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- Universal Household Grater.
- Patent for a new universal grater which eliminates the risk of injury the user may gain from grating materials.
- Hair-Clipper.
- Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements" (line 6) in the Hair Clipper, concerning the introduction of more efficient "double-acting clippers" (line 12), including illustrations.
- Saw-Table Gage.
- Patent for a saw-table cutting stop that can be very quickly set and which automatically indicates the distance from the stop to the saw.
- Rotary Cutting Device for Razors.
- Patent for a shaving razor designed with a "cylindrical outer surface adapted to rotate in contact with the skin" (line 111-112) which allows for safer and more efficient shaving, includes illustrations.
- Device for Teaching Music
- Patent for a music education device aimed toward children and basic music building blocks. It is designed to teach the positions of piano keyboard notes through the use of differently dressed and named puppets. These puppets can be adjusted to also introduce basic musical concepts like rests, rhythm, and time.
- Percolator.
- Patent for a percolator for coffee or tea that is "reliable and efficient in its operation, readily and easily adjusted to fit the various sizes of pots and also inexpensive in manufacture." (lines 44-47)
- Overall Jacket Or Waist.
- Patent for an overall jacket or waists, the construction of which permits of its formation with less material and its use with greater comfort and convenience by terminating at its lower edge in a waist band, which, in use, is intended to be seated upon or lap the upper edges or portions of the trouser sections, thus avoiding the extensions usually present with a wait section or jacket into the trouser section.
- Stalk-Cutter Attachment
- Patent for improvements to stalk-cutter attachments to plows. The invention allows stalks to be cut by the plow and then turned under it into the soil to decrease labor an improve plow performance.
- Pneumatic Pillow.
- Patent for improvements to pneumatic pillows, specifically the ventilator within the pillow.
- Jogger Attachment for Platen Printing-Press
- Patent for an automatic jogging attachment for platen presses. The attachments are unique because they can be placed on the press without alterations, they allow for the stacking of sheets in a uniform manner while also being more durable and efficient.
- Cooking Utensil.
- Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
- Furnace.
- Patent for portable field furnaces, that also provide a heating chamber that can engage the walls of containers of various sizes.
- Fence-Post.
- Patent for improvements to Fence-Posts, preferably made from metal, providing for simple construction and a means for holding wire, which is also of simple construction.
- Clothes-Pin.
- Patent for Clothes Pin made of galvanized wire that will remain normally on the line. It will also prevent the adjacent pins from becoming tangled together. It's twisted portions adapted for riding content with the line to hold the pin in operative position.
- Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for an improved cotton-chopper.
- Railway-Tie.
- Patent for a composite railway tie that is durable and adjustable and can be used for both trolley and steam rail systems.
- Refrigerator.
- Patent for a refrigerator with shelves and two layers of cooling liquids inside the walls.
- Ledger with Visible Index.
- Patent for a ledger with a visible index of numbers and names with tabs to allow accounts to be looked up easily.
- Mattress Making Machine
- Patent for a mattress making machine. Illustration included.
- Harness Fastner
- Patent for a harness fastener. Illustration included.
- Ice Cream Freezer
- Patent for an ice cream freezer. Illustration included.
- Detachable Draft Appliance
- Patent for a detachable draft appliance.
- Water-Boiler, Skimmer, and Oil-Separator
- Patent for a water-boiler, skimmer, and oil-separator.
- Fan.
- Patent for a fan designed for use on a table or desk.
- Motor.
- Patent for improving the “’multiple cylinder rotary engine’“ (lines 9-10) through "controlling devices" (line 24) that are both automatic and manual and help engine pistons function more effectively. This patent builds upon earlier patents regarding motor design by the inventor, and will connect to a generator concurrently patented by the inventor. Detailed explanations and illustrations included.
- Projectile
- Patent for "an improved projectile for guns and ordnance of various classes and bores" (lines 7-9).
- Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.
- Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
- Stump-Puller.
- Patent for a stump-puller that "can be quickly assembled and taken apart, to devise a device which will admit of the rope being quickly paid off from the capstan after the stump has been uprooted, and, finally, to provide a machine which can be easily handled and which will perform the required work in a rapid and satisfactory manner and which can be transported from one stump to the other by being dragged upon the ground" (lines 10-19).
- Combined Couch and Storage-Chest.
- Patent for a couch that stores clothes in its body and head. The clothes can be readily accessed.
- Cooling and Preserving Apparatus.
- Patent for a "cooling apparatus in which a cloth envelops a vertically-disposed series of supports, and has its upper end dipping into a receptacle supplied with water; and the object of the improvement is to secure a uniformity of temperature throughout the structure, and particularly in the several compartments formed between the various supports, as well as to prevent the spoiling of food by foreign matters entering the same by accidental dislodgment from a support immediately thereover." (Lines 8-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Perforating Mechanism for Cylinder Printing-Presses.
- Patent for a perforating mechanism for cylinder printing-presses that is simple and automatic. It produces "lines of perforations at any required distance apart and of any desired length in paper or cardboard at the time of printing thereon the forms for checks, draft, bills, notes, tickets or other printed or lithographed matter" (lines 12-17).
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for an improved, simple, and effective rotary engine that economically uses steam and automatically controls steam discharge. "Two distinct rotary motions in reverse directions are obtained at the same time" (lines 16-18) in this engine.
- Provision Safe.
- Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple, cheap, and economical safe, in which provisions may be kept cool during the hot season and from freezing during the winter weather. I provide a suitable post or support, from which extend brackets, shelves, or hooks or other provisions for the support of the various articles to be contained therein. [T]he whole [is covered] with a cloth and [has] a water tank or receptacle at the upper end and . . . ha[s] a stream of water flow[ing] or trickl[ing] down upon the cloth to saturate the same" (lines 14-25).
- Convertible Mop and Brush.
- Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
- Fire Kindler.
- Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "has for its object to provide novel means for making comparatively inexpensive fire-kindlers; and to such end the invention consists, essentially, in a vessel having two chambers, one capable of being opened at the top and adapted to contain ashes, and the other closed, except as to a bottom passage in communication with the ash-chamber, and adapted to contain a combustible fluid—such as petroleum oil or other liquid hydro-carbon—which flows through the said bottom passage to saturate the ashes and prepare them for use" (lines 8-20).
- Fire Kindler.
- Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "is to provide novel means for determining when the oil is exhausted from the oil vessel and to provide novel means for keeping the ashes from direct contact with the oil-supply openings . . . [for] ashes possess great capillary attraction and take up more hydro-carbon fluid than is requisite when the ashes are dry and not tightly packed, so that the ashes become soft and mushy" (lines 12-21).
- Stove Pipe Damper.
- Patent for a new and improved stove-pipe damper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a damper-blade with a spindle rigidly attached thereto and having at one end a cylindrical pivot projecting beyond the periphery of the blade, and at the opposite end a screw projecting beyond said periphery, of a supporting-ring in which the projecting ends of said spindle are journaled, the bearing of the cylindrical end of said spindle being in an inwardly-bent portion of said supporting-ring" (lines 50-59).
- Oil Press Mat.
- Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "consists in a mat for oil-presses having its leaves composed of paper-pulp molded by dies or molds into the requisite shape to present a hard and inelastic body to the meal to be pressed, said leaves of molded paper-pulp being provided with a leather backing" (lines 18-24).
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.