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- Train-Pipe Coupling.
- Patent for a coupling for trains air brake hoses/pipes, which automatically connects when train cars are put together.
- Transplanter.
- Patent for a machine that transplants small plants while avoiding "clogging of the mud in soft soil" (line 20). It has a cylindrical cutter and a cylindrical plunger that fits just inside it. The plunger is usually away from the base of the cutter, and an adjustable rod extends from the plunger.
- Vapor-Burner.
- Patent for a vapor burner that improves upon existing vapor burners by using steam to heat oil and mix with vapor. This invention consists of novel features within the vapor burner's arrangement and construction.
- Water Elevator and Carrier.
- Patent for a water elevator and carrier that is designed to quickly and efficiently transport water from a well, spring, or cistern to the operator. A bucket can be quickly transported to the well, spring, or cistern and be filled also.
- Wheel.
- Patent for improvements “in wheel-tightening arrangements in which a cylinder with a conical-formed end works by means of a thread inside the hub, for the purpose of forcing the spokes to the outside and to tighten by these means the whole wheel, when the wooden parts of the wheel are shrunk together.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
- Wheel.
- Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "relates to improvements in that class of expanding wheels in which the hub is provided with an inclined abutment, on which the inclined ends of the spokes rest, the said spokes being clamped in position and adjusted on the abutment by clamping collars; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 8-15).
- Wire-Stretcher.
- Patent for improvements in wire-stretcher for use in fence-building in which wire is secured to a fence-post, using horse power to hitch to the whiffletree and driven along close to the lines of posts. When wires are being leaded out, they are being stretched simultaneously. A lever is inserted in front of the spools as a final additional tension device to tighten and staple the wire to the fence-posts. Illustration is included.
- Wire Stretcher.
- Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "consist[s] of the bar notched at one end to receive a barbed wire, and provided with a ferrule at its opposite end, having the short arm and the long arm, the stud serrated on its inner side at the outer end of the arm, and the serrated cam-lever pivoted between the arms, the bar being adapted to be used as a lever in connection with a fence-post as a fulcrum" (lines 53-61).
- Wire-Working Tool.
- Patent for wire working tool for attaching couplings to hoses.