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Improvement in Post Hole Diggers
Patent for a new design of post hole digger, with a single overlapping metal blade formed into a circular triangular form.
Revolving Harrow
Patent for a wheeled revolving harrow used to pulverize the ground, reducing it to a good condition for planting grain.
Sheet-Metal Piling
Patent for a sheet-metal piling of the lock joint type that will prevent leakage at the joints.
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.
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.
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).
Seed Planter and Marker.
Patent for seed planting and marking machines specifically for planting corn, cotton, or any other seeds required planting in rows. This device allows row planting without a check cord or line as it will drop seeds at regular and variable (adjustable) intervals and mark hills.
Automobile Windlass.
Patent for improved Automobile Windlasses. It is a combination of horizontally disposed tubular sections on the right and left hand, an improvement in the windlass attaching mechanism.
Hoe.
Patent for a hoe with "a colter shank at the oval top, affording means whereby the hoe may clear itself from large branching weeds, which is frequently a trouble met with in using hoes having a shank in the center."
High-Pressure Suction Fan and Blower.
Patent for "a fan which will operate in a continuous and highly efficient manner and increase the air pressure with a reduced power of operation" and "may be used either in conjunction with a cotton gin...or it may be used for any other purpose where suction or blast fans are used" (lines 31-33, 10-15). It includes an illustration.
Plaiting Device.
Patent for an improved plaiting device that simplifies the steaming and pressing of dress goods.
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for effective removal of cotton plants in an alternating pattern with a standard chopping depth, distance, and speed, with illustrations.
Sign.
Patent for signs, bulletin boards and other display apparatus; the purpose of this device is that display elements may be reversed from time to time to change announcement displayed.
Safety-Casing Clamp
Patent for a tool that supports the drilling and operating of oil and gas wells. Specifically, the patented tool allows a strong method of sealing the smaller casing inside the larger casing, as the larger casing is pulled out of the well. Includes illustrations.
Automatic Turntable
Patent for “a turn table of simple and durable structure adapted to be placed in the floor of a small garage or at other points, and which will automatically operate when an automobile is run upon the same to effect the complete turning of the automobile machine in order that the machine may enter the garage while traveling a forward direction and leave the garage in a similar manner” (lines 17-25). Includes illustrations.
Car-Rail Hose-Bridge.
Patent that provides a hose-bridge that is light in weight and simple in construction, that can be carried on the cars or stored at different points on the line convenient for use.
Sawing Machine
Patent for a wood sawing machine which allows for a portable wood sawing apparatus. The device is capable of adjusting the saw to create a feed, and allows for cutting diagonally, horizontally, or vertically.
Nut and Pipe Wrench.
Patent for a nut and pipe wrench that has a detachable handle member which allows the shank to be reduced and extended.
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap that allows an animal, most suitably animals of the rodent species, to enter a rectangular box from any of its four sides through a gate formed of downwardly inclined wires pivoted above each of said openings inside of the box. When an animal enters the trap, they are unable to leave because of the downwardly bent ends of transverse bars secured to the said inclined wires.
Tractor-Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved design that provides adaptability for tractor wheels, including illustrations. It allows tractor wheels that are designed to be used on sandy or soft land to also be used on hard soil.
Train Signaling And Stopping Device.
Patent for Train Signaling And Stopping Device improvements intended to be of low cost, simple, durable, and run on electricity.
Fraud-Preventing Means For Commercial Papers
Patent for new format of bank checks in order to deter fraud.
Automobile-Windlass
Patent for improved windlass for an automobile that attaches to both rear wheels to prevent idling
Wire-Fence Shield.
Patent for a tool to cover a portion of barbed wire fence allowing one to cross over or through without harm, composed of three or more telescoping metal tubes.
Ratchet Die-Stock
Patent for improvement on the usage of die-stocks which are used to cut and thread metal objects such as pipes.
Grease Dispensing Pump
Patent for improvements upon "grease-dispensing pumps"(line 7) which removes old grease and dispenses "mobile grease"(line 13) easily to machinery.
Checking Attachment for Planters
Patent for a checking attachment for planters that is "easily adjusted to drop seed at various distances" (lines 16-17).
Heater.
Patent for a heater adapted for use in an internal combustion engine for the purpose of assisting the vehicle to start in cold weather.
Ratchet Pipe Cutter
Patent for improvements to a ratchet pipe cutter, which includes an adjustment system to allow for pipes to "approximately quickly adjusted to different sizes of pipe and subsequently automatically moved toward the cutting roller"(lines 11-13).
Nut Lock.
Patent for an improved nut lock that prevents nuts from loosening. The invention is a combined nut lock and washer with spring plate, including illustrations.
Mechanism for Hanging Car-Doors and The Like
Patent for a mechanism for hanging car doors and similar objects. The tool reduces the amount of people needed to install a car door or similar object, providing a more efficient installation.
Coupling.
Patent for a coupling invention that consists of a detachable key member and locking key member for a valve plug. It is meant to improve couplings for detachable handles of drain-cocks.
Grease-Gun
Patent for an applicator of grease to targeted areas with improved method for refilling, including illustration.
Hot Box Cooler dated November 12, 1918
Patent for the implementation of improvements to hot box coolers. This will assist in the cooling of hot bearings in railway cars.
Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.
Patent for an apparatus that improved the cleaning process for machine-processed boll cotton. The invention made it possible to extract more lint cotton from closed bolls which were typically unharvestable by traditional machine-based cotton gins. The machine also improved success in late fall or winter cotton harvesting by allowing bolls containing hard-to-reach cotton to be processed.
Hopper-Door.
Patent for a hopper door especially designed to be used "with a vertically movable weighing hopper adapted to receive and weigh cotton seed" (lines 10-12). The specifics of how the door is hinged and operates is especially important to the design.
Vulcanizing Apparatus
Patent for an apparatus used during the process of retreading tires that updates the manufacture of rubber tire patches.
Heel-Attaching Means.
Patent for a new means of using screws and plates to securely attach wooden heels to women's shoes, including illustrations.
Grain-Car Door.
Patent for Grain-Car Door. "The object the present invention is to arrange the door for use in transporting grain without requiring any additional grain door or planking on the inside door opening." (Line 3)
Arc-Lamp Attachment
Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
Butter-Mold
Patent for "a butter mold embodying means for cutting and shaping a piece of wrapping paper to conform to the configuration of the mold in which it is adapted to be placed to receive the butter." (lines 9-13).
Vapor-Condensing Apparatus.
Patent for a vapor condensing system that utilizes a mixing chamber and several coils of tubing to produce a cooling effect. The application is suitable for ice machines, refrigeration plants and other systems.
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for an improved method of locating the air blast apparatus for cleaning lint from the saw teeth of saw-type cotton gins, so that the cotton lint does not accumulate on the cleaning apparatus and render it inoperative, including illustrations.
Peanut Digger.
Patent for new and useful improvements to a machine for harvesting or digging peanuts, including instructions and illustrations.
Trolley-Harp.
Patent for improvements to the efficiency of trolley harps by changing how the currents that power "overhead type electric car systems" (lines 13-14) are conducted.
Dry Closet.
Patent for a new design that improves "construction, utility, and efficiency of dry closets"(lines 10-11) that would also allow the use of an attachment specifically for dry closet seats. Includes design for mesh cloth to capture waste.
Meat Slicer
Patent for machine that cuts meat.
Sliding Door for Railway Freight Cars
Patent for sliding door for frieght cars, rather than doors that open outward.
Nut Lock
Patent for device locks a nut to the threaded portion of a bolt.
Space Band for Line Casting Machines
Patent for improvments in space bands.
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