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- Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way.
- Patent for a device to automatically take photographs of persons as they walk over a pressure sensor. The inventor suggests the device be used for ticket fare enforcement.
- Attachment for Harness.
- Patent for a new and improved harness attachment. This design utilizes two disks, "one being notched in its thick or heavy edge and the other being notched in its thin or less weighty portion . . . thus effectively closing the space that would otherwise be left at the point of the hook, and preventing the ring . . . from becoming detached" (lines 55-63).
- Automatic Safety Attachment for Air-Brakes
- Patent for an automatic safety attachment for air brakes that can be attached to trains and automobiles. Illustrations included.
- Awning.
- Patent for a new and improved awning. This design consists in "[t]he awning frame, consisting of the pivoted curved rods, pivoted sectional braces pivotally connected to said rods, and the holding or suspending bars pivoted to said rods and having series of adjusting-apertures engaging pins or studs of said braces" (lines 74-79).
- Bath-Tub.
- Patent for "a super bath-tub of that class in which the small portable or foot tub is provided with a removable shield and seat capable of enlarging the size of the tub and of furnishing a rest for the person using the tub." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Car-Coupling
- Patent for "car-couplers of the class known as 'link-and-pin' couplers, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the coupling is effected automatically and whereby the coupling-pin is made to actuate the brake-shaft" (lines 14-19).
- Child's Bed.
- Patent for a retractable crib and mattress attached to side of bedstead, folding underneath for storage when not in use. When fully extended, allows crib mattress and bedstead mattress to be in the same plane.
- Churn-Dasher.
- Patent for "a churn dasher to which a rotary movement shall be imparted by the resistance offered by the fluid to the dasher when the latter is given a vertical reciprocating movement in the ordinary manner, the rotary movement being constantly in one direction, irrespective of the direction of the vertical reciprocating movement" (lines 13-21).
- Collapsible Crate.
- Patent for a collapsible crate for shipping berries.
- Colter.
- Patent for the instructions on of how to construct a Colter including illustrations.
- Combined Grubbing, Subsoiling, and Turning Plow
- Patent for a combined grubbing, subsoiling, and turning plow. Illustration included.
- Cotton Gin.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
- Cotton-Gin Attachment.
- Patent for a cotton gin attachment that cleans and separates the lint before it reaches the machines condenser.
- Cotton-Harvester
- Patent for Patent for a cotton harvester machine which can collect rows of cotton crops using a scoop and exhaust fan, while also able to remove boll weevils, and cotton from bolls which are unopened.
- Cotton Sweep
- Patent for cart attachment for cultivating cotton. Made to "scrap and cultivate the earth in close proximity to plants and roll the earth over upon the roots of plants." (17-22)
- Crate Or Coop
- Patent for a crate or coop. This invention is connected at the corners possessing a removable bottom along with a readily detachable cover. Illustration included.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator that has an improved method of attaching a harrow to the cultivator.
- Dry Kiln Furnace.
- Patent for a new and improved dry-kiln furnace. This design has "a grate at its forward end, a bridge-wall extending upwardly from the lower side at the rear end of the grate, a smoke-outlet in the bottom between the rear end and bridge, and a transverse flue under the furnace, open at each end and dividing the draft at the smoke-outlet, said flue communicating with the interior of the drying-chamber, and having a vertical baffle-plate under the smoke-outlet extending longitudinally along its bottom in each direction from said outlet, arresting the rotary motion of the products of combustion" (lines 24-36).
- Dry-Kiln Furnace.
- Patent for improvements in dry-kiln furnaces by using “a series of furnaces alternating with a series of heating or radiating drums parallel to and on a plane above the furnace,” (Lines 116-119, p. 2) and valved connected flues. This arrangement allowed the “heat being regulated and so distributed through the kiln as to produce a varying temperature, highest at the end where the lumber is introduced and gradually diminishing toward the opposite end, where it is taken out.” (Lines 21-26) Illustration is included.
- Fruit-Canner.
- Patent for a fruit-canning apparatus that holds multiple cans on a perforated tray. The apparatus allows for necessary heating of cans and easy removal from a receptacle.
- Fruit-Cooker.
- Patent for a fruit cooker for home use that can be heated with wood or coal and has a damper inside to change where the heat is concentrated.
- Gas-Exploded Ordnance
- Patent for a gas gun. Illustrations included.
- Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
- Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
- Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
- Improvement in Game-Tables.
- Patent for a "new and improved Gaming-Table..." [line 5] including illustrations and instructions.
- Improvement In Machines For Filing Saws.
- Patent for improvements in the construction of machines for filing saws. Description of the construction and illustrations are attached.
- Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics
- Patent for an improved device to measure textiles and other similar fabrics, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
- Patent for a new improvement in the construction of road-scrapers to make them more facilitating, faster, and with less animal power required.
- Jeweler's Pliers.
- Patent for jeweler's pliers for settings rings, which prevent slipping.
- Liquid Cooler.
- Patent for a new and improved liquid cooler. This design "provide[s] an apparatus by means of which a variety of liquids may be simultaneously cooled as required for use as beverages, and by which the glasses or drinking vessels may be at the same time cooled and protected from dust and insects" (lines 14-20).
- Lubricating Device.
- Patent for a device that lubricates cylinders via the intake manifold that responds to small changes in pressure.
- Lumber-Truck.
- Patent for a simple and durable lumber truck that is "arranged to conveniently load and carry lumber to and from kilns and other places" (lines 9-11). It has double flanged wheels in independent frames that are connected by crossbars.
- Machine for Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for an improved machine that cleans and transfers seed cotton to a gin. It combines exhaust fans and a cleaning mechanism, and is less expensive than similar machines.
- Metal-Coating Composition.
- Patent for a metal coating composition to form a protective coating on metals and steel to prevent rust and corrosion.
- Milking Device and Antikicker.
- Patent for a folding milking device that prevents a cow from kicking over the milk bucket, from kicking the milker, and from switching the milker's face with its tail, including illustrations.
- Nasal Expander.
- Patent for ensuring the the nasal passage does not collapse, contract, or close for breathing improvement while sleeping, including illustrations and instructions.
- Pipe-Wrench
- Patent for a pipe wrench with adjustable jaws.
- Plow
- Patent for "means which will rigidly hold the point against independent movement toward the landslide of the plow" (lines 45-47).
- Plow
- Patent for invention new and useful improvement in Plows, relates the shape of the mold-board and the manner of securing the point and land side to the standard [5-15].
- Plow.
- Patent for a plow that improves on turning plows. The improvement turns soil completely during operation, through a newly designed moldboard.
- Plow.
- Patent for a plow that improves the type of plow employing "a moldboard and plowpoint or share bolted to a standard" (lines 9-11), with illustrations. This patent improves upon previous patents numbered 974,675 and 974,676 issued to the same inventor on November 1, 1910.
- Plow.
- Patent for plow by using “a block located between the spaced beam-bars and serving not only as a spreader for holding the bars apart, but also constituting means whereby the standard or stock may be adjusted to different inclinations with relation to the beam. Another feature is a brace that rigidly holds the standard or stock in place and also forms strengthening means at the point of attachment of the handles to the beam to prevent vibration of the former, thus insuring a rigid and stable structure.” (Lines 25-36) Illustration is included.
- Plow.
- Patent for a plow, which has a stronger attachment for the share to the rest of the plow.
- Plow.
- Patent for a lightweight plow consisting of a skeleton beam and attached parts.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
- Potato Curing Apparatus.
- Patent for a potato-curing apparatus that includes container that allows air to circulate around inside of it.
- Roll Box for Cotton Gins.
- Patent for a new and improved roll-box for cotton gins. This design "is to provide for a cleaning of the seed-cotton at its first stage of ginning, and thus prepare the same for a more effectual cleaning at the second stage of the process after the same leaves the saws" (lines 24-28). It consists, "with the gin-ribs and the revolving saws working between said ribs, of an unyielding perforated breast-board arranged in front of said ribs and a supplemental perforated cleaning-board above said ribs opposite said breast-board, forming an inclosed seed-cotton chamber" (lines 73-79).
- Rotary Engine
- Patent for a rotary engine "that may be made to effectively employ the full expansive force of the steam or other motive fluid in a uniform manner" (lines 12-14). Illustrations included.
- Rotary Engine
- Patent for a rotary engine. Illustration included.