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- Abdominal Support
- Patent for an abdominal support in pants which is held up by leggings.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
- Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union.
- Patent for an affordable and efficient coupling device for use "on valve rods of internal combustion engines, especially those used in automobiles and aeroplanes or on those motors or engines employing overhead valves and whereby the union or coupling may be readily and securely locked on a valve rod with sufficient resistance to withstand the strain of direct pressure" (lines 14-21).
- Adjuster for Locomotive-Headlights
- Patent for a mechanism for adjusting and mounting train headlights. Illustrations included.
- Aeroplane
- Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for a planter attachment that is readily controllable by the operator so as to allow rows or spots in the ground to be replanted. This is accomplished by controlling the flow of seeds from a seed box to a spout and by controlling the distance of the spout from the ground.
- Air Brake Attachment.
- Patent for "mechanism for use in connection with railway cars for automatically controlling the air brakes," including instructions and illustrations.
- Airship
- Patent for a dirigible airship for aerial navigation, "to provide the balloon or gas bag with aeroplanes which serve to steady the balloon during the flight of the ship, and to increase the lifting power of the balloon when the ship is under motion, the arrangement being such as to enable said aeroplanes to be converted into a parachute, should the balloon or gas bag become deflated" (lines 20-28).
- Anchor Post
- Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
- Animal Poke.
- Patent for a new and improved animal poke. This design "is to construct a device which may be secured to horses, cattle, and other animals, and which will effectually prevent fence-jumping, while at the same time allow the animal free use of [its] head and limbs, doing away with any tendency to cramp the wearer" (lines 17-23). It consists, "with bar and a means for suspending it beneath the animal's body and the bar, which is secured at its outer end to the animal's head, of a hinge to the opposite side of which the adjacent ends of the said bars are pivoted" (lines 78-83).
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an improved animal trap for “catching small animals in a trap which will be ever set and in operative position for catching an animal and which will be automatically reset” (lines 10-13), illustration is included.
- Antiskid Device
- Patent for reinforcing the hinge of an antiskid device. Long studs on heavy foot plates on tires are used to brace the hinges not allowing them to wear down by dragging on the road surface.
- 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.
- Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.
- Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
- Apparatus for Irrigating Land.
- Patent for a new and improved irrigation machine. This design "consists in an irrigating-pipe having lapped side joints and notches in the inner edges of the lapped joints. The invention also consists in the combination, with a tank, of a trough below it, tubes projecting from the trough, and irrigating-pipes connected with the said tubes" (lines 12-18).
- Apparatus for Molding Pipe
- Patent for device that allows multiple sized pipes or pipe sections to be milded.
- Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves
- Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
- Artificial Teeth.
- Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
- Attachment for Automobiles
- Patent for a spring motor attachment for automobiles.
- Attachment for Coffins
- Patent for a coffin attachment which supports the head and shoulders of the body and allows them to be adjusted vertically. Illustrations included.
- Attachment for Stalk-Cutting Machines.
- Patent for improved, cheap, and simple stalk-cutting technology with shielded protection, including instructions and illustrations.
- Attachment for Wheel-Cultivators
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in attachments for wheel cultivators, including description and illustrations.
- Autographic Register.
- Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
- Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvements in automatic air-brake couplers to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, the invention also relates to improvements in automatic air-brake couplings in cars". (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- 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.
- Automatic Fan
- Patent for mechanical improvements in "automatic fans intended especially for use on beds, whether in houses or in sleeping-cars" (lines 7-9).
- Automatic Fire-Alarm.
- Patent for an improved automatic fire-alarm, which will sound an alarm, release water from pipes, and alert the fire station.
- Automatic Fire-Kindler
- Patent for an automatic fire kindler which can be put on a timer and start a fire in a stove with a bundle of matches inserted into the device ahead of time.
- Automatic Gate.
- Patent for an improved automatic gate with levers, cam-blocks, camways, and cam-rods. It is centrally pivoting, uses a pulley, a cam groove, a forked bearing, chains, and chords.
- Automatic Machine for Manufacturing Mops
- Patent for a machine that will automatically pack yarn strands into the mop handle for quick production of a mop.
- Automatic Oiler
- Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
- Automatic Railroad-Switch
- Patent for an automatic railroad switch which throws the switch automatically back to the main line after a train has entered a siding.
- Automatic Railway Switch Lock
- Patent for an automatic railway switch lock. Illustration included.
- Automatic Telephone-Directory.
- Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.
- Automobile Block.
- Patent for improvements to automobile blocks, specifically employed for pulling automobiles from muddy or other places where the power of the car cannot be utilized. The patent is for a small, portable device that can be conveniently carried in the vehicle.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a baling press, designed so that the feeding and baling of cotton or straw is performed automatically, Illustrations included.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for "improvements in baling presses: and it consists in a press having a suitable frame, a box mounted thereon having a hinged front and a hinged side." (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a baling press that uses the minimum amount of power to accomplish the baling process.
- Baling Press Attachment
- Patent for baling press attachment. Illustration included.
- Ball-Bearing.
- Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.
- Ballot-Voting Machine
- Patent for a ballot box that counts the number of votes in the box.
- Bank-Protector.
- Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included.
- Bank-Protector.
- Patent for a bank-protector that consists of vertically moving shields arranged just within the cashier's and teller's windows and the outer door of the bank, and a mechanism that allows the cashier to drop the shields and sound an alarm. Illustrations included.
- Barber's Bottle-Holder
- Patent for a bottle holder used for barbers. Illustrations included.
- Barber's Paper Clip.
- Patent for a new and improved barber's paper clip. This design calls for "a clip formed by doubling upon itself a [flat] strip of metal," which will hold sheets of paper on which barbers can sharpen their razors. A hook exists on the opposite side, by which the paper clip can hang from the hot towel on the customer's face.
- Bat-Former.
- Patent for a cotton bat former which uses a condenser and forms even bats to send to the bat presses. Illustration is included.
- Bearing.
- Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
- Bed.
- Patent for a bed, specifically the joints of a bedframe. The side rails for a bedframe are joined by tapered connectors.