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- Check Row Planter
- Patent for check row planter. Illustration included.
- Colter Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for a new and useful colter attachment for plows, including instructions and illustrations.
- Coffee - Pot.
- Patent for a new and useful coffee pot, including instructions and illustrations.
- Back Spacing Attachment for Type Writing Machines
- Patent for an attachment to provide type writing machines with back space. Illustration included.
- Apparatus for Manufacturing Heating and Illuminating Gas
- Patent for an apparatus for manufacturing heating and illuminating gas. Illustration included.
- Artificial Fuel
- Patent for artificial fuel made from coal.
- Canopy for Folding Beds.
- Patent for a new and improved canopy for folding beds. This design "will automatically fold up within the bed when the same is closed, and will similarly open out with the opening of the bed without any other attention than the proper arrangement of the folds of the mosquito or fly netting" (lines 21-25). It consists in "an automatically raising and lowering canopy consisting of a raising-frame having vertical bars pivoted to the bed at the bottom and a horizontal connecting-bar at the top, a canopy-top frame pivoted to the bed-casing, having side bars and a horizontal connecting-bar, and couplings" (lines 13-19).
- Bag.
- Patent for a new and improved bag. This design is "compris[ed of] the body divided down its front, one edge having staples and the other edge having openings adapted to engage said staples, a covering-flap provided with an opening adapted to engage one of said staples, and a flexible fastening device secured to said bag and adapted to be passed through said staples for securing the edges and covering-flap" (lines 62-71).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is "to provide a novel car-coupling pin and means for operating the same to automatically couple cars through the medium of ordinary links without the use of triggers located within the draw-head . . . The invention consists, essentially, in a vertically-movable coupling-pin adapted to rotate axially in the pin-hole of the draw-head, and having a wing or lug for supporting it in its elevated position, combined with a yielding draw-head having a vertical slot to receive the wing or lug and a shoulder to support the same" (lines 8-22).
- Combined Fire Screen and Fender.
- Patent for a combined fire screen and fender. This design "works in the mantle-piece by means of weights, and is secured in position by by means of a spring-latch that catches in notches in the jamb. This screen thus arranged can be made to answer for three purposes: By letting it down nearly to the hearth it acts as a blower; by letting it entirely down accidents from fire are prevented, and when let down in the summer time it makes a handsome summer screen" (lines 21-30).
- Bale Tie.
- Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design is of a metal band with several slots, so that the accompanying metal button can pass through any two overlapping slots, securing the bale within the band.
- Guano Distributor
- Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
- Electric-Current Relay
- Patent for Electric-Current Relay to allow capability of use with either a direct or alternating current. This is adapted for economical use in constant temperature apparatus. Further, this technology avoids the possibility of "sticking of relay movable contacts".
- Wrench.
- Patent for a wrench with a head having a pair of rigid jaws to engage the object. One unique use of this wrench is that it can tighten any threaded joint beyond the degree of tightness that can be obtained by pulling the handle of an ordinary wrench in the usual manner.
- Wire Stretcher.
- Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "the combination of a bar provided with a toothed quadrant and with a boss having an overhanging projection at its rear end, an eccentric pivoted on the face of the said boss for holding the wire against the projection, a hand-lever pivoted to the bar, and provided with a spring-detent engaging with a toothed quadrant, a plate pivoted at one end to the hand-lever and provided with an overhanging projection, and a second eccentric pivoted upon the face of the plate for gripping the wire against the projection" (lines 77-88).
- Water Elevator.
- Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design consists in "a supporting frame, a drum journaled therein, a rope wound on the drum, a bucket attached to the rope, mechanism for turning the drum to lift the bucket, and a fork journaled below the drum and provided with a central arm adapted to catch under the raised bucket resting in the fork to discharge its contents as the fork is tilted" (lines 21-28).
- Indicator for Pressure Gages
- Patent for an indicator for pressure gages. Illustration included.
- Incubator.
- Patent for an incubator, which automatically turns all the eggs to allow them to get the same amount of warmth and light.
- Thill Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved thill-coupling. This design is "compris[ed of] perforated checks . . . a coupling-bolt, a locking-lever hinged to said bolt, said lever being provided with knob and notch, a cover -plate having groove and catch, and a spring-pin adapted to hold the lever and cover in engagement" (lines 81-87).
- Pump.
- Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "has been specially devised for use in pumping gas, air, or vapor — as in ice-machines, for instance — and mainly with reference to attaining circulation with low pressure; but when operated at high speed considerable pressure may be attained therewith, whether operating upon vapors or liquids, as . . . [the] pump involves a novel mode of operation, in that it possesses characteristics partially common to pumps of the rotary system, as well as to those having a reciprocating piston" (lines 10-21).
- Trace Carrier.
- Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "the combination of a cylindrical body of elongated form and obliquely arranged and having slots in the upper part thereof to form bars, a central top slot between said bars, and a lower bar having a recess therein, an obliquely-inclined spring-latch extending across one of the open ends of said body, the back-band having a strap to pass around said body, and a girth-strap connected to said lower recessed bar" (lines 13-22).
- Manure-Spreader
- Patent for a manure spreader that can be connected to the back wheels of a farm wagon. Illustrations included.
- Puzzle
- Patent for a puzzle. Illustration included.
- Process of Producing Pictures
- Patent for a process of producing pictures. Illustration included.
- Portable Locomotive-Valve-Seating Machine.
- Patent for improvements to valve-seating machines that allows for them to be constructed simply.
- Motor
- Patent for "a device which may be used for pumping, sawing, drilling, and other analogous purposes, which will be effective in its operation, and which will not be liable to get out of order, and the parts of which will not be liable to get out of alignment with each other" (lines 24-31).
- Grain Measurer and Tally
- Patent for improvements in the construction and design of grain measurers and registers.
- Sash-Fastener
- Patent for a new sash fastener, so that the fastener itself is improved upon by the implimentation of a half-hollow cylindar. "The purpose of this cylinder is more for appearance than any actual service, because when the lock is put on the rail of the sash, as shown in Fig. 1, part of it will be seen through the glass from the outside, and the cylinder can be made ornamental and would look much neater than the lock would without it" (lines 87-89)
- Roller Cotton-Press
- Patent for a new improved Roller Cotton-Press. The "invention relates to machines for compressing cotton and other similar material into the form of cylindrical bales." (lines 15-18). Includes description and illustrations.
- Shingling-Bracket
- Patent for a shingling bracket. Illustrations included.
- Rotary Steam Engine.
- Patent for a new and improved rotary steam engine. This design "first, provide[s] a novel form of valve for regulating the induction and eduction of steam to and from the cylinder; second, [it] provide[s] novel devices for reversing the movements of the rotating pistons; and, third, [it] provide[s] novel combinations of the parts of which the engine is composed"
- Rotary Cultivator.
- Patent for a new and improved rotary cultivator. This design is "to lessen the weight on tongue and the down draft while the power is applied more directly to the plows. By this means [the design is] enabled to make the whole frame very light; also, to provide convenient means of adjusting the altitude of the wheels with respect to the plows, so as to regulate the depth of the latter, and also to hold them out of the ground; also, to obtain suitable means for adjusting the plows at any desirable angle to the line of travel, and to throw greater or less soil to or from the plants" (lines 15-26).
- Fluid-Pressure Regulator
- Patent for a fluid pressure regulator which regulates the supply of steam and oil to an oil burner. Illustrations included.
- Folding Cot or Bedstead.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in folding cots or bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
- Excavating and Grading Machine.
- Patent for a cultivating machine that pulverizes colds of soil using a revolving cylinder of blades, including illustration.
- Railroad Switch
- Patent for a railroad switch. Illustration included.
- Refrigerator
- Patent for a refrigerator. Illustrations included.
- Electric Brush
- Patent for invention of new and useful improvements of electric brush, adapted for use as a body or flesh brush, with battery that can be easily removed and replaced with accompanying drawings
- Ejecting-Penholder.
- Patent for an ejecting penholder, which holds the pen securely and is simple to make and operate.
- Door-Display Rack
- Patent for a rack for displaying doors. Illustrations included.
- Shaking Churn
- Patent for a shaking churn. Illustration included.
- Hose Coupling
- Patent for a hose coupling. This invention is designed to be used with flexible hosing that is damaged. Illustration included.
- Hose Coupling
- Patent for a hose coupling. This invention is designed for flexible tubing in need of repair. Illustration included.
- Headlight.
- Patent for a headlight, which can have a curtain mounted and drawn across it.
- Device for Clearing Waste-Pipes.
- Patent for a device for clearing clogged waste pipes, which attaches to an air pump.
- Car Coupling
- Patent for a new coupling mechanism that will automatically couple railway cars together without human assistance.
- Collar Fastener and Supporter
- Patent for an object that provides the collar support and is hidden.
- Drier.
- Patent for a drier, specifically to dry saturated grounded food items. This device is best used for flour from corn to dry before processing it to a powder form, but can also be used for other types of cereal.
- Box Bull and Calf Wheel Gudgeon.
- Patent for protection and strengthening of box bull and calf wheel gudgeons. The purpose is to prevent various troubles with well drilling (oil, etc.).