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Aerial Projectile

Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.

Date: September 25, 1918

Creator: Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney

Alarm Device.

Patent for an alarm device "to be used in connection with a boiler and operatively connected with the steam whistle, whereby when the water falls below a certain level in the boiler the mechanism will automatically operate to blow the whistle" (lines 11-16). Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 15, 1914

Creator: Priester, Joel E.

Amalgamator.

Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up throu… more

Date: September 12, 1882

Creator: Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry

Apparatus for Making Soap.

Patent for a new and improved soap-making machine. This design "consist[s] of grease and soda tanks, the latter tank having a diaphragm . . . a register-tank, pipes leading from said grease and soda tanks to said register-tank, a pivoted converter, a rotary shaft in said converter and blades, a shaft journaled in uprights attached to said converter and provided with a crank and a bevel wheel, the latter gearing with a bevel-wheel on said rotary shaft in the converter, and removable furnaces for… more

Date: September 20, 1887

Creator: Grant, William A.

Apparatus for Retailing Shot.

Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).

Date: September 21, 1880

Creator: Stokes, Micajah

Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes

Patent for "a means whereby with one motion a stamp will be supplied from the'apparatus, moistened, and placed in position upon a letter, wrapper, or parcel adapted to receive it, and wherein a number of stamps may be consecutively placed when and as desired" (lines 10-15).

Date: September 24, 1889

Creator: Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz

Attachment for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters.

Patent for Improvements in Attachments for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters. The "explosive mixture entering the cylinders of the engine may be improved and in this way increase the efficiency of the engine" (lines 12-15).

Date: September 10, 1918

Creator: Atkinson, John P.

Attachment for Rocking-Chairs

Patent for attachments for rocking chairs such as a rotary fan and platform for the rockers of the chair among other items including illustrations and instructions.

Date: September 9, 1913

Creator: Ryan, John C.

Attachment for Type-Writing Machines.

Patent for a new and useful attachment for type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 19, 1899

Creator: Pribyl, Frank G.

Automatic Pipe Coupling

Patent for improvement on the methods of controlling oil flow.

Date: September 2, 1919

Creator: Childs, William L.

Band-Cutter and Feeder

Patent for a band cutter and feeder which cuts the bands that tie bundles of grain and feeds the grain into a threshing machine. Illustrations included.

Date: September 15, 1908

Creator: Richmond, George E.

Book with Removable Cover

Patent for a removable cover for a pass book (a book where a customer's bank deposit account is kept). When a customer's pass book is filled the cover can be removed and refilled with a new pass book.

Date: September 10, 1918

Creator: Malsch, Herman C.

Brake-Staff.

Patent for a new type of brake staff for trains featuring a modular design allowing its form to be changed as necessary. This is useful for connecting train cars where regular brake staffs may get in the way. Including illustrations.

Date: September 12, 1905

Creator: Clark, James Thomas & Meyer, Henry L.

Brick Truck

Patent for a truck that is designed to make the transportation of bricks easier as well as the transportation of other materials.

Date: September 22, 1905

Creator: Sacks, Martin Kuno

Car Coupling.

Patent for automatic freight car coupler, including illustrations. The coupler "obviates the necessity of any one going between the cars while being coupled" (lines11-13).

Date: September 26, 1882

Creator: Chapman, John Edward Howard

Car-Coupling

Patent for automatic car-couplings, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 21, 1897

Creator: Yarnell, Leon, J. & Schmidt, Joseph H.

Casing-Head

Patent for a casing head that is specially adapted for "use in connection with well drilling for letting the tubing down into the bore, and in withdrawing the tubing from the bore." (Lines 15-16), including illustrations.

Date: September 7, 1920

Creator: McGarry, Henry S. & Carr, John D.

Check-Valve

Patent for a valve used for well drilling designed to be confine fluid around the pipe. Illustrations included.

Date: September 28, 1909

Creator: Kreiter, Richard F.

Coffee Pot.

Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design consists in "tubes having their upper ends bent downward, a bridge or cross-piece connecting their upper ends, the suspending-rods depending from the bridge, the ring on the lower ends of the suspending-rods, the [other] ring, and the separate strainer held removably between the two said rings" (lines 84-90).

Date: September 21, 1886

Creator: Lawrence, Joseph Martin

Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine

Patent for a pencil vending machine that is coin-operated, with illustrations.

Date: September 5, 1911

Creator: Mathes, John W.

Coin Holder of Package.

Patent for improvements in coin holders or packages by using three metallic strips, A, B, and C; the end of strips A and B are bent at right angles to the body portions of coins of a particular denomination. Strip C is “pivoted at its ends to the ends of the strips A and B at their point of attachment and adapted to be turned upon its pivots, so as to embrace the edges of the coins contained in the holder.” (Lines 85-89) Illustration is included.

Date: September 1, 1891

Creator: Heim, Charles

Compressed-Air Engine

Patent for a compressed air engine. Illustrations included.