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- Link Gear
- Patent for a link gear that provides a valve gearing for locomotives resembling a link motion. This link gear has a reduced number of parts compared to other link gears.
- Turntable.
- Patent for an improved turntable "designed to be attached to and carried beneath a motor car" (lines 12-13) that would allow the car (train car) to be elevated or lowered onto railroad tracks. The device includes a base, pedestals, and a rotatable base.
- Fishhook.
- Patent for a fishhook that allows for a swiveling motion that does not interfere with the connection to the fishing line.
- Well-Drilling Tool.
- Patent for a bit that can be attached to a rotary tool for drilling wells. It features a means for using water to dislodge any accumulated mud from the tool.
- Band-Saw
- Patent for improving band-saws for lumber "which can be inexpensively produced, which will not readily crack or otherwise deteriorate in use" (lines 15-18) by "reinforc[ing] the gullets of the teeth that the tendency for cracks to form at this point will be reduced to a minimum" (lines 33-35).
- Mail-Bag Catcher
- Patent for improvements of mail bag catchers. This patent proposes improvements on the construction and arrangements of mail bag catchers including the alteration of the jaw and the addition of springs. Includes illustrations.
- Chimney-Cowl
- Patent for low cost chimney cowl improvements to insure proper draft and prevent fires.
- Automatic Water Cut-Off
- Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
- Well -Bucket
- Patent for an improvement in well -buckets adapted for cleaning and drawing water from drilled wells.
- Folding Wagon-Top
- Patent for an improved portable vehicle top such as is used upon farm wagons and the like. The wagon-top is constructed so that it may be easily removably connected with a wagon, so that it may be folded when attached to the wagon, and so that it may provide improved means for releasably connecting the supporting leg of the top proper with the standards which carry the top.
- Telegraph-Transmitter.
- Patent for an improvement to telegraph transmitters of the pendulum type in which signals are transmitted through use of a series of dots and dashes.
- Coffee Parcher
- Patent for new and useful improvements in coffee parchers. Easily used on a range which is also simple and durable. Illustrations included.
- Automatic Safety-Burner
- Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
- Brazing Compound
- Patent for a compound for brazing saws and metal such as silver and tin.
- Hook
- Patent for a self releasing log hook to rapidly move logs from one location to another. It provides simplicity in structure, effectiveness in operation and inexpensiveness in manufacture.
- Improvements in Grinding Attachment for Band-Saw Mills
- Patent for a grinding attachment for band-saw mills. It contains information on improved grinding parts such as "band saw wheels... and other pulleys" (lines 13-14) and has illustrations.
- Folding Penholder
- Patent for a foldable penholder. Illustrations included.
- Metal Tie
- Patent for a metal railroad tie. Illustrations included.
- Car Door
- Patent for a car-door. The design is to prevent rattling and reduce wear on rail car doors. Illustration included.
- Lumber-Dolly.
- Patent for a lumber dolly, which has an anti-tilting device that can be used while loading or unloading the dolly.
- Lifting-Frame.
- Patent for a lifting frame for hoisting engines, which allows a car to be put under the engine easily.
- Fence Post
- Patent for a fence post. Illustrations included.
- Mirror Attachment for Bureaus.
- Patent for an adjustable mirror attachment for bureaus.
- Churn.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
- Wick-Regulator for Lamps.
- Patent for "an improvement in those lamp-wick regulators which consists of a threaded rod operated by a nut and connected to the wick, whereby the wick may be raised or lowered by operating the nut; and the invention lies in an improved connection between the wick and rod, by which the wick can be raised with more uniformity and ease." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Mole-Trap
- Patent for a design for a mole trap that can be cheaply made but is also easy to set and use while also being reliable in trapping both moles and other small creatures.
- Flue-Cleaner.
- Patent for a cleaner for a chimney, that is composed of multiple parts and is adjustable.
- Shaving and Sawdust Conveyer.
- Patent for improvements that increase the efficiency and safety of conveyers that move sawdust shavings from the saw mills to the furnace or storage rooms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists in the reciprocating "bar, the shaft mounted in the lower portion of the chair, the drum on said shaft, cord coiled around the drum and connected to the bar, the rest secured to the upper end of the bar, and the spring coiled around the said bar between the chair-seat and the rest" (lines 1-6).
- Beef Tenderer.
- Patent for a new and improved meat tenderizer. This design consists in "the combination, with the triangular end plates having the bearing-notches, the detachable connecting-bar provided with the threaded ends and shoulders, the thumb-nuts, the smooth rollers, and the coiled springs, of the crank-handle and the [other] roller provided with the teeth having square flat faces and flat sides at right angles to said faces and arranged in aligned longitudinal series and spirally arranged circumferentially, the areas of the teeth being one-fourth of an inch" (lines 7-18).
- Standard for Logging Cars.
- Patent for a new and improved standard for logging-cars. This design "consists of a pivoted standard connected by links to a lever a short distance from its pivot, so that when the lever is turned out of alignment with the links the standard will be firmly locked in position. . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a standard for cars and wagons which can be readily turned down out of the way when loading, and which, when turned up into position, will be firmly and securely held" (lines 7-16).
- Design for a Shovel Cleaner or Knife.
- Design patent for a "shovel cleaner or knife" that has a particular configuration of a handle with a blade. The accompanying illustration is not included.
- Button.
- Patent for a new and improved button. This design consists "[i]n a detachable button, the combination, with the hollow threaded shank of the button-head, having end serrations, and the base-disk, having a central screw, of the loose clamp-disk, applied on the screw, and having a spring-pawl or projection to engage the serrations of the shank" (lines 70-76).
- Saddle Mail Bag.
- Patent for new and improved saddle bags. This design calls for a saddle with two metal boxes with hinged doors at the bottom, through which metal pouches, to contain the mail, are inserted. The air left between the top of the pouch and the inside of the box prevents water from seeping into the box and ruining the contents, even when fully submerged.
- Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.
- Patent for improvements to carriage wheels, relating to the socketing ring that braces the spokes between the hub and the rim. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for the improvement of cultivators using adjustable blades and is adaptable to use different types of blades for a variety of other uses, including illustration.