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- Well-Drill Wrench
- Patent for a wrench for drill pipes used in drilling wells. Illustrations included.
- Well Screen
- Patent for well screen to prevent entrance. Illustrations included.
- Windmill.
- Patent for an improvement to the "construction of windmills and to provide means for varying the stroke of a windmill with the velocity or force of the wind, to increase the length of the stroke as the velocity of the wind increases, and to reduce the length of stroke as the force of the wind abates." (lines 10-16)
- Lister-Sweep.
- Patent for a lister sweep for cultivators with improved teeth.
- Well-Screen
- Patent for a well screen to prevent the entrance of sand or gravel into the wall of a deep well.
- Water-Heater.
- Patent for a portable water heater "in which a circulation of water may be had, whereby the same may become readily heated for use in a bath tub or other receptacle." (lines 12-15)
- Well-Reamer
- Patent for an improved well-reamer with a more stable and supported cutters to straighten or increase the size of the hole with less damage from wear.
- Wax.
- Patent for improving wax to be used by shoemakers consisting of gasolene [sic], rosin and pine tar. The improved wax adheres to the shoe leather and the threads making both the leather and the seams waterproof and more supple. This wax product does not blacken the hands of the shoemaker.
- Vehicle-Tire
- Patent for a bolt-free spring connection between a vehicle tires inner and outer rims, allowing for an air cushion between rims and improving overall performance of vehicle tires.
- Mail-Bag-Handling Apparatus.
- Patent for "a mail-bag handing apparatus, and more specifically [an] apparatus designed to practically simultaneously deliver and receive bags or pouches containing mail or other matter, to and from a moving train or body" (lines 9-14), including instructions and illustrations.
- Linter-Float-Driving Mechanism.
- Patent for the improvement of the linter-float-driving mechanism of float drives for cotton linters. The invention produces a positive driving mechanism for a float and removes the use of a belt tightening idler.
- Type-Writer Cover
- Patent for a collapsible typewriter cover that is more cheaply constructed, has a base for the typewriter, a supporting frame for the hood that limits the swinging movements, and a felt strip for protecting the furniture the typewriter is on.
- Machine for Cleaning and Feeding Cotton.
- Patent for a machine that cleans and feeds cotton in a simple, compact form. It separates dust and trash, as well as heavy objects such as stones, from cotton.
- Locking Device for Differential Gears
- Patent for "Locking Device for Differential Gears adapted especially for use in connection with automobiles using the “full floating” type of rear axle." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
- Leaf-Gathering and Lawn-Treating Implement.
- Patent for device for easily picking up leaves from a lawn. The device consists basically of spikes mounted on a wheel that pick up leaves when the machine is run over a lawn and then are deposited in a recipticle.
- Invalid-Bed.
- Patent for attachment to beds for invalids. This device allows the invalid to be raised or placed in the sitting position.
- Window-Shade-Operation-Lever.
- Patent for an invention that provides a simple and relatively inexpensive means for operating window shades without involving a spring roller.
- Wire-Cloth Fan for the Destruction of Insects.
- Patent for an improved fly-swatting fan that employs wire mesh to create less of a shadow so that the user has more of a chance to hit the insect. This improved fan also allows for easier flow of air that creates less of an air flow that might blow the insect away from the fan and allow for the insect to avoid injury or death. Included are instructions and illustrations.
- Window-blind and awning
- Patent for a pair of swinging window blinds.
- Well-Drilling Device.
- Patent for a well drilling device that uses wire cable in the drill.
- Machine for Cutting Stick-Candy.
- Patent for a simple and durable machine for cutting stick-candy that is "capable of traveling over a table or other support upon which stick candy in given lengths may be laid, and to so travel over the table that the lengthy sticks of candy will be made to slide over the bed of the machine, under a knife or its equivalent; and a further object of the invention is to provide a means whereby the knife may be manipulated at predetermined points in the travel of the machine to cut the lengthy sticks into shorter predetermined lengths" (lines 11-21).
- Magneto-Electric Telegraphy.
- Patent for a machine that telegraphs messages between distant points by means of induced currents that produce magnets without the use of battery current, including illustrations.
- Windmill
- Patent for an improvement of windmills.
- Well-Drilling Apparatus.
- Patent for a well-drilling apparatus for boring Artesian and other wells. It is meant to "provide simple, efficient, and durable means for expanding or spreading the reamer-blades after the bit-carrying devices have been lowered sufficiently to arrange the reamer-blades below the plane of the lower end of the tubular drill-rod" (lines 10-17). Water pressure is also used to remove the cuttings from the boring-blades. Sections of cable that suspend and lower drill-bit carrying parts into the drill-rod are supported, and sections of drill-rod can be attached and added to the drill-rod. The method of securing the reamer-blades to the reamer-stock is improved with this patent. The parts fit snugly together and prevent water from getting into the drill-rod.
- Mail-Bag.
- Patent for a mail-bag meant to "provide such bags or pouches with a secure, efficient, and durable fastening for the mouth which can be easily and quickly opened and closed" (lines 13-16).
- Kitchen-Cabinet.
- Patent for a kitchen-cabinet that is a "simple and convenient portable device provided with the necessary receptacles for flour, meal, spices and other condiments, as well as apparatus for grinding coffee, beating eggs, weighing, &c.; to provide means for adjusting such receptacles upon the frame of the cabinet to secure the desired height or distance from the floor; and furthermore to provide improved means for removing the flour and meal from the bins and sifting the same by the same operation" (line 9-20).
- Insulator.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable insulator meant for protecting wires for telephones and telegraphs. The insulator has two sections with recesses and locking apertures.
- Knee-Pad.
- Patent for a knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, or gardening. It protects the knee from dampness, stones, roots, etc. The pad goes on the knee, and two wooden braces are on the sides. A strap goes around the user's shoe, and the bolts were the pad is attached to the braces also has string where the operator ties the brace to himself.
- Insufflator.
- Patent for an ejector meant to apply "powder for medicinal purposes to afflicted parts of the body without difficulty" (lines 10-12).
- Leather-Working Machine.
- Patent for a leather working machine, which fully finishes leather straps.
- Latch.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in latches, including instructions and illustrations.
- Liquid-Fuel Burner.
- Patent for a liquid fuel burner for use in stoves that completely burns the fuel.
- Lock
- Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Locks." (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
- Insect-Destroyer.
- Patent for an insect destroyer specifically for use in removing boll weevils from cotton plants by shaking them off the plants and sucking them up with suction tubes which deliver them to a crushing mechanism.
- Latch.
- Patent for a latch for swinging doors, which can be operated from either side of the door.
- Improvements for Apparatus for Sealing Pipe-Joints
- Patent for apparatus for sealing pipe-joints. Improvements and unique changes are explained in the text of the patent submission, accompanied by diagrams of the patent.
- Irrigating System.
- Patent for an irrigation system that has lockable valves and will not freeze in the winter.
- Insecticide Apparatus
- Patent for an insecticide apparatus. Illustration included.
- Induction Coil
- Patent for induction coil. Illustration included.
- Lifting-Jack.
- Patent for improved construction of lifting jacks with a "vertically-movable screw and capable of enabling the jack to be readily connected with an object at the base of it, whereby the range of the lifting-jack will be materially increased" (lines 14-18).
- Valve Mechanism for Carburetors
- Patent for a valve mechanism for carburetors that supplies fuel to the engine.
- Invalid's Chair.
- Patent for a new and improved invalid's chair. This design "relates to an improvement in chairs which will adapt them to the use of invalids and children" (line 7-9).
- Wagon-Seat.
- Patent for creating a seat "to provide a spring-mounted seat for wagons which shall be strong and durable, not liable to become deranged by rough usage, which shall be comfortable for the rider, and which can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost" (lines 13-18).
- Locking Device For Car-Couplings.
- Patent for a new and improved locking device for car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
- Bale-Wiring Tool.
- Patent for a bale wiring tool that "consists of a shank of proper length and diameter, with wire clamping and cutting mechanism on its lower end, and mechanism on its other end to rotate said tool" (lines 23-27). It also has "two independent clamping and cutting jaws, so that one wire can be clamped in the tool, while the other wire can be drawn tight around the bale and then placed in the tool and clamped and cut off, when the tool can be rotated by a brace or by a rack and pinion...and the wire twisted to form a tie" (lines 28-35).
- Improvement in Tenoning-Machines
- Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.
- Improvment in Cotton Cultivator.
- Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators: "designed more especially for cultivating cotton, scraping the earth away from the young plants, and thinning out the same" (lines 11-12).
- Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
- Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
- Improvement in Vibrating Propellers
- Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
- Improvement in Washing-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in waching machine design, including illustrations.