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- Oil Burner.
- Patent for oil burner improvements, including economic and easily handle to control the pressure to control the oil and steam within the burner head.
- Vehicle-Wheel
- Patent for new and useful improvements to the Vehicle-Wheel. Tire may be formed into a disk wheel constructed with nuts, bolts, rivets, and screws to compensate for any regular and irregular pressure stresses a tire may be subjected to on a road. A further improvement is to provide a more resilient disk wheel to have more durability and longer use on the road.
- Necktie-Holder
- Patent for improvements to necktie-holders, particularly to prevent the neck-tie from sliding down toward the lower portion of the collar.
- Oil-Burner.
- Patent for oil burner adapted for using heavy oil (with wide flat flame) for distribution (wide flat flame with adjustable burner tip).
- Valve-Lifter
- Patent for an improved device that can be applied to a valve spring plate without losing grip.
- Process of Distilling Hydrocarbons
- Patent for distilling hydrocarbons from crude petroleum oil.
- Toothed Drum for Treating Cotton.
- Patent for an improved toothed drum for cotton ginning. Each drum has a series of sawed disks that help separate the cotton fibers.
- Ointment.
- Patent for a general external application ointment made of chloride of zinc, powdered metallic cobalt, blood root, and glycerine.
- Car-Coupling
- Patent for "improved and simple means for automatically and positively coupling the adjacent ends of railway-cars together" (lines 25-27).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that part or portion of the mechanism usually termed 'link-lifters;' and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby the link can be lifted and caused to enter the draw-head of an approaching car by the operator when standing alongside the stationary car" (lines 7-14).
- 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).
- Churn-Power.
- Patent for improvements in churns is to “simplify and improve the construction of the means for operating vertically-reciprocating churn-dashers and to enable the dasher to be adjusted vertically, according to the amount of lacteal fluid to be churned.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
- Churn-Dasher.
- Patent for "reciprocating churn-dashers with rotary heads." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a vertical hook car coupling that also couple air-brakes. In the invention "the drawheads are provided with interlocking tongues to prevent the disconnection of the drawheads by vertical movement; the interlocking faces of the drawheads are provided with sockets to receive a plug for completing the air passage for the train pipes; the drawheads are provided with means for receiving the ordinary hose-coupling on cars not provided with [the] drawhead, and finally other features of [the] invention are the means for securing the drawhead to the car and for uncoupling" (lines 14-25).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a car coupling that safe and can be operated without the operator going between cars. It consists of a car, a draw-head, a pin, a guide, a plate that holds the pin, a spring arm, and handles.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for an improved, durable, and efficient car couple that can be operated from one side of the car for the safety of the operator. The draw-head is newly designed.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a car coupling that "couples automatically and by which a brakeman on a single car can uncouple one or more cars and to provide pipe connections between the cars for this and other purposes" (lines 9-13). It has a pivoted drawhead with lever connections to a piston head and uses steam connections with the cylinder in the piston head to couple.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a car-coupling that has a "hollow draw-head provided with a horizontal chamber, a vertical pin-hole near the forward end of said chamber, and a slot in the lower part of said draw-head opening into said chamber, of a sliding latch mounted in said chamber and provided with a lip projecting beyond the outer end of said latch and curved downward as shown, and with a groove on the lower side of said latch, of a pivoted arm engaging in said groove, and a weight integral with said arm and wholly inclosed within said slot and adapted to move said sliding latch forward beneath the lower end of the pin when the latter is raised" (lines 5-18). A coupling pin is mounted in the pin-hole.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for "pin-and-link car-couplings to enable the same to couple automatically and to be readily uncoupled without going between cars, and to provide means for holding the link in substantially a horizontal position for guiding it into the mouth of a draw-head to avoid going between cars and guiding the link by hand." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Churn Operator
- Patent for a Churn Operator. This device contains specifications for operating churn-dashers, as well as improvements for the established churn operator.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a new and useful car coupling.
- Clamp.
- Patent for a clamp "for use in in connection with hoisting-tackle for raising or lowering well-pipes..."(lines 9-10) that has one side attach to the pipe and the other side be releasable from the pipe.
- Cigar-Cutter and Match-Safe.
- Patent for a match-safe and cigar-cutter “receptacle for holding matches from which only one match can be taken at one time and to means for shifting the matches and at the same time cutting a cigar-tip.” (Lines 7-11) Illustration is included.
- Car-Coupling
- Patent for invention relating "to improvements in automatic car-couplings" (lines 9-10) for railroad cars.
- Churning-Machine.
- Patent for improvements in churning machines so that they "may be used in connection with containers of different sizes" (lines 14-15).
- Concrete Building Mold.
- Patent for Concrete Building Mold that is composed to be able to be detachable and reversible.
- Digging-Machine.
- Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
- Automatic Separator and Evaporator.
- Patent for an improved automatic separator and evaporator which controls the intake with an included air-lift or jet-ejector, including illustrations.
- Broom.
- Patent for a broom designed to allow the straw to be easily changed as often as needed and to hold the straw firmly in place even when considerable pressure is used, including illustrations and instructions.
- Carbon-Removing Tool
- Patent for a new and improved carbon removing tool, which allows for the removal of carbon from the pistons of internal combustion engines. Includes illustrations.
- Calipers.
- Patent for calipers that make it easier to read measurements, by having a strip of measuring tape at the ends that allows users to determine the distance between the arms easier. The measuring tape component is also retractable.
- Apparatus for Training Troop in the Pointing of Guns
- Patent for improvements to apparatus to train troops in pointing and aiming various firearms. An electric lamp shines light through a tube to point at the target, with a shutter that can operate simultaneously with the trigger or remain open.
- Automobile-Fender
- Patent for improvements in automobile-fenders. A simple and efficient cushioning fender for breaking.
- Dredge-Pump
- Patent for new and useful improvements to Dredge-Pumps. The pump is used to draw up sand and gravel from the bottom of a river.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap which is to be sprung by the animal when the bait is touched. It is constructed in such a manner that the animal will be instantly killed. The metal parts of the trap are to create a strong and durable trap and to be manufactured at a small expense.
- Aircraft
- Patent for Improvements to aircraft steering. The invention allows the pilot to adjust the center of mass.
- Automatically-Operated Gate and Door
- Patent for improvements on automatically opened doors and gates for vehicular passing. The improvements will allow the automatic opening of gates and doors without human attention or interference.
- Building Construction.
- Patent for new and improved building constructions which will help the economy, steadiness, benefit, and rapidity of erection.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for automatic car-coupling for passenger and freight cars.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvement in automatic car-couplings “in which the coupling-pin (worked by a rope or chain) is guided in a vertical tube extending upward from the draw-head, and is supported in position for coupling by a block sliding with the draw-head,” (lines 9-14) includes illustration.
- Compressor and Discharging Mechanism for Grain-Binders
- Patent for "improvements in compressing and discharging mechanism and a starting mechanism for grain-binders constructed on an ordinary harvester-platform, so as to adapt the well-known Appleby type of binders to be used on an ordinary harvester-platform, the sheaf to be formed direct on the platform, thus adapting the above mentioned cord-tying mechanism to be used in connection with the conveyer invented by myself and patented February 17, 1891, No. 446,473" (lines 12-23).
- Butt Board for Grain Binders.
- Patent for a new and improved butt board for grain binders. This design "relates to improvements in butt-boards for grain-binders to even the butts of the gavel of grain to be bound and to also adjust said gavel in regard to length so that short grain will be bound near the center as well as long grain . . . [i]t has reference more especially to the construction of the butt-board and operating parts, so as to even the butts of the grain and adjust the same to proper position to the binder at one single movement of the butt-board" (lines 12-27).
- Delinter
- Patent is for a Delinter. It provides a means for mechanical separation of cotton seeds from fiber as a new way of cotton ginning.
- Attachment for Water-Pipes
- Patent for attachment for water pipes to prevent bursting of water pipes due to freezing of water while it passes through the pipes.