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- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for improving an Acetylene-Gas Generator. To eliminate a check valve between the generator and the gasometer, this will purify the gas and keep siphoning off of water from occurring.
- Adding Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved adding machine using rotating discs.
- Adjustable End Die.
- Patent for improvements to adjustable end dies. These improvements allow convenient rethreading of bolts while it is engaged with an object.
- Adjustable Standard for Plows.
- Patent for improvements to foot pieces that allow for easy adjustment of plowing depth. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Aerocompass.
- Patent for an aerocompass, which improves upon a compass combined with inclinometers or map-boards. It is intended for use on submarines, airplanes, or in an area when it would be difficult to use a regular compass.
- Air-Craft Propeller
- Patent for an air craft propeller that reduces air resistance.
- Air-Lock for Mines and Tunnels
- Patent for an air lock to remove water, polluted air, and heat from mines and tunnels and force in fresh air. Illustrations included.
- Animal Shears.
- Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal. Illustration included.
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for a new type of ant trap that captures ants by having them crawl up a wooden central chamber and then fall into a sheer metal pit. Includes illustrations.
- Antispreading Device for Railway-Tracks.
- Patent for improvement for preventing the railroad tracks from spreading by using a device to connect the ends of two parallel rail to connecting adjacent pair of rails.
- Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars
- Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
- Apparatus for Electrostatic-Magnetic Separation
- Patent for an electrostatic-magnetic separator for separating particles in a mass.
- Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for a steam-powered device for cleaning seed-cotton. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus For Forming And Vulcanizing Rubberized Fabric And Rubber Tires.
- Patent for an apparatus for "forming and vulcanizing rubberized fabric and rubber tires for use on vehicle and other wheels &c., &c.” (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus for Impregnating Liquids with Gases.
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for impregnating liquids with gases. This design "relates to apparatus for impregnating water or other suitable liquid with the fumes emanating from the consumption of a combustible composition of matter, such as sulphur, which when ignited emits a gas containing suitable medicinal qualities" (lines 14-19). It consists in "the closed reservoir for containing the liquid, having windows upon opposite walls thereof, of the transverse beam having its ends supported in said windows, the sulphur-containing vessel . . . the man-hole, the air-hole, and cocks" (lines 4-10).
- Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs
- Patent for a molding and printing device for forming hollow backed signs and name plates.
- Apparatus for Transmitting Power.
- Patent for a new invention which uses a combination of radiation and levers in order more efficiently transmit power. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Apparatus for Use in Obtaining Petroleum Products
- Patent for an apparatus for use in obtaining petroleum products. Illustrations included.
- Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.
- Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
- Arm for Telegraph - Poles.
- Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
- Attachment for Gun-Slings
- Patent for an attachment for gun slings that can be used on army rifles or other guns and provides the means for the sling to be held tight against the arm for steady aim.
- Attachment for Water-Pipes
- Patent for attachment for water pipes to prevent bursting of water pipes due to freezing of water while it passes through the pipes.
- Auto-Carrier
- Patent for an auto-carrier that applied to the running board for carrying various luggage. A second aspect is to provide a device to support a wide array of objects and to withstand the weight giving its location along the running board.
- Automatic Passenger Fare Registering Mechanism
- Patent for an "automatic fare registering mechanism...adapted for use in connection with rapid transit cars or the like," (lines 10-13).
- Automatic Railway-Switch Operating Mechanism
- Patent for an automatic railway switch operating mechanism with improved levers and controls.
- Automobile-Headlight
- Patent for an automobile headlight to be attached to the front of the vehicle, that automatically turns to the side whenever the vehicle changes its course so that the pathway directly ahead is lighted for increased safety in the automobile's course.
- Automobile-Tire
- Patent for the improvement of cushion tires. The improvement produces a more resilient tire, less susceptible to punctures.
- Automobile Wheel
- Patent for a type of wheel called a spring wheel, and will allow for simple and efficient means of producing a spoke, and eliminate the need for an inflated tire when attaching the spoke, including illustrations.
- Axle-Box.
- Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).
- Axle Lubricator
- Patent for an axle lubricator, designed to allow lubricating axles without removal of wheels.
- Axle-Lubricator
- Patent for an axle lubricator. Illustrations included.
- Bale Band Tightener.
- Patent for a new and improved bale-band tightener. This design "is to produce a device by which one person may with ease draw a band tightly around a bale of cotton or other merchandise, in place of one that has by accident been broken" (lines 12-16).
- Bale-Tie.
- Patent for improvements in bale-ties is to produce a “buckle-plate having a middle portion with an opening therein, arms at each end separated from the middle portion by spaces open at one side, a longitudinal entering-passage connecting the opening with one of said spaces, and a hoop the free ends of which are looped down through said opening and up through the spaces, resting upon the arms under the standing part of the hoop.” (Lines 74-83) Illustration is included.
- Bale-Tie.
- Patent for a bale tie that can withstand strain on the side of the band. The text describes the different parts of the bale tie and how it differs from ones currently used.
- Bale-tie
- Patent for improvement in the construction of hooks used to join the ends of ties "for packages or bales of cotton, hemp, rags, or other substances in which a divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale is used, and the ends whereof are joined by a hook at one end of said band, arranged to interlock with any one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band" (para. 2).
- Bale Tile
- Patent for a bale tie for cotton bales.
- Baling Press
- Patent for baling press. Illustration included.
- Baling-press
- Patent for a baling-press that will prevent hay or other material from jamming the mechanisms used to bale it.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a baling press which uses less power to press hay the same tightness as current baling presses.
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the rounded meeting ends of the main levers and the equalizing-link connecting the same; the rounded meeting ends of the toggle-levers concentrically arranged with reference to the sill-bearings; the perforated connecting-pin for the upper ends of each pair of toggle-levers, and the securing-bolts thereof passed through the heads of the toggle-levers; the end openings in the lower portion of the baling-box and the vertically-reciprocating doors in connection therewith" (lines 19-30).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for an improved quarter circular baling press that forms "a catching and tripping mechanism simple in construction and low of production; and second, to retain the plunger-bar within its proper limits to again come in proper position on the other catch or set block after being tripped, independent of any vertical or horizontal guides as hereinafter fully described" (lines 19-26).
- Bank Pass-Book.
- Patent for an improved Bank Pass-Book that shows the identification of the individual written on the inside and outside of the book.
- Barrel for Outhouses.
- Patent for a new and improved barrel. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel-head having the opening, of the cover adapted to close said opening, the bolt extending through said cover and into the barrel, the clamping bar longer than the width of said opening in the barrel-head, said bar being centrally pivoted by a rivet to the lower end of said bolt, and a nut screwed upon the upper end of said bolt for clamping said cover in position" (lines 16-25).
- Bed
- Patent for a bed. This invention is designed for invalids that also provides a bed pan. Illustration included.
- Bee Feeder.
- Patent for a new and improved bee feeder. This design consists in "the vertically oblong box or case having an opening in one side of its lower end, a trough or basin projecting in front of said lower opening, and lateral attaching flanges or wings" (lines 68-72).
- Belt Elevator and Conveyer.
- Patent for bucket conveyers to maximize the frictional engagement between the transverse curvature of the inner surface of the belt and the periphery of the pulley.
- Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame.
- Patent for a bit-brace with right-angled V-guide frame, with description and illustrations.
- Blackboard.
- Patent for a rotating blackboard that can be covered when not in use, as well as adjusted to different heights and locked into place so the writer can utilize every available space of the blackboard. The inventor designed the blackboard "for use in schools and brokerage offices."