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- Snowplow.
- Patent for a new snowplow design for use at the front of a motor vehicle, steam car, or electric car. The snowplow is triangular in shape, and has sides that can be adjusted vertically, to increase the height of the plow.
- Stock-Chute for Dipping-Vats.
- Patent for new improvements that allow for easier transition of animals from a stock-chute into a dipping vat because the "animal will overcome the effect of the counterbalancing weight and will cause the discharge end of the chute to move downwardly precipitating the animal into the vat or trough" (lines 20-26) including instructions and illustrations.
- Automobile-Hood Attachment.
- Patent for a device that can be affixed to the hood of a car, preventing rainwater from leaking into the electricals under the hood and behind the dashboard.
- Sunken-Ship Indicator.
- Patent for an object that can show the location a sunken boat from the surface of the water and can be carried in or by a boat and becomes operable once the boat sinks.
- Oil-Burner.
- Patent introduces the inventor's specific improvements to oil-burning stoves. The air and oil are fed into the chamber of the stove and thoroughly mixed before burning.
- Chimney Cowl.
- Patent for a chimney cowl with a manually controlled spark outlet
- Discharge Device for Cotton-Seed Unloaders.
- Patent for a discharge device in which cotton seed can be unloaded to an elevator, conveyer, or elsewhere. The invention also has the ability to clean and cool the cotton seed while being unloaded, also making it dry which makes it in better condition for storing.
- Collapsible Tent.
- Patent for improving collapsible tent rods and corner posts that support the structure, with illustrations.
- Cotton-Picking Nozzle.
- Patent for a new cotton picking nozzle that can be used with a suction device to pick cotton more efficiently, including illustrations.
- Clothes-Rack.
- Patent for "a new and improved clothes rack, adapted to be carried in one's pocket," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for "an improved apparatus for generating acetylene gas" (lines 12-13). The apparatus includes a carbid receptacle with a conical bottom and a cylindrical valve for better control of the carbid, as well as a gas tank with a gasometer-bell which operates the system.
- Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.
- Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
- Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.
- Patent for a device that reduces the crackling sound of records playing on a phonograph.
- Button
- Patent for a button that holds articles of clothing securely with a combination of rings
- Ventilator.
- Patent for a ventilating cowl for buildings for fire prevention by causing smoke and sparks to pass outside of a building or deflate to the surface below. The cowl is cone shaped with a deflecting surface and has several rings through which smoke and sparks can pass through to the outside.
- Stock Food
- Patent for a food stock product for cows, sheep, goats and other herbivore farm animals.
- Elevated Railway
- Patent for an elevated railway track system including motorized elevators in each tower/station/terminal to access the railcar platform.
- Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel
- Patent for modifications to a plow which allow the user to adjust the depth, which lists the components of such modifications.
- Seed-Corn Hanger.
- Patent for Seed-Corn Hangers "for holding ears of seed-corn during the period of drying".
- Collapsible Crate
- Patent fora collapsible crate used specifically for "shipping poultry or other live animals" (lines 11-12).
- Seed-Tester
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Seed-Testers" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
- Bat-Forming Apparatus.
- Patent for an apparatus to form bats, made of fibrous material, to be placed in the coverings or tickings to make mattresses. The apparatus works so that "the bat-forming fibrous material may be evenly distributed, and by which the mattress-forming operation may be expeditiously carried on" (lines 16-19). The patent includes illustrations.
- Hammock
- Patent for a hammock for jails and ships. Illustrations included.
- Triple Valve.
- Patent for a triple valve for brake systems on trains, which reduces pressure in the air pipes of the train and automatically brakes if there is a broken air hose.
- Mailing-Galley.
- Patent for a mailing galley for cleaning type, which allows the cleaning fluid to drain but keeps the type in the galley.
- Stationery Filing-Case
- Patent for a stationery filing case. Illustrations included.
- Bat-Making Machine.
- Patent for a cotton bat making machine which allows the cotton lint to be positioned better on the press and the outer bag material covering the cotton lint to be attached together quickly. Illustration is included.
- Lamp Attachment.
- Patent for a wick holder for use in lamps, which can be refilled without removing the chimney of the lamp.
- Machine for Making Bats for Mattresses, Pillows, Comforts, &c.
- Patent for a machine for making bats for mattresses and related items.
- Automatic Cut-Out for Windmills
- Patent for a windmill part which stops the windmill from running when the water tank is full.
- Method of Protecting Vegetable Matter
- Patent for a new method of protecting "stored vegetable matter, particularly corn, from the ravages of insects, especially the weevil." (Lines 9-11)
- Vaginal Irrigator
- Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
- Vaginal Irrigator
- Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
- Attachment For Plows
- Patent for an attachment for plows. This invention "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments for plows, and my object is to provide means whereby the pitch of the moldboard or shovel may be regulated as desired" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
- Musical Instrument.
- Patent for a new musical instrument, similar to a lyre, designed to "provide a new and improved musical instrument which is simple and durable in construction, very light, of high resonant qualities, and arranged to permit convenient manipulation of the strings without the player touching the soundboard with the fingers" (lines 10-15), which includes illustrations.
- Fire-Clay Charcoal-Furnace
- Patent for fire clay charcoal furnace. "The object of the invention is to provide a furnace of this character which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and efficient in action" (lines 13-17).
- Cattle Guard.
- Patent for improvements and new features to cattle guards on railways, including illustrations.
- Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing Presses.Speight,
- Patent for a device that can be attached to a printing press, for the express purpose of being able to cut multiple copies of cards from a single sheet of card stock with metal dies.
- Insect-Destroyer.
- Patent for fumigation insect destroyer, in particular cotton boll weevils, but also for prairie dogs and other vermin.
- Bale-Tie
- "Patent for a bale-tie that would be 'simple of construction, durable of use, and comparatively inexpensive of production, easily operated, and which when fastened around a bale cannot possible become detached therefrom' (lines 13-17). including instructions and illustrations.
- Bale-Tie
- Patent for improvements in bale-ties by using a “combination with a band; of jaws pivoted to one end of the band and adapted to engage a hook carried by the other end of the band, and a guard-plate fixed to one of said jaws and adapted also to engage the hook and prevent it from accidentally becoming disengaged from the jaws.” (Lines 78-84) Illustration is included.
- Bale-Tie
- Patent for a bale-tie that is of "simple construction, durable in use, and comparatively inexpensive of production" (lines 13-15), including illustration and instructions
- Cutter.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cutters.
- Well-Strainer.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in well strainers, including instructions and illustrations.
- Wire-Stretcher.
- Patent for a clamp that is used in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Bicycle Alarm
- Patent for a "simple and cheap as well as ornamental bicycle-whistle...of novel and peculiar construction, adapted for attachment to the bicycle and made to sound at pleasure" (lines 14-18). Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Hook for Spoon-Handles.
- Patent for a detachable hook, made of wire, for spoon-handles and the like, and is used to prevent a spoon or similar article from slipping into the vessel in which it is placed. It can be easily removed from the spoon-handle.
- Means for Making Bats for Mattresses.
- Patent for a simple means for making bats for mattresses, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 399,041). "I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twenty-five feet, more or less to allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or room or other receptacle into which the material for the mattress-bats is falling from the gin is provided with a means to carry the ginned material along from the gin as fast as it is worked. The bats may be formed in one long continuous web,from which the desired length may be cut" (lines 19-34)
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for a cotton-gin that "has for its object to provide means for operating upon or permitting lint cotton, wool and other fibrous material to be ginned from a roll by means of saws as is commonly done in working seed cotton without injury to the mechanism" (lines 12-17).
- Sad-Iron Heater.
- Patent for sad iron heaters: "a device for heating sad irons, and it has for its object to provide a heater adapted to receive a plurality of irons" (lines 8-11).