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- Engineer's Safety-Throttle for Locomotive Dry Pipes
- Patent for improved safety mechanism for the dry pipe of a steam-powered locomotive engine.
- Combination Drill Bit and Drill Shank
- Patent for "Improvements in Combination Drill-Bits and Drill-Shanks" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
- Drill-Bit.
- Patent for improvement to drill-bits. The object of the invention is to provide a bit of the character described which is especially adapted for deep well drilling by the rotary process.
- Apparatus For Treating Petroleum.
- Patent for an apparatus that is used to treat petroleum and other heavy hydrocarbons in order to produce gasoline and other liquid fuels.
- Apparatus for Treating Hydrocarbons.
- Patent for an improved apparatus for treating hydrocarbons. This apparatus is for treating comparatively heavy petroleum and other hydrocarbon oils and their distillates and derivatives, in order to produce from such heavy oils a large yield of gasoline or other light, easily volatile liquids. This apparatus will be a safe and efficient way to produce large yield of gasoline and light hydrocarbon liquids from heavy oils and will be free from trouble arising from the accumulation of carbon.
- Process of Treating Hydrocarbons
- Patent for a new or improved process which distills heavy hydrocarbon oils into large volumes of gasoline or other lighter volatile liquids.
- Locking Mechanism
- Patent for locking mechanism, particulalry used in locking liquid dispensing machines.
- Liquid Dispensing Apparatus.
- Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid Dispensing Apparatus" (lines 5-7) describing new improvements, including instructions and illustrations.
- Pipe-Wrench.
- Patent for improvements to pipe wrenches to a more simple design.
- Sampling Device for Artesian Wells
- Patent for a sampling device for artesian wells to detect when oil has been reached.
- Rail-Bond.
- Patent for a rail bond that allows an electric current to travel through the rails.
- Oxygen-Generator
- Patent for an oxygen generator that refills as it is emptied.
- Device for Dipping Lumber.
- Patent for a device for dipping lumber in a "soda" bath for preventing mildewing that allows the operator of the sawmill to determine which logs go through the bath.
- Combined Pencil Holder and Sharpener.
- Patent for a combined pencil holder and sharpener, which uses the sharpener as a pencil cap.
- Cotton Cleaner, Feeder, and Separator Elevator
- Patent for a machine designed to take and clean cotton from a cotton supply, and then feed it directly into a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
- Domestic Boiler.
- Patent for a boiler for boiling milk and other liquids prone to boiling over, which prevents the overflow of liquid from the boiler.
- Illuminated Sign and Operating Means Therefor
- Patent for an illuminated sign and how to operating means. Illustration included.
- Well-Tube
- Patent for a well tube.
- Process of Refining Asphaltic Mineral Oils.
- Patent for process for refining asphaltic mineral oils such as might be found in wells in Texas and Louisiana. Designed to remove asphaltum.
- Process of Making Artificial Fuel
- Patent for process of creating artificial fuel and the resulting product.
- Process of Refining Crude Mineral Oils and their Distillates.
- Patent for a process for the purification of crude oils using a variety of chemical processes.
- 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).
- Valve for Engines.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in valves for steam engines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Combination-Plow.
- Patent for a combination-plow that "may be combined with facility to form a variety of plows designed for work of different kinds, the present invention being an improvement upon that shown and described in Patent No. 492,462, granted to [the inventor] February 28, 1893" (lines 10-15).
- Method of and Apparatus for Treating Mineral Pitch.
- Patent for an "improved method of and apparatus for treating mineral pitch and similar material to readily separate the asphalt and asphalt-oils from sand, bituminous rock, and other impurities contained in the mined material and removing the sand and impurities" (lines 12-17). The method circulates the material in hot water to separate the asphalt and asphalt-oils from the sand and impurities. The asphalt and oil rise to the top of the water and the impurities sink.
- Conduit Electric Railway.
- Patent for an underground conduit electric railway meant to propel cars. The conduit can be drained and kept dry, and a trolley attachment protects the conduit from dirt and water as well.
- Conduit Electric Railway.
- Patent for a surface trolley for electric railways that operates "upon the surface of the pavement or ground between the tracks of the road, for connecting the car with the motor power, in place of the trolley and over head wires now suspended upon the unsightly poles in the center or at the sides of the street, which are found to be very objectionable on account of their obstructing the passageway in the streets and upon the side walks, and the wires preventing the free movement of fire companies in extending their ladders in gaining access to buildings, and also because of the great danger attending persons and animals moving about in the street, on account of the charged or live wires frequently being thrown down upon the ground, and coming in contact with and destroying the life of persons, and also on account of the frequent fatal accidents to persons having charge of the repair of the wires and other apparatus in connection with them, often coming in contact with live wires while elevated on the poles and engaged in repairing them" (lines 16-38).
- Plow.
- Patent for improvements in reversible plows: "The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of reversible plows and enable them to be adjusted to any desired depth" (lines 9-12).
- Cotton-Cupper
- Patent for improvements in the type of equipment known as cotton cupers.
- Electric Belt
- Patent for improvements in electric belts.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for an invention for train cars which "relates to car couplings, and especially to that class of the same which effect an automatic coupling by means of a gravity-hook," (lines 12-15) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
- Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
- Carbureter.
- Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
- Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton.
- Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.
- Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton
- Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.