope or chain) is guided in a vertical tube extending upward from the draw-head, and is supported in position for coupling by a block sliding with the draw-head,” (lines 9-14) includes illustration.
- Water-Valve.
- Patent for a water valve for water delivery systems that does not have standing water around it that can freeze in cold weather.
- Shell.
- Patent for improvements to explosive projectile shells. Provides a shell adapted to contain gas and high explosives with constructed multi-layered shells with the intent to inflict as much damage as possible.
- Parcel-Carrier for Bicycles.
- Patent for improvements in parcel carriers for bicycles in which the parcel carriers can attach/detach easily and is adaptable to different types of bicycle handlebars; includes illustration.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in baling-presses." (Lines 5-6) Illustrations are included.
- Wire-Stretcher.
- Patent for a tool to stretch telephone wire, barb wire, and wire fencing. The tool connects to and holds in place a wire using a lock. While locked in place, the wire is stretched without the need of chains.
- Corn or Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).
- Submarine Telescope.
- Patent for submarine telescope using a pair of longitudinal tubes, mounted lens, rigid rods, electric light bulb, and chains for securing to the boat. Intended as useful improvements to submarine telescopes with the objection to assist in locating submerged objects. Accompanied with illustrations.
- Double-Acting Cylinder-Pump.
- Patent for improvements in double-acting cylinder-pumps by making “the cages and check-valves detachable from the piston-cylinder without removing or disturbing either the casing or piston-cylinder and can be replaced in the same manner.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration in included.
- Well-Casing Grapple
- Patent for a well-casing grapple, allowing a positive grip when lowering casing or pipe within a well, or withdrawing it therefrom, without the danger of slipping or accident.
- Cultivator
- Patent for improvements to a new cultivator which eliminate side drafting and improving the means of cultivating and adjusting the shovels with ease.
- 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.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for an improved bailing-press.