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- Veneer Basket.
- Patent for stronger, lighter construction of baskets frequently used in shipping fruit, although the improvement "may be used for any and all purposes of which it is capable" (lines 13-15).
- Veneer-Bending Machine
- Patent for improving veneer bending through a slower process which allows the entirety of the veneer to be heated.
- Stalk-Chopper
- Patent for a stalk chopper that chops weeds, vines, and stalks into smaller pieces or kills them in order for the ground beneath to be readily cultivated.
- Non-Refillable Bottle.
- Patent for improvements to non-refillable bottles to prevent tampering and/or re-filling of container with alternate substance. Item is designed to be used on any ordinary bottle.
- Fiber Separating Machine
- Patent for machines for separating the textile fiber of various plants, and has for its objects generally to simplify such machines, perfect their product, and avoid waste (lines 11-15) with illustrations.
- Machine for Separating Fiber from Stalks.
- Patent for a machine that separates fibers from the stalks and leaves of a variety of plants, including ramie, flax, pineapple, and sisal.
- Mop Holder
- Patent for an improved mop holder that will hold the mop head and the handle.
- Nursing-Bottle
- Patent for nursing bottle with a removable side wall so the it can be easily cleaned.
- Baling Press
- Patent for "an improvement in that class of presses adopted for baling hay" (lines 10-11) with illustrations.
- Draft-Appliance.
- Patent for a draft appliance (animal-driven vehicle) with the purpose of changing and equalizing the draft between draft-animals and making the draft line easily adjustable.
- Double-Acting Cylinder-Pump.
- Patent for improvements in double-acting cylinder-pumps by making “the cages and check-valves detachable from the piston-cylinder without removing or disturbing either the casing or piston-cylinder and can be replaced in the same manner.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration in included.
- Scaffold-Bracket
- Patent for a scaffold-bracket.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for an improved bailing-press.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for baling-presses to prevent the inward-drawing or centripetal movement of the fiber in a press of the roller type (lines 96-97) by “disposed intermediate of the rollers and within the plane of the baling-cylinder for opposing resistance to the inward movement of the fiber and overcoming to a greater or less extent the tendency of the upper layer of cotton to form waves or billows in advance of the rollers.” (Page 1, lines 101-102, page 2, lines 1-6.) Illustration is included.
- Toy Fountain.
- Patent for toy foundation. It is "an improved form of toy fountain by which a column of water or other liquid may be discharged into the air from a suitable reservoir by pueumatic pressure" (lines 8-11).
- Type-Writer.
- Patent for a new device for typewriters which allows for shifting from lower case to upper case by means of "the one set of keys ordinarily employed, but of modified construction" (lines 14-15) including descriptions of the device, operation, and illustrations
- Sash Lock
- Patent for an invention which improves "the construction of sash locks" for "great strength and durability" (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
- Animal-Poke.
- Patent for improvements in animal-poke by providing a device which is arranged for convenient application to an animal, so as not to interfere with the grazing and drinking thereof, and will effectually prevent the animal from destroying fences and also from pushing and fighting other stock. (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
- Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
- Patent for combining both cotton choppers and cultivators. This will create a more easily operated piece of machinery.
- Crude-Oil Burner.
- Patent for crude-oil burner that has excellent combustion, it is simply constructed to to make it easier to use, and requires little or no attention. It is adaptable to be used in fire-boxes (cooking and heating stoves, furnaces, and ranges).
- Mat for Presses
- Patent for a mat for presses which is to be used to express oils from vegetables.
- Fluid-Operated Signal
- Patent for a fluid operated signal with illustrations. The device would allow communication between a train engineer and a caboose conductor through a device that utilizes the fluid-pressure brake system of the freight train.
- Soil Survey of the Brazoria Area, Texas
- Text describing climate and soils of the Brazoria area, Texas.
- Tool For Withdrawing Casings From Wells.
- Patent for tool for withdrawing casings from wells that is "easy to apply and convenient to manipulate while in use" (lines 15-17).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for an improvement to the cotton chopping machine, which includes a hoe-blade that leaves the plants being processed in bunches.
- Wire-Fence Tool.
- Patent for an improvement on wire-fence tools. "To provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive tool of great strength and durability designed for operating on fence-wires and adapted for mending the same and for taking up the slack of a fence-wire and capable in stretching the ends past each other before the same are twisted together, whereby the ends of the wire may be more effectively connected." (Lines 10-19) Illustration is included.
- Coach-Equalizing Suspender.
- Patent for a coach-equalizing suspender.
- Windmill
- Patent for a new windmill design with improvement with breaking from the wind with new connections.
- Music Holder and Turner.
- Patent for a devise that turns the leaves of books or music books, which "may be supported upon the music-rack of a piano, organ, or similar instrument." (lines 13-14)
- Antifriction Decive for Sucker-rods and Couplings
- Patent for an improved method of connecting sucker-rods, couplings, or ropes so as to minimize wear and extend the life of the materials, with illustrations.
- Antifriction Device For Sucker Rods Or The Like
- Patent for an antifriction-roller (part of a pumping mechanism) with a mounting that can be manufactured at a low cost, "quickly and readily applied to a rod at any point....and prevent it from bending...and, furthermore, interpose a minimum obstruction to the flow of the liquid in the casing" (lines 17-25)
- Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods.
- Patent for an antifriction device designed to protect the rod (sucker rod), rope, or coupler from wear. A sucker rod joins the components of a piston pump in an oil well.
- Antifriction device for sucker rods.
- Patent for "an improved antifriction device for use in connection with inclosed traveling rods and the like to reduce the wear occasioned by the rubbing of the rod in its casing, and at the same time to so far reduce the area of said antifriction device which projects from the rod as to interpose the least possible obstruction to the free passage of material in the casing."
- Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells.
- Patent for "an Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells." "The object in view is the provision of means for facilitating the change of an ordinary door-bell into a continuously-ringing alarm apparatus, while leaving the mechanism free to be changed back into its former operative condition as a door-bell."(Lines 10-15) Including illustrations and instructions.
- Fire-Escape.
- Patent for improvements in fire-escapes by enabling the fire-escapes, “when not in use, to be compactly folded and arranged within a house or other building and capable of being quickly placed in position for use and of enabling persons and goods to be rapidly lowered to the ground with perfect safety.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
- Specific-Gravity Scale
- Patent for a type of weighing-scale, "designed for determining the specific gravity of any body, be it solid, liquid, or a gas" (lines 14-15) including illustration.
- Nut-Lock.
- Patent for a nut-lock "to be used in connection with a vertical bolt" connecting the axles and wheels of a vehicle or a railroad car with the other parts of the vehicle or railroad car (lines 8-12). It also has "many other purposes" that are not detailed (line 13).
- Wrench.
- Patent for "wrenches; and it consists in the improved means for operating the movable jaw thereof." (lines 12-13) including illustrations.
- Corn or Cotton Planter.
- Patent for improvements to the construction of corn and cotton planters that are ridden by the user, illustrated.
- Wire-Stretcher.
- Patent for a "simple form of device for stretching wire, said device being adapted for attachment to a post or other support and to the wire to be stretched" (lines 9-12).
- Cotton-Sweep.
- Patent for cotton sweep. This invention helps in easy spreading and setting of sweeping blades, "since it provides a novel form of brace to be interposed between the blades of the sweep and the stock" (lines 15-17).
- Car-Brake.
- Patent for Car brake. Improvements in street car brake system which is based on the concept of physical force applied on the fender or apron which in turn forces the shoe on the rim.
- Proportionate Scale.
- Patent for improvements in scales which would quickly and accurately determine the proportion of the lint contained in seed-cotton. Illustration is included.
- Auger.
- Patent for a new auger designed "to provide a construction in which the parts may be adjusted to cut angular holes entirely through a body, and also to cut angular countersinks concentric with cylindrical openings, such as are made for the reception of the square heads of bolts lag screws, &c.," (lines 10-16), which includes illustrations and instructions.
- Oil Heater, Strainer, and Separator
- Patent for purifying oil by removing all impurities. It is meant to prepare the oil for fuel burning purposes.
- Tobacco Stemming Machine
- Patent for the improvement of tobacco-stemming machines by providing "an arrangement for opening the leaves prior to being fed to the cutters" (lines 14-15).
- Tobacco-Stemming Machine
- Patent for a machine for stemming tobacco.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a press for baling cotton and other fibrous materials.
- Double-Action Pump
- Patent for "double-action submerged force-pumps which can be operated by any suitable power, but particularly adapted for operation by windmills provided with variable gearing...simple in construction and strong and durable and in which there are no parts which can be disarranged during operation and from which all valves may be removed without disturbing the pipe and which will maintain a continuous flow of water during operation."
- Bale-Band Fastening
- Patent for bale bend fastening that includes a winding-key engaging the lapped ends of a bale-band and a lock for retaining the winding key against the reverse movement after the latter has been turned to wind the connected ends of the band for the purpose of taking up the slack in the latter (Lines 8-15)