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Cable Reeling and Pulling Truck

Description: Patent for the cable reeling and pulling truck. This invention was made to ease the process of cable reeling and pulling by trucks and for improvements to the safety of this process. Illustrations are provided.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Alberts, James

Vehicle-Wheel

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements to the Vehicle-Wheel. Tire may be formed into a disk wheel constructed with nuts, bolts, rivets, and screws to compensate for any regular and irregular pressure stresses a tire may be subjected to on a road. A further improvement is to provide a more resilient disk wheel to have more durability and longer use on the road.
Date: April 12, 1921
Creator: Allan, William N.

Automatic Sand Trap

Description: Patent for an automatic sand trap related to automatic devices for separating suspensions into two products and is concerned with the separation of sand from water for dam building and like purposes.
Date: April 12, 1921
Creator: Allen, Charles

Reel

Description: Patent for an improvement in reels. The reel features improvements in how to attach the end of a film strip to the reel for winding.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Allen, Harry Porter

Water-Valve.

Description: Patent for a water valve for water delivery systems that does not have standing water around it that can freeze in cold weather.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Anthony, Joseph B. & Morris, Robert M.

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-head, of an L-shaped lever pivoted in the same and provided at its angle with a lug, which L-shaped lever has a coupling-pin suspended from the end of the long arm, and has its short arm passed into an aperture in the inner end of a bar sliding in the bottom of the draw-head, whereby when the lug is depressed the coupling-pin will be raised and the bar in the draw-head will push the l… more
Date: June 12, 1883
Creator: Appell, Charles E.

Combination-Tool.

Description: Patent for a combination tool that is "adapted without changing any of its parts to operate as a nut and pipe wrench, pliers, hammer, screw-driver, and nail-extractor." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Armstrong, Charles J.

Thread-Cabinet.

Description: Patent "...relates to cabinets for spooladapted to contain spools of thread of different sizes and from which the spools may be easily extracted one at a time" (lines 7-11) including illustrations and descriptions.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Armstrong, John, S.

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for "an improved lifting-jack designed expressly for track-levelers, although the construction may be varied for other purposes." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 12, 1896
Creator: Arnold, Raiford A.

Feeder for Soft Candy.

Description: Patent for bee feeder device that allows bees to have access to food during transport. The feeder also is designed to prevent any running and clogging, while minimizing bee death due to starvation.
Date: July 12, 1921
Creator: Ault, Eugene B.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton-choppers by using a crown-wheel attached to one of the ground-wheels of the chopper. When the ground wheels impart motion to the crown wheel, which in turn communicates motion to the pinions of the shaft. This shaft drives the two sprocket-wheels; the sprocket wheel that located in the rear portions of the crank-shaft imparts motion to the crank-shaft, which drives the vertical choppers. Illustration is included.
Date: May 12, 1891
Creator: Baggett, Neil Jefferson

Napkin Ring and Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved napkin ring and holder. This design is "to receive the napkin after it is folded, or to be used as a device for sustaining the napkin at the neck of the user when at the table. It consists in a yoke-shaped piece of metal having a hinged section for connecting the two ends, and serving as a ring, in combination with a clasp for holding the napkin . . . at the throat" (lines 17-25).
Date: February 12, 1884
Creator: Bahn, Gus A.

Pruning Implement.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient pruning implement meant to prune trees, cutting brush, and trimming hedges. It has a reciprocating knife, an improved hatchet-blade, and an extensible saw-blade "which is seated within a groove or recess in the shank of the implement and capable of being extended and held in operative position by means of a retaining-spring" (lines 16-20).
Date: November 12, 1895
Creator: Baiey, George M.
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