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- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for improving acetylene gas generator designs with the use of an added specification in the form of a new apparatus. Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Acetylene Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
- Adding Machine
- Patent for a machine that adds numbers together using "key actuated accumulating wheels" to reach the desired sum, including illustrations.
- Adjustable Book-Cover
- Patent for a book cover that can be adjusted to fit any book size.
- Adjustable Brace for Doors or Gates and Cover for Same
- Patent for an adjustable brace for doors or gates. It is designed to prevent sagging.
- Adjustable Nailless Horseshoe.
- Patent for an adjustable horseshoe with cost efficient, replaceable fittings. Illustrations included.
- De-Aerator
- Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
- Aeroplane.
- Patent for an aeroplane with a propeller, which is "pivotally mounted and adjustable into different positions relative to the planes in order to produce either a rising movement or thereof or a driving movement in a horizontal or other plane" (lines 26-30).
- Aeroplane
- Patent for an aeroplane. The invention is designed to vary the curvature of the plane from front to rear and by this means the plane may be so adjusted as to reduce the "head resistance" to a minimum. The invention is also trying to find the suitable means for manipulating the adjustable sections whereby the movable sections. This invention aims to provide a machine that is strong, durable, efficient, and comparatively simple to construct.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an animal trap "having a vestibule which will be operated by the weight go the animal entering the same to close the entrance-door and open an exit-door into a receiving compartment or cage" (line 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate
- Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
- Artificial Tooth
- Patent for an artificial tooth to a gold bridge. Illustration included.
- Band for Paper, Currency, &c.
- Patent for a new and improved money clip. This design consists in "[a] band for packages provided with tongues projecting toward each other and an elastic, whereby when the band is in use the tongues will project in opposite directions to receive the elastic" (lines 57-61).
- Boll Breaker and Cleaner.
- Patent for a boll breaker and cleaner with a casing with a pair of revolving cylinders with boll-breaking arms adapted to work with additional boll-breaking arms projected from rocking shafts in the lower portion of the casing. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Braiding Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
- Patent for an "attachment to the pressure-foot of sewing machines to carry a tinsel or braid in proper position relative to the needle" (lines 15-17) to ensure the tinsel or braid is fully attached to the desired outline on the cloth. Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Brush.
- Patent for brush used to add adjustable sized stripes onto vehicles and to add lettering onto signs. The brush contains its own paint reservoir.
- Burglar Proof Safe.
- Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "relates to burglar-proof safes, the object being to provide a safe with non-explosive seams; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-17).
- Burner.
- Patent for a new and improved burner for use in fire-boxes of boilers and other apparatus.
- Calculating Device
- Patent for an improved calculating device including a calendar.
- Calendar.
- Patent for "a perpetual calendar embodying such a construction that the movement of a finger device will turn wheels, so as to successively display the names of the days of the week, the numbers of the days of the months, and the names of the months, the mechanism being such that the name of a month will be displayed until the numbers of all its days have been displayed, when the name of the succeeding month will be displayed, and so on." (Lines 13-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Canopy
- Patent for an invention that relates to certain improvements in carriage-covers; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the frame and cover and the manner of operating the same; and the object of the invention is to produce a cover for the protection of carriages while standing idle (Winants, 1902).
- Car-Door.
- Patent for a door for railroad boxcars, which locks tightly and does not swell.
- Catalog of the University of Texas Southwestern School of Health Professions: 2010-2013
- Catalog of courses and regulations for the University of Texas Southwestern School of Health Professions, 2010-2013. Index of faculty on page 122.
- Combined Filler and Packer for Baling Aparatus
- Patent for improvements in apparatus to combined filler and packer for association with cotton press or baling and operations to receive lint cotton.
- Combustion Device
- Patent for a combustion device that allows for the control of fuel to one or two burners of the same fire box. This device is also built in an upright position to assist in supporting the burner members of the box. This device is built stronger and simpler than other devices of its kind.
- Condenser for Cotton-Gins.
- Patent for a new means of separating air from cotton, expelling the air while the cotton is condensed and released for baling.
- Copy-Holder.
- Patent for a copy holder with a firmer clamp and a better support for the line indicating bar than previous versions.
- Corn or Cotton Planter
- Patent for improvements on corn or cotton planters, especially referring to patent no. 692,646. These improvements are meant to "Simplify the means of adjusting the position of the plows and seed-dropper, to improve the frame construction, and in general to simplify and improve the whole machine" (lines 16-19) Includes instructions and illustrations
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton chopper that is "adapted for simultaneously forming rows and cross-chopping the same, thus bringing plants, such as cotton, &c., to a stand, all in one operation, and thereby avoiding the necessity, as occurs in some cases of plowing or cultivating two ways in a field for the purpose of forming rows and then the stands or for any hand hoeing, as is also commonly done" (lines 12-19).
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for a cotton gin that removes lint-cotton from the saws using an air-suction mechanism instead of a brush, which pose a fire hazard and can impair the gin's effectiveness. An air-blast mechanism is also an ineffective method of cleaning lint-cotton from the saws. The air-suction mechanism sucks "the lint-cotton directly from the rear portions of the saw-teeth independently of and without a brush, and an apparatus for preventing the withdrawn lint-cotton from passing into and through the air-suction apparatus" (lines 84-89).
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for a "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Gins" (lines 4-5) with description and drawings. Improvements include a "lint-removing mechanism and designed...especially for reginning or delinting cotton-seed" (lines 13-15) and the abiity to stop the float and delinting process instantly.
- Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.
- Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
- Cotton-Packer
- Patent for cotton packer designed for use in cotton gins.
- Cotton-Saw Gummer
- Patent for improvements to cotton saw gummers. The patented improvements include a cutter rather than a puncher in the gummer's design, as well as means for adjusting the cutter.
- Curing-House.
- Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
- Design for a Music-Indicator
- Patent for an "ornamental design for a music-indicator" (lines 11-12).
- Draft-Equalizer
- Patent relating to improvements to draft appliances for tractors. Illustration is included.
- Draft Equalizers
- Patent for a draft equalizer that permits either three horses to travel at one side of the beam and two at the other, or three horses at one side of the beam and one at the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Educational Device
- Patent for a combined folding desk, blackboard, scroll, and map cabinet to be used for educational purposes. Illustrations included.
- Electric Alarm.
- Patent for a simple and efficient electric alarm to be used for vault protection. It is a magnet, which is a better design than a coil. The magnet is suspended between two points, and a spring that pushes it in one direction. There is an armature that causes friction when it slides, and sounds an alarm when the arm moves in one direction.
- Electric Water-Heater
- Patent for an electric water heater. Illustrations included.
- Electrically-Protected Structure
- Patent for an electrically protected structure which improves upon previous electrically protected structures and their wiring.
- Elevator Controlling Device
- Patent for improvements to the elevator controlling device. These improvements have to do with the main circuit being broken while the elevator doors are open, thus stopping the elevator from moving before the doors are fully closed.
- Embossing-Machine.
- Patent for improvements to embossing machines. specifically machines for embossing saddle leather, including an illustration.
- Extension-Table
- Patent for "an improvement in center tables, seeking to provide a simple convenient construction of extension-table, Which can be easily extended or contracted, by which the objectionable center leg can be dispensed with, and in which the main or center portion Will be firmly supported at all times" (lines 7-13).
- Feeding Mechanism for Tamper Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improved feeding mechanism for tamper Cotton presses.
- Fence Fabric.
- Patent for a new kind of fence fabric that lays flatter, can be made more efficiently, and slips less.
- Filing-Cabinet Unit
- Patent for a filing cabinet unit. Illustrations included.
- Foldable Landing Gear for Aeroplanes
- Patent for foldable landing gear for airplanes. This landing gear is designed to be folded into the body of the plane, by the pilot.
- Gas Generator and Burner.
- Patent for a new and improved gas generator. This design "has for its object to improve the efficiency of that type of vapor generators and burners wherein oil and air pipes enter a casing having burner orifices and filled with an incombustible substance, which when heated vaporizes the oil" (lines 8-13).