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- Saw-Handle.
- Patent for improvements in saw-handles. Invention provides for adjustable and detachable means for clamping of a saw blade. The device includes a "head member, means for clamping the end of a saw blade" (lines 19-20).
- Sawing-Machine
- Patent for an improvement in the invention of sawing machines. Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Screw-Jack.
- Patent for a simple, efficient, and economical lifting jack "which is particularly designed for removing and replacing the brasses in the journal boxes of freight, passenger and other railway cars, and which is so constructed that it can bear against the shoulder formed by the concave part of the car wheel in proximity to the tread and thus avoid the employment of special blocking for the jack, thereby enabling it to be quickly set and operated at any place without preparation of blocking as a foundation for sustaining the jack" (lines 10-21).
- Seat Brace
- Patent for a seat brace. Illustration included.
- Seed Cotton Cleaner
- Patent for a cleaner for seed cotton, in preparation for supplying the cotton to gins.
- Shirt-Starching Machine.
- Patent for improvements in shirt-starching machines by using a combination of a shirt holding device having an oscillatory motion for one-fourth of a full revolution, and a semi-cylindrical starch-holding receptacle with longitudinal rubber bottom; when the shirt-holder is turned, shirts are crowded into the compartments, with the bosoms and wristbands hanging outside. When the door is closed, shirt-bosoms and wristbands are thoroughly starched. Illustration is included.
- Shoe-Plate.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in shoe plates, including instructions and illustrations.
- Side Bearing For Railway Rolling Stock
- Patent for a side bearing for railway rolling stock. This invention is designed to prevent derailments in turns. Illustration included.
- Sod Cutting and Disintegrating Machine.
- Patent for a sod cutting and disintegrating machine that has a wheel-supported frame, inclined elevator, plow attached to the elevator, front truck, and disintegrating rollers.
- Spark Arrester.
- Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the stack, of the upper and lower portions . . . of the inner cylinder, separated by the annular opening, the spiral wing-guide, the collar-flange, between the stack-wall and [a] section, and the cylindrical partition below said collar-flange in the flue" (lines 73-79).
- Spring-Seat Attachment For Vehicles
- Patent for a spring-seat attachment for vehicles.
- Spring Support For Vehicle Tops
- Patent for a spring support for vehicle tops. Illustration included.
- Stamping or Dating Machine
- Patent for new and useful improvements to printing or stamping machines.
- Steam-Engine
- Patent for a steam engine, improving on the original design so as to "provide a steam-engine having few parts so as to avoid the use of eccentrics, slide-valve, valve-rod, piston and connecting rods, stuffing-boxes, and glands, thus increasing the actual power by decreasing the friction" (lines 26-31).
- Stirrup.
- Patent for a saddle-stirrup with springs on the bottom and a spring-catch on the top.
- Stovepipe Drying Rack.
- Patent for a new and improved drying rack. This design consists, "with a stove or steam-pipe, of the band having the sockets, lips, and springs, said lips adapted to be secured by proper bolt, bent arms . . . having the hooks [and] the eyes, said arms adapted to fit around the said band and be gathered in a bundle, the hooks interlocking with the eyes of the arms" (lines 65-73).
- Support for Attachment to Desks.
- Patent for "a stand, shelf, or holder for attachment to desks...for the purpose of supporting a type-writer [or] reference-book... the object in view being to provide a support of this character with means for attaching the same to a desk and means for swinging or revolving said support so that the... article may be readily and conveniently brought around to the front of the desk for use... and then swung back out of the way upon the side of the desk." (lines 12-24)
- Support for Telegraph and Telephone Wires.
- Patent for a circular metal support for telegraph and telephone wires; including illustrations.
- Surface Cattle Guard.
- Patent for a new and improved surface cattle-guard. This design "compris[es] a series of parallel triangular bars tapered at their ends and provided with lateral perforated horizontal flanges, the plates to which said flanges are secured, the cross-tie supports, and the solid plank flooring upon which said ties rest, said flooring being some distance below the guard-bars" (lines 55-62).
- Switch.
- Patent for a switch mechanism for use on railroads. The switch can be installed without cutting the railroad tracks. Instructions and illustrations are included.
- Tile Roofing or Covering.
- Patent for tile roofing and siding, which does not leak and is easily installed.
- Tool for Cleaning Out Nuts.
- Patent for a tool for cleaning out internally-threaded apertures. This removes rust and dirt from screw-threads without damaging the threads, and is much less destructive than acid baths, heat, and screw-taps.
- Truss.
- Patent for improvements to trusses, which uses "a pair of spring hangers each carrying a pad of particular construction and arrangement" (lines 9-11). Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Type-Writer Line-Shift.
- Patent for line shifter attachment for typewriter which makes it possible for the typewriter to print characters above or below the standard line of print. This attachment makes the typewriter useful for taking stenographic notes.
- Valve.
- Patent for a valve made up of a shell with a water inlet and a water outlet, a perforation for the valve stem, a gable-shaped seat made from hard metal that is fitted into the shell, a valve stem that works up and down the shell and with a shoulder, a valve with a hollow neck, a soft contact ring between the gable-shaped seat and the face of the valve, a guide and cap that fits in the shell, a stem nut, and a stuffing-box.
- Vehicle-Axle Point.
- Patent for a vehicle-axle point that does not require repair. The "invention consists of a thimble that is to be shrunk, pressed, or fastened onto the axle by clips, bolts, or set-screws" (lines 20-22), so that the point does not need to be taken off.
- Vehicle-Brake.
- Patent for improved vehicle brakes, and the "object is to arrange the brake shoes so that when applied they will bear on the wheels slightly below a point on a line drawn horizontally through the center of the wheel, whereby a greater brake power is obtained with less force exerted, and further, to so construct and arrange the brake shoes that during the backing of a team for any purpose the brakes will automatically release themselves and not bear upon the wheels to interfere with said backing." (Lines 21-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Vehicle Top Rest
- Patent for a vehicle top rest. Illustration included.
- Wagon-Seat.
- Patent for a detachable wagon seat.
- Water-Elevator
- Patent for a water elevator in which compressed air may be used to raise water from a well. Illustrations included.
- Weather Boarding Apparatus
- Patent for an apparatus to properly space and hold in position weather boards. Illustration included.
- Weather Strip or Seal for Sliding Window-Sashes.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Weather Strip or Seal for Sliding Window-Sashes" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
- Wedge-Buckle.
- Patent for improvements in wedge-buckles by using a “combination of a stiff plate having wedge-shaped side jaws, of the strap having an inwardly-curved spring portion terminating in projections and flanges which engage the jaws, and adapted to be straightened outwardly in clamping a belt of band between the plate and strap” to (Lines 18-24, p. 2) Illustration is included.
- Whiffletree
- Patent for a whiffletree.
- Whiffletree Attachment
- Patent for device which attaches swingle trees to double trees and decreases shocks and jerks experienced by the tree of a vehicle.
- Wire Stretcher
- Patent for wire stretcher.
- Wire-Stretching Machine.
- Patent for a wire stretching machine, which is simple to build and operate and is durable and strong.
- Wrench.
- Patent for a wrench that can hold round-headed fastening elements (bolts) so as to prevent from turning in the same direction. The wrench can be held while the jaws grip and hold the round heads of bolts.
- Wrench
- Patent for improvements in wrenches, particularly relating to the type generally known as the spanner wrench. The object of this invention is to provide an improved spanner wrench including means for reliably retaining the wrench head in proper position with relation to the object being rotated.