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- Aeroplane.
- Patent for an improved rotary airplane engine patterned after the Gnome type with extra blades attached to the engine cylinders.
- Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.
- Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.
- Attachment For Internal-Combustion Motors
- Patent for improvements in attachments for internal- combustion motors. The invention is about new and useful improvements to a specific attachment. The two stated objectives are to provide a device adapted for application to the intake pipe on an internal combustion motor and to provide a device which may be locked in a closed position, thereby preventing theft.
- Attachment for Vehicle-Headlights.
- Patent for attachment for vehicle headlights. The invention has a deflecting hood for the head light that deflects the light downward, below the line of sight, particularly for oncoming vehicles
- Automatic Fire-Alarm System.
- Patent for an automatic fire alarm system with a simple arrangement of alarm devices (positioned throughout different rooms) with sound or visual indicators for fire awareness and closer thermal circuits (assisted with spring contact and circuit closer). The automatic fire alarm system will have a more immediate reaction by making an alert noise or visual and propping open the spring contact.
- Automobile
- Patent for improvements for power distribution in automobiles, including illustrations.
- Axle.
- Patent for improvement in axles by using a “combination of a bar, two skeins and means for holding the skeins in place upon the bar,” (lines 17-18) includes illustration.
- Bale Ejector for Baling Presses.
- Patent for a new and improved ejector for baling presses. This design "consists in the combination, with a baling-press follower having channels with inclines and recesses at their rear ends, of trucks provided with ropes or chains, pulleys, pulley-segments having arms, and stationary arms for drawing the trucks forward, and with ropes or chains, pulleys, and weights for drawing the truck rearward. The trucks have recesses with inclined shoulders in their sides to receive prongs having front and rear shoulders, and attached to pins pivoted to the said trucks" (lines 29-40).
- Ballot-Box
- Patent for a ballot box using black and white balls.
- Bat-Former
- Patent for a cotton bat former for use in cotton gins.
- Bat-Former
- Patent for a cotton bat former that produces a bat of uniform size and weight.
- Belt Tightener for Pumps.
- Patent for belt tighteners for well pumps which decreases the amount of force necessary to tighten a pump. Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
- Boat.
- Patent for boat with improvements towards easy movements by using a propeller and rudder. The boat is designed with the user to use their feet to manually move the boat. The boat is designed for hunting or fishing while keeping the hands free.
- Bolt-Jack
- Patent for a bolt jack with which bolts may be pulled without bending. Illustrations included.
- Bulkhead.
- Patent for bulkhead that is "adapted for use as a sea wall or quay wall" (lines 10-11).
- Cable-Clamp.
- Patent for improved cable-clamps for oil drilling and water wells, such that the gripping member will accommodate a variety of cable sizes.
- Cable Gripping Mechanism for Overhead Conveyor Systems.
- Patent for a new and improved cable gripping mechanism for overhead conveyor systems. This improved conveyor system can take a load from one point and conveyed to any other point along the conveyor.
- Car Wheel.
- Patent for a new and improved car wheel. This design "consists in the combination, with a railroad-car axle having wheel-bearings of equal diameter throughout their whole lengths, of wheels the peripheries of which are provided with central flanges dividing each into two treads, the said wheels adapted to be pressed on the said bearings aforesaid, and to be removed therefrom, reversed, and again pressed thereon whenever the wear of the first tread shall render the same necessary" (lines 12-21).
- Carbon Holder for Electric Arc Lamps
- Patent for improvements made to the carbon holder for electric arc lamps to improve efficiency in replacing the lamps. To improve upon the current design, the patent illustrates and describes a new level clutch system to allow movement, as opposed to the gravity-based design previously implemented.
- Casket.
- Patent for a casket with that is a "reinforced plastic burial casket which shall be of a light construction but having great strength in proportion to its weight" (lines 13 - 16), hermetically sealing the interior and keeping water out, including illustrations.
- Cheese-Hoop.
- Patent for improvements in cheese hoops by creating a suitable frame work to support a wire gauze or net on the sides and the top of the hoop. This protects the cheese when cutting out a portion of the cheese.
- Churn
- Patent for a churn. Illustrations included.
- Churn Power.
- Patent for a new and improved churn power. This design "relates to improvements in churn powers; and it consists of a plunger-shaft so connected to a wheel by means of a loose rod as to alternately raise or lower said shaft as the wheel rotates. The object of the invention is to accomplish the up-and-down motion and consequent agitation without the usual amount of labor" (lines 9-16).
- Cistern-Guard.
- Patent for a device that guards the water cistern against impure water which drains from the roof of a building to which the cistern appertains.
- Clothespin
- Patent for an improved version of the clothespin, which is simple to use, durable, and cheap to manufacture.
- Coin-Bank or Toy Safe
- Patent for "coin-banks or toy safes for containing hoarded coin" (lines 8-9). To provide a simple mechanism which "can be manufactured at an extremely low cost, which shall be of marked simplicity in construction, and in which coin will be securely contained..." (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
- Combined Hose-Reel and Valve.
- Patent for a hose reel and valve in which the act of unwinding the reel automatically opens the valve; includes instructions and illustrations.
- Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper
- Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.
- Conveyer System.
- Patent for "an improved conveyer system that will take a package and automatically carry it to any selected point along the system, discharge the package and return to the starting point" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
- Cooking-Stove
- Patent for a stove "with an oven, and a combustion chamber, so arranged . . . that the heat will completely surround said oven, said stove being equipped with a novel form of oil burner which is contained in the combustion chamber and adapted to utilize oil as a fuel" (lines 14-19).
- Culvert.
- Patent for a culvert which is to be used for sewers or other underground conveyers. Its is to be composed of varying materials that can be easily shipped and jointed together to form the sewer or other underground conveyer.
- Detachable Automobile Spring-Tire.
- Patent for a detachable automobile leaf spring tire. This invention would provide a tire of simple construction with leaf springs and will have a secure connection of the inner and outer tire parts.
- Detachable Drill-Bit.
- Patent for a detachable drill bit for use in drilling deep wells via the rotary method, where the bit can be replaced with the drill stem still in the bore.
- Door-Stop.
- Patent for a door stop, which is made of metal and attaches easily to the door.
- Elevator
- Patent for a new and improved elevator that has “a locking device for securing the jaws of the elevator around the pipe to be lifted” (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
- Explosion Hatch for Oil Containers
- Patent for improved explosion hatch for oil containers.
- Fire-Alarm System.
- Patent for "an alarm system consisting of an electric circuit within which as thermally operated circuit closer was placed, which was adapted to sound an alarm when the circuit closer had been closed by an operation of the thermal elements of the circuit closer." (lines 78-84) including instructions and illustrations.
- Firearm
- Patent for an automatic gun which reloads itself.
- Float-Valve.
- Patent for a float valve that is easy and inexpensive to manufactured. It may be used in all tanks.
- Footboard-Brace for Vehicles.
- Patent for footboard-brace for vehicles that are adapted to be supported from the vehicle frame and is also adjustable.
- Furnace.
- Patent for a furnace capable of burning rice hulls, sawdust, chaff, and more "in connection with the boiler for generating steam and which will entirely consume such products without contaminating the surrounding air with the ashes given off" (lines 31-34).
- Gang Disk Drill.
- Patent for a new disk drill, with instructions for use and illustrations. The gang disk drill has a series of disk-shaped cutters along its body, allowing for more rapid, efficient penetration of shale and other types of material.
- Garbage-Crematory
- Patent for a garbage crematory which burns garbage by igniting the garbage without the use of other fuel.
- Gate Operating and Locking Means.
- Patent for an "invention that relates to new and useful improvements in gates and particularly that class which swing in a vertical plane." (Lines 12-14)
- Hay and Cotton Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design is for "[a]n improved device for retaining a compressed bale in its condensed state after the follower is withdrawn, which consists of pawls pivoted in holes in the sides of the press-box and projecting toward the rear end of the press-box . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the follower rack-bar, the pinions, the shafts, having suitable pulleys, adapted to be connected by belts, of two clutches, and a centrally-pivoted lever having [a] handle, whereby the power may be reversed without changing the direction of the drive-shaft" (lines 71-83).
- Hinge
- Patent for a hinge. Illustration included.
- Hook and Eye.
- Patent for improvement in hook and eye in which it will enable the “coacting parts to be readily engaged with each other, be closed with a snap by lateral pressure, which will not slacken or have play where they engage each other. It will not become accidentally detached, and have resilience between the engaged members that insures their remaining connected. It also will not have gap between the dress flaps when the members join together.” (Lines 13-21) Illustration is included.
- Hopper-Scale
- Patent for a hopper scale for weighing grain, flour, meal, etc. Illustrations included.
- Horn-Holding Shoe.
- Patent for the Horn-Holding Shoe. The Horn-Holding Shoe is removable and provides a design that allows the wearer an easier way to insert foot in shoe while providing a higher edge to the back of the shoe and does not interfere with walking or running.
- Improvement in Balanced Valves.
- Patent for an improvement in the design of balanced slide valves for steam and other engines, including illustrations.