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- Rat and Mouse Trap
- Patent for a mousetrap that may be set without having to touch the choker wire, and that will stay shut reliably yet be more easily released by the human emptying it. Finally, the trap is designed to be harder for humans to spring accidentally while setting it.
- Rat Trap
- Patent for a trap to catch rodents.
- Recovery of sulfur from its ores
- Patent for Recovery of Sulfur from its Ores which is used to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention such as will enable other skilled art to which it appertains to make and use the same
- Revolving Harrow
- Patent for a wheeled revolving harrow used to pulverize the ground, reducing it to a good condition for planting grain.
- Rolling Boring Drill
- Patent for a more cost-efficient and energy-efficient roller boring drill.
- Rotary Boring Drill
- Patent for Rotary Boring Drill used for drilling oil or water wells.
- Rotary Plow.
- Patent for improvement to the rotary plow that allows one to operate multiple rotary plows simultaneously.
- Round-Bale Cotton-Press
- Patent for a cotton press with a modified core pin that can be automatically removed from cylindrical bales through use of a hydraulic ram before the bale is expelled from the machine. This helps prevent the bales from coming apart (as would often happen when the core pin was removed by hand), and also has the advantage of creating bales with less dense centers, which aids with drying and helps prevent matting.
- Safety Steering Mechanism for Automobiles
- Patent for safety steering mechanism for cars having steering gears actuated by cranks on the steering post.
- Safety Top for Cans
- Patent for a milk can lid which may be locked in place by a spring, and which contains a hollow chamber inside to carry "butter, or other commodities" (lines 62-63).
- Sand-Trap
- Patent for a sand-trap that will prevent the accumulation of sand by automatically removing the sand from the canals.
- Sanitary Telephone Mouthpiece
- Patent for Sanitary Telephone-Mouthpiece
- Saw-Set.
- Patent for a saw-set, in particular a cross cut saw, that provides a method to manually operate the saw without use of a hammer or any other tool. Also allows the saw to be adjusted to fit different blade thicknesses.
- Sawing-Machine
- Patent for an improvement in the invention of sawing machines. Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Seed-Planter.
- Patent for an attachment that will allow a plow or harrow to drop seed.
- Shade-Roller And Curtain Bracket.
- Patent for a shade roller and curtain brackets that are easier and more efficiently manufactured that can be held securely using a single screw.
- Sheet-Metal Piling
- Patent for a sheet-metal piling of the lock joint type that will prevent leakage at the joints.
- Sieve.
- Patent for a sieve that would be used to sift flour and meal for baking.
- Sight for Firearms
- Patent for sight for firearm that provides a transparent lens with sight marks and a scale to determine what sight mark to use when firing at an object.
- Slime Jigging Machine
- Patent for machine in which very little water is used to recover the very finest difference in gravity of the mineral particles
- Spark-Arrester.
- Patent for a Spark-Arrester.
- Spring.
- Patent for an improvement in springs. "Designed particularly for use upon carriages, wagons, and motor or other cars and more particularly to the type os springs known as elliptic or semi-elliptic" (lines 10-14).
- Spring wheel
- Patent for Spring Wheels.
- Stabilizer for Flying-Machines.
- Patent for Stabilizer for Flying Machines. "The object of the invention being to provide simple and effective means upon the lateral margins of a main plane or supporting surface operating automatically upon the lateral oscillation of the machine in either direction to restore it to a horizontal or balanced position" (lines: 9 -16).
- Stalk-Cutter
- Patent for a machine with a removable and adjustable blade that will cut stalks of various heights with efficiency and accuracy.
- Stalk Cutting Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for "cutter which may be readily attached to and used in connection with a plow" (lines 12-13) with description and illustration.
- Stalk Outter
- Patent for an invention for improvement upon stalk cutters. It was submitted for patent on June 3, 1913 and patented on November 25, 1913.
- Stamp-Vending Machine
- Patent for improvements in stamp vending machines. "To improve the construction of coin-operated vending-machines and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one designed for selling postage-stamps and capable of operation only by a coin of the proper denomination and adapted when properly operated to feed a stamp to the operator." (Lines 9-17) Illustration is included.
- Standing-Valve
- Patent for improvements to standing valves for the use in high pressure, deep oil wells. Improves the construction, durability, and efficiency. Includes detailed description and illustrations.
- Storage Battery
- Patent for a storage battery that lasts longer, relating to the active materials and electrolyte's cells.
- Storage Battery
- Patent for dry cell storage battery for use in flash lights.
- Stump-Burner.
- Patent for "a burner, adapted to be employed for burning out stumps." (lines 9-10)
- Sub-structure
- Patent for...Sub-structure for waterway bridges.
- Support and Driving Mechanism for Adjustable Drive Wheels of Tractors
- Patent for a support and driving mechanism for adjustable drive wheels of tractors that improves the ability for tractors to adjust to a variety of clearance underneath or above the tractor.
- Swivel Joint
- This patent is for a swivel joint, used to connect a pipe to a coupling sleeve and allow for water-tight, axial pipe movement.
- System of Electrical Distribution
- Patent for a system of electrical distribution. The contents include drawings for the patent as well as a detailed description of what the invention is and how it works.
- Tabulating Attachment for Type Writers
- Patent for an attachment for type writers allowing for the printing of long lists of figures or statistics
- Testing Device For Jump Spark Ignition Systems.
- Patent for the improvement of testing devices for jump spark ignition systems, especially those in explosive engines.
- Touch System Hand Rest
- Patent for touch system hand rest. The invention is to be used with typewriters and provide support for the user's arms.
- Tramper
- Patent for a cotton tramper that uses a continuously-moving crank arm to achieve the reciprocating motion of the tramper head, instead of tripping devices that reverse its direction. This makes the design safer for workmen to operate.
- Tree-Heater.
- Patent for Tree-Heater. "The object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described for the purpose of generating and distributing heat and so constructed that it may be suspended from or placed beneath small trees and shrubs for the purpose of raising the temperature of the atmosphere surrounding the same in order to prevent said trees or shrubs and the fruit thereof from being injured by reason of cold" (lines 11-19).
- Tube Vulcanizer.
- Patent for Tube Vulcanizer. For repairing inflatable tires.
- Tunneling-Machine
- Patent for a horizontal tunneling machine comprised of two different drill mechanisms - an inner and an outer drill stem - that could be operated separately and at different speeds, and adjusted while the drills were running. The drills make use of the tricone drill bit invented by Hughes in 1909, and could drill through hard rock more effectively than previous mechanisms.
- Valve
- Patent for an improved valve that will allow oil-burning locomotives to be controlled effectively under any circumstance.
- Valve
- Patent for a valve. Illustrations and detailed written description of patent.
- Vehicle Tongue
- Patent for vehicle tongue improvement.
- Vehicle-Wheel.
- Patent for Vehicle Wheel. "Our invention relates to new and useful improvements in vehicle wheels. Its object is to provide a vehicle wheel, specially adapted for use upon automobiles, equipped with a substitute for the pneumatic tire, of cheaper and more lasting construction than such a tire" (lines 9-15).
- Vehicle Wheel
- Patent for the improvement of the vehicle wheel utilizing coiled springs to in such a way that it reduces shock and force. The goal is to eliminate the need for pneumatic tires. Detailed description and illustrations included.
- Ventilator
- Patent for a ventilator
- Washing Machine
- Patent for washing machine with frame or stand adapted to support a tub or receptacle