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- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
- Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton
- Patent for a seed-cotton handling machine for use in cotton gins which as an improved elevator and feeding system.
- Automatic Weighing-Machine
- Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
- Automatic Weighing-Machine
- Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
- Boiler-Feed Regulator.
- Patent for a new and useful boiler feed regulator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Boll Weevil Catcher.
- Patent for an insect-catching device with collection receptacles that operates on skids for better maneuverability in fields.
- Boot and Shoe Indicator.
- Patent for a new and improved boot and shoe display. This design "is to provide an indicator for the use of retail dealers in boots and shoes, or other merchandise and wares, by which apparatus the stock can be kept with great accuracy and facility. To that end . . . an indicating-plate with slides [is included], which is to be attached upon the boxes, shelves, drawers, or other receptacles for the goods, as an indicator for showing what goods are contained in the receptacle" (lines 8-17).
- Bottle.
- Patent for non-refillable bottles which can be filled and emptied easily with inexpensive construction. Instead of a stopper, a bottleneck pattern can be used which is efficient and safer.
- BRIDLE-BIT
- Patent for an improved bridle bit for veterinary services, including illustrations.
- Buckle and Back Band Hook.
- Patent for a new and improved buckle and back-band hook. This design "contemplates certain improvements in combined buckles and back-band hooks; and it consists of a buckle having, or to which may be separately applied, a peculiar hook or tongue" (lines 10-14).
- Carbid-Feed Device for Acetylene-Gas Generators.
- Patent for a carbide-feed device for Acetylene gas generators, which prevents moisture from getting into the carbide and causing it to stick to the walls of the feed tube.
- Cattle-Guard.
- Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.
- Cattle-Guard for Railroads.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard for railroads that improves on preventing cattle from passing from their enclosure onto a railway track. The invention does not trap animals or people or cause injury, and lies below the upper treads of the rails.
- Clothes-Pin.
- Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
- Clothes Pin
- Patent for a clothes pin. This clothing pin is made of wire and designed to be used for hanging clothes on a line. Illustration included.
- Collapsible Crate.
- Patent for a collapsible crate, which is easier to ship while collapsed and cheaper to make.
- Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists . . . in pivoting the plow-beam, provided with a shovel for making a furrow into which the seed is dropped, in between the front ends of the beams of the two covering-shovels, the seed-covering-shovel beams being secured to the handles of the machine, whereby the pivoted beam is controlled entirely by the handles; second, in pivoting the seed-box to the rear end of the beam, provided with shovel for forming a furrow for the seed to drop in, by means of the loose link or connection, so that the beam can be moved independently" (lines 14-27).
- Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator
- Patent for an improved version of a machine which aids in the processing and maintenance of cotton plants. Includes description of parts and their use and illustrations.
- Combined Sword and Pistol.
- Patent for improvements in combined swords and pistols where the "pistol is supported by the sword blade adjacent the handle portion" (lines 11-12). The invention allows the "barrel portion of the pistol to be broken down or moved" (lines 15-16) to help with emptying the barrel and an adjustable sword handle to aid in the use of the pistol; includes illustration.
- Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter
- Patent for improvements in "a combined plow and interchangeable revolving seed-dropper so constructed as to permit of its being readilyconverted into a corn or cotton-seed planter with the least trouble" (lines 19-23).
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper, which "may be operated from either wheel" (lines 12-13).
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consists in combining with a frame a roller of any desired width and size having one or more slots or openings in its periphery, and so mounted as to roll over and crush the stand of cotton, except those portions which enter the slots or openings referred to, which regulate the distance apart at which the portions of the stand are left remaining" (lines 19-27).
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for a cotton gin that has a large ginning capacity (similar to saw types of gins) and also preserves the fiber (similar to roller types of gins).
- Cotton Gin
- Patent for cotton gin. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Gin
- Patent for an improvements in the combination of devices and overall construction of cotton gins.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent is for a cotton press adapted to bale cotton and other materials by compression.
- Cotton Press
- Patent for cotton press. This invention "is the production of a press adapted for baling cotton and other materials in cylindrical bales in which the material forming the bales is compactly arranged under heavy pressure in superimposed spiral layers or laps" (line 10-15). Illustrations inlcuded.
- Cotton Press
- Patent for an improved cotton press that construct a cotton-press in which the cotton will be compressed by a continuous operation as it is received from the cotton-gin (line 21-24), the device “consists of two series of rollers arranged in a circle” (line 26).
- Fence-Stay.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive fence-stay that "may be readily applied in a secure manner to horizontal fence-wires" (lines 12-13). The posts are sheets of metal, and metal T-shaped tongues hold the wires in place.
- Fertilizer-Distributer.
- Patent for improvements in fertilizer distributers by using a combination of a hopper, a detachable drill-chute, two shafts with fingers inside the hopper, and an inclined spring-held and adjustable apron attached at the rear end of the hopper. This adjustable apron allows the shafts to operate effectively and efficiently. Illustration is included.
- Fish-Trap.
- Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.
- Fishing Signaling Apparatus.
- Patent for a signal that is put on a fishing pole that helps see if a fisher has a bite at night.
- Foot for Plow-Stocks.
- Patent for improvements in plows by using the combination of “two forwardly-curved bars which clamped to a plow-beam, and the heel having its forward end rigidly secured between the lower ends of the bars and its rear portion bent upwardly and forwardly and secured between the bars.” (Lines 94-100) Illustration is included.
- Game Apparatus.
- Patent for a new and improved ring for games. This design is "part of a game apparatus, a ring of wood of a form adapted to be rolled over a flat surface, having a ring of metal cast in a groove cut in its inner surface" (lines 57-60).
- Grass Destroyer
- Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
- Grate-Bar.
- Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.
- Hay-Press.
- Patent for a hay press, which can form the hay bale without much pressure being exerted by the operators of the machine.
- Horse Collar.
- Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "is to supply a cheap, durable, easy fitting and self adjusting or flexible horse-collar for farm and other use, and which shall readily adapt itself to the form of the animal, and thereby obviate those abrasions which are so common with the use of a rigid and unyielding collar. To these and other ends [the] collar is made for the most part of what is known as "moss-yarn," with its strands or fibers arranged and the body of the collar subjected to pressure in a mold or press" (lines 9-20).
- Horseshoe.
- Patent for improvements in horseshoes, which will have two parts that pivot together at the toe. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Horseshoe.
- Patent for a new and improved horseshoe. This design "is to provide an improved construction of shoe by which [the] contraction . . . of the hoofs of horses . . . at the heels . . . is prevented" (lines 19-24). It consists "of the plate having nail-holes, the depending flange located on the under side of said plate, extending from end to end thereof and having triangular recesses near each end, the triangular toe-calk, and the upwardly-extending beveled flanges at the rear or heel portion of plate" (lines 64-70).
- Horseshoe.
- Patent for a durable and secure horseshoe that doesn't let "the heel of the hoof from contracting, thus overcoming the serious defect in other common types of shoes of permitting the horse to have a "narrow heel," as it is called, and to prevent slipping of the shoe on the icy surfaces" (lines 16-21).
- Horseshoe.
- Patent for a horseshoe that has "a double crease in the bottom face or under side of the shoe and peculiarly-arranged corrugations or roughened surfaces in the upper side of the shoe" (lines 13-17).
- Improvement in Bale-Ties.
- Patent for "an improved fastening or tie for cotton-bales, &c.; and it consists of two angular plates, secured at the rear part to one end of the band generally used in baling cotton, &c., and the front part thereof being provided with V-shaped jaws, which engage with angular slots in the opposite end of the band." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Bridges.
- Patent for an improvement in Bridges and Self-Supporting Roofs and Girders. The invention provides instruction for "the construction of truss-bridges and self supporting roofs and girders"..."by nailing or bolting securely together successive layers of plank joined at different points."
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improved train car-coupling, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Combination Locks.
- Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators.
- Patent for a new improvement for a cotton-cultivator with different tools and connections, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
- Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.