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- Combined Cotton and Corn Planter and Cultivator
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- Digging-Machine.
- Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
- Horseshoe.
- Patent for horseshoes that can be attached to the horses' foot without nails.
- Collapsible Bench.
- Patent for a collapsible bench that improves the structure of general work benches by folding together when not being used.
- Portable Extensible Ladder
- Patent for a portable extendable ladder, designed for use, among other things, as a means of fire escape or observation, along with illustrations and explanations.
- Wheeled Stretcher or Litter
- Patent for wheeled stretcher used to transport wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
- Post Hole Digger.
- Patent for a new post hole digger that both facilitates the creation of straight sides to the hole and a mechanism to allow for easy removal of the dirt.
- Adjustable Hoe
- Patent for improvement in "the construction of hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and inexpensive hoe, of strong and durable construction." (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
- Railroad-Trestle.
- Patent for improvements to current railroad trestles, in particular the truss work and supported structure. Improvements include ease of build and repair and a more practice and substantial design.
- Vehicle Guiding Mechanism
- Patent for "an improved and simplified construction" for vehicle steering axles (line 15), including illustrations.
- Water-Heater.
- Patent for a portable water heater "in which a circulation of water may be had, whereby the same may become readily heated for use in a bath tub or other receptacle." (lines 12-15)
- Construction of Railroad-Beds.
- Patent for a railroad-bed design that is used to support railroad tracks.
- Automatic Wrench
- Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
- Garden Implement
- This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.
- Brooder
- Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
- Flash-Lamp
- Patent for a flash lamp for taking photographs. Illustrations included.
- Automobile-Jack.
- Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.
- Shipping-Crate.
- Patent for a shipping crate that stays together tightly and is easily disassembled for storage.
- Saw-Filing Machine.
- Patent for a saw filing machine for cotton gin saws.
- Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Trains
- Patent for an automatic stopping mechanism for trains. Illustration included.
- Seal.
- Patent for a car door seal lock device made of a strip of twistable metal.
- Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.
- Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
- Shoe-Protector
- Patent for a shoe protector to be worn on the soles to prevent contact from snow or mud. Illustrations included.
- Drier
- Patent for a drier used for drying sugar canes from a sugar mill. Illustrations included.
- Crate
- Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
- Plow Attachment
- Patent for a plow attachment. This invention works with sweep plows and consists of a runner and secured to the end of the plow beam. Illustration included.
- Umbrella
- Patent for an umbrella. Illustration included.
- Automatic Switch Indicator
- Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.
- Lifting Jack.
- Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.
- Stapling Machine
- Patent for a stapling machine. Illustration included.
- Cotton Picker's Truck
- Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
- Umbrella and Sunshade
- Patent for an umbrella and sunshade. Illustration included.
- Well-Screen.
- Patent for improvements in well-screen by providing a symmetrical strainer which having an exceedingly firm and rigid frame; it is constructed as to interpose the least obstruction to the straining operation. (Lines 21-25) Illustration is included.
- Washing-Machine
- Patent for a washing-machine
- Switch Operating Device
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive and efficient design for an operating switch for use on street-railway cars to enable a motorman to quickly throw a switch or set switch without leaving the platform of the car.
- Railway-Ticket, &c.
- Patent "to furnish for railway-companies a form of excursion-ticket whose return portion or stop-over portion, as the case may be, is not capable of successful use by scalpers" (lines 11-15).
- Plow.
- Patent for improvements to the turning-plow, with convertible attachments for other forms of plow.
- Design for an Insect-Exterminator.
- Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.
- Seed-Cotton Distributer and Cleaner.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in seed cotton distributers and cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
- Tool.
- Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.
- Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.
- Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).
- Machine for Sharpening Gin-Saws
- Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, an d easily manipulated, and by means of which the teeth of gin-saws may be sharpened in a rapid, convenient, and effectual manner" (lines 9-14).
- Trace Carrier.
- Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).
- Cotton or Corn Planter
- Patent for novel improvements in the construction or production of cotton or corn planters.
- Seed Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and distributor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the cylinder and drum, of a shaft mounted in bearings on the frame and extending through the said cylinder and provided with blades of varying length, a fan located in the drum, a pipe leading tangentially out from said drum, said pipe having openings formed therein, and guides secured on said pipe over said openings, said guides having wire sides" (lines 46-54).
- Cotton Sprinkler.
- Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the L-shaped nozzle having the longer arm and the shorter arm, the spring-board secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and projecting over the end thereof, and provided with a boss on its upper side, the L-shaped bracket secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and having one end projecting over the spring-valve and provided with a screw-threaded opening, and the thumb-screw inserted through and playing in said opening and having its end swiveled in the boss of the spring-valve" (lines 84-95).
- Corn or Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).
- Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists "[i]n a fan motor, the V-shaped frame, the shafts journaled in the upper corners thereof, the ratchet-wheels and spur-wheels secured to said shafts, the spring-actuated pawls pivoted to the frame and engaging the ratchet-wheels, sleeves loose on shafts, and having the spur-wheels fast to said sleeves, the volute springs with their inner ends fast to shafts and their outer ends fast to wheels, the winding-shafts having the pinions engaging wheels, the shaft between [the other] shafts having the pinion, engaging wheels" (lines 19-30).
- Corn and Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design, when used "as a corn-planter the slotted plate upon the inclined portion of the bottom is adjusted to cover the entire slot, and the pitman is attached to the pin projecting from the bar operating the seed slide, and when the machine is to be used as a cotton-planter the pitman is attached to the crank at the side of the seed-box, and the plate in the bottom of the box is adjusted so as to give the slot sufficient width to allow the cotton-seed to be forced through it" (lines 84-94).
- Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to the construction of a planter so arranged that by simply shifting the connection between the corn-slide and the crank-arm of an agitator the device may be adjusted to act as a planter of corn or cotton, but a single connecting-rod being employed in connection with a single driving crank-shaft to operate the planter both as a cotton and a corn planter" (lines 8-16).