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- 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.
- Lock.
- Patent for lock that is stronger when locked due to its unique structure and requires special knowledge to use, making it more secure against intruders.
- Cutter-Bar Adjusting and Locking Means
- Patent for "adjusting and locking the cutter bars of lawn mowers" (lines 9-11), and improve the movement of lawn mowers by adding a screw through the frame and cutter bar.
- Window Sash And Curtain Operating Mechanism
- Patent for a window sash and curtain mechanism that works in tandem with electronic security systems. Sash/Curtains can be moved normally, but an alarm can be set to detect when the window itself is tampered with.
- Curtain and Shade Bracket.
- Patent for curtain and shade bracket which is readily secured to the window frame without marring the same and which is provided with adjustable means for attaching the shade and also for attaching the curtain pole, whereby from a single fixture the window shade and curtain may be suspended.
- Gasoline separator
- Patent for Gasoline separator
- Nutcracker
- Patent for Nutcracker
- Truck
- Patent for truck, or dolly, used in movement of packages.
- Drill-Holder.
- Patent for a drill holder that may be adjusted to automatically drill forward when manually rotated.
- Safety Appliance
- Patent for safety appliances and is primarily for when railroad cars encounter broken rails or leave the tracks completely.
- Churn-Actuating Mechanism
- Patent for a churn actuated mechanism that is operated by means of a rocking chair.
- Refrigerating-Machine.
- Patent for a refrigerator that operates connected to an ice-making machine
- Lamp Attachment.
- Patent for a lamp attachment that will decrease the likelihood of a lamp explosion and allow liquids to be heated over the lamp. The attachment has a top plate which prevents insects or other debris from igniting and falling into the lamp chimney, therefore decreasing the potential for a lamp explosion. The attachment also has a perforated cylinder that rests on top of the lamp chimney and can support a vessel for heating liquids.
- BalingPress
- Patent for the usefulness of baling press.
- Lint-Cotton Feeder
- Patent for the collection of cotton, monitoring the amount of cotton lint being received, creating certain actions when those amounts are reached, including detailed instructions and illustrations.
- Churn
- Patent for a churn suspended on a pendulum.
- Coin Operated Vending Machine
- Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
- Vapor Bath Apparatus
- Patent for a vapor-bath which improves upon the breathing apparatus.
- Wagon-Body
- Patent for wagon body which fits on many different types of running bodies, including illustrations.
- Process of Mounting Pictures.
- Patent for the process of producing and mounting pictures at the highest quality and the lowest cost to provide "the appearance of the highest art" (lines 16-17).
- Cotton-Valve.
- Patent for improvements in cotton-valve by providing a valve which may be used in connection with an elevator that carrying the cotton to the gins; to have two batteries or divisions, so that one division may be cut out while the other is in operation. (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
- Hand-Planter.
- Patent for a new and useful hand planter, including instructions and illustrations.
- Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.
- Patent for a mechanism to sharpen the blades of a gin saw. Includes illustrations of the device.
- Sofa or Lounge.
- Patent for improvements in sofas and similar articles. The improvements have guide-strips on the ends, with blocks that fit over the guide-strips. The upper side has a double set of ratchet-teeth, and they can be used to tighten a woven-wire fabric that sits below the cushions and is held in place by the blocks.
- Animal-Poke.
- Patent for "a combined animal poke and halter of simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction whereby stock to which the device is applied are prevented from forcing through or throwing their weight against barbed and other wire fences, and also whereby a halter strap or chain may be readily applied thereto to provide for securing the stock in their stalls when stabled." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Atomizer.
- Patent for an atomizer meant to distribute liquids, powders, and vapors. Its parts can be easily changed so it can be used in different situations, for cleaning, and to make its use more efficient.
- Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.
- Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a spring that supports the lever.
- Horse-Power Press.
- Patent for improvements in horse-power presses by using a combination of a “frame and a shaft mounted therein, carrying an eccentric provided with a groove, of a packing-rod having a pivoted arm, carrying a roller working in said groove.” (Lines 87-91) This newly designed press is “reversible—that is to say, the eccentric may be rotated to the right or left and the same result produced on the packing-rods and in equally as effective a manner.” (Lines 75-79) Illustration is included.
- Mattress-Sewing Machine
- Patent for providing "means whereby the ticking may be held and properly presented to the stitching-machine, and whereby the latter may be fed along the edge of the filled tick and caused to operate thereon. . . [providing] simple means whereby a binding may be laid upon the united edges of the tick by the advance of the sewing-machine as the latter is fed along the edge, said binding being attached by the same stitching which closes the opening in the ticking. . .[and providing] means whereby the raw edges of the ticking may beheld and stretched, and whereby when properly aligned they may also be clamped along their entire extent and held in proper position for stitching (lines 10-29).
- Shuttle Operating Mechanism for Looms.
- Patent for a new and improved shuttle-operator for looms. This design "has for its objects to provide novel, simple, and efficient mechanism for actuating the picking-sticks which effect the flight of the shuttles; to avoid the use of the ordinary lower picker-shaft; to avoid lateral angles in the picking-levers, which actuate the picking-sticks to throw the shuttles, and to otherwise improve the picking motion of looms for obtaining simplicity, strength, durability, power, and efficiency" (lines 8-18).
- Fence-Machine
- Patent for "a machine of this character which will effectively do its work,which will be of great capacity, easy to manipulate, and positive in its desired operation" (lines 11-14).
- Oil Can.
- Patent for a new and improved oil can. This design is of an oil-can "in which the nozzle remains closed, except when the bottom of the can is pressed, thereby preventing useless waste of oil. To prevent the oil-outlet from being stopped up; to enable the operator to see how much oil is given to each hole, and to facilitate the removal of dirt and grease from the oil-holes before oiling" (lines 8-15).
- Chair.
- Patent for a new and improved knockdown chair. This design of a knockdown chair (a chair that isn't fully assembled until at its destination so that it may be collapsible, saving space until then) marks improvements over previous models. This design calls for side-rails that extend through the mortises and countersunk apertures so that the ends of the side-rails can expand in the countersinks.
- Improvement in Plows
- Patent for improvements in the constuction of plows in order to obtain the "best" (line 50) results of "cleanness in furrow, lightness of draft, and facility afforded in constructin the plow" (line 51-52).
- Improvement in Strap-Protector and Buckle
- Patent for improvements in strap-protector and buckle for harness in order for it to not become cracked or bent. Provides instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
- Patent for a cotton-planting machine which "consists in a distributing-drum, having seed-openings through it, and inclined distributing-agitators inside of it, said drum being applied to turn in a frame which is pivoted to the beam of a shovel-plow, whereby the roller will accommodate itself to inequalities of surface passed over, and uniformly discharge the seed in the drill-rows, after which a drag or coverer will cover up the seed." (Lines 18-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hot-Air, Steam, and Water-Gauge.
- Patent for improvements in hot air, harmonic steam, and water gauges: "In this invention several tubes pass through the boiler, some under and some above the water, through which currents of air are induced by the heat of the water or steam surrounding them" (lines 8-9).