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- Tongue Bar Adjusting Mechanism.
- Patent for "a new and useful tongue-bar-adjusting mechanism for piano" (line 2) including instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Brake Mechanism.
- Patent for "a new and useful air-brake mechanisms in relation to a pressure controller and distributer designed to perform the several independent and joint functions of a triple valve, a pressure-retaining valve, and a pressure relief or reducing valve."
- Elevating-Truck.
- Patent for invention to "improve the construction of elevating-trucks and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive apparatus adapted to be readily moved from one place to another and capable of enabling bales, boxes and the like to be readily lifted from the ground or other supporting-surface and raised to a convenient position for loading such freight upon a wagon or other conveyance" (p. 1, lines 10-18).
- Cotton-Press
- Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
- Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.
- Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
- Wireworking Tool
- Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvement to cylindrical baling-press for packing cotton, cotton-seed hulls, bran and similar objects into cylindrical bales, including illustrations.
- Harvester Attachment.
- Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
- Hydrocarbon-Burner for Stoves or Furnaces
- Patent for invention that relates to improvements in hydrocarbon-burner for stoves or furnaces or the like, the same being more especially intended for the consumption of crude oils... Among other things the invention has for its object the provision of an improved burner in which the liquid is vaporized within a confined space by causing it to splash upon a suitable obstacle and against the inner surface of a heated air-tube; to heat the air as it passes to the burner and to commingle the vapor and heated air so as to obtain an economical and combustible mixture (Greene, 1902).
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-press to form cylindrical cotton bales, including illustrations.
- Wheel Cultivator and Planter Attachment Therefor.
- Patent for an improved wheel cultivator, which includes a planter attachment, a hopper, a seed-dropping and fertilizer distributing mechanism, and covering plows.
- Taylor Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for "...a Bailing-Press for Making Cylindrical Bales of Cotton..." (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
- Can Opener
- Patent for can-opener which uses a fulcrum point that pierces the center of the can's lid and a circular blade to cut an opening around the circumference.
- Baling - Press.
- Patent for a baling press, “an improvement in that class of automatic presses adapted for baling hay, cotton, excelsior and similar materials.” (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for cotton-choppers in which it can be converted into cultivators; the height and sweep of the rotary chopper can be adjusted. The depth of penetration of the cultivator-shovels can also be adjusted independently without affecting other part of the machine. Illustration is included.
- Oil Burner
- Patent for an oil burner. Invention relates for the use with fireboxes of domestic ranges and stoves.
- Baling Press
- Patent for Baling Press
- Combination-Tool
- Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
- Wheel.
- Patent for a wheel which joins the spokes to a metal sleeve surrounding the hub of the wheel.
- Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine
- Patent for insect collecting and destroying machine. This invention uses brushes that mechanically collects boll weevils off of cotton. Illustration included.
- Agricultural Implement
- Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
- Georgetown Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
- Clothes Pin
- Patent for clothes pin. Illustration included.
- Embroidering Attachment For Sewing Machines
- Patent for an emboidering attachment for sewing machines. Illustration included.
- Garment-Supporter.
- Patent for a new garment-supporter, designed "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to support the hose and lower garments from the shoulders and capable of permitting perfect freedom of movement of every part of the body without chafing the same" (lines 12-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
- Calendar
- Patent for a calendar. This invention relates to a form of calendar known as "perpetual" calendars. Illustration included.
- Hoe Attachment
- Patent for a blade attachment to a hoe. Illustration included.
- Gatesville Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Temple Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Clothes Pin
- Patent for metallic clothes pins. Illustration included.
- Vehicle Running-Gear.
- Patent for vehicle running-gear, catered toward machinery that has fifth-wheel reach beams. Designed for smoother vehicle functioning.
- Baling Press
- Patent for a baling press. This invention provides a lever and connection to move the plunger to the sliding fulcrum. Illustration included.
- Baling Press
- Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
- Cotton Cleaner and Feeder
- Patent for an invention to feed cotton into a cleaner. Illustrations included.
- Clothes Line
- Patent for a clothes line. Illustration included.
- Bed
- Patent for a bed. This invention is designed for invalids that also provides a bed pan. Illustration included.
- Gin Feeder
- Patent for a gin feeder. This invention is designed with an automatic stop mechanism to terminate the feeding mechanism whenever the gin becomes choked. Illustration included.
- Cotton Cleaner And Gin Feeder
- Patent for a cotton cleaner and gin feeder. This invention is designed to clean cotton of impurities and then feed the cotton into the gin. Illustration included.
- Foot-Tub.
- Patent for a simple foot tub that has a cover with openings for the feet and curved backing as a foot rest to allow the use of the tub while lying down such as in the case of an invalid. The tub also includes a spout for filling the tub that closes to keep heat and steam inside the tub.
- Toboggan-Slide.
- Patent for a toboggan slide for use in amusement parks that is easily taken up and down and includes guard rails and ant-friction devices to help guide the toboggan down the slide. It also provides a method of easily moving toboggans from one slide to another.
- Churn.
- Patent for a churn dasher that will fit in any size churn and is simple and economical to produce.
- Vegetable-Cutter.
- Patent for a vegetable cutter that cuts cleanly, rapidly, and with force.
- Knife
- Patent for a knife used for cutting grass and shrubbery. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator Foot
- Patent for a cultivator foot. Illustration included.
- Rail-Joint
- Patent for a rail joint designed to simplify and improve the construction of railroads. Illustrations included.
- Pin for Engravers' Blocks.
- Patent for a pin for engravers' blocks for holding items to be engraved on the block. It has grooves of various widths on the sides to fit different size objects.
- Photograph-Holder.
- Patent for a photograph holder made from one piece of wire twisted into hooks for the edge of the photo to be put into, with a bar to support the back of the photo in an upright position.
- Cotton Chopper or Cultivator.
- Patent for a cotton chopper whose shovels are adjustable and that leaves the cotton in small piles behind it.