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- Improvement in Rectifying High-Wines.
- Patent for an improved mode of rectifying high wines using a new apparatus.
- Improvement in folding tables.
- Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
- Improvement in Soldering-Irons
- Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
- Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps.
- Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.
- Washing-Machine.
- Patent for an improved washing machine that consists of a sheet-metal body with two tubs, rubbing-boards, a fire-box under the body, bails, and springs with hooks.
- Suspended Safe, &c.
- Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "[has a] top projecting beyond its sides . . . in combination with the upright posts having liquid-cups, the rods, and sleeves for suspending the safe from contact with any object" (lines 79-83).
- 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.
- Hay-Press.
- Patent for an inexpensive, durable, easily-operated, and powerful hay press that packs hay and similar materials. It consists of a baling chamber, a power platform, a stub shaft, a grooveless power wheel, a tire on the upper side of the wheel, a roller, and a draft-pole.
- Side Rail for Suspension-Bridges.
- Patent for a side rail for suspension bridges that is meant "to provide an improved side railing constituting a truss, which will be light, durable, and of structural simplicity" (lines 20-23).
- Railroad-Splice.
- Patent for an improved railway rail joints that consists of cross-ties, rails with the top flanges of the ends cut away, a joint plate, and bolts.
- Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk and weed cutter. This design calls for "[a]n interchangeable cotton-stalk cutter and sulky plow . . . adapted to receive a plow at its rear end" (lines 67-70). The cutting blades can be raised and lowered as needed.
- Cotton-Gin Brush.
- Patent for a gin brush that operates at high speeds with a large diameter. "Centrifugal force exerts a great strain tending to dismember it, and further, if it be not at all times accurately balanced there is a tendency to spring the shaft and cause rattling in the bearings which results in rapid wear and failure to work well" (lines 13-19).
- Adding-Machine.
- Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
- Flour Bin and Sifter.
- Patent for a flour bin and sifter that improves on a patent that was previously granted to the inventor (No. 411,671). The improvements improve "in an adjustable attachment to the bin whereby said bin may be easily and adjustable attached to a wall; a cut-off inserted near the base of the bin to regulate the flow of material into the sifter; a scraper adapted to scrape the upper side of the cut-off so that no material can be drawn out with said cut-off; in having the sifter connected to the base of the bin by single instead of double pins, and in a single door hinged to the front face of the sifter, and so closely hinged that when the same is open no dust can fly out in the face of the operator" (lines 20-33).
- Beehive.
- Patent for a beehive that is meant "to provide for the ready or convenient "robbing" of the hive without subjecting the bees to injury , as experienced in the old way, by smoking the bees out of the hive" (lines 16-20).
- Churn.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive churn that works efficiently and does not take up much space. It consists of a solid upper portion, a lower portion, a horizontal bar that connects the two, a bracing frame, a shaft, bearings, a band wheel attached to the shaft, an adjustable drive wheel, a crank wheel, and a dasher.
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the combination, with the follower, the right-and-left-screw, and nuts, of the hinged levers and the bars swiveled thereto; also, in the combination . . . of the slotted bars, the hinged socket, and the swiveled arms; also, in the combination, with the nuts having shoulders and the hinged levers having forked up ends, of the anti-friction rollers journaled in recesses in the said nuts; also . . . of the curved and flattened swiveled arms, whereby the lower ends of the said follower-bars can have a lateral movement" (lines 23-38).
- Band Cutter
- Patent for a band cutter. This invention is designed to cut bale-ties on cotton bales. Illustration included.
- Compound for Destroying Boll-Weevil.
- Patent for a compound for destroying Boll Weevils, consisting of Sulfur, Pine Tar, Asafetida, Pulverized Bluestone, Beaumont Oil, Extract of Tobacco, and a thick adhesive oil.
- Air Brake
- Patent for air brakes. Illustration included.
- Level.
- Patent for a level that holds vials in place securely.
- Wagon Bolster Attachment
- Patent for a wagon bolster attachment. Illustration included.
- Tuning Instrument.
- Patent for a tuning instrument that has interchangeable reeds and can find the fourth, fifth, and single tone of an octave.
- Liquid Fuel Burner
- Patent for a liquid fuel burner. Illustration included.
- Vermin Exterminator for Poultry.
- Patent for a vermin exterminator for poultry that discharges an insecticide onto the chickens as they come in and out of the chicken house.
- Trap
- Patent for a trap for catching rats. Illustrations included.
- Switching Device
- Patent for a switch throwing device that can be operated from a train car. Illustrations included.
- Tankage and Manure Press.
- Patent for a tankage and manure press that collects grease from waste meat materials.
- Planter Attachment For Cultivators
- Patent for a planter attachment for cultivators. Illustration included.
- Plow And Cultivator
- Patent for a plow and cultivator. Illustration included.
- Hoisting Apparatus.
- Patent for a hoisting apparatus for use in cranes.
- Shell or Projectile.
- Patent for a "shell or projectile for firing from large guns...which can be discharged from the gun without danger of the dynamite exploding from the shock incident to the projecting explosive" (lines 8-9, 11-14).
- Spring-Trip-Foot-Adjusting Device.
- Patent for a spring trip foot adjusting device for cultivators.
- Firearm
- Patent for an automatic gun which reloads itself.
- Horse Collar Rolling Machine
- Patent for horse collar rolling machines. Illustrations included.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in baling-presses are to reduce the labor of smoothing even the bales and to make the operation safe by carefully arranging different parts of the machines. Illustration is included.
- Safety Car-Ladder.
- Patent for a safety car ladder for railroad cars that is easy to repair.
- Cotton Chopping Attachment For Cultivators
- Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
- Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper that can be used for cultivation.
- Concrete and Steel Tie.
- Patent for a concrete and steel tie that is durable and holds the rails in place.
- Buckle Connection.
- Patent for a new buckle connection design "which is peculiarly adaptable to harness" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
- Body Stretcher
- Patent for a body stretcher. This invention is for exercising and stretching muscles. Illustration included.
- Attachment for Wringers and Washing-Machines
- Patent for an attachment for wringers and washing machines that allows the washing machine to be moved directly from the washing tub to the rinsing tub.
- Bat-Former
- Patent for a cotton bat former that produces a bat of uniform size and weight.
- Canopy Support
- Patent for a canopy support. Illustration included.
- Air-Cooling Apparatus.
- Patent for an air cooling apparatus for air to be delivered into a room treated with moisture to reduce the temperature of the air without the use of ice.
- Insect-Destroyer
- Patent for an improved insect destroyer that can be fixed to farm equipment and other vehicles.
- Leather-Press
- Patent for device which can clamp down leather strips while they are being flexed.
- Water-Cooler
- Patent for a water cooler that keeps the cooling ice separated from the water to be cooled by means of a receptacle that houses the ice.