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- Automatic Rotary Weighing-scale.
- Patent for an automatically rotating scale for weighing material such as cotton seeds.
- Hair-Clipper.
- Patent for hair clips that have a protector that prevents the clip from digging into the skin or hair.
- Apparatus for Watering Plants
- Patent for improvements in plant-watering apparatuses by inventor Elton F. Reid.
- Method of Irrigating Plants
- Patent for irrigating plants, trees, shrubs, or others alike by pinpointing where the root has the most moisture to be readily taken up.
- Automobile-Cooling System
- Patent for an improvement to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine of an automobile. "The object of the invention being to provide an improved cooling system of this kind which embodies means for cooling the circulatory water in the radiator by forcing air therethrough and also embodies means for directly cooling the engine by subjecting the same to the action of a blast of air."
- Cultivator-Hobble
- Patent for an improved cultivator hobble, including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.
- Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
- Method of Making Electrotype Embossing-Dies
- Patent for a new method of embossing woven materials (such as lace) onto paper using electrotyping.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
- Gate-Fastener
- Patent for latches for swinging gates. Illustrations included.
- Horse-Releaser
- Patent for a horse releaser that allows the quick removal of horses from a vehicle in case of an emergency.
- Explosive-Engine
- Patent for an explosive engine that has a reduced risk of backfiring.
- Lock Mortiser
- Patent for a lock mortiser. The object of this invention "is to provide a light, portable machine arranged to be clamped to the work piece, so that the lock mortise as well as the key hole and the bolt opening may be conveniently cut with one adjustable of the machine" (lines 11-15). Illustrations included.
- Cotton Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for a rotary steam engine, which allows the piston to move more freely in the engine.
- End Gate For Wagons
- Patent for and end gate for wagons. Illustration included.
- Cultivator
- Patent for cultivator. Illustrations included.
- Cartridge for Guns.
- Patent for "a projectile having an elliptical cross-section and slight longitadinal twist for use in guns provided with a corresponding bore." (lines 8-11), including description and illustrations.
- Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.
- Patent for improvements on cotton cleaners and distributors, specifically means for pneumatically raising cotton, cleaning the dirt from said cotton, and releasing quantities of cotton collected in the distributor.
- Milk-Cooler.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
- Milk-Cooler.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
- Car-Wheel.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
- Portable Folding Mirror-Stand.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements portable folding mirror stands, including instructions and illustrations.
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.
- Mattress-Stuffing Machine.
- Patent for an improved mattress-stuffing machine which is capable of "feeding the stuffing material directly from the bale in super-posed layers, wherein, if desired, the intermediate layers may be of different quality than that of the outside layers or even of entirely different material." (Lines 19-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Paper Box.
- Patent for a paper box that can be easily and securely locked. The ends of the box are locked into place with inwardly-curved edges, and slits receive the end portions of the inwardly -curved edges.
- Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer.
- Patent for a simple and efficient cotton separator and distributor that elevates and moves cotton from a wagon into a gin. It has supply and suction pipes, an air-tight cotton distributing box with an opening on one side and a gravity drop door on the other, a mechanism that moves the box in and out of the line of suction of the pipes, and a group of circular distributing boxes that rotate between the pipes.
- Wind-Wheel.
- Patent for a wind-wheel that "needs no guiding vane or tail, but shall turn in the same direction at all times regardless of the direction of the wind" (lines 8-11). It is a horizontal wind wheel that rotates on a vertical axis. The blades automatically opens on one side and close on the opposite side.
- Dumping Wagon.
- Patent for a new and improved dumping wagon. This design is "to provide a double dump for carrying dirt, sand, gravel, and other loose material on ordinary road-wagons, together with mechanism for instantly unloading the same" (lines 8-12). To this end, it consists "of a frame, double dumping-boxes swinging upon axles, and a U-shaped dumping lever, said lever provided with points extending slightly beyond its axis" (lines 90-93).
- Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for delinting cotton seed: " Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for burning off or removing the lint from cotton seed" (lines 14-16).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a recess having an enlargement at its central portion, a series of vertical jaws on each side of said enlarged portion of the recess pivotally mounted at their lower end in the draw-head, springs connecting each jaw with its corresponding jaw in the opposite series, and means for opening the jaws" (lines 13-20).
- Washing Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved washing-machine. This design is "to provide a machine having an oscillating and revolving rubber, means for securing the rubber to the operating-shaft, and to provide bearings for said shaft which may be adjusted to compensate for any wear of parts. A further object is to provide adjustable legs, whereby one side of the machine may be raised or lowered, thus decreasing or increasing the pressure of the rubber upon the articles being washed" (lines 17-27).
- Fence Making Implement.
- Patent for a new and improved fence-making tool. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the hooks, the bars between the same, the plate connecting the ends of the hooks and provided with the claw, the lever pivoted between the hooks and having the offset and carrying a supplemental lever, and a lever having one end adapted to be inserted between the hooks, and provided on one edge with a stud" (lines 84-92).
- Machinery for Irrigating Purposes
- Patent for a machine that irrigates with a water wheel. The water wheel is connected to a float and a rod connected that is connected to a crank on the shaft of the wheel.
- Washing-Machine
- Patent for a new clothes washing-machine, with illustrations.
- Automatic Weighing Mechanism for Elevators, &c.
- Patent for "means for automatically indicating the amount of weight placed" (lines 10-11) within an elevator cage or platform with illustrations.
- Oil Press Mat.
- Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design consists in "having its body portion composed of card-board cut to the size of the press-box, the adjacent faces being covered with sheet metal, which is pressed or stamped into the paper body to give the required cavity, which is bounded by raised margins and transverse ribs struck up from the metal, and supported by paper strips interposed between the layers of card-board, the two leaves of the mat having a leather backing and being hinged together" (lines 15-25).
- Improved Grain-Meter.
- Patent for a more efficient grain-meter. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.