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Aeroplane

Description: Patent for an aeroplane that uses centrifugal blowers to ensure a safe and practicable flight. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Judson, Fred I.

Anticreeper for Railway Rails.

Description: Patent for an anti-creeper with improved strength and serviceability "in the location and construction of the tie abutting portion" (lines 28-29).
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Weston, William S.

Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses.

Description: Patent for an attachment for bale-forming presses consisting of needles, wire storage spools, and a "yieldable mechanism" allowing the wire to pass (line 17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Freeman, Lawrence K.

ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS

Description: Patent for an Attachment for Internal Combustion Motors. This new attachment provides many improvements in the regulation of auxiliary air, whether it enters or leaves the internal combustion motor (Shine). It also regulates hot or cold air, or can shut off the air supply entirely (Shine).
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Shine, John

Attachment for Vehicle-Headlights.

Description: 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
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Burns, Bessie A.

Bale Forming Press.

Description: Patent for a bale forming press to form bales of hay and automatically secure "baling wires around the bale as formed" (lines 13-14). It automatically stops the feeder when "the bale is being tied" (lines 19-20) and winds and automatically unwinds and winds the wire.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.

Bed Clothes Clamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved clamp. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable clasp for holding the bed-clothes and its link, of the means for adjustably securing it to the bed-rail, consisting of a rod, having its lower end screw-threaded and provided with a nut and washer, and having on its upper end a hook-shaped projection that is adapted to pass over and around the upper edge of the bed-rail, and is provided with an eye . . . for connection with the clamp" (lines 65-74).
Date: May 26, 1885
Creator: Kiam, Benjamin

Box Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved box-fastener. This design "is an improvement in cover-fasteners; and it has for its objects to produce a cover-fastener which will securely fasten the cover to a box, which will be simple, cheap, and effective" (lines 8-12). It consists in "the base-plate provided with a perforation adapted for the reception of a bolt, a movable plate mounted on the base-plate and having a perforation and a slot connected with the same and having its movement limited by guides and … more
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Giesberg, John George

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for automatic freight car coupler, including illustrations. The coupler "obviates the necessity of any one going between the cars while being coupled" (lines11-13).
Date: September 26, 1882
Creator: Chapman, John Edward Howard

Cistern-Guard.

Description: 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.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Johnson, Charles W.

Coin-Bank or Toy Safe

Description: 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.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.

Draft Attachment.

Description: Patent for "an improved construction for draft attachments whereby we may dispense with the action of the ordinary doubletree or evener and throw the draft of each animal directly upon the axle-clips or fixed point of attachment on its side of the axle, thereby causing the draft of each animal to be independent of the other and avoid the tendency of the stronger, or in starting the quicker animal, pulling the weaker or slower animal backward and to one side of the line of draft." (Lines 14-25) … more
Date: February 26, 1895
Creator: Harmon, William Ellis & Garwood, John L.

Draft Attachment for Doubletrees.

Description: Patent for "a draft attachment which shall prevent the swaying of the pole or tongue sidewise, and cause the draft of the animals to be independent of each other." (Lines 19-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1895
Creator: Harmon, William Ellis & Garwood, John L.

Drive-Wheel for Traction-Engines

Description: Patent for a drive wheel for traction engines which has retractable wheel lugs. The wheel lugs used for traction on dirt roads can be "pivoted so that they may be withdrawn when not needed," such as when traveling on pavement.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Wellensiek, Louis H.

Fastening

Description: Patent for fastening. This invention is comprised of a threaded member and a socket that are adapted to a screw. Illustration included.
Date: October 26, 1909
Creator: Percival, Herbert E. & Key, Brewer W.

Fire-Extinguisher

Description: Patent for a fire extinguisher for putting out fires in oil tanks.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Spawn, Able F.

Floor System.

Description: Patent for improved T-beams for floor support, which improve bonding between the beams and poured flooring and columns.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Moore, Stuart B.

Frame Building.

Description: Patent for frame building. This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of buildings, especially frame buildings, and has for its object to provide a means whereby the building may be erected at a minimum cost and in a simple, convenient, and expeditious manner.
Date: January 26, 1892
Creator: Boyd, John Allen

Hay-Press

Description: Patent for a hay press that is built with a large capacity and operates with little friction. Illustrations included.
Date: January 26, 1909
Creator: Guthrie, Marion D.

Horizontal-Drilling Machine

Description: Patent for a horizontally boring drill for use in trench warfare, including illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.

Hydraulic Swivel

Description: Patent for a hydraulic swivel to be used with rotary well drilling machines which will carry water to the drill head through a supply line and maintain that supply line in a given position during drilling operation.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Decker, Harry R.

Ignition Regulator

Description: Patent for an ignition regulator that keeps the explosions in an internal combustion engine going at a regular rate.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Carpenter John C.
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