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- Apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings
- Patent for an improved apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings (relates to molding devices for curing tire casings) which is easily and quickly set up and knocked down, holds casings safely in position while being cured, and highly efficient in curing tire casings.
- Automatic Control for Gas Water-Heaters.
- Patent for improvements to "a gas control for instantaneous gas water heaters" (lines 9-10), including illustrations and instructions.
- Bicycle Support
- Patent for a bicycle support, which can be attached to different bicycles and carried in the pocket.
- Brake-Band Clencher
- Patent for improvements in brake-band clenchers. It is intended to "provide an improved Ford brake band clencher adapted for holding the brake bands in place while the transmission case is being replaced" (lines 14-18).
- Car-Coupling
- Patent for a new and improved design concerning automatic car couplings that is novel in the some of its parts.
- Cooking Utensil.
- Patent for cooking utensil designed for roasting coffee, popping corn, roasting meat, and other food by hand over a fire or flame by rotating. The device is made of metal and mesh, turns by cranking, and the length of the shaft is adjustable for stability.
- Cotton-Harvester.
- Patent for improvements to a cotton harvester that uses finger-pickers to harvest cotton into a bag or box with illustrations. The changes are intended to make the harvester more durable, less costly, and operable by non-skilled workers.
- Door Hanger
- Patent for a door hanger for a sliding door, more specifically a car door.
- Engine.
- Patent for improvements in engines including governors which have "inertia bars or governing weights" (lines 12-13) including illustrations. In this improvement, the "inertia bars constitute parts of the counterweight" which "counterbalance engine cranks" (lines 14-16).
- Float for Delinters
- Patent for a new float for cotton seed de-linters. Illustrations are included.
- Foot Bench-Shears
- Patent for foot-operated shears for cuttings bands on bales or general shearing, including illustrations.
- Gage for Adjusting Planer Knives.
- Patent for a new and improved gauge for planer knives. This design is "for use in planing and other mills where side heads are used to supply the need of a convenient appliance for holding the side heads in best position for filing, sharpening, or setting the bits, to afford a strong machine for holding the side heads firmly and securely in any position that the work[person] may desire while sharpening or adjusting the bits to the desired pattern" (lines 30-38).
- Game-Retaining Garment
- Patent for a garment with detachable areas that allows for the carrying and quick loading of ammunition when hunting game, and is more sanitary and durable than other options.
- Gas Generating and Burning Furnace.
- Patent for a gas furnace which also generates gas from crude oil.
- Gas Producer
- Patent for a gas producer from a continuous stream of combustibles with air.
- Hobby Horse.
- Patent for a new and improved hobby horse. This design "consists in providing a 'hobby-horse' or a 'stick-horse' with a pivoted head, to which is preferably connected a spring, so that the swinging of the head will give the appearance of the horse pulling on the reins held by the operator. The invention comprises a head pivoted at one end, a spring secured thereto and to the horse, and a lip on said head to limit the downward movement thereof" (lines 14-24).
- Hoeing-Machine
- Patent for improvements to hoeing machines "as will cause the hoes to cultivate around the particular plant pointed out without it being necessary for the indicator to remain at rest while each plant is being hoed; second, to provide a pair of oscillating disks that cultivate before and behind the plant as they oscillate across the row" (lines 15-21).
- Hydraulic Clutch and Traction Equalizer.
- Patent for hydraulic clutches and traction equalizers. A "device for automobiles or other mother driven vehicles designed to be used in the place of the mechanism commonly known as the differential."
- Improvement in Bag-Fasteners.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
- Patent for a "compound for killing the cotton-worm and other insects that infest, eat, and damage the leaves of the cotton-plant," which "consists in combining a poisonous, an adhesive, and a diffusive ingredient in one and the same compound." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Internal-Combustion Engine.
- Patent for improvements for internal combustion engines. Improvements include a more compact design, easier to access for repairs, and increased durability and efficiency.
- Maize, Kafir-Corn, And Cane Heading Machine.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of maize, Kafir corn, and cane heading machines that allows "a single machine to harvest two rows at the same time" (lines 12-14), reducing labor time and costs, including illustrations and a description.
- Mechanical Power.
- Patent for motors “designed for running light machinery – such as well-pumps, churns, sewing-machines, washing-machines, &c.; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims” (lines 10-15) including instructions and illustrations. “These motors are simple, durable, and efficient, and are not likely to get out of order” (lines 72-73).
- Method of and Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Methods of an Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires," (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
- Motor-Vehicle Heater.
- Patent for improvements for a motor vehicle heater that "convey the exhaust gases from the muffler to a container capable of inflation and to inflate said container whereby a heating or warming element for the passengers of the car is provided" (lines 10-14).
- Pumping Apparatus.
- Patent for a "pumping, or water-elevating apparatus," (line 9) including illustrations.
- Retort Hydrocarbon-Burner.
- Patent for improvements in retort-burners, to be used for any suitable and desired purposed and for any kind of oils by providing a "direct-combustion retort-burner that the combustion will be perfect and complete and the oil and air may be supplied thereto under a uniform pressure of high or low degree." (Lines 20-27) The retort-burner will be "readily assembled without the necessity of having special machinery for their manufacture or skilled workmen to put them together." (Lines 31-34) Illustration is included.
- Shade-Bracket.
- Patent for window shade brackets.
- Tatting-Shuttle.
- Patent for an improvement in shuttles for making tatting which both winds the thread and uses spring tension to prevent it from unwinding, including illustrations and instructions.
- Trace and Trace Chain Supporter.
- Patent for a new and improved trace and trace-chain supporter. This design consists "of the pivoted springy trace or chain keeper, and the hook or loop having its outer branch perforated, whereby the keeper itself is enabled to act as a spring, and after being sprung into its place is retained above the trace or chain by the conjoint agency of a shoulder or offset on the keeper and the outer branch of the loop or hook" (lines 43-50).
- Tube-Expander
- Patent for a tube expander for setting boiler tubes in the holes in the tube-sheet, which provides simplicity and improvement of its construction.
- Wardrobe
- Patent for a Wardrobe that is easy to assemble, dust proof and inexpensive construction
- Well-Boring Machine.
- Patent for improved mechanism of well-boring machine in which it “composed of as few parts as possible, which will effectively grip and rotate a drill-rod or pipe containing coupling and reducing - nipples, or composed of length or sections of varying diameters without impeding the end movement or deranging the central position of said drill-rod or pipe, and without delaying the progress of the machine, to adjust or change any part or parts thereof, also to improve the means for gripping the drill-rod or pipe and to eliminate the tendency to split or longitudinally furrow the latter, which would render the same liable to open and twist off when subject to high pressure during the progress of boring.” (Lines 20-34) Illustration is included.