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- Connector for Lamps
- Patent for a connector for headlights that allows them to turn and to be operated from one location in the car.
- Broom-Rack.
- Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
- Conveyer.
- Patent for a new conveyer design “which is particularly adapted to load or unload railroad-car wheels or other heavy material on and of cars” (Lines 13-15) including illustrations.
- Compressor.
- Patent for a refrigerating machine compressor, which compresses more gas, cools the compressor with the incoming gas, and uses excess heat to dry the gas coming in.
- Car Brake
- Patent for a car brake for train cars. Illustrations included.
- Car Coupling
- Patent for a coupling mechanism for rail cars. Illustration included.
- Body-Bolster
- Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a baling press that has an improved plunger.
- Air-Valve Cage for Air-Brake Pumps
- Patent for an air valve cage for air brake pumps which reduces the wear on the air brake pump and substantially reduces the maintenance costs of the system.
- Beamless Brake Mechanism
- Patent for a beamless brake mechanism. Illustration included.
- Car Door
- Patent for a rail-car door. This invention is in relation to 'flush doors'. Illustration includes.
- Car Door Fastener
- Patent for a car door fastener. Illustration included.
- Beamless Brake
- Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
- Churn
- Patent for a churn designed for churning butter in smaller quantities and preventing foreign objects from entering. Illustrations included.
- Air-Brake
- Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
- Axle-Box.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable wheel-axle box that is "adapted to contain a supply of lubricating material and constructed to feed the same continuously to the axle-spindle to prevent overheating, and furthermore, to provide means for preventing ingress of dust" (lines 9-14).
- Bridge.
- Patent for a new and improved bridge. This design consists in "the combination, with the base, stringers, the top arched bars, and the upright tie-bars, of the intermediate stringers, arched bars, and their horizontal tie-bars, and wedge-keys . . . whereby the structure is greatly strengthened" (lines 85-91).
- Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.
- Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
- Axle-Box.
- Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).
- Cinder and Smoke Consuming Apparatus.
- Patent for "devices for conducting exhaust steam, gases and cinders to the fire place of a boiler and is primarily intended for use in locomotive boilers, and its object is to increase the efficiency of such apparatus" (lines 11-16).
- Automatic Air-Brake Coupling
- Patent for "improved automatic pipe-coupling which shall overcome the difficulties found in the devices of this class heretofore in use, and which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, simple in construction, and extremely effective in use and operation" (lines 27-33).
- Balance-Staff for Watches.
- Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration.
- CAR-BRAKE
- Patent for new and useful improvements for Caboose Cars' brakes. The brakes can be applied from within the car, and no strain is applied to the car frame or body.
- Carling-Socket for Car-Frames.
- Patent for improvements to "carlings for the roofs of cars, such as used for transporting live or dead freight," (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
- Car Door Fastening.
- Patent for a new and improved car-door fastening. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a staple, a hook-hasp, key, and a key-plate, whereby several advantages are obtained . . . for securing the sliding doors of box-cars and other railway-cars" (lines 8-14).
- Car Construction.
- Patent for "a construction which will permit the speedy and easy removal of brake supporting blocks or equivalent parts from the lower or floor frame of a car and the substitution of others without displacement or injury of other parts of the car." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Churn-Dasher.
- Patent for "a dasher that the force required to operate it may be varied and the time necessary to churn the butter be shortened as the force operating the dasher is increased." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Advertising-Fan.
- Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Back-Pad.
- Patent for an inexpensive and simple concave back-pad meant to be used between the horse and the saddle. The design of the invention makes saddles stay in place.
- Adjustable Pilot.
- Patent for Improvements in Adjustable Pilot for locomotives
- Boiler Washing Machine.
- Patent for "Improved Washing Machine" in combination with a boiler, "and with a furnace on which the boiler rests".
- Angle Cock Device
- Patent for "stop cocks for controlling the flow of fluids and more particularly to what are known as angle cocks for use in train pipes of air brake and other fluid pressure systems upon railway cars" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Gate-Latches.
- Patent for improvements in gate latches: "to provide a self closing latch, simple in its construction and easy f operation" (lines 18-19).
- Improvement in Wasing-Machines.
- Patent for improvements in washing machines.
- Combination Motion-Picture and Sound-Reproducing Mechanism.
- Patent for a connecting mechanism between the motion picture and sound reproducing mechanisms. If the two get out of sync, there are manually operable means to halting one until the other has caught up.
- Combination Measuring and Transfer Tank Pump
- Patent for a combination measure and transfer tank pump to be used for the transferring of oil from one container to another.
- Shipping-Basket
- Patent for a shipping basket designed to keep contents secure and undamaged.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "plow mold-boards to which the black land of Texas, and other similar soils, will not adhere, so that a furrow can be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (lines 14-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Wrecking-Frog.
- Patent for "an improved frog for use in placing derailed cars or locomotives upon the rails, exceedingly simple and durable in construction, and formed substantially in one piece - that is, not in sections - and having improved means to lock the frog to the rail." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Valve Mechanism For Steam Engines
- Patent for useful improvements to the valve mechanism for steam engines. The invention allows an improved means for actuating the slide valve without the use of eccentrics. The valve can also be operated into closed positions at various degrees, and also to reverse the direction of travel of the valve.
- Life Boat.
- Patent for a new and improved life boat. This design "consists in providing a steam-launch with a float on each side, secured by suitable strong braces thereto, and to provide said floats with a hand-rail, so that persons can hold onto said rails, and are prevented from being washed off" (lines 17-22).
- Life Boat.
- Patent for a new and improved life boat. This design consists "[i]n a life-boat, the combination of a hull having the portion of its sides above the water-line overhanging and concave and having the portion of its sides below the water-line convex, with air-chambers having their inner walls curved corresponding to the curves of the upper portion of the sides and converging into the sides at their lower edges, the said chambers increasing in capacity toward the upper edges of the sides of the hull" (lines 22-31).
- Machine for Filing Gin Saws.
- Patent for a new and improved machine to sharpen the teeth of cotton gin saws. This design utilizes two bevel-faced wheels connected to a block between two arms that clamp the saw blade. The bevel-faced wheels sharpen the teeth of the blade, and the nuts and bolts of the frame allow for movement as well as tightening and loosening.
- Locomotive Driving-Box
- Patent for a locomotive driving box which provides shoes, wedges, and other train parts for repair. Illustrations included.
- Machine for Cutting Key-Seats in Shafting
- Patent for "cutting key-seats in shafting machine. It provides a portable key-seat-cutting especially adapted to operate upon the driving shafts of locomotives in key-seating eccentrics thereon." (lines 7-13)
- Type-Writer Attachment.
- Patent for a typewriter attachment that shifts the carriage by foot rather than by hand.
- Window-Screen.
- Patent for improvements in screen constructions in connection with doors or windows. The goal is to provide a means for encouraging insects that are on the inner surfaces of the screen.
- Wrench.
- Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design is "especially adapted for manipulating pipe-joints, though applicable, also, for use in manipulating nuts, &c.; and it consists in the [novel] detailed construction and combination of operating parts" (lines 24-28).
- Locomotive-Headlight.
- Patent for an independent reservoir lamp for locomotive head lights. "?The conduit by which the reservoir and burner communicate is liable to be obstructed with sediment which not only interferes with the suitable flow of oil but corrodes the metal and necessitates repairs" (lines 13-17). The invention is convenient to use and inexpensive.
- Type-Writing Machine.
- Patent for a type-writing machine that has an improved variable line spacer. The simple and durable line spacer has the minimum number of parts and is easily adjustable to any distance.