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- Burglar-Alarm
- Patent for a burglar alarm that can be attached to a car door. Illustrations included.
- Composition of Matter for Artificial Fuel.
- Patent for artificial fuel by using coals called “lignite”, grinded it and add other ingredients to it. Formula, measurements and method of mixing is included. No illustration.
- Apparatus for Electrostatic-Magnetic Separation
- Patent for an electrostatic-magnetic separator for separating particles in a mass.
- Catamenial Sack
- Patent for a catamenial sack. This invention is a "catamenial sacks or shields and the object is to provided such a device which will be cleanly and sanitary in effect, which is pliable and easily and comfortably conformable to the form of the wearer" (lines 8-13). Illustration included.
- Book Adjuster.
- Patent for a new and improved book-adjuster. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the holder having the horizontal longitudinal recess and the vertical screw-threaded aperture, of the base-piece, the adjusting-screw swiveled at its lower end in the said base-piece, and the spring-catch" (lines 3-8).
- Child's Crib
- Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Combustion Device
- Patent for a combustion device that allows for the control of fuel to one or two burners of the same fire box. This device is also built in an upright position to assist in supporting the burner members of the box. This device is built stronger and simpler than other devices of its kind.
- Bank Pass-Book.
- Patent for an improved Bank Pass-Book that shows the identification of the individual written on the inside and outside of the book.
- Combination Muffler and Air-Heating Device
- Patent for improvement for the muffler to silence the explosive exhaust of the internal combustion engines and to heating fresh air in facilitating the carburetion of liquid fuel oil to a combustible gaseous mixture.
- Process of Making Cushion Tires
- Patent for improving "cushion tires and processes of producing the same". (lines 10-11).
- Washing-Machine
- Patent for an alteration to cylindrical reciprocating washing machines that first provides "a washing-machine of the type above described in which the drum or body portion of the machine is supported at a single point at its bottom and gives a partial revolving motion thereon; second, to provide said machine wit-h a suspended horizontally-arranged and vertically-reciprocated stirring device or twirl, and, third, to provide mechanism for automatically raising and lowering the stirring device and at the same time imparting a rotary motion thereto, and also to the drum, but in an opposite direction from that of the stirrer" (lines 16-28)
- Type-Writing Machine
- Patent for a type writing machine with particular focus on the "ribbon mechanism for typewriting machines and a main object is to provide devices for automatically controlling the ribbon reverser" (lines 8-11).
- Wall Construction
- Patent for type of wall construction that have plastic slabs (spacers) that are superimposed and secured together by concealed mortar joints.
- Hydrant
- Patent for a hydrant. Illustrations included.
- Spike.
- Patent for improvements in spikes, in which when the spike is driven into a tie, it will not turn (line 11-12). Illustration is included.
- Pneumatic-Cushion Support for Automobile-Bodies.
- Patent for "an improved pneumatic cushion support between the body of the automobile or other vehicle and the running gear [...] to not only produce a device for neutralizing or overcoming the recoil or rebound, but to provide a pneumatic or compressed air support for the body" " (lines 14-21), including illustrations.
- Trolley Wire Finder
- Patent for a trolley wire finder. This invention to improvements in trolley-wire finders, and more particularly to its attachment to trolley-poles and trolley-harps as a means of assistance in guiding the trolley wheel has been shifted from or slipped off said trolley-wire and is of advantage as a means of saving time." (8-16). Illustration included.
- Knockdown Tank or Cistern
- Patent for the construction of vessels to hold water for the purpose of lessening "the labor in handling and hauling them and to reduce the cost of shipping" (lines 16-17).
- Pliers.
- Patent for pliers for use by opticians in assembling glasses.
- Portable Scale.
- Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive portable scale meant for weighing cotton, corn, and other similar produce. It folds compactly when not in use, and has a tally device.
- Motor- Driven Tire- Pump
- Patent for Motor-Driven Tire Pump. Motor tire pump that helps inflate tires.
- Stirrup Leather Stay.
- Patent for a new and improved stay. This design "is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the rider's foot in mounting" (lines 7-10). To this end, it consists, "with the stirrup, of the U-shaped stay embracing the stirrup cross-piece and extending adjacent to the ends thereof and the central loops along the upper edges of the stay, and of less length than the stay, to receive the relatively narrow stirrup-strap, whereby a narrow stirrup-strap may be successfully used on a stirrup having a wide upper end" (lines 74-82).
- Sulky-Plow.
- Patent for an adjustable plow, with instructions and illustrations.
- Hinge.
- Patent for a hinge that provides a stronger attachment and is cheaper to produce than other hinges.
- Governing Mechanism
- Patent for a governing mechanism. This invention relates to governing a plurality of engines in unison. Illustration included.
- Fire-Kindling Cartridge.
- Patent for an improved fire-kindling cartridge which "consists, essentially, in a cartridge made in two sections, each composed of coiled wire, with their outer end tapering or contracted, forming a conical point, a sleeve of coiled wire with which the inner ends of said sections engage, and a filling of asbestos or other material." (Lines 25-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Electric Regenerator
- Patent for an electric regenerator. Illustration included.
- Drilling and Riveting Machine
- Patent for an improved drilling and riveting machine designed designed to drill through and rivet multiple layers of materials at once.
- Ignition Device.
- Patent for improvements in Ignition Devices. This device will assist in locating trouble when a multi-cylinder gasoline engine is not firing regularly and one cylinder is "missing".
- Electrical Fare-Box.
- Patent for device "to improve the illumination and increase the efficiency and subserviency of street-care fare-boxes. To these ends the source of light is located in the interior of the box, instead of being placed in a separate chamber at the outside of the box, as is now done, and electrical agency is utilized to produce the light and also to notify the driver that a passenger requires change and when a fair has been deposited in the box" (lines 8-17).
- Separating-Table
- Patent for a separating table for separating pulverized ore or other material "into its constituent elements" (lines 14-15).
- Street-Sweeping Machine.
- Patent for street sweeping machine that improves the collection and dumping of material and includes a scraping device to loosen material stuck to the roadway.
- Straddle-Row Cultivator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in straddle row cultivators.
- Folding Crate
- Patent for folding crate. Illustration included.
- Whiffletree.
- Patent for a whiffletree for doubletrees and singletrees that is made of metal in its entirety. It consists of metal bars with end recesses, a middle brace, end caps with heads, hooks, a cross-bar or pivot, and rivets.
- Railroad-Spike.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad spikes, including instructions and illustrations.
- Rail Joint
- Patent for a rail joint. Illustration included.
- Rail Joint Shock Absorber.
- Patent for a shock absorber for trains, including instructions and illustrations
- Needle for Hand-Embroidery and Similar Work.
- Patent for simple and inexpensive hand needles, particularly those used for embroidering or ornamental needlework, to increase the rapidity and ease with which such work can be accomplished.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow that is convertible into different types (turning plow). The plow is distinct for its moldboards, carrying handle and runner.
- Drainage Apparatus.
- Patent for a drainage apparatus by using two siphon-pipes, a back-pressure valve and an automatic starting device to drain the water from one place to another when the water is at a predetermined level. Illustration is included.
- Draft Equalizers
- Patent for a draft equalizer that permits either three horses to travel at one side of the beam and two at the other, or three horses at one side of the beam and one at the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator with spring teeth that are stronger than ordinary cultivator teeth.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for an "apparatus adapted for continuously compressing and baling cotton in juxtaposition to the ginning machinery, by conducting cotton from the condenser to compressing rolls operating to progressively compress the fluffy mass into a compact bat or sheet which is laid in folds or laps and subsequently moved or transferred to a suitable baling press and subjected to final pressure to expel the air from between the folds or laps and enable the bale or package to be tied while under pressure." (Lines 9-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Seed Linter
- Patent for a new Cotton-Seed Linter (relates to a new and useful form of cotton seed linter) which operates efficiently in and about oil mills or other places where cotton seed is reduced to commercial products.
- Cotton-Cleaning Apparatus.
- Patent for a cotton-cleaning apparatus made up of "a stationary foraminous case or drum having an inlet-opening in the upper side of its small end, a rotary shaft extending centrally through the case or drum and having a plurality of spirally-arranged at the large end of the foraminous case and having a discharge-pipe for conveying the cotton to the point where it is to be deposited or discharged - as, for instance, into gins or gin-feeders" (lines 9-19). The cotton goes in one end, the cotton is elevated, beater-arms move the cotton along, and fans drive the cotton to the gins.
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for a new and improved rotary engine to "utilize the motive agent to the fullest advantage" (line 11 - 12).
- Shocking Apparatus.
- Patent for a shocking apparatus for forming shocks of wheat or other grains, which can be attached to a harvester.
- Shoe-Fastening.
- Patent for improvements in shoe-fastenings by using a “pivoted clasp-lever which has a tail-piece acted upon by a leaf-spring for holding the lever in its closed or open position.” (Lines 11-13) Illustration is included.
- Nursing-Bottle.
- Patent for a nursing bottle, which has a rubber cap that allows for the removal of the neck oft he bottle for easy cleaning.