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- Adding-Machine
- Patent for "an adding-machine which, while being constructed of but comparatively few parts, will be so adjusted as arranged as to allow an operator to make rapid and correct calculations; furthermore, to produce an adding-machine in which the operator will be enabled to detect immediately any mistake which he may have made, and, finally, to produce a simple, efficient, and effective adding-machine" (lines 13-22).
- Animal Brander
- Patent for an animal brander with interchangeable characters and a holder for the characters.
- Artificial Bait
- Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the fork-shaped draw-heads having under-beveled bearings between the branches, the slotted coupler-bars having hook-lugs in front of the slots and adapted to interlock, the side bearings or ledges on each side of each hook-lug, designed to support the sides of the bar and to allow the hook-lugs to enter the slots in coupling" (lines 19-27).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-head having the downwardly and forwardly inclined floor and the floor slot or opening, of the coupling-bar having a curved or angular lever secured to its rear end and extending first downward through said opening and then under the draw-head" (lines 82-88).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for cars. This design "relates to that class of couplers that are self-couplers; and it consists of an open-top hook-shaped draw-bar provided with a pivoted T-shaped vertically-moving coupling-bar, and provided also with an end socket for using the ordinary coupling link" (lines 7-12).
- Churn
- Patent for a churn. This invention consists of a vertically disposed rotatable dasher. Illustration included.
- Churn.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
- Churn.
- Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n combination with the base, the frame having the cross-bars, churn provided with a dasher-shaft, a second shaft passing through cross-bars and connected with the dasher-shaft, pinions . . . secured to the shaft and adapted to rest upon the cross-bars . . . a[nother] shaft journaled in [one of] the cross-bar[s], and a mutilated gear engaging the pinions" (lines 16-24).
- Crude-Oil Burner
- Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "a draft-bar, a connecting rod or bar which connects the two beams together at any suitable distance . . . vertical standards which are secured to the rear ends of the beams, adjustable connecting-bars . . . and a connecting-rod which connects the bars together in a line with the beams . . . to loosely attach two cultivators to a single draft-bar, and then connect these two cultivators together . . . [so] each of the cultivators has a universal movement independently of the other, and yet they are always kept at about the same distance apart" (lines 15-32).
- Dental Tool
- Patent for a dental tool that is to "prevent the loss of amalgam" (p. 2).
- Detergent Compound.
- Patent for an all-purpose detergent composed of water, lye, ammonia, borax, indigo, and mountain balm. Includes instructions.
- Folding Coop
- Patent for a new more durable folding coop that folds up quickly and easily, including illustrations and instructions.
- Gin Saw Cleaner
- Patent for a gin-saw cleaner. The invention "relates to gin-saw cleansers and tooth-straighteners, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which will be simple of construction, efficient in operation, and one in which the saw-engaging knives or members may be simultaneously adjusted to regulate them for operation upon saws which are spaced apart a greater or lesser distance" (lines 8-16) illustration included.
- Improvement in Corn-Poppers.
- Patent for a corn-popper with design specifications and a description for usage, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Spring-Hinges.
- Patent for a new spring hinge design which will "either open or close the door or gate after it has passed an angle of forty-five degrees" (lines 20-22) including illustrations.
- Knee-Protector.
- Patent for a knee protector that enables the wearer to fasten the device to the knee and includes a frame and knee receiving pocket.
- Ligthtning-Arrester.
- Patent for improving lightning arresters, an invention used to distribute electrical current over a large area and ground it at a different points should a building be struck by lightning.
- Nut Lock.
- Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design consists in "the plate having the outstanding lugs, the retaining arms pivoted to one of said lugs, the detent between said lugs, and the locking-bolts having the head portion and the corrugated shank" (lines 64-68).
- Pencil Attachment.
- Patent for a pencil attachment that holds a picture that is designed to have a picture mounted in an opening of the pencil. When the opening is held close to the viewer's eye, the image is magnified. The main purpose of the device is to be used for advertising or souvenirs.
- Rail-Joint Chair.
- Patent for a new rail-joint chair used in the connection between rails to prevent rail movement, including illustrations.
- Seed-Planter
- Patent for a seed planter. Illustrations included.
- Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer
- Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
- Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer
- Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
- Trace Lock for Harness.
- Patent for a new and improved trace-lock for harnesses. This design consists in "the combination of the bolt, the metal strap secured to the trace, provided with the recess, the projection, and the slot having the enlarged opening, the locking-plate pivoted on the recess having the opening, and the spring" (lines 72-77).
- Turping Implement.
- Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
- Windmill.
- Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the radial arms of the wheel-frame and the vertical pivot-posts thereon, the sails or fans pivoted to said posts, the pivoted detents, and the pivoted governing-levers to which said detents are connected, said levers carrying adjustable weights" (lines 16-23).