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- Cultural Resources Survey Across Low Branch, Mansfield, Texas
- Report of archaeological survey of proposed pipeline and lift station route in Mansfield, Texas.
- Automatic Siphon
- Patent for an automatic siphon. This invention is intended to for the purpose of draining cellars and basements. Illustration included.
- Flushing Apparatus.
- Patent for a flushing apparatus to be used to flush tanks that are normally kept empty. It is also "an improved siphon for emptying the tank, and also an improved mechanism for starting the siphon" (lines 22-24).
- Seat - Action Flushing Apparatus.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in seat-action flushing apparatus. This design is to "provide a cistern into which the water is admitted only when the seat is occupied" (line 14-17).
- Water-Closet Cistern.
- Patent for improvements in water closet cisterns: "which are normally empty to prevent freezing and which are only filled just before the flush is desired" (lines 14-16).
- Snap-Hook
- Patent for a snap hook in order to "provide a hook of simple construction that shall be securely locked when in use" (p. 2)
- Electric Motor.
- Patent for an electric motor that operates "with equal efficiency on either direct or alternating current" (lines 10-11).
- Saw-Set
- Patent for a saw set. Illustrations included.
- Tile-Machine.
- Patent for a tile pipe molder that "expeditiously and cheaply make subirrigating pipe right at the side of the ditch where it is to be laid" (lines 10-13).
- Operating Mechanism for Window Sash and Screens
- Patent for improvements for window sash and screens, specifically improving opening, adjusting and closing mechanisms.
- Guard Doors and the Like
- Patent for improved guards for doors.
- Screen-Hanger.
- Patent for more accessible window screen hangers. The inventors claimed that these improved screen hangers eliminated the challenge of hanging window screens on the exterior of tall buildings. These screen hangers allowed customers to hang, adjust, and clean screens from the inside of buildings.
- Cotton Chopper And Checker
- Patent for a cotton chopper and checker. Illustration included.
- World-Chronometer
- Patent for a globe set on top of a pedestal, where the globes rotates by clock work to instruct the user of the time for any given place on the globe. Sides of the pedestal also allow for advertising.
- Velocipede.
- Patent for a new and improved velocipede. This design "has relation to that class of velocipedes in which the rider is suspended within a large wheel impelled by a frictional contact between the inner periphery of the same and the driving wheel" (lines 8-12). With this design, "by the increased size of wheel, not only is speed gained, but the same may be propelled with greater ease over rough or smooth roads and with greater comfort to the rider, in that the jolt is less, and yet at the same time all the benefits arising from this class of exercise are obtained" (lines 27-34).
- Farm Gate.
- Patent for a new and improved farm gate. This design consists "[i]n a swinging-gate, the combination of a plate provided with notches upon its upper outer end and connected to the upper end of the inner gate-post, a lever pivoted to the plate and connected with the upper pintle of the gate, a latch pivoted to the lever and extending down through a slot therein to engage with the notches in the plate, and suitable cords and pulleys for operating the latch and lever" (lines 17-26).
- Tank for Oil Burners
- Patent fora tank for oil burners. This invention is designed to supply burners with crude oil. Illustration included.
- Walking-Cane.
- Patent for a walking cane which is made of two intertwined sections of spiral steel wires, which can be painted different colors creating a noticeable object that can be used by sports fans to show support for their team at games,
- Bale-Tie
- Patent for a tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
- Tube-Vulcanizing Apparatus.
- Patent for a tube-vulcanizing apparatus "and in such connection, it relates more particularly to an apparatus for repairing inflatable tubes for wheel tires." (lines 10-13)
- Tire-Casing.
- Patent for a new type of puncture-proof tire casing.
- Buckle Attachment.
- Patent for a buckle attachment for buckles that do not use riveting, sewing or other fastening, "and when so placed together, and the strap inserted and buckled, the whole is as firmly held together as if riveted, sewed or fastened with any of the ordinary methods" (lines 13-16).
- Baling-Press
- Patent for improvements in baling presses "in which the necessary motion may be imparted to the plunger in a rapid and effective manner, and which shall be productive of considerable saving of labor and power" (lines 15-19)
- Baling-Press
- Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, in which considerable power ma be exercised without the use of complicated machinery, and which shall be rapid and effective in operation" (lines 9-14).
- Detachable Inside Door-Lock.
- Patent for a detachable inside door-lock. This is a simple locking device that can be applied and removed from any type of door. The purpose is to make a room private and burglar proof.
- Coffin
- Patent for a lightweight and sturdy coffin made of two solid pieces of baked or burned clay which can be sealed with cement and secured further with nuts and bolts.
- Heating-Drum
- Patent for
- Attachment for Cabinets.
- Patent for Attachment for Cabinets. An adjustable bracket that attaches to various pieces of cabinetry or furniture for supporting water basins for easy reach.
- Combine Dimmer and Adjuster for Headlights
- This patent is for the improvement of illumination and more particularly relates to a combined dimmer and adjuster for headlights. The primary aim is for the improvement of dimmers on the lamps of a motor vehicle so that the dimmers might be adjusted together with respect to the lamps so that various positions of vertical and horizontal adjustment are possible and if necessary, the removal of the cover of the lamps.
- Heater
- Patent for an improved heater for heating water and utilizing exhaust steam.
- Float Valve
- Patent for a float value. This invention is designed to automatically close. Illustration included.
- Pump-Jack for Double-Acting Pumps
- Patent for a stronger, more compact pump jack for double acting pumps. Illustrations included.
- Valve.
- Patent for an improvement in the function and use of a valve which gets rid of the wire usually used to raise tank valves. Getting rid of this wire allows for easier drainage.
- Derrick.
- Patent for improvements to derricks for oil wells.
- Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights
- Patent for a combined socket and switch for electric lights that allows different bulbs of a chandelier to be turned on separately.
- Door Check.
- Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design consists in "the combination, with a sliding-bolt provided with a wedge-plate, of the catch or slide mounted on the bolt and capable of a limited longitudinal movement, and the adjustable bar arranged between the adjacent edges of the wedge-plate and the catch or slide and tapered toward its lower end to fit the edges of the wedge-plate and catch or slide, the said adjustable bar being provided with a stud which operates in a suitable transverse guide-slot, whereby the bar is held from longitudinal movement" (lines 26-37).
- Wagon-Brake.
- Patent for an improvement in a wagon-brake using an operating-lever that is mounted in a bracket near the front axle, and consist of diverging arms; and a segmental rack-plate with teeth that is arranged to be engaged by a sliding pawl. When the operating-lever and the sliding pawl are connected; when the brake-bars are in motion, clamping the wheels of a vehicle thus making it stop.
- Wagon-Brake.
- Patent for "a brake which is quickly applicable to any form of wagon and which is attached to the wagon-gear only and has no connection with the body of the wagon, thus allowing the wagon-body to be entirely removed from the bolsters without interfering with the action and operation of the brake mechanism." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Wagon Break
- Patent for improvements in wagon-breaks, with the object of providing simple, effective, and durable means by which the breaks may be applied by either foot or hand power (lines 8-12). Additionally, provides "improved means for altering the power of the breaks" (lines 18-19).
- Bedclothes-Clamp.
- Patent for new clamping device that holds the mattress and bedding of a folding bed in place, is adjustable, and is not in the way when the bed is in use.
- Automatic Weighing-Machine
- Patent for an automatic weighing machine for weighing and dispensing certain weights of grain into hoppers.
- Automatic Weighing-Machine.
- Patent for an automatic weighing machine.
- Revolving Book-Holder.
- Patent for a "combined desk and cabinet especially designed for students' use to obviate the scattering about of books when writing, studying, or making reference thereto" (lines 8-12). The are two rotating sections: a many-faced book-rest, and a cabinet above it where books can be stored. There is also a sliding writing-board underneath the desk.
- Advertising-Machine.
- Patent for a machine that displays advertisements in a rotation.
- Display Advertising Machine
- Patent for rotating machine which will display papers or advertisements for cetain intervals of time before rotating and changing.
- Display Advertising-Machine.
- Patent for an advertising display that carries a number of large advertisement sheets that are revolved and held stationary to periodically display each advertisement in repeating succession.
- Merry Go Round
- Patent for a merry go round. Illustration included.
- Portable Hitching-Block
- Patent for a portable hitching block that is retractable and is able to hold a hitching rein at any length. Illustrations included.
- Rapid-Transit Car
- Patent for a rapid transit car that runs on cables in the air.
- Advertising Clock
- Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.