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- Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker
- Patent for automatic circuit maker and breaker that automatically cuts off the circuit to electric lights. Also for automatically completing circuits to said lights at the proper time
- Automatic Water Cut-Off
- Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
- Bed Attachment for Invalids.
- Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
- Car Coupling
- Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
- Check-Line Buckle.
- Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
- Churn-Motor
- Patent for a spring motor intended to operate churns. It has a quality which allows it to be stopped or interrupted during its operation.
- Combination Tool.
- Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists in a combination-tool embodying in a single implement a nail and staple-puller, pinchers, nail-straightener, and wire-cutters, the device being more particularly designed for use in constructing, taking down, and resetting wire fencing" (lines 7-12).
- Combination-Tool.
- Patent for a combination tool that provides "a novel form of tool-head arranged to interchangeably carry a plurality of tools of different characters, whereby the single tool-head may be employed in various capacities" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
- Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter
- Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for an adjustable cotton chopper which allows for the chopper to be set to different heights (vertically).
- Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Spacer.
- Patent for a device that efficiently and quickly travels over cotton-drills, spacing the stands uniformly apart and covers up any grass or weeds around the stands, including illustrations.
- Cotton-Tramper
- Patent for
- Cross-Roller Bit.
- Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in cross-roller bits. Invention relates to "improvements in rotary boring drills for use in drilling wells for water, oil or gas and has particular reference to drills of the so called cross roller type for use in hard formation."
- Cultivator-Plow.
- Patent for improvements in cultivator-plow through the positioning and connection of parts. Adjustable plow for different cultivating functions and different crops, especially for cotton. Illustration and materials recommendations included.
- Curtain-Fixture
- Patent for a curtain fixture which raises and lowers curtain shades by tightening and loosening. Illustrations included.
- Detachable Drill-Bit.
- Patent for a new invention in drill-bit machine which can be detached from two different sides and very flexible for use.
- Differential Mechanism for Automobiles
- Patent for improvements for differential mechanisms for automobiles, including a "means for transmitting power from the motor to the traction wheels of the machine".
- Door-Check
- Patent for a door check that holds a door open in a secured position. This particular door securer has a manual operation lock independent of the knob-spindle.
- Dredging Scraper.
- Patent for a new and improved dredging-scraper. This design "has for its object the production of a marine plow which shall serve to raise and remove obstructions and accumulations from the beds or channels of rivers, bays, harbors, and other water-courses; and the invention consists in a device for this purpose of novel construction . . . The plow, which is to be drawn over the bed of the water-course to be cleared—as, for instance, by drag chain or cable attached to a steamboat—operates to raise a few inches in depth of the deposit each time it passes over the bed or bottom of the water-course" (lines 9-22).
- Extensible Neck-Yoke
- Patent for a neck yoke which may be lengthened or shortened and has novel means for securing the adjustable sections to prevent slipping, should the main fastening become loose.
- Game-Board
- Patent for "a game-board having a trough at its head and squared apertures near said head, and numbered cubical blocks adapted to be revolved in said apertures" (lines 18-21) and "has relation to games to be played on bowling-alleys or boards with balls" (lines 16-17) including illustrations.
- Garden Rake and Cultivator.
- Patent for a garden rake and cultivator that can be adjust in various positions to do the gardening works for the growing plants.
- Gate.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates.
- Hand Fertilizer-Distributer.
- Patent for "improvements in hand fertilizer-distributers and seed-drills," (lines 19-20) with instructions and illustrations.
- Harrow.
- Patent for a new and useful harrow, including instructions and illustrations.
- Hydraulic Clutch and Traction Equalizer.
- Patent for hydraulic clutches and traction equalizers. A "device for automobiles or other mother driven vehicles designed to be used in the place of the mechanism commonly known as the differential."
- Hydrocarbon-Burner
- Patent for a burner constructed to admit a force of steam or air is sent through the nozzle with assigning to the fuel in fuel reservoir. This invention is used to burn the heavy crude oil.
- Ice-Cream Freezer.
- Patent for an improvement on ice cream freezer design in which casing an cream receptacles are mounted within the freezer unit. Special features include to agitate the cream receptacles as well as a mechanism keeping the freezing brine in constant circulation, resulting in an consistency in the quality and texture of the ice cream throughout.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.
- Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
- Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
- Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Fruit-Pickers.
- Patent for an improved fruit-picking tool explaining the construction and usage of the tool, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Furnaces for Producing Hydrogen and Treating Ores
- Patent for an improvement on heating furnaces, having an external water tank and steam tank and an orifice for the admission of steam from the water chamber.
- Improvement in Seed Planters
- Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
- Improvement in Spark-Arresters.
- Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
- Lifting-Jack.
- Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
- Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs
- Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.
- Loading Apparatus
- Patent for a loading apparatus that uses flexing sections that open and closes. Illustration included.
- Means for Controlling the Flow of Navigable Rivers or Other Waters.
- Patent for a new means of controlling the waters. This design "is to remove or prevent the formation of sand-bars at the mouths of harbors elsewhere, calculated to obstruct navigation; also, to prevent the overflow of navigable rivers and the breaking of levees or destruction of jetties. [The] invention consists in a novel means of accomplishing these and other like ends by mechanical forces applied to increase the natural current or outflow of the navigable water toward its outlet or the ocean through the instrumentality of suitably located and anchored vessels provided with propelling devices" (lines 8-21).
- Parachute.
- Patent for a type of parachute that may be used for a balloon, air ship, or a window of a building as a method of fire escape. The design is such that the parachute may be stored in a compact, unobtrusive way while not in use. This is made possible by mounting multiple parachutes, one above the other, in varied diameter.
- Patent for Disk Drill
- Patent for disk drill.
- Peanut-Digging Attachment.
- Patent for an instrument that, during cultivation of peanuts, can be horizontally attached to a digging implement and cut through the peanut plant and discharge both the plant and peanut via the top of the cultivating device. The instrument is attached and angled so that the peanut does not suffer any damage during cultivation.
- Pipe-Wrench.
- Patent for the improvement of the pipe wrench for heavy construction. This invention was made to allow workers to use a variety of parts and arrangements depending on the type of pipe they are working with.
- Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a seed-planter, of a main frame having side beams, the standard secured midway between said beams at their forward ends, and provided at its lower end with a shovel and a presser located immediately in rear of said shovel, the hopper supported on said side beams, and having its planting mechanism arranged to drop the seed directly in the furrow formed by the shovel and presser, [and] wheel journaled in the side beams in rear of the planting mechanism" (lines 3-14).
- Plow.
- Patent for a plow that has a new design for a "subsoil and harrow attachment to the ordinary break-plow" (lines 9-10).
- Plow-Fender.
- Patent for a plow fender, which allows a plow to be operated next to plant rows without injuring them and deflects rocks and other obstacles.
- Plow-Fender.
- Patent for a plow fender, which can be attached to the plow without harming the plow tooth.
- Portable Power Cut-Off Saw.
- Patent for a portable power cut-off saw that can cut standing trees or logs on the ground.