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- Improvement in Pruning Implements.
- Patent for "an improved implement for trimming hedges and for cutting and laying down hedges" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
- Device for Elevating Wagon-Bodies.
- Patent for a pulley system for elevating wagons off the ground and "keeping them suspended under the roof of a barn or other roofed structure while not in use" (lines 19-21), including instructions and illustrations.
- Wagon-Body Lifter
- New and useful improvements in Wagon-Body lifters. Furnish a wagon-body lifter simple in structure, efficient in its operation and durable.
- Grave Cover.
- Patent for a new and improved grave covering. This design calls for a concrete slab, slightly larger than its lidless wooden box, to rest on the upper edges of the latter. A slat in the slab will receive a headstone, which will rest on the slab via flanges.
- Lap Ring.
- Patent for a new and improved carabiner ("lap ring"). This design calls for the hinged bar to interlock more with the body of the ring. This design prevents the stretching of the ring when bearing a heavy load, representing an improvement over previous designs.
- Hopper for Leaching Ashes.
- Patent for improved ash-hopper that is composed of suitable frame, two side boards, two triangle end boards that can be used to improve leaching ashes.
- Corn Planter and Dropper.
- Patent for a new and improved seed planter or dropper. This design utilizes a hopper, a shaft provided with cups, a bevel having a countersunk opening provided with a recess, a gate hinged in said recess and held in contact with the cups on the shaft by a spring, and a concave partition fitting the periphery of the shaft, all constructed and arranged in a novel way (lines 68-75). Additionally, this design utilizes a wheel, the motion of which dispenses the seed.
- Combined Fire Screen and Fender.
- Patent for a combined fire screen and fender. This design "works in the mantle-piece by means of weights, and is secured in position by by means of a spring-latch that catches in notches in the jamb. This screen thus arranged can be made to answer for three purposes: By letting it down nearly to the hearth it acts as a blower; by letting it entirely down accidents from fire are prevented, and when let down in the summer time it makes a handsome summer screen" (lines 21-30).
- Lap Ring.
- Patent for a new and improved lap ring (or link). This design utilizes a hinge to allow for half of the ring to part from the other half, which creates a larger opening and allows for connection with a wider range of things (e.g., larger clevises).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rotary chopping-shaft, provided with the sliding gear-collar, the inner face of which is beveled round to form a shoulder, of a cross-piece, having a downwardly-extending perpendicular stop-piece" (lines 88-93).
- Whiffletree Hook.
- Patent for a new and improved whiffletree hook. This design is for a whiffletree hook that is easy and cheap to make. Additionally, it cannot easily become detached from the whiffletree, the tongue of the wagon, or the trace chains.
- Combined Clod Crusher and Sod and Stalk Cutter.
- Patent for a new and improved combined crusher of clods and cutter of sod and stalks. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the slotted beam, of the stalk-gathering device consisting of the bent wires or rods forming eyes, and diverging at their lower ends, and held in place by the plate or washers below the beam, and wedge above the beam . . . [and] of the frame, the slotted cross-bar, and the rollers having cutting-blades" (lines 74-83).
- Churn Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design "consists in [a] novel construction and arrangement of parts . . . The machine . . . is so constructed that it gives to the dasher a perpendicular long or short stroke, and that it may be sunk deep or shallow in the milk; and the machine may be run at the greatest speed with but little friction, and without the danger of its parts becoming loosened, and by means of its apron and attachment . . . it holds the churn in place" (lines 16-26).
- Portable Saw Mill.
- Patent for a new and improved portable saw mill. This design "is to produce a portable saw-mill of such cheap and economical plan as can be built and repaired in almost any locality. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts" (lines 12-17).
- Bee-Hive.
- Patent for a "new and useful improvement in bee-hives" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
- Stalk Knocker.
- Patent for a new and improved stalk knocker. This design consists in "the combination, with the running-gear of a wagon, of a frame-work mounted thereon and provided with vertically-adjustable hangers at its rear end carrying stalk-knockers and their shaft, a diagonal adjustable brace connecting the hanger and the frame-work, and a driving-pulley formed in sections, having spoke-embracing lugs, and connected to the knocker-shaft by means of a belt" (lines 10-18).
- Grain Adjuster.
- Patent for a new and improved grain adjuster. This design "consists in the combination, with the platform-frame, of a wire or rod, which is preferably corrugated or bent, and which is fastened to the outer end of the frame and extends inward over the carrier in the rear of the cutter . . . The object of [the] invention is to apply to the frame of binding-machines a corrugated rod or wire, upon which the heads of the grain will catch, and thus prevent the heads of the cut grain from being moved toward the elevator faster than their butts, whereby the grain is presented evenly and regularly" (lines 14-27).
- Gate.
- Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the gate and the horizontally-swinging arm arranged above the gate and provided in its free end with a longitudinal slot and a series of transverse perforations and engaging the lever, the vertical latch, also pivoted on the gate, and the horizontally-sliding connecting bar between the lower ends of the latch and the lever" (lines 90-101).
- Cotton Chopper, Scraper, and Cultivator
- Patent for improvements so that the "choppers may be raised, in order to leave standing such of the growth of the cotton as is necessary, or while turning corners; third, in means hereinafter to be described, by which the depth at which the scrapers and choppers run into the ground maybe adjusted" (lines 16-22).
- Self-Setting Trap.
- Patent for a useful self-setting trap, meaning the captured animal will set the trap for another animal. In this self-setting trap the bait is held against molestation, and which may be employed to successively catch and confine all animals that may pass therein.” (Lines 14-17) Illustration is included.
- Wire Stretcher and Splicer.
- Patent for a wire stretcher and splicer device, for "stretching of the wire when a fence is being constructed, the tightening of the wire after the fence is constructed, and the splicing of broken wire" (lines 10-13), with illustrations.
- Tool for Building Wire Fences.
- Patent for a simple and effective tool used for building wire fences that is "a nail holding and driving device, a measuring attachment, and a wire cutter" (lines 12-14).
- Method of and Apparatus for Making Concrete Monuments.
- Patent for "an improved method of and apparatus for making concrete monuments and tombstones" (lines 9-11) and makes harder and sets faster than other methods. The end result is meant to look like polished stone.
- Percolator.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive water-bath percolator meant to extract "the soluble constituents of various substances" (lines 11-12). "The lid or cover may be sealed hermetically whenever it is desirable to exclude the air or prevent the escape of vapor or volatile constituents" (lines 19-22). It has an inner vessel, the outer vessel containing water. The two vessels are easily disconnected.
- Composition for Concrete Tombstones.
- Patent for "a new and useful composition of matter for concrete tombstones and a process for manufacturing the same whereby a perfectly white substantial rock will be produced that will be very durable, will not be liable to peeling, cracking, or turning dark, but will bleach out in the weather and become very solid, so as to form a permanent and substantial tombstone." (Lines 10-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Vehicle-Axle.
- Patent for "axles for carriages, wagons, &c., and has for its object the construction of an axle in such a manner as to enable the spindle and stock to be removed and replaced by a new one when worn out without going to the expense and trouble of going to a blacksmith." (Lines 6-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Corn-Planter.
- Patent relating to "a novel corn-planter, and has for its object the production of a simple, durable, and efficient planting attachment which may be applied to an ordinary plow and which when so applied will automatically effect the distribution of corn or other grain at desired intervals" (lines 12-18).
- Design for a Railroad-Brace.
- Design patent for a railroad brace that has an essential feature of possessing peculiar shape and configuration.
- Plow Attachment.
- Patent for a new and useful plow attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
- Salt Making Apparatus.
- Patent for an apparatus to improve salt-making.
- Vacuum-Pan
- Patent for "vacuum-pan having improved heating-sections and an improved form of discharge-chamber" [lines 9-11].
- Railway Appliance.
- Patent for a railway appliance designed to prevent cars from leaving the track, as well as apply brakes to train to quickly decelerate or stop.
- Compound Tool
- Patent for a compound tool. This invention consists of multiple tools in one. Illustration included.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
- Leveling Instrument
- Patent for leveling instrument. Illustration included.
- Railway Switch
- Patent for a railway switch. Illustration included.
- Baling Press
- Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
- Mail-Bag Catcher.
- Patent for railway mail service bag-catchers "to provide a catcher which will remove a bag from a supporting-crane and transfer it automatically into the mail-car while the train is in motion" (lines 13-16).
- Anesthetic Holding And Dispensing Apparatus
- Patent for an anesthetic holding and dispensing apparatus. Illustration included.
- Cultivator
- Patent for a cultivator. This invention is an attachment used to connecting with other machines to cultivate the ground. Illustration included.
- Plow Attachment.
- Patent for a plow attachment for turning the subsoil while the main plow opens the furrow that can be adjusted to any depth desired and attached to all types of plows.
- Building Construction
- Patent for metal beams used in building construction that have perforated plates to allow the passage of concrete through the plate when the metal piece is embedded in concrete thus strengthening the attachment of the metal and the concrete.
- Evaporating-Pan.
- Patent for a evaporating pan for use in making syrup from green juices that helps strain impurities out of the juice and boil it down by having a variety of compartments that the juice flows through throughout the pan.
- Permutation-Lock.
- Patent for a permutation or combination lock for mail boxes.
- Nut-Lock.
- Patent for a nut lock, which stops the nut from rotating.
- Permutation-Lock.
- Patent for a permutation lock, which is harder to break into than the previous version.
- Roofing Construction
- Patent for a weatherproof roofing construction. Illustrations included.
- Gun Muffler
- Patent for a gun-muffler. This design if for use with fire-arms to muffle the discharge sound. Illustration included.
- Boiler Attachment.
- Patent for a boiler attachment to regulate the boiler feed pump.
- Grate-Bar.
- Patent for a grate bar for furnaces, which allows for proper air distribution in the furnace.