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Automatic Separating Device.

Description: Patent for an automatic separating device. This device operates with a link that connects the float level at the top of the tank with a valve handle at the bottom of the tank to control discharge from the tank.
Date: January 22, 1918
Creator: Allen, Charles

Cover for Culinary Utensils.

Description: Patent for improvements in covers for culinary vessels in which “the cover will confine the odors arise from the vessel and at the same time the steam may be allowed to escape at any time without removing the cover from the vessel.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Reeves, Bell N.

Dynamo-Electric Machine

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in a dynamo-electric machine to provide a rotor in which certain coils of the winding are automatically cut out and utilized as open coils to prevent the turns in those coils from having a demagnetizing action. Another objective is to provide a rotor whose core consists of non-magnetic material to refuce the inductance and self-induction of the winding and the sparking at the commutator due to the shifting of the magnetic field and the neutral or point of… more
Date: January 10, 1922
Creator: Kuhn, Preston Holmes

Dynamometer for Locomotives.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dynamometer for locomotives. This design is "to provide a novel construction in dynamometers for indicating the traction power of locomotives" (lines 9-11). It consists in "a draw-head, a chamber containing a liquid located therein, a piston operating in said chamber, means for connecting said piston with the opposite draw-head, suitable tubing connecting with the said chamber, and a pressure-gage mounted upon or attached to the said tubing and actuated by the said… more
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Innes, Robert H.

Excavator and Conveyer.

Description: Patent for an excavator machine designed "to continuously excavate the ground at different elevations, as in ditching or cutting away embankments" (lines 15-18) including illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Lee, James Milton

Fishing Tackle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fishing tackle. This design is "to provide a snaring device which will, so far as possible, insure a capture; to so arrange the hooks as to prevent a loss of bait, and to provide a device capable of ensnaring as many fish as may at the time of lifting the snare by nibbling at the bait. . . . the invention consists in a spacing-ring, preferably formed of lead or other heavy metal and having a central hub and having a series of hooks radiating from the tub and secure… more
Date: January 7, 1890
Creator: Mayer, Charles

Grade-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a grade indicator designed for land, air, and sea vehicles. It provides both lateral and longitudinal inclination with a simple construction.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: Shemeley, Jesse B. & Shemeley, Marion E.

Horse-Power Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improved horse-power apparatus for hay baling presses. "A pair of cables are arranged in frictional driving relation to one of which cables the house power is applied, while the other serves the purpose of communicating...to the baling press or other power-receiving parts".
Date: January 28, 1919
Creator: North, George W. & Andreas, H. M.

Irrigator

Description: Patent for an irrigator used to treat piles (hemorrhoids) and similar diseases. A nozzle delivers liquid to wash the surface of the mucus coating of the afflicted area, and then drains the liquid without obstructing the flow of the liquid. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: January 18, 1921
Creator: Phillips, Edwin R.

Low-Water Alarm For Boilers

Description: Patent for "improvements in low water alarms for steam boilers and more particularly to those which are operated by the heat from the steam in the boiler, after the water therein has fallen below a predetermined danger point" (lines 15-20).
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Anderson, Williamson D. & Shearer, Edward J.
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