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- Chuck.
- Patent for chucks that secure pipes, preventing movement when being cut or threaded, including illustrations.
- Collapsible Rim.
- Patent for new and useful improvements related to demountable rims that are collapsible. This improvement facilitates the removal of a tire in an easier and expeditious manner.
- Change-Speed Mechanism for Tractor-Truck Motor-Vehicles
- Patent for a machine that can be used either as a truck for traveling over highways or as a tractor for farm work.
- Can-Closure
- Patent for general use to securely close cans containing liquid so that invisible tampering, evaporation, and contamination cannot occur.
- Process of Purifying Oil
- Patent for using aluminum chlorid compounds to clean crude oil. Which is apart of the petrochemical process of oil purification.
- Automatic Safety Target.
- Patent for a target device for pistols and rifles which allows for the motion of the target being hit to move another target into view.
- Building Construction.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in building construction" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
- Combination Dripper and Steeper
- Patent for a beverage steeper where a strainer is provided to hold the material used for preparation, such as tea or coffee. The strainer is designed to lower into the coffee pot to allow for steeping and can be raised out of the water and affixed to the top of the pot for draining.
- Combination Steeper and Dripper.
- Patent for improvements of steeper and drippers combinations, specifically for tea or coffee, where a container the same depth of the pot will be provided in order to steep grounds easily and quicker.
- Cuff-Link.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in cuff links that do not separate from sleeves and help with any decoration.
- Combined Kitchen-Cabinet and Refrigerator
- Patent for the combination design of kitchen cabinets that include a refrigerator component.
- Attachment for Motor-Vehicles
- Patent for an attachment for motor vehicles, specifically for Ford cars but compatible with any car, where the attachment prevents the reverse movement of the car's crank.
- Utilization of Acid-Coke
- Patent for the utilization sulfuric acid in the creation and uses of acid-coke.
- Book-Holding Device
- Patent for a book-holding device that will keep books open by holding back turned pages, with illustrations.
- Coaling Device.
- Patent for coal colliers that breaks the coal into small pieces and lifts the coal to pour the coal into the ship's bunkers.
- Burner.
- Patent for improvements in burners to allow them to use liquid fuel such as oil.
- Manufacture of Aluminum Chloride.
- Patent for the manufacture of Aluminum Chloride that can be carried out at lower temperatures with aluminum ore or compound, such as bauxite, sulfur and chlorine, and involves no cooking.
- Traveling Block.
- Patent for a traveling block construction. The invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction that provide a novel form of nut to be positioned on the ends of the supporting shaft of the block, the nuts being hollowed out to provide oil chambers for supplying the shaft with a lubricant.
- Oil-Burner.
- Patent for oil burner adapted for using heavy oil (with wide flat flame) for distribution (wide flat flame with adjustable burner tip).
- Comb.
- Patent for an electronic heating comb providing an electric heating element.
- Self-Lining Interlocking Building-Block.
- Patent for interlocking building-blocks that allow for the formation of strong insulated and properly lined walls without the use of skilled labor and with or without reinforcements.
- Motorcycle-Stand.
- Patent for a motorcycle stand that can be released manually through a lever near the saddle to lock the stand into place until the operator unlocks it.
- Player Piano
- Patent for a new form of valve for mechanical piano operated by pneumatic mechanisms in which the value is self-centering and does away with the guide pin usually employed, and an amplification of the wippen so that the striker rod is placed at the front of the pneumatic mechanism where it is accessible. The change in leverage permits the use of a smaller pneumatic.
- Method of Casting Chilled Valve-Seats
- Patent for making moldings of seats to be more consistent.
- Power-Hammer.
- Patent for a power hammer that can utilize any power source and only needs one person to operate it. The design also uses less parts, making it more affordable.
- Horse-Boot.
- Patent for a horse boot that covers and protects the hoof and pastern joint of a horse. It also protects the fetlock joint and practically the entire foreleg below the knee. This device allows for the horse to move without being hindered in any way, or without causing chafing. Both protecting the horse and providing additional comfort and safety.
- Train-Line Valve.
- Patent for "a cut out cock for pneumatic air brake systems." This invention allows the brake lines to be bled so that all brakes may be applied simultaneously.
- Vehicle-Wheel.
- Patent for an improved vehicle wheel with a demountable tire rim, so that tires can be easily placed on and taken off the wheel.
- Process of Heating Oil-Retorts and Apparatus Therefor.
- Patent for "a method of securing even heating of oil retorts and the like throughout their length" and "a new apparatus, particularly intended for the heating and cracking of oils to convert the same into pyrolytic products". The invention may be used for any oil converting retort, but the patent description relates to the production of gasoline.
- Valve.
- Patent for improvements to valves, specifically valves that have a sliding movement on the valve seat and to disk valves. The invention is to provide a valve of this type which is used in the interior of vats, tanks, or similar receptacles containing liquids.
- Shutter for Motion-Picture Machines.
- Patent for a shutter for motion picture cameras to eliminate flickering. Produced by stamping the device from sheet metal.
- Game.
- Patent for a "a game of skill, rather than a game of chance" (lines 11-12), albeit with elements of a game of chance, in the style of a carnival game. The game consists of a motorized, revolving model airplane and a circular arrangement of nets (one for each player); the airplane drops candy into the winning player's net.
- Well Boring Apparatus.
- Patent for a well-boring apparatus, an invention of a drilling apparatus using a form of power to transmit rotary movement to the string of a pipe. This invention is designed to lock the rotary elements against movement when the drill or pipe is moved or adjusted within its support.
- Electric-Current Relay
- Patent for Electric-Current Relay to allow capability of use with either a direct or alternating current. This is adapted for economical use in constant temperature apparatus. Further, this technology avoids the possibility of "sticking of relay movable contacts".
- Valve-Operating Mechanism
- Patent for Valve Operating Mechanism that includes "new and useful improvements" (lines 5-6), and "has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient means for operating a valve at a distance" (lines 10-12).
- Lawn Mower
- Patent for a lawn mower in which the means for adjusting the intermediate blade has been created so that a groove for a predetermined depth can be cut, and easy removal of the blade when it is desired to sharpen the same. Additionally, a ground-engaging roller is included to keep the machine at the same level so that the knife will cut into the ground at an even depth.
- Well-Drilling Rig.
- Patent, including illustrations, for "an improved well drilling rig or apparatus" which provides "a simple, efficient, and practical machine of this kind including revoluble means having a device operatively connected to a walking beam (from which a drilling tool is suspended), so that upon every complete revolution of the revoluble means, the drilling tool or bit will be given two direct drops, each alternating with the lifting movement of the drill bit" (page 1, lines 11-21).
- Well Screen.
- Patent for a well screen device. The device can keep particulates out of the well water while also restricting water to flow into the well without being released back into the soil.
- Building-Block.
- Patent for building block that is easily formed or molded. The building block forms tiers to easy move around and modify.
- Automatic Fuel-Changing Valve.
- Patent for Automatic Fuel Changing Valve. The purpose of the invention is to provide a mechanism that switches to another gas supply when the one which is feeding the system runs low.
- Improvements in Processes of Distillation and Apparatus Therefor
- Patent for improvements in processes of distillation and apparatus therefor in petroleum refineries.
- Improving Oils.
- Patent for a method of improving the quality of more volatile petroleum oils, such as gasoline and burning oils.
- Improvements in Burners
- Patent for improvements for burners. It is related explicitly to hydrocarbon burners. Its purpose is to keep the oil and steam separate as they leave the burner by keeping them in two separate streams.
- Trailer.
- Patent for trailers for attachment to trucks that is strong and compact and will not be distorted by the turning of the trailer relative to the truck.
- Trailing Device for Tractors and the Like
- Patent for a device built to connect behind tractors and other farming vehicles. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
- Hydraulic Swivel
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in hydraulic swivels by simplifying the structure and making the device more efficient and reliable.
- Purifying Oils
- Patent that converts low grade petroleum into higher grade petroleum. The process warms aluminum chlorid with petroleum material in a nonviolent way to make a purifying oil.
- Process of Purifying Paraffin.
- Patent for improvements in the process of purifying paraffin wax.
- Price-Tag Holder.
- Patent for "an improvement in price tag holders" (lines 9-10) such that the price tag holder is connected to a garment hanger, including one illustration.
- Manufacture of Aluminum Chlorid
- Patent for the manufacture of aluminum chlorid and the method of making aluminum chlorid to produce vapors that are subsequently condensed in any suitable manner. This patent is important because it is advantageous to work with a producer of gas made at as high a temperature. This is because of the greater amount of sensible heat it carries forward for use in the reaction.