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- Car-brake
- Patent for a car-brake that improves the ability of a train to stop its forward motion.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a hand-lever baling press.
- Broaching-Press
- Patent for a device used with metal-working machines that provides more efficient finishing.
- Plow.
- Patent for improvements in plows by employing moldboards on both left and right side of the plow; with a shoe or land slide fixed to the plow-beam extension. Then use a V-clamp to secure the plow-handles and a bracket to secure the moldboards and plow-point. This construction will allow free movement of the plow-point and moldboard up and down or vertically without lifting the shoe from the furrow. Illustration is included.
- Plow Attachment.
- Patent for an adjustable plow attachment that is placed onto a plow blade and sweeps aside earth while "forming a load-bearing surface." (p. 1)
- Pyrometer.
- Patent for improvement in pyrometers for more accurate and reliable use in cooking stoves.
- Railway-Frog.
- Patent for "a frog for crossing rails at switches or railway-crossings" (lines 8-9).
- Germ-Destroyer for Telephone-Mouthpieces.
- Patent for destroying disease causing germs in the mouth-piece of a telephone.
- Hay-Press.
- Patent for hay presses with "a construction operable by horse-power in which the plunger will be operated as the sweep is moved in both directions and in which, furthermore, there will be an efficiency of operation and an economy of power" (lines 11-16).
- Lifting-Jack.
- Patent for improved construction of lifting jacks with a "vertically-movable screw and capable of enabling the jack to be readily connected with an object at the base of it, whereby the range of the lifting-jack will be materially increased" (lines 14-18).
- Well casing
- Patent for a well-casing for a strainer.
- Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.
- Patent for improvements in “gas-machines in which the gas is generated from calcium carbid; in which the gas will be thoroughly washed before passing to the distributing-pipe, thus affording a pure white light, and further to provide a means for running off coal-tar that may gather on the top of the water in the machine.” (Lines 9-18) Illustration is included.
- Churn-Motor.
- Patent for improving crank-lever churn motors for a more simple construction that results in a more lightweight but strong machine.
- Dust and Cinder Fender.
- Patent for a fender for railroad car windows that prevents the intrusion of dust and cinders into an open window while allowing window to remain open for light and ventilation. The device can be attached to either side of the car.
- Hitching-Strap.
- Patent for a strap to attach an animal to a hitching-post, especially a smooth one, to avoid slipping or accidental loosening by the animal with "an improved slidable catch" (line 18).
- Plow.
- Patent for improvements to the turning-plow, with convertible attachments for other forms of plow.
- Shuttle Mechanism for Sewing Machines
- Patent for "new and improvements in sewing machines" (lines 5-6).
- Stirrup.
- Patent for "an improved bottom, an improved supporting-bar, and an instep-bar" (lines 8-9) for stirrups.
- Telephone System.
- Patent for, "telephone system; and it has for one object to provide such an arrangement of the instrument and wiring as will permit a subscriber to converse with a second subscriber" (lines 8-12).
- Tongs.
- Patent for tongs with gripping jaws that are removable and have variable gripping surfaces on each vertical side of the jaws.
- Trolley-Pole.
- Patent for trolley-poles for electric cars which provides "a simple, inexpensive, and highly efficient trolley-wire finder, and one which is readily applicable to trolley-poles such as at present in use and is adapted to be quickly and easily raised to an operative position and when released is adapted to gravitate to a position below and out of the way of the trolley-wire" (lines 15-22).
- Baling-press
- Patent for a baling-press that will prevent hay or other material from jamming the mechanisms used to bale it.
- Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.
- Patent for machines that generate acetylene gas for a "simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, in which the gas is thoroughly washed before entering the service-pipe and in which the water-supply to the generator is controlled by the gas pressure and the carbid kept at all times cooled by surrounding water" (lines 11-17).
- Coin-Holder.
- Patent for improvement in coin-holder “to be use on a belt to be worn by a person or on a stand placed on a counter, desk, or the like, and arranged to hold coins of desired denominations and to permit the user to conveniently and quickly remove coins of various denominations for making changes.” (Lines 10-16) Illustration is included.
- Ironing-Table.
- Patent for improvements to ironing tables, including a narrow folding table top by which to iron sleeves and small articles, a means by which "depending articles" may be kept out of the way and off the floor (and thus clean), and an iron holder.
- Steam and Water Separator.
- Patent for improvements in steam and water separator to “eliminate water, entrained moisture, grease, or other impurities from steam at any pressure and automatically discharge the water of condensation and other impurities from the trap and permit the steam to pass in a thoroughly-dry condition to the point of use.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
- Cotton-chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper mounted on wheels.
- Cultivating-Plow.
- Patent for "an improved cultivating-plow adapted for cultivating a number of rows of growing plants at a single operation" with improvements in connecting plow-beams to the axle, to devices for raising the plows from the ground, and in operating the cultivator.
- Lock-Plate
- Patent for improvements in lock-plates for the stays of wire fences.
- Motion-Transmitter
- Patent for a motion transmitter for wave motors, "the primary object of the invention being to produce motion-transmitting mechanism which will effect the conversion or translation of reciprocity motion into continuous rotary motion in the same direction."
- Riding-Saddle.
- Patent for an improved riding saddle that eliminates curling of saddle jockeys and chafing of rider's legs.
- Stove-Damper.
- Patent for stove-damper by using “a damper-valve which not only subserves the usuall function of an ordinary cooking-stove damper which works over the smoke-exit flue, but also acts as a draft regulating device to provide for regulating the draft the damper is thrown to a closed position.” (Lines 19-26) Illustration is included.
- Wedge-Buckle.
- Patent for improvements in wedge-buckles by using a “combination of a stiff plate having wedge-shaped side jaws, of the strap having an inwardly-curved spring portion terminating in projections and flanges which engage the jaws, and adapted to be straightened outwardly in clamping a belt of band between the plate and strap” to (Lines 18-24, p. 2) Illustration is included.
- Window-Screen
- Patent for "a new and improved window-screen which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to permit of readily placing the screen in position on the window or removing it therefrom and without requiring special runs or guideways and to allow of using the screen either inside or outside of the window, as desired" (lines 8-16)
- Floating Body.
- Patent for improvements to balloons or floating bodies in order to provide for a floating body "consisting of a flexible air or gas receiver, made to imitate or resemble animate or inanimate objects, so as to assume when inflated the shape of a human head or bust, birds, statues, animals, or any other desired object" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
- Hay Press
- Patent for improvements of hay press to simplify construction and add locking device.
- Wire Stretcher
- Patent for improvement of construction of wire stretcher for both mending and cutting wire.
- Wire Tightener
- Patent for new and improved construction of wire tightener allows for post in place while wire is being fastened.
- Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes.
- The invention is "to improve the construction of gages for planes and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to the stock of the plane and capable of being set at different angles" (lines 10-15) "to enable the face of a board to be accurately planed at the desired angle" (lines 16-17).
- Planter Attachment for Plows
- Patent for a combined cotton, corn, and sugar-cane planter attachment for plows, which is intended "to provide a simple, cheap, and automatically operating planting attachment for plows which may be used for the planting of seeds of various kinds, as cotton, corn, sugar-cane, and the like, and which may be readily attached to and detached from a plow."
- Pump-Strainer.
- Patent for a pump strainer for liquid wells that excludes sand and other foreign matter before it can foul the pump or wear its parts.
- Sash-Holder
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders," an invention which "aims to provide a sash-holder of simple construction for supporting a sash at any elevation and which will secure it when closed against being opened from the outside."
- Seed-Planter.
- Patent for improvement of seed planter "adapted for the planting of various kinds of seeds" (lines 10-11) and addition of tilting movements, including illustrations.
- Cultivator and Planter.
- Patent for improvement to the "manner of mounting and adjusting the swinging frames [of planters], and to enable the said swinging frames to be readily adjusted vertically" (lines 12-15).
- Grapple.
- Patent for a grapple, a device "for handling brick - that is, for moving brick from one point to another" (lines 13-14).
- Mirror Attachment for Bureaus.
- Patent for an adjustable mirror attachment for bureaus.
- APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c.
- Patent for "an apparatus for emptying sandboxes of locomotives" (lines 13-14) "operated by compressed air to elevate and discharge sand, water, &c." (lines 10-11).
- BRICK-KILN.
- Patent for brick-kilns to "provide means for burning bricks in a much shorter time and more effectively than is possible with usual constructions, and, further, to protect the kiln-walls against the injurious effects of heat" (lines 9-13).
- Frame-Lifting Device for Disk Plows or Similar Implements.
- Patent for "improvements in disk plows and similar implements, and especially to means employed for raising and lowering the frames of said plows in order to regulate the depth of the furrow" (lines 9-13).
- Key-Bar.
- Patent for key-bars for use on type-writers and cash-registers.