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Automatic Wrench

Description: Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Clay, Samuel

Bag Holder

Description: Patent for a bag holder. This invention is made of four frame sections that fold and when extended supports the bag. Illustration included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Devini, John H.

Folding Feed-Box.

Description: Patent for a folding feed box that may be "readily carried or packed in a small space" (lines 18-19) when not being used.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Young, Benjamin Joshua

Food Tongs

Description: Patent for food tongs. The invention employs scoops. Illustration included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Wheeler, William H.

Thrust Bearing

Description: Patent for a thrust bearing. Illustration included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.

Washing Machine

Description: Patent for a washing machine. Illustration included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Pippin, John William & Woods, Douglass H.

Street Sweeper

Description: Patent for an improvement to street sweepers. "The object of the invention is to provide a device...for the purpose of sweeping up and collecting the refuse from the surface over which the machine passes and convey the same by suction into a receptacle and further comprehends a consuming furnace in which the refuse may be consumed" (lines 11-18).
Date: January 11, 1913
Creator: Ewing, Mary W. & Glover, Charles B.

Animal-Trap

Description: Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Link, William A.

Carbid-Feed Valve

Description: Patent for carbid-feed valve for acetylene generators whose improved form allows for balanced feeding whether closed or open.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Ballard, John S.

Mail Bag Catcher and Deliverer

Description: Patent for a mail bag catcher and deliverer. "This invention relates to mail bag catchers and deliverers and the principle object of the invention is the provision of simple and efficient mechanism of the character which may be readily and conveniently thrown to operative and inoperative position and wherein the saddle bars and their respective guards may be aligned with the track and car" (lines 9-17). Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Freeman, Richard J.

Rail Fastening

Description: Patent for a rail fastening device that does not require spikes. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Hellner, Peter Herm

Slide Rule

Description: Patent for a slide rule. Illustration included.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Hamby, Robert M.

Valve for Toilet-Basins

Description: Patent for a valve for toilet basins which is specifically placed outside the bowl to prevent the operator's hands from becoming wet when discharging the contents of the bowl.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Kelley, Robert W.

Well Drilling Mechanism

Description: Patent for a well drilling mechanism. This invention addresses the time consuming labor of screwing together sections of drilling pipe. This invention "contemplates an apparatus adapted to be attached to the frame of the rotary and operated by the driving mechanism of the rotary...screwing and unscrewing accomplished by mechanical means without manual means" (lines 38-44). Illustration included.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Hall, Samuel N.

Airship

Description: Patent for an airshape. This invention is of a helicopter design. Illustration included.
Date: January 21, 1913
Creator: Darche, James

Double-Action Ratchet

Description: Patent for a double action ratchet for use with drills that allows them to be turned either direction.
Date: January 21, 1913
Creator: Skinner, James W.

Drain-Box for Railway-Crossings

Description: Patent for a drain-box for railway crossings that drains water off of the tracks.
Date: January 21, 1913
Creator: McKnight, William M.

Safety-Stirrup

Description: Patent for a safety stirrup with improved attachment of parts.
Date: January 21, 1913
Creator: Parker, Andrew

Sash-Fastener

Description: Patent for sash fastener designed for windows that will be cheaper and easier to manipulate via a specially designed spring locked upper sash and a lower counter sash.
Date: January 21, 1913
Creator: Yaeger, Henry C.

Truss

Description: Patent for a truss for holding a pad in position during surgery.
Date: January 21, 1913
Creator: Haile, James Thomas

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper that can be used as a garden hoe. Illustrations included.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Weaver,John Robert

Demountable Rim

Description: Patent for a demountable rim. This invention is used for automobile wheels for readily mounting and remounting. Illustration included.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Cox, Eli R.
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