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- 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 Spark-Arresters.
- Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
- 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 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 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- Trace Carrier.
- Patent for improvements to a harness back band buckle and chain carrier, so that "strain is taken off from the center of the buckle, where the ordinary buckles often break" (lines 71-73), including illustrations.
- Propelling Attachment for Garden or Like Implements.
- Patent for "a harness so constructed that it may be comfortably worn by the operator, male or female, and further to provide an adjustable attachment between the harness and the implement or machine, being so made that all the force or weight that the operator is capable of exerting may be brought to bear upon the implement to propel it, without unduly fatiguing the operator or rending the work disagreeable, and whereby further the work of propelling the implement or machine will be beneficial to the operator, inasmuch as the harness will compel the operator to assume an upright position and expand the lungs." (Lines 10-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Plow.
- Patent for a plow that has a new design for a "subsoil and harrow attachment to the ordinary break-plow" (lines 9-10).
- Trephine.
- Patent for an improved, simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient trephine that is easily assembled and takes up little space. It retains better results than other trephines.
- Hand Fertilizer-Distributer.
- Patent for "improvements in hand fertilizer-distributers and seed-drills," (lines 19-20) with instructions and illustrations.
- Spring Bed Bottom.
- Patent for a new and improved spring bed-bottom. This design utilizes a new method of coiling the wire so that only one wire may be used to make up all of the springs. By moving diagonally from one end of one spring to the end of another, this design eliminates the possibility of losing any individual spring.
- Safety Shaft Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for thills. This design consists in "the combination of the side plates having recesses in their upper edges, the coupling-plates pivoted to the side plates and having recesses in their lower edges registering with the recesses in the side plates, the free ends of the coupling-plates forming detents, the thill having trunnions resting in the registered recesses, and the spring-actuated locking-bar engaging the detents of the coupling-plates" (lines 110-119).
- Improvement in Fruit-Pickers.
- Patent for an improved fruit-picking tool explaining the construction and usage of the tool, including 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)
- 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).
- Quilting Frame for Sewing Machines.
- Patent for a new and improved quilting-frame for sewing machines. This design "is to combine the parts by which a quilter is suspended from a ceiling and connected with a sewing-machine" (lines 15-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he track having a bead on the inner side of top, an eye at each end, and suspended on an incline from the ceiling by two wires at each end, said wires diverging from the track-eyes to the ceiling, in combination with the head-block arranged on the opposite side of track from the sewing-machine arm and carrying rolls suspended from a block" (lines 78-86).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- Check-Line Buckle.
- Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
- Car Coupling
- Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wire-Stretcher
- Patent for a wire stretcher to stretch regular wires or barbed wired for fencing. Illustrations included.
- Loading Apparatus
- Patent for a loading apparatus that uses flexing sections that open and closes. Illustration included.
- Truss.
- Patent for a new and improved truss for relieving or supporting hernia, including instructions and illustrations.
- Ventilating Apparatus.
- Patent for a ventilating apparatus for railway cars for the purpose of supplying air to railway car interiors without needing to open a window (which tends to also let in smoke and dust), including illustrations.
- Trace-Carrier
- Patent for trace carrier for a plow "especially designed to support the trace adjustably in a vertical direction, so as to vary the line of the draft upon the plow and also provide a guide and support for the reins" (lines 9-13), including illustrations.
- Portable Power Cut-Off Saw.
- Patent for a portable power cut-off saw that can cut standing trees or logs on the ground.
- Pump Spout
- Patent for a pump spouts. Illustration included.
- 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.
- Gate.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates.
- Stove
- Patent for a stove. This invention has a fire box and directed combustion. Illustrations included.
- Railway Tie Lifter
- Patent for railway tie lifter. Illustration included.
- Roller Drill.
- Patent for roller drills that will leave a central core standing in the hole being formed composed of six cutting rollers.
- Safety-Stirrup.
- Patent for improvements in safety-stirrups by providing a device to release the rider’s foot safely if the rider accidentally fall from a horse; and means to retain the movable member of the stirrup in its closed or open position. (Lines 10-17) Illustration is included.
- Saddle
- Patent for a saddle. Illustration included.
- 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.
- Harrow.
- Patent for a new and useful harrow, including instructions and illustrations.
- Potato-Cutter
- Patent for a machine that can cut potatoes and other vegetables into small cooking sized pieces. It has removable blades that allow for different sized pieces to be cut based on the needs of the user.
- 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.
- 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.
- Curtain-Fixture
- Patent for a curtain fixture which raises and lowers curtain shades by tightening and loosening. Illustrations included.