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- Water-Gage.
- Patent for a water-gage measuring the height or volume of water in a steam boiler, particularly those "held closed by the weight of the operating handle" (lines 11-12). The device is designed for simple manufacture and easy assembly & disassembly without tools, and features a valve seat that stays in place, illustrations included.
- Egg Testing Globe
- Patent for egg tester, where you can place an egg into the globe and see if it is fertilized.
- Telpherage Apparatus
- Patent for Telpherage Apparatus
- Thermostat.
- Patent for an improved and automatic thermostat tool to regulate temperature including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to cotton choppers and the primary object of the invention is to provide a cotton chopper which may be mounted upon any cultivator frame and which will operate easily and efficiently to thin out standing cotton or other plants which are growing in rows" (lines 5-15).
- Table.
- Patent for improvements on table supports that enable the table to be adjusted to a raised position.
- Ratchet-Wrench
- Patent for a ratchet wrench including illustrations.
- Dipper-Trip for Steam-Shovels
- Patent for a dipper trip for steam shovels. Illustrations included.
- Gin Saw Cleaner
- Patent for gin saw cleaner. This invention operates on the cotton bulbs when they are damp and cling to the saw blade. Illustrations included.
- Touch Regulating Attachment For Pianos
- Patent for a touch regulating attachment for pianos. This invention contributes to the elasticity and responsiveness of the pianos action. Illustration included.
- Electric Signal System for Electric Cars
- Patent for signal systems for electric railways where wires arranged in connection with the signal lamps at the ends of the blocks and on the cars will be lit to signal caution. There will also be a signal within the car if another moving car in the opposite direction enters the same block.
- Switch and Signal System
- Patent for a switch and signal system to be used for railroad signaling and to prevent trains on different tracks from colliding. (lines 12-22)
- Irrigating Machine
- Patent for an irrigating machine. Illustration included.
- Hame and Trace Connector
- Patent for a Hame and trace connector. Illustration included.
- Hydraulic Milk Cooler
- Patent for a hydraulic milk cooler. This invention is shrouded in coolant agent absorbing material that is hydraulically applied to keep dairy products cool. Illustrations included.
- Marker
- Patent for a marker. This invention is for marking lines for planters, plows, and other farm implements. Illustration included.
- Combined Touch-Regulating and Mute Attachment for Pianos
- Patent for combined touch regulating and mute attachment for pianos.
- Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner
- Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.
- Railroad-Bicycle.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad bicycles, including instructions and illustrations.
- Washing-Machine.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in washing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Railroad-Gate.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad gates, including instructions and illustrations.
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rotary engines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Biblical Game Apparatus
- Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
- Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws
- Patent for a new and useful improvements in machines for sharpening gin-saws. This invention is to "provide an improved machine of the character described wherein the saws may be sharpened without removing them" (line 10-12).
- Clothes Pounder
- Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
- Patent for an improved combined cotton chopper and cultivator.
- Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.
- Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
- Fire-Grate.
- Patent for a simple and efficient fire-grate that is meant "to be set in a wall between two rooms and capable of being reversed to enable either room to be directly heated by a fire" (lines 11-13).
- Combined Engine and Superheater Apparatus.
- Patent for a "combined steam superheater apparatus and engine driven thereby, which in turn is utilized to automatically shift the steam feeding and cut off devices, and such invention primarily has for its object to provide a combined mechanism of this character which will effectively operate for its intended purposes" (lines 7-14). It also requires a minimal amount of effort to operate, sifts solids out of the water, and retains heat.
- Combined Stalk-Cutter and Cultivator.
- Patent for "a combined stalk cutter and cultivating machine comprising a rotary stalk cutter and a gang of plows and it consists in the features of construction and novel combination of devices in a machine adapted for the various kinds of agricultural work" (lines 9-15).
- Combined Copy-Holder and Tablet.
- Patent for a combined copy-holder and tablet meant for record keeping. The invention's purposes are to "produce a convenient device designed to be employed ether upon the lap of the operator or upon a counter or other convenient support, and to maintain in position for writing a web of paper, thus requiring no holding of the same by the operator; to provide means for conveniently paying out said web of paper as the same is used or consumed; to provide for conveniently tearing the paper from the web into lengths convenient to the operator; to provide for a simple retention and support in a removable manner of the roll upon which the web is mounted; and finally for a support of the device in an inclined position convenient for transcribing notes therefrom" (lines 13-28).
- Combined Desk and Copy-Holder.
- Patent for a desk with an attached paper-holder that allows for easier transcription.
- Wave-Motor.
- Patent for a simple and effective apparatus that utilizes wave power. It consists of a frame with a casing on the top that extends from the normal trough to crest lines of waves, a float, a pump with the center below the float, a discharge pipe connected to the pump, anchors and braces for the pump, a joint that connects the pump with a pile, guide rolls, and inlets and outlets on opposite sides of the pump.
- Cotton-Picker Finger.
- Patent that improves on existing design of cotton-picking spindles by using an elastic material instead of bristles. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Corn or Cotton Dropper
- Patent for corn or cotton dropper in which improvements are made on general efficiency, "simplicity, expensiveness, [and] durability" (lines 12-13).
- Oil Distributer for Harbors, &c.
- Patent for a new and improved oil-distributor. This design consists "in a device for distributing oil upon the waves in the vicinity of piers and harbors, the combination, with the main tank upon the shore, of a main pipe extending from it into the water, auxiliary tanks along the main line, and perforated auxiliary lines connected with the auxiliary tanks" (lines 23-30).
- Marine Torpedo Service.
- Patent for a new and improved torpedo system. This design is "to so place and connect the torpedoes that they may be drawn out of the way of friendly vessels, so that they will automatically resume positions that will interfere with the passage of [unfriendly] vessels . . . [and] the invention consists of a series or system of torpedoes that are connected to guide-lines that pass under anchored sheaves and lead to a point where the lines are all connected to a single manipulating-line . . . which common manipulating-line leads to the shore or to a position from which it can be operated from the shore" (lines 11-25).
- Necktie and Collar Fastener.
- Patent for a new and improved tie and collar fastener. This design consists in "[a] fastener for securing the proper relation between the shirt-band, collar, and necktie, consisting of a spring adapted to fit inside the shirt-band and next to the neck, in combination with a hollow stud on the middle of the convex side, having a separable head with spring-catches, and the bent hook-sections, toothed . . . and arranged to separate the shirt-band, collar, and necktie" (lines 66-75).
- Fire Kindler.
- Patent for a new and improved fire-kindler. This design is for "[a] fire-kindling torch consisting of two perforated sections, each having an exterior longitudinal ridge, and angular side flanges, and provided at one end with lugs which bear flatly against each other, a pivot-pin passing transversely through the lugs to permanently connect the sections and form a pintle on which they can turn, and a handle connecting the other ends of the sections together, said sections having an interposed filling of mineral wool" (lines 1-11).
- Feed Water Regulator.
- Patent for a new and improved feed-water regulator. This design "consists in the combination, with the heater, of a supply-pipe having a valve-chamber, a valve opening and closing said pipe, and having a stem which is packed through the wall of the heater, a bell-crank lever fulcrumed upon a stud projecting from the inner wall of the heater, and actuated by a float connected with one arm, the other arm being connected to the valve-stem, whereby the supply-pipe is opened and closed by the fall and rise of the water-level in the heater" (lines 16-27).
- Means for Ventilating Grain, &c.
- Patent for a new and improved ventilator for grain, etc. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the tubes, of the protecting end caps, consisting of a base-plate, by which it may be secured to the structure, and provided with a central opening, in which the ends of the tubes are adjusted, and a semi-cone . . . [also] [t]he combination, with the structure provided, with transverse ventilating-tubes projecting on the outside of the structure, of the . . . protecting caps" (lines 88-97).
- Games.
- Patent for a new and improved bowling game. This design calls for blocks or pins of different values, and rather than try to knock down these pins, the object of the game is to move them from their designated starting positions. Further, a pit or gutter behind the pins receives the ball after it is thrown, and it redirects it back down toward the players by way of a perpendicular gutter to which it is connected.
- Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
- Patent for a new and improved planter and cultivator with illustrations. The invention furnishes a combined planter and cultivator constructed in such a way that "the seed dropping appliances can be readily detached and the machine adjusted for use as a cultivator." (lines 18-20)
- Improvement in Cotton-Condensers.
- Patent to improve the compressing-roller design in a cotton gin, to keep the mechanisms from clogging. This is an addition to a previous patent by the same inventor that improved methods of cleaning the cotton. It includes an explanation with references, and illustrations.
- Improvement in Ice-Machines.
- Patent for improvements to the construction of "of the various parts of the [ice machine], whereby the reconversion of the ether into liquid before it reaches the freezing-vessel or chamber is better assured" (para. 3).