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Adjustable and Detachable Bow for Spectacles.

Description: Patent for a temple bow for spectacles which is secured to a lens frame and is adjustable to “accommodate the angle of vision of the wearer” (lines 89-90). The connection joints between the bow and lens frame allows adjustment without bending or twisting the bow, providing a more durable bow and frame.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Blanchard, Edward

Air-Brake.

Description: Patent for train air-brakes to provide set brakes and same auxiliary pressure on all cars regardless of the brake cylinder piston travel distance.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.

Change-Speed Gearing

Description: Patent for "power transmission for automobiles... provides a driving shaft and a driven shaft arranged in alignment, and a countershaft which parallels the driving and driven shafts and carries a set of gears that continuously mesh."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: So Relle, William A.

Elevator-Wrench

Description: Patent for an improvement in elevator wrenches. The device is meant to be used with rotary drilling machines for "supporting the drilling the drill pipe and for holding it from rotation during the releasing of the several joins of the pipe when it is necessary to withdraw the drill from the well hole."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Lebus, George Franklin

Fuse-Block.

Description: Patent for the Fuse Block. Patent is an improvement to the existing Fuse Block. It allows safer working conditions for those who have to replace or install new fuse blocks at night and/or the rain.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Anderson, Ulin S.

Gate.

Description: Patent for an invention relates to improvements in gates, and it is adapted especially for use in connection with the fences of farms, yards, or other enclosed spaces where such devices are applicable.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Eckerd, Samuel K.

Land-Breaking Plow

Description: Patent for a plow that also includes rotary drums. The rotary drums carried "sub-soiling and breaking plows; and the object is to provide plows which can be used to break the land to any desirable depth in any kind of soil without turning over the soil."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Reed, Arthur

Railway-Switch.

Description: Patent for an improvement to railway switches, by creating an automatic switch that changes the direction of a track from object while object is moving on track.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: James, Samuel

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a vehicle wheel that improves on automobile pneumatic tires by having a "plurality of springs," with a rigid inner rim and an outer rim connected with these springs so as to absorb the force of any shock. The design is strong, simple, and durable.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Wylie, Alfred R. & Wright, James G.

Wrench.

Description: Patent for an improved wrench which utilizes two circular heads, individually situated at the ends of a single handle.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Johnson, Alva Putman
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