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- Adjustable Device for Dressing Down Bearings
- Patent for a tool that dresses down bearings. Railroad engine journals and their corresponding bearings show wear over time. When replacing bearings into such a journal, without adaptation of the bearing there will be an improper fit, resulting in "hot journals" or "hot boxes". This tool adapts a bearing to a proper fit for the journal into which it will be installed.
- Drill Bit and Sample Taking Device
- Patent for
- Excavating Bucket.
- Patent for an "excavating bucket designed for use in connection with an excavating machine" (lines 10-12).
- Nutcracker.
- Patent for nutcracker using lever-activation to increase the leverage while nut cracking, including instructions and illustrations
- Billboard
- Patent for billboards built for wind resistance.
- Electric Hairbrush
- Patent for an improved electric hairbrush having an insulated electrical heating element and separately charged electrically conductive metallic bristles. The hairbrush is designed to straighten hair and/or to electrically treat a user's hair and scalp with a low-voltage current. A device in the handle allows the user to regulate the heating of the element.
- Pump
- Patent for improvements to pumps in working barrels, packing, and packing chambers, the purpose of which is to eliminate easily worn parts and improve the efficiency of these pumps, including illustrations.
- Shock Absorber
- Patent for a new and improved shock absorber which is "primarily intended for use as a connecting and cushioning medium between the upper and lower springs commonly employed under automobile bodies" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
- Device for Washing Oil Wells.
- Patent for "a device for washing, cleaning, and sterilizing oil wells" (lines 10-11), including illustrations.
- Knee Pad.
- Patent for an improved knee pad, which provides better ventilation and cushioning to the knee, including illustrations.
- Vehicle.
- Patent for improvements to vehicle structure. This includes adjustments to the wheel base for better steering movements and vehicle capacity.
- Apparatus for Building Concrete Structures.
- Patent for an apparatus for building concrete structures that includes the method or process of erection.
- Automobile Headlight.
- Patent for an improved automobile headlight equipped with a movable lens and reflector to cast light down towards the roadway.
- Furniture and Automobile Body Polish.
- Patent for furniture and automobile polish made with an asphalt base for varnished and enameled surfaces such as automobile bodies, pianos, linoleum, stained floors, leather, and rubberized fabrics.
- Gun-Barrel Cleaner.
- Patent for a gun-barrel cleaner unique in that it cleans and oils. It also provides an adjustable handle-stop which avoids damage to muzzle end of shotgun by inexperienced users. Adjustable in order to clean different gauges.
- Protective Runner for Cotton-Pickers' Sacks.
- Patent for a protective runner that protects the collection sack from being damaged as it is dragged. This design is meant to be quick and easy to attach and is shaped like a trough.
- Combined Feeder and Hive Ventilator
- Patent for improvements in bee-hives by providing means in which the hive can be ventilated during warm weather. The invention provides means in which the ventilating means can be removed or rendered inoperative whenever desired or during cold weather.
- Dirigible Headlight Construction for Automobiles.
- Patent for improvements in dirigible headlight constructions for automobiles. Two major useful improments are mentioned: a) a headlight that is constructed so that when a car turns, the headlight on the turning side of the car will alone be turned in the same direction and b) a headlight that is constructed so that the driver can manually turn either headlight, allowing the headlights to act as search lights if necessary.
- Gasoline Wash Furnace
- Patent for a gasoline wash furnace designed for use in heating water for clothea
- Hosiery Spat.
- Patent for hosiery spat that provides feet and ankle "protection when fancy 'open work' or thin hosiery is worn." (lines 15-16) including illustrations.
- Locomotive Wheel Hub and Plate
- Patent for improvements to locomotive wheel hubs and plates with the purpose of "inhibiting adjustment of the plate beyond the safety point" (lines 20-21), including illustrations.
- Molding Apparatus.
- Patent for a molding apparatus for forming precast concrete units used for constructing monolithic straight and curved walls, floors, ceilings, and other building structures.
- Semaphore
- Patent for a semaphore in the form of a rotatable tubular post for the purpose of signaling traffic conditions at an intersection. The semaphore communicates signals in the form of red or green plates, red or green colored lamplight, and pneumatic whistles, which are triggered by vehicles passing over platforms installed on the road surface near the intersection by means of underground tubes containing chains and pulleys. The actuation of the semaphore is detailed in "parent" application, serial no. 314065.
- Shutter Regulator for Moving-Picture Machines
- Patent for new and useful improvements in shutter regulators for moving picture machines. This invention relates to the cinematographic apparatus and more particularly to the shutter mechanism of moving picture machines which may be adjusted with ease and convenience and made secure in the located position
- Electric Battery
- Patent for an electric battery. This battery is designed to be more efficient and run for a longer time, without adding water.
- Rural Mail Box.
- Patent for improvements to rural mail boxes with divided interior compartments for incoming and outgoing mail. Mail box design includes flag to signal to recipients and postman of incoming and outgoing items. Additionally the design features interior and exterior doors that can be secured with a padlock to prevent mail from being stolen or tampered with, and to shield from various weather conditions.
- Spark Plug.
- Patent for a spark plug with the capacity to afford an intense spark, prevent leakage of current, and to preclude fouling of the plug in carbon.
- Concrete Form.
- Patent for a circular concrete form. The form is adjustable and allows nesting for storage and transport.
- Gauge Cock.
- Patent for steam gauge or test cocks that provides a simple and economical gauge cock for steam boilers by which the steam can be readily tested and which is adapted to close the orifice automatically to provide a constructions which will not be disarranged in operation.
- Lawn-Mower Sharpener.
- Patent for a new device that improves lawn mower sharpeners, including illustrations. It is a detachable device that attaches directly to the lawn mower and sharpens the blades while in use.
- Railroad-Crossing Signal
- Patent for signaling devices designed for use along railroads and grade crossings and meant to be automatically operated upon the approach of a train by giving a visible or audible signal at the crossing which will warn travelers of the approach of the train and calcuated to avoid the occurrence of accidents. The signal device includes a track associated train operated circuit closing device for energizing a bell, flashing light, or signal arm or any other equivalence or suitable signal device located at the crossing.
- Mop.
- Patent for an attachment that can be added to a standard broom which allows the broom to function as a mop.
- Gin Attachment
- Patent for improved attachments for cotton gins. Useful amendments include the improvement of the function of "moving and regulating the feeding of cotton to the gin and the ejection of refuse, hulls and chaff." (lines 13-15). This is accomplished with the addition of a mechanism that "at regular intervals, close the feeder, open the gin breast and discharge the hulls and waste and again close the gin and open the feeder." (lines 37-40).
- Toy
- Patent for improvements in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts used in building articulated toy snakes that mimic the animal's movement. The patent and illustrations describe the shapes of the toy's sections and the manner of their hinged connection to one another.
- Sailboat.
- Patent for an improved sailboat with updated "arrangement of cables controlling the movements of the sails whereby the force of the wind alone is utilized to simultaneously shift all the sails... by merely changing the course of the vessel by actuating the rudder in the usual manner." (lines 10-16), including illustrations.
- Animated Sign
- Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
- Cigarette Package.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Packages" (lines 5-6) including "the method of dispensing or extracting cigarettes from the package and as well to the method of making a cigarette package" (lines 9-12), including one illustration.
- Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer
- Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
- Method of and Apparatus for Producing Transformation Effects
- Patent for a method of creating transformation effects through the use of particular colors of illumination, to be used in the theater, amusement houses, or other performances. The invention involves using lights whose colors can either "absorb" or "wash out" certain objects or designs of the same color while revealing objects of a complementary color.
- Crate.
- Patent for a fruit and vegetable crate that is collapsable to facilitate transportation, and has strong corners to enable heavy usage.
- Cultivator Foot
- Patent for a cultivator foot. This cultivator foot is designed to be a new kind of inexpensive, simple, and efficient cultivator foot.
- Shutter for Motion-Picture Machines.
- Patent for a shutter for motion picture cameras to eliminate flickering. Produced by stamping the device from sheet metal.
- Detachable Washer
- Patent for a detachable Washer which can be applied or removed from a bolt, without having to remove the bolt itself.
- Pump Plunger.
- Patent for pump plungers usable in deep wells for either oil or water. It is designed to be used for long periods without wear and tear.
- Air Cycle.
- Patent for a pedal power "aeroplane" (line 9) with improvements to driving pedals and controlling the flight path.
- Ant Trap
- Patent for an ant trap designed as a ring-shaped trough and which allows for the drainage of rainwater through a pipe fitted with a porous plug. Both walls of the trough are capped with inward and downward curved flanges.
- Oil Burner.
- Patent for a new oil burner which is designed to burn oil for fuel has a flared nozzle and can be cheaply made and repaired.
- Automobile Wheel Rim.
- Patent for an automobile rim to make the mounting or demounting of a tire easier without any tools.
- Counter.
- Patent for improvements to store counters that can be easily constructed in whatever form fits the user.
- Molding Machine
- Patent for a clay molding machine that has more aprons to create more uniform molds as well as different size belts for varies mold sizes.