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- Nutcracker
- Patent for a nutcracker that can be used for a variety of types of nuts without crushing them.
- Nutcracker.
- Patent for a nut cracking device.
- Piano-Sling
- Patent for a piano sling used for handling pianos. Illustrations included.
- Pessary
- Patent for an improved uterine dilator for the application of medicine to the uterus, with illustrations.
- Door Fastener
- Patent is for door locking device for fasteners that can be carried around in a pocket. It is an improvement on models in circulation.
- Dumping-Car
- Patent for a dumping car to be used on railways for the purposes of dumping gravel and soil and other such materials.
- Door-Operator.
- Patent for a device that is a means of mounting a train car door by which it may be easily opened or closed, and especially easily fixed when stuck.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator, which has a movable beam for use as a straddle row cultivator that allows the draft animal to walk on either side of the rows of plants.
- Cultivator
- Patent for a cultivator. Illustration included.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator for cotton farming meant to be strong and durable as well as light and inexpensive to construct; to make it convenient to adjust the shovel beams for different distances between rows; and to support the shovel-beams in an elevated position so that they do not contact the ground and to allow them to be lowered as needed.
- Attachment for Plows
- Patent for "improvements in attachments for plows for the purpose of cutting roots, sods, and the like, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed attachment which not only provides a suitable cutting implement but likewise includes a removable landslide." (9-15)
- Gas-Generator.
- Patent for a gas generator "which will be entirely automatic in its action so long as the supply of oil is kept up and thereby render the use of weights and winding apparatus unnecessary." (Lines 21-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Saw-Handle.
- Patent for improvements in saw-handles. Invention provides for adjustable and detachable means for clamping of a saw blade. The device includes a "head member, means for clamping the end of a saw blade" (lines 19-20).
- Shoe-Plate.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in shoe plates, including instructions and illustrations.
- Shirt-Starching Machine.
- Patent for improvements in shirt-starching machines by using a combination of a shirt holding device having an oscillatory motion for one-fourth of a full revolution, and a semi-cylindrical starch-holding receptacle with longitudinal rubber bottom; when the shirt-holder is turned, shirts are crowded into the compartments, with the bosoms and wristbands hanging outside. When the door is closed, shirt-bosoms and wristbands are thoroughly starched. Illustration is included.
- Safety-Harness
- Patent for a harnesses for horse-carriages designed to enable the instant detachment of the horse. Includes illustrations.
- Sawing-Machine
- Patent for an improvement in the invention of sawing machines. Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Seat Brace
- Patent for a seat brace. Illustration included.
- Saw Gummer and Sharpener
- Patent for a sharpener for saw blades designed to increase the strength of the blade by "imparting an oval or rounding cut to the back of the teeth" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
- Metallic Cross Tie
- Patent for a metallic cross tie. This cross tie is designed with clamps to firmly place the rail in place. Illustration included.
- Dasher for Churns.
- Patent for a more buoyant and compact churn dasher.
- Detachable-Blade-Connecting Device For Tools.
- Patent for detachable blade connecting device for tools, the importance of which lies in the fact that this tool provides "simple and efficient means for detachably supporting interchangeable blades which may be quickly removed and replaced" (lines 16-19).
- Design for a Badge
- Patent for a design for an ornamental badge celebrating the Emancipation of slaves by Abraham Lincoln.
- Design for a Quilting-Frame Stand.
- Design patent for a quilting-frame stand that has U-shaped legs leading up to a horizontal stand with an ornate frame.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas machines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Detachable and Adjustable Roller.
- Patent for a new and improved hand-truck. This design consists in "the combination, with the sections . . . arranged parallel to each other and adapted to have a combined longitudinal and lateral motion with reference to each other . . . rollers located upon the under side of said sections, and the spurs on the upper faces at each end, of the braces . . . located, respectively, upon the lower and upper faces of the device and diagonally across the same, and pivoted at each end to said sections . . . the openings provided on said sections, and the dowels on said sections" (lines 68-80).
- Device for Attaching Horseshoes.
- Patent for a new and improved device for attaching horseshoes. This design "relates to improvements in means for attaching shoes to the hoofs of horses or mules without the use of nails; and the invention consists in . . . a nailless shoe [that] can be firmly and securely attached to the foot and detached therefrom without requiring the services of a smith" (lines 9-18). To this end, it consists in "the combination, with the shoe-plate and the toe-plate, of the toe-bar having a flange to engage the toe-plate, the bits, half-bands, and clamping-bolts" (lines 61-65).
- Device for Cutting Boiler Tubes.
- Patent for a new device for cutting boiler-tubes. This design "is to be adjusted a distance from the head sufficiently in excess of the thickness of the tube sheet to prevent injury to the latter. The device is then inserted into the end of the tube, with the head abutting against the outside of the tube-sheet. By turning the screw the wedges may then be drawn toward each other, thus forcing the block carrying the cutter outward. The device is now to be turned by the shank alternately with feeding the cutter outward until the tube has been cut through, after which it may be readily removed" (lines 75-88).
- Device For Converting Motion.
- Patent for a device that converts "regular rotary motion into irregular reciprocating motion" (lines 15-16) which includes instructions and illustrations.
- Fruit Coring and Halving Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved fruit corer and halver. This design consists "[i]n a fruit cutter, the combination of the pivoted knives having laterally-concaved facing sides and curved inward to the edges at the upper ends, the arms extending from one side of said knives near their lower end, and the vertically-moving guide-plate provided with the longitudinal guide-grooves parallel at their upper and lower portions and curving inward to meet at their centers, into which grooves the ends of said arms enter for the purpose of opening and closing said knives" (lines 22-32).
- Fruit Picker.
- Patent for a new and improved fruit picker. This design "is to provide a picker that may be adjusted in length to suit trees of different heights. A further object is to provide a picker with a fruit-receptacle, which is constructed of wire gauze or netting to adapt the same to be introduced readily between branches that are close together; and a further object is to provide a picker which is simple in construction, and can be cheaply made and not liable to get out of order" (lines 16-26).
- Fruit-Picker.
- Patent for a fruit-picker that has a jaw or jaws that severs the stem of the fruit, a fabric tube that brings the fruit to the operator or a basket. It bruises the fruit less than other pickers do.
- Design for Colter Brace
- Design patent for colter-brace for plows.
- Cotton-Cleaner.
- Patent for a machine "for the purpose of cleaning the cotton before it is ginned, and thus free it from foreign substances and produce a better grade of cotton than that which is ginned without being previously cleaned" (lines 15-19).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton cutter. This design consists in "the combination [of] the two-part shaft having bearings in the frame and supported on the wheels of [a] removable wheel, secured upon the end of [a] portion and having the spokes and cups at the ends thereof, arranged to operate between the adjustable plows" (lines 62-68).
- Car Coupling
- Patent for a car coupling. This invention operates as a coupling for rail cars. Illustration included.
- Combined Corn Planter and Fertilizer Distributer.
- Patent for a device that can be used both to plant corn and apply fertilizer to fields.
- Adjustable Flat Die.
- Patent for improved adjustable flat dies which provide different sizes of cutting dies to the cutting device.
- Building Construction.
- Patent for a building construction method. After completion of typical foundation and framework construction, "interlocking slabs or tiles are secured to the framework to form an outer covering or sheathing for the building." The interlocking method requires no cementing of material yet still allows water to be shed. "Provision is also made for fastening slabs or tiles to the framework in a manner permitting rapid assembly of parts" which reduces building time. The invention can be applied to doors and windows as demonstrated in the illustrations.