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- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Adhesive and Method of Making the Same
- Patent for starch used for paper that can act as an adhesive coating. Illustrations included.
- Adjustable Rocker for Baby-Carriages.
- Patent for adjustable rockers that convert baby carriages into a cradle in a quick and reliable manner.
- Adjustable Support.
- Patent for adjustable props or supports used in concrete construction or scaffolding, including illustrations.
- Advertising-Machine
- Patent for an advertising machine for displaying various advertising cards in a motorized machine that displays all the different cards as it goes around in a circle.
- Aeroplane-Tail.
- Patent for improvements to the tail of aeroplanes. This invention is to be used to help control the flight of planes or heavy projectiles, and would not have effects on the equilibrium or be difficult to use.
- Air-Brake, Lighting, and Signaling System for Railway-Trains
- Patent for an electrical system which provides air brake, lighting, and signaling mechanisms for trains. Illustrations included.
- Air-Chamber.
- Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
- Air Heating and Regulating Means for Internal Combustion Engines
- Patent for a type of air heater designed to be attached to an internal combustion engine for the purposes of regulating heat.
- Amusement Device
- Patent for an amusement device. This invention is designed as an apparatus for a swing, a trapeze, a horizontal bar, and seesaw. Illustration included.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an improved animal trap that can catch a large variety of animals, including fish, and does not injure the animals. Bait is placed in the trap, and the door on one end is spring-activated. A hinged door on the top is where the operator can take out the animal.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal trap that can continue to trap more animals even after if traps one or more.
- Annuciator
- Patent for an annunciator. "This invention is designed for use in connection with a complete traction system" (lines 13-14). The design drives instruments via a train air system so that air pressure is constantly maintained. Illustrations included.
- Ant-Trap.
- Patent for a "trap designed to be placed around an ant-hill and adapted to capture ants leaving or returning to the ant-hill." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side pieces, of the traps located between opposite ends of said side pieces and separated by an inclosed space, the openings communicating with said traps and the slides for closing said openings" (lines 61-66).
- Apparatus for Burning Lime.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.
- Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas
- Patent for an apparatus for generating Acetylene Gas which feeds water directly into the carbide from a main reservoir.
- Apparatus for Making Cotton-Bales.
- Patent for improvement in apparatus for making cotton-bales from continuous sheets or bats by “employing only a single press and which permits the ginning and bat-forming devices to be operated continuously which accumulated the cotton in light and fleecy condition during the covering and removal of the bales, which feeds the cotton from the accumulator to the baling apparatus whenever this is desired.” (Lines 68-75) Illustration is included.
- Aquarium.
- Patent for an ornamental suspension aquarium with easily removed plug or stopper for refreshing the water with illustrations.
- Attachment for Lathes.
- Patent for an improved attachment for lathes and (more specifically) as a cutting attachment for a jeweler's lathe.
- Attachment for Sewing Machines.
- Patent for a new and improved attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to prevent the presser-foot from catching in the fibers of the material as the same is being sewed" (lines 13-15). It is "composed of a sheet-metal plate bent upon itself to form a loop and having an integral arm extending from the upper edge of the loop out of the plane thereof and having its free end concaved" (lines 93-97).
- Automatic Alarm for Stem-Boilers.
- Patent for a new and useful automatic alarm for steam boilers, including instructions and illustrations.
- Automatic bale-rolling attachment for compressors
- Patent for an automatic bale-rolling attachment for compressors
- Automatic Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in car-couplers "wherein the link is automatically engaged with the draw-head of a second car and the link can be quickly disengaged when it needed uncoupling." (Lines 10-11) Illustration is included.
- Automatic Gun
- Patent for an automatic gun which automatically sends the next cartridge to the gun barrel after firing.
- Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism.
- Patent for an automatic gun firing mechanism intended to protect gardens, orchards, and fields by scaring off birds and other animals that destroy crops through automatic discharge of a firearm at predetermined intervals.
- Automatic Hook for Artificial Arms
- Patent for an automatic hook for artificial arms that allows a pen or pencil to be held.
- Automatic Multiple Fuse Block
- Patent for an automatic multiple fuse block. This invention is "provided a normally inactive shunt circuit through which, when a fuse is blown, the current is diverted to an electro-mechanical means which, when the rush of current causing the fuse to blow" (16-21). Illustration included.
- Automatic Stacker and Unloading Barge
- Patent for a Machine for Stacking and Loading Hay or Other Vegetation
- Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism.
- Patent for improvements in automatic time-controlled operating mechanisms by using a combination of a spring-actuated rotary disk, a clock mechanism, and co-acting cams to automatically operating at predetermined times, electric switches and other devices, such as locking and unlocking doors of warehouses. Illustration is included.
- Automobile-Jack
- Patent for an automobile jack that lifts the vehicle so that necessary repairs can be made and that relieves constant pressure of the tires.
- Automobile Security Lock Device.
- Patent for a new and useful form of automobile lock adaptable for use in connection with the steering column and steering wheel of the car or automobile to be locked.
- Automobile Torpedo
- Patent for a submarine torpedo which explodes in the hull of a vessels it hits.
- Automobile Wheel Rim.
- Patent for an automobile rim to make the mounting or demounting of a tire easier without any tools.
- Back Band Buckle.
- Patent for a new and improved back band buckle. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the middle bar having an outwardly-projecting stud, the upper bar parallel to the middle bar and having an under offset recess, and a depending lug-hook and spring-snap" (lines 19-26).
- Back Band for Harness.
- Patent for a new and improved back-band for harnesses. This design "relates to back-bands for that class of harnesses wherein chains are used for traces; and [the] invention consists, principally, in providing the back-band at its ends with metal loops through which the traces pass to protect the leather of the back-band from wear. The invention also consists in connecting snap-hoops to the metal end-pieces by means of metal loops" (lines 7-15).
- Back-Pressure Valve
- Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
- Bag Holder.
- Patent for a new and improved bag holder. This design "consists mainly in the combination of certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the diameter of the bag, with certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the height of the bag" (lines 17-22).
- Balance Staff and Wheel for Watches
- Patent for an improved design of a balance staff and wheel used for watch repair. The new design allows for an easier repair when replacing a broken staff and decreases the chance that the wheel would be damaged when replacing the staff. Included are instructions and illustrations.
- Bale ejector for presses
- Patent for an improvement in cotton bale compresses
- Bale-Wiring Tool.
- Patent for a bale wiring tool that "consists of a shank of proper length and diameter, with wire clamping and cutting mechanism on its lower end, and mechanism on its other end to rotate said tool" (lines 23-27). It also has "two independent clamping and cutting jaws, so that one wire can be clamped in the tool, while the other wire can be drawn tight around the bale and then placed in the tool and clamped and cut off, when the tool can be rotated by a brace or by a rack and pinion...and the wire twisted to form a tie" (lines 28-35).
- Baling-press.
- Patent for a baling press intended to work with hay, cotton and similar material, and form bales of many different sizes.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for "a new and improved machine of this character embodying continuous power mechanism, whereby the plunger is automatically operated. . .the employment, in connection with the press, of a plunger provided with a spring-actuated face, whereby the plunger is caused to rebound after each stroke for the purpose herein specified. . .to provide tension mechanism whereby both sides of the baling-chamber are tightened or released by a single adjustment" (13-26).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements to a machine that compresses bolts of cloth or waste into compact bales for shipment.
- Baling - Press
- Patent for a new and improved hay pressing or baling machine. This design "relates to presses or baling-machines, and more particularly to that class which are worked bu hand-power" (line 9 - 11).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative position after they have been released.” (Lines 9-21.) Illustration is included.
- Bank-Check Writer.
- Patent for a new and useful improvements in Bank-Check Writers. With this device, a blank check may be inserted and the name of the payee and the amount in figures will be typewritten.
- Bank-Punch
- Patent for "a punch for the use of banks, counting-houses, &c., which will cut figures and characters out of the material of la check or other paper, and which will cut in the said paper before and after the figures representing the value of the check a star or other character to prevent the raising of the check by the addition of other figures" (lines 21-28).
- Bit Brace.
- Patent for a bit-brace with a crank arm which can be secured to the bit chuck and which has an adjustable hand, so the chuck may be rotated while the brace remains stationary.
- Blackboard-Eraser
- Patent for "blackboard-erasers in which the erasing material is detachable from the wood block or handle and permits...being used continuously."