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- Nut-Lock.
- Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
- Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues
- Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
- Boat-Propeller.
- Patent for a boat propeller, which is inexpensive and adaptable to small boats. The propeller can go forwards or backwards and use multiple oars.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper with rotating blades.
- Car-Coupling
- Patent for an improvement in car couplings "whereby the pin-support is operated not by the links but by the impact of the cars themselves and of a yielding link" (lines 55-58).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination of the draw-heads provided with projections, a coupling-link, an operating-rod loosely connected to each of its ends, and a suitable support or guide through which these rods move . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a car-coupling in which the two cars are coupled together by means of a link which is provided with an operating rod at each end, both of the rods and the link being attached to one of the cars only" (lines 14-26).
- Bicycle.
- Patent for a bicycle that has a drive wheel, a ratchet wheel attached to the drive wheel, a chain that goes around the ratchet wheel, an apparatus for reciprocating the chain, a guideway from the chain to the ratchet wheel, a knob on the chain that engages the guideway, a pair of levers connected to the chain, and a chord that connects the levers to the chain.
- Copy Holder
- Patent for an improved copy holder design that is "adapted for holding stenographers' notebooks and other copies and equipped with an efficient line guide, capable of easy and rapid operation to drop the line indicating means from one line to another with perfect accuracy" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
- Combination-Flue
- Patent for a flue which will not crack and open, due to settling or to transverse strain. Also to provide means whereby the flue may be supported from the joists of a ceiling, against settling.
- Car-Replacer
- Patent for improved replacers for derailed railroad cars, complete with illustrations.
- Buggy-Shaft Brace.
- Patent for buggy shaft braces for connecting the shaft and cross bar of a vehicle, in order to eliminate malfunction of cross bar.
- Air-Brake.
- Patent for train air-brakes to provide set brakes and same auxiliary pressure on all cars regardless of the brake cylinder piston travel distance.
- Cattle-Guard
- Patent for an improved cattle guard with two parts that is adapted to specifically fit either inside the railroad tracks or alongside them.
- Car-Coupling
- Patent for an improved car-coupling, including illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that provides an apparatus in which the parts may be readily detached for convenience in making repairs.
- Combination-Flue.
- Patent for the improvement of combination flue to be more inexpensive and for the parts to be more readily assembled and properly supported.
- Violin.
- Patent for an improved violin that is meant to "improve the acoustical properties of the instrument whereby it is enabled to give forth a deeper and softer tone, free from the "twang" common in instruments of this character, and second, to improve the mechanical construction of the instrument so that it will be less liable to become split" (lines 26-33).
- Vehicle for Cotton Pickers.
- Patent for a new and improved vehicle for picking cotton. This design "consists in a three-wheeled vehicle provided with a seat, in combination with a suitable frame which is supported at one end upon two wheels, and which is loosely attached at its other end to the axle of the three-wheeled vehicle, and which is used for carrying the bag or basket which is to hold the cotton . . . thus enabl[ing] persons to pick cotton who have weak backs" (lines 15-28).
- Listing-Plow.
- Patent for a listing plow that can be used in any type of soil.
- Vise and Saw-Clamp
- Patent for improvements to vise and saw clamps complete with illustration.
- Knee-Pad.
- Patent for "an improved knee pad or cushion formed to properly fit and bend with the knee and to keep its proper shape while on the limb, and one that will be adapted for all persons engaged in occupations requiring a kneeling posting on the part of the operator." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvements in Steam Engine
- Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
- Improvement in Corn-Planters
- Patent for a construction that will act as a plow, and aid in the process of planting corn. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
- Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
- Improvement in Fire-Tongs
- Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.
- Improvement in Pen-Holders.
- Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.
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- Patent for claw hammer.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for an improvement in plow design, including illustrations.
- Mechanical Telegraph-Sounder
- Patent for "a sounder wherein a finger-lever and sounding-lever are combined together with a spring" (lines 13-15) and is "adapted for the use of learners for practicing the manipulation of a telegraph finger-key" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
- Patent for improvements in cotton choppers.
- Pneumatic Conveyer
- Patent for pneumatic conveyor to handle cotton seeds that are being discharged. This particular conveyor uses air currents to operate it.
- Switch-Stand.
- Patent for a switch stand that automatically switches to danger when unlocked and has independently rotating switch operating spindles and target spindles.
- Milk-Strainer and Support Therefor.
- Patent for a milk strainer that prevents splashing and spilling of milk. The strainer will rest on top a separate supply tank that collects milk without the need for a person to hold the strainer.
- Measuring Device
- Patent for a measuring device that measures fabric. Illustration included.
- Press for Forming Hollow Articles
- Patent for a press for forming hollow objects such as furnace pots. Illustrations included.
- Pneumatic Cotton-Conveyer.
- Patent for a combined cotton elevator and feeder "having exceedingly few parts and which can be easily operated and kept in running order, and which will be cheap, strong, and durable," (lines 34-40) including illustrations.
- Plow.
- Patent for an attachment for plows or cultivators "whereby it may be converted into a sweep plow, adapted to be operated between rows of growing crops and capable of being adjusted in width in accordance with the distances apart from said rows" (lines 12-16).
- Paper-File.
- Patent for improvements in paper-files by using a "combination of a base board and a clamp provided with a jaw, a presser-foot provided with a bearing, a crank-shaft journaled in the bearing with its cranked portion under the clamp, and a hinged support or flap under the presser-foot." (Lines 75-80, p. 2) Papers can be held in position or remove by the raising or lowering the presser-foot. Illustration is included.
- Stump-Puller
- Patent for stump puller.
- Hay-Press.
- Patent for a hay bailing machine. "The invention relates to bailing-presses, and more particularly to that class adapted for bailing hay, straw, &c.; and it has for one object to provide a simple and efficient construction in which a continuous rotation of the bailing-lever will act in conjunction with a retractile spring to reciprocate the plunger" (lines 7-13). "A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient construction of detent for holding the gate after the hay or other material has been compressed and while the piston is retracted" (lines 14-18). Includes specifications and illustrations.
- Gin Saw Gummer.
- Patent for a new and improved gin saw gummer. This design "consists in constructing a gin-saw gummer of a base-block, having a slot to receive the saw, and carrying the dics or stationary cutters, the guide-bar and shoe, the weight-bar, the pivoted bar, carrying the cutter and the gage, the lever and cam for operating the cutter-bar, and the feed mechanism" (lines 23-29).
- Washing-Machine.
- Patent for an improved washing machine: "The invention consists in combining a lower cylinder having longitudinal spiral grooves with an upper cylinder having longitudinal straight grooves and holes" (lines 14-17).
- Railway-Track Brace
- Patent for a brace for railway tracks. Illustrations included.
- Spring Seat
- Patent for a spring seat. Illustration included.
- Rein Holder.
- Patent for a new and improved rein holder. This design "relates to rein-holders, the object being to provide a device of this character which will firmly and securely hold the reins in place and prevent their forward movement and yet allow them to be readily drawn in a rearward direction to allow of detachment; and, further, to provide a rein-holder which may be readily and easily attached to or detached from the front gate of a wagon or the dash-board of a buggy" (lines 8-17).
- Rein Holder.
- Patent for a new and improved rein holder. This design consists in "the combination of the plate or part secured upon the dash-board, the T-head thereon extending a proper distance above the dash-board, and the spring-actuated arm pivoted to the side of [the plate] at a suitable distance down its length and having the clamping-head to act in conjunction with [the] head in holding the rein, said arm having a bearing upon the dash-board in its forward movement, and a stop . . . to limit its backward movement" (lines 12-22).
- Folding Lamp Shelf for Pianos.
- Patent for a new and improved lamp shelf for pianos. This design "consists in an arm pivoted to the back of a music-rack and carrying a lamp-shelf, the arm being arranged to swing outward into a horizontal position, and the shelf being connected with the end of the arm by a pivotal connection, which permits of turning it outward and downward into a horizontal position in front of the plane of the music-rack" (lines 22-30).
- Rug-Hanger.
- Patent for the improvement of rug-hangers. The invention consists of multiple rollers that facilitate both the mounting and disengagement of rugs or other large flexible articles of merchandise from the hanger.
- Saw Gummer.
- Patent for a new and improved saw gummer. This design "is to improve the action and prolong the usefulness of the bit and dies, and to prevent the clippings from interfering with the operation of the machine" (lines 26-29).
- Seat Lock For Wagons
- Patent for a seat lock for wagons. Illustration included.