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Vehicle-Tire.

Description: Patent for a vehicle tire composed of laminate fiber board and wooden spokes covered in a oil based mixture, which hardens on the outside of the tires to waterproof them.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: Carhart, John Wesley

Vehicle Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a brace consisting of two rings secured together, and having recesses in their meeting sides, and provided with a number of brace-rods passing to one or two rings secured upon the hub of a vehicle-wheel, the spokes fitting in the recesses in the meeting sides of the rings" (lines 19-27).
Date: January 15, 1884
Creator: Stein, Philip Harris

Vessel-Propelling Device

Description: Patent for a novel form of propeller in which a current of air or other fluid is forced under pressure through a port in the stern of the vessel causing propulsion.
Date: January 2, 1906
Creator: Carlson, Peet

Wagon-Body

Description: Patent for "an improvement in extensible wagon-bodies," (lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1887
Creator: Stumpf, Joseph

Wall and Ceiling Polish.

Description: Patent for an improvement of a polish mixture for wall and ceiling which is water-proof and has a glossy finishes; instructions and ingredients for the mixture are included, no illustration.
Date: February 10, 1891
Creator: Neavitt, Thomas J.

Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "relates to improvements in the class of washing-machines commonly known as 'cylinder washing-machines,' and has for its object the production of a machine which will operate thoroughly and expeditiously, and without injury to the fabric, while at the same time it is light and inexpensive in construction and simple in operation; and with these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts" (lines … more
Date: July 7, 1885
Creator: Ekman, Axel F.

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a boiler washing machine that uses a stove and a hand-operated pounder attachment. This invention makes these types of washing machines more efficient.
Date: September 1, 1896
Creator: Arnold, Isaac Hill

Water-Heater.

Description: Patent for a compact gas powered water heater that runs the water through firmly attached tubes that expand and contract with the water temperature and are placed in between heating elements. The machine can also be packed with ice to cool water in the tubes.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Haynie, Brooks

Water-Heater

Description: Patent for a device whereby water or other liquid may be heated instantaneously. (line 10-11)
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Hutchins, Rufus J.

Wave-Motor.

Description: Patent for a wave motor including an apparatus within a wave disturbed liquid using a power converting mechanism to convert energy in a more convenient form, including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Fousek, Karl

Weeder

Description: Patent for an invention "to provide a simple, light, and durable implement which will effectually remove weeds, rubbish, and all foreign matter simultaneously from each side of a row or drill of corn, cotton, or other plants and direct the removed material to the longitudinal center of the row or drill" (lines 8-14).
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Lloyd, William Daniel

Weeding Machine

Description: Patent for a weeding machine to run between rows of crops. Illustration included.
Date: March 29, 1904
Creator: Lloyd, William Daniel & Steck, E. L.

Wind and Water Motor.

Description: Patent for improvements in wind and water motors in which it will not only increase its efficiency and durability but also, be capable of operating in tidal rivers, streams and other currents. This is an improvement of patent no. 588572 of the same inventor. Illustration is included.
Date: January 9, 1900
Creator: Hardaway, Robert Early

Wind-Turbine.

Description: Patent for improvements to wind motors for turbines "and has for its object to provide a wind turbine of novel structure or arrangement and including means for varying the admission of air currents to the wheel thereof" (lines 10-13).
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Gustafson, Claes Viktor

Windmill.

Description: Patent for windmills by making them self-regulating and "it consists in the construction and arrangement of devices whereby the force of the wind is made to move the wind-wheel and crank-shift backward and turn the vane, and also in the devices for turning the vane at will" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 3, 1880
Creator: Tevis, James H.

Windmill.

Description: Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Hardaway, Robert E.

Windmill.

Description: Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Campbell, George W.

Window-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.
Date: August 31, 1858
Creator: Root, Irving

Wire-and-Picket-Fence Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that secures "pickets in wire fencing, the wires having been secured to and stretched between the fence-posts and the machine applied to the wires and operated by hand to secure the pickets to the wires by an operation which places them in crossed relation to form loops within which the pickets are secured at the proper distance apart" (lines 9-16). The machine works on wires that have already been stretched.
Date: May 12, 1896
Creator: Rice, Elisha A.

Wireless-Telegraph Receiver

Description: Patent for a wireless telegraph receiver which receives incoming intelligence through electric waves and uses crystalline substances as its detector. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Way, Wesley M.

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a nut-wrench capable of tightening different sized nuts. The lower jaw of the wrench has different levels, the overall effect being that of a staircase, while the upper jaw is flat with a bite that holds the nuts in place.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Tiner, John F.

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "has for its object to provide a tool especially adapted for a pipe-wrench, but also capable of use as a monkey-wrench. A further object of the invention is to construct a wrench with practically two handles, one of which is capable of use as a lever to disengage the jaws from the pipe and to adjust the upper jaw to and from the lower jaw" (lines 8-16).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Kasch, Friedrich Wilhelm

Writing Pen.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pen. This design has for its object "to provide a simple implement which may be readily employed for writing purposes; and it consists in a thimble-like sleeve having a writing-pen arranged at its outer end, adapted to be easily applied to the index or fore-finger; and it further consists in the peculiar construction of implement" (lines 7-14).
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Seabaugh, Conrad
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