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- Artificial Stone
- Patent for artificial stone.
- Baby-Walker.
- Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included.
- Baling Press
- Patent for improvements made to a baling press used to press cotton into bales. Improvements include improved construction to improve durability and efficiency, and design enhancements to the feeding belt to make retrieving the bales of cotton easier and more efficient.
- Beet Puller and Topper.
- Patent for a new machine to pull beets from the ground as moving chains cut off the leaves and deposit the beets into a bend.
- Cement Kiln
- Patent for a new and improved cement kiln for drying gypsum and other materials employed in the manufacture of cement and plaster.
- Cinder-Guard
- Patent for cinder guard.
- Clutch.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive clutch used for transmitting power. The clutch has "independent rotable disks that act on peripheral eccentric proportions, which are so arranged that the said disk will be held free from contact with the drive-shaft and the entire bearing of the clutch mechanism thrown on the grip members, whereby the shaft-apertures in the disks can be made sufficiently large to overcome any irregularity of the bearing-faces of the internal cam portions and obviating the necessity of providing outside collars" (lines 17-27).
- Convertible Corn and Cotton Planter, Stalk-Cutter, and Roller.
- Patent for a convertible corn and cotton planter, stalk-cutter, and roller. It has a main frame, a supplemental frame that has its front end hinged to the front of the main frame, a roller with circular journaled in the supplemental frame, transverse segment-plates with removable blades attached to the supplemental frame, spaces between the segment-plates, an axle, driving-wheels, a sprocket wheel and chain, feed-boxes, means for feeding the grain, and wheels for laying the ground and the coverers.
- Copy Holder
- Patent for an improved copy holder design that is "adapted for holding stenographers' notebooks and other copies and equipped with an efficient line guide, capable of easy and rapid operation to drop the line indicating means from one line to another with perfect accuracy" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
- Cotton-Buncher.
- Patent for an implement to thin and bunch young cotton plants, including illustrations.
- Cotton-Cleaner.
- Patent for a machine "for the purpose of cleaning the cotton before it is ginned, and thus free it from foreign substances and produce a better grade of cotton than that which is ginned without being previously cleaned" (lines 15-19).
- Coupling
- Patent for a coupler for railway cars. Illustrations included.
- Detachable Draft Appliance
- Patent for a detachable draft appliance.
- Duplex Door-Check Holder and Buffer
- Patent for door check holder for preventing doors from slamming and holding them in open position. Illustrations included.
- Egg-Preserving Compound.
- Patent for a mixture of chemical for preserving eggs; ingredients, measurement and instruction are in included. No illustration.
- Eight-Lens Telescope.
- Patent for improvements in refracting-telescopes in which the instrument may be readily and accurately focused by adjustment of the lenses within the telescoping sections; and by having one or more perforated diaphragms for avoiding errors due to spherical aberration, an adjustable and removable transmitter for the light passing through the object-glass, for the purpose of toning the quantity of light. Illustration is included.
- Explosion Engine Starter
- Patent for a new type of automobile starter, able to replace the hand crank. This device will be able to start the automobile without having to turn a crank, It will attach to the crank shaft of the engine and make it much easier to start the automobile.
- Foot for Plow-Stocks.
- Patent for improvements in plows by using the combination of “two forwardly-curved bars which clamped to a plow-beam, and the heel having its forward end rigidly secured between the lower ends of the bars and its rear portion bent upwardly and forwardly and secured between the bars.” (Lines 94-100) Illustration is included.
- Garment-Waist Adjuster.
- Patent for improvements made to a garment-waist adjuster including specifications and illustrations. This patent describes improvements made to the device outlined in a previous patent associated with the same inventor, Albert K. Hurst.
- Gas-Producer.
- Patent for an improvement to a gas producing apparatus which makes gas continuously from "combustible material mixed with air and the subsequent combination of gases formed by the decomposition" (lines 13-15) of resulting gases, including instructions and illustrations.
- Hammer
- Patent for a hammer
- Hobble-Arch for Cultivators.
- Patent for a new hobble arch that laterally adjusts shovel beams of cultivators without stripping shaft threads.
- Horse-Detacher.
- Patent for improvements in devices of attachments for wagons or similar wheeled vehicles, by improving “the attachment to the brake rod or shaft of the wagon, connected also with the bolts which secure the shafts or pole in the clips on the wagon-axle, by means of which the brake-shaft may be rocked so as to apply the brakes and stop the wagon, hold the shafts or pole, and thus disconnect them from the wagon.” (Lines 16-22) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
- Patent for improvements in cotton choppers.
- Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
- Patent for road scrapers, illustration included.
- Mill-Carriage-Wheel Guard.
- Patent for a new mill-carriage-wheel guard "to prevent obstruction falling on the wheels or on the [railroad] track, this guard also carries scrapers in front and in rear and on each side of the wheel, whereby the obstructions are scraped off the track." (Lines 23-28) This guard can be used with a wood-working machine carriages and/or rail.” Illustration is included.
- Music Holder.
- Patent for a new and improved sheet-music holder. This design consists "[i]n a music-holder, the combination of the base-board, the tension arms, the frictional spiral-swings, the plates perforated to receive the screw, and having the countersunk perforation to receive the knots in the ends of the elastic cords, and the knot receiver" (lines 50-55).
- Plow.
- Patent for a plow that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventors (No. 507,854). The improvements are that the "stock may be used in connection with any form of share needed for working a crop" (lines 14-16) and the plow provides "a sweep-stock with a point which will be integral with its shoe or foot-bar, and which will assist in holding the share in position" (lines 20-23).
- Refrigerating Apparatus.
- Patent for a refrigerating apparatus that consists of a circular table that has a reservoir in its middle and jars mounted on fibrous mats and secured in a grid around the reservoir. Fibrous bags surround the jars and the excess material is gathered and goes into the reservoir.
- Refrigerating Apparatus.
- Patent for "improvements in refrigerating apparatuses, more particularly to those for the purpose of hardening ice cream" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
- Riding-Saddle.
- Patent for a ridding-saddle that is an improvement previously granted to Jesse D. Padgitt (No. 540,940). The improvements include increasing the strength to the flexible rear portion of the saddle. The first patent was for a saddle "distinguished by a tree or frame formed of a short rigid fork and a flexible body or rear portion, including a seat and cantle, constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material" (lines 10-14).
- Silo-Chute.
- Patent for "a chute that may be readily attached to or detached from a silo" (lines 14-15).
- Snap-Hook.
- Patent for improvements in snap-hooks by using just one “single piece of wire, having a stationary arm that bent to form an inwardly-extending shank with its extremity bent in a reverse direction upon itself to form a bearing; the spring-arm and the spring-loop formed by coiling the wire upon itself and crossing, and extending outward at an angle to form shoulders to strengthen the hook immediately in front of the spring-loop.” (Lines 61-70) Illustration is included.
- Steam-Boiler Indicator.
- Patent for an improvement in steam boiler indicators to alert when the water has dropped below a specified threshold, including instructions and illustrations.
- Stirrup.
- Patent for a light and durable stirrup that can be used in light and heavy saddles and has an improved construction.
- Stirrup
- Patent for a stirrup.
- Stump-Puller
- Patent for stump puller.
- Suspension-Bridge.
- Patent for improvements in suspension-bridge by using a combination of upper main cables reached from one pillar to the opposite pillar and anchored in the rear side of the pillars. A pair of lower cables at each side of the bridge; each pair being crossed at the center of the A-shaped or angular girders, these girders are bent for use as receiving hooks to form vertical stays. A series of girders hold the upper and lower cables in position thus making the bridge strong, light and rigid span. Illustration is included.
- Switch Cord Plug
- Patent for a switch cord plug that can be adapted to cords and used with telephone switchboards. Illustrations included.
- Thermostat.
- Patent for a thermostat that automatically regulates temperatures and is operated "in conjunction with an electric current or the like" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
- Trolley-Wheel
- Patent for a trolley wheel. Illustrations included.
- Tub Holder
- Patent for improvements made to tub holders, primarily to suit tubs of various sizes for heating water. Purposes for holding tubs include boiling water for clothes and food. The improvements focus on support of the tubs, and allow for rotation of tubs with ease and efficiency.
- Ventilating Cover.
- Patent for a new and improved ventilating cover. This design "consists in the detailed construction of the same . . . whereby the contents of . . . vessels are protected from dust, insects, and all kinds of impurity, and at the same time are thoroughly ventilated by free communication with the atmosphere, and so that any gases arising from the contents of said vessels will not be confined with the contents, but will pass off through the ventilating-cover into the surrounding air" (lines 16-26).
- Washboiler
- Patent for a wash boiler used to wash clothes with steam and water. Illustrations included.
- Weeder.
- Patent for a new adjustable-height weeder that attaches to a cultivator or lister and cultivates, weeds, or cuts field vegetation quickly.
- Well-Drilling Apparatus.
- Patent for drilling well apparatuses that approximate the weight imposed so that the weight can be regulated to improve efficiency, including instructions and illustrations.
- Whiffletree
- Patent for a whiffletree.
- Windmill
- Patent for a windmill.