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- Adjustable Pilot.
- Patent for Improvements in Adjustable Pilot for locomotives
- Advertising-Fan.
- Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Brake
- Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
- Air-Valve Cage for Air-Brake Pumps
- Patent for an air valve cage for air brake pumps which reduces the wear on the air brake pump and substantially reduces the maintenance costs of the system.
- Angle Cock Device
- Patent for "stop cocks for controlling the flow of fluids and more particularly to what are known as angle cocks for use in train pipes of air brake and other fluid pressure systems upon railway cars" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
- Automatic Air-Brake Coupling
- Patent for "improved automatic pipe-coupling which shall overcome the difficulties found in the devices of this class heretofore in use, and which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, simple in construction, and extremely effective in use and operation" (lines 27-33).
- Axle-Box.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable wheel-axle box that is "adapted to contain a supply of lubricating material and constructed to feed the same continuously to the axle-spindle to prevent overheating, and furthermore, to provide means for preventing ingress of dust" (lines 9-14).
- Axle-Box.
- Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).
- Back-Pad.
- Patent for an inexpensive and simple concave back-pad meant to be used between the horse and the saddle. The design of the invention makes saddles stay in place.
- Balance-Staff for Watches.
- Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a baling press that has an improved plunger.
- Beamless Brake
- Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
- Beamless Brake Mechanism
- Patent for a beamless brake mechanism. Illustration included.
- Body-Bolster
- Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
- Boiler Washing Machine.
- Patent for "Improved Washing Machine" in combination with a boiler, "and with a furnace on which the boiler rests".
- Bridge.
- Patent for a new and improved bridge. This design consists in "the combination, with the base, stringers, the top arched bars, and the upright tie-bars, of the intermediate stringers, arched bars, and their horizontal tie-bars, and wedge-keys . . . whereby the structure is greatly strengthened" (lines 85-91).
- Broom-Rack.
- Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
- Car-Brake
- Patent for new and useful improvements for Caboose Cars' brakes. The brakes can be applied from within the car, and no strain is applied to the car frame or body.
- Car Brake
- Patent for a car brake for train cars. Illustrations included.
- Car Construction.
- Patent for "a construction which will permit the speedy and easy removal of brake supporting blocks or equivalent parts from the lower or floor frame of a car and the substitution of others without displacement or injury of other parts of the car." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is of "an automatic car-coupling pin that can be adjusted and used for coupling cars having the ordinary draw-bars and coupling pins" (lines 10-13).
- Car Coupling
- Patent for a coupling mechanism for rail cars. Illustration included.
- Car Door
- Patent for a rail-car door. This invention is in relation to 'flush doors'. Illustration includes.
- Car Door Fastener
- Patent for a car door fastener. Illustration included.
- Car Door Fastening.
- Patent for a new and improved car-door fastening. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a staple, a hook-hasp, key, and a key-plate, whereby several advantages are obtained . . . for securing the sliding doors of box-cars and other railway-cars" (lines 8-14).
- Carling-Socket for Car-Frames.
- Patent for improvements to "carlings for the roofs of cars, such as used for transporting live or dead freight," (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
- Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.
- Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
- Churn
- Patent for a churn designed for churning butter in smaller quantities and preventing foreign objects from entering. Illustrations included.
- Churn-Dasher.
- Patent for "a dasher that the force required to operate it may be varied and the time necessary to churn the butter be shortened as the force operating the dasher is increased." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cinder and Smoke Consuming Apparatus.
- Patent for "devices for conducting exhaust steam, gases and cinders to the fire place of a boiler and is primarily intended for use in locomotive boilers, and its object is to increase the efficiency of such apparatus" (lines 11-16).
- Combination Measuring and Transfer Tank Pump
- Patent for a combination measure and transfer tank pump to be used for the transferring of oil from one container to another.
- Combination Motion-Picture and Sound-Reproducing Mechanism.
- Patent for a connecting mechanism between the motion picture and sound reproducing mechanisms. If the two get out of sync, there are manually operable means to halting one until the other has caught up.
- Compressor.
- Patent for a refrigerating machine compressor, which compresses more gas, cools the compressor with the incoming gas, and uses excess heat to dry the gas coming in.
- Connector for Lamps
- Patent for a connector for headlights that allows them to turn and to be operated from one location in the car.
- Conveyer.
- Patent for a new conveyer design “which is particularly adapted to load or unload railroad-car wheels or other heavy material on and of cars” (Lines 13-15) including illustrations.
- Cotton Gin.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "consists in the combination of the bevel-edged boards with the saws and brush, so as to facilitate the transfer of the cotton from the saws to the arc-shaped support consisting of the bevel-edged boards set at a short distance apart, and to thus straighten the fiber or lint. This gives the lint cotton a finer and lighter appearance, causing a ready allowance of a considerable addition to the usual price" (lines 8-17).
- Device For Teaching Music.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in devices for use in teaching music.
- Draft-Beam for Cars.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in draft beams for cars, including instructions and illustrations.
- Draft-Gear for Railway Cars
- Patent for a draft gear for railway cars that allows a simple and efficient means of repairs or substitutions of sills or beams that may be done without dissociating the draft bar so that a car may not be out of commission for a considerable length of time.
- Draft Or Buffing Gear Or Rigging For Cars
- Patent for a draft or buffing gear or rigging for rail cars. Illustrations included.
- Draft Rigging for Railway Cars
- Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
- Electric Hammer.
- Patent for an electric hammer operated by magnetic pull.
- Electric-Heated Steering-Wheel.
- Patent for a steering wheel with an electrical heating unit for an automobile.
- Electric Light Switch.
- Patent for an improved electric switch that is used to energize electric lights for various purposes and for use in connection with a signaling system. This switch will permit the energization of any one of the lights separately or all lights simultaneously.
- Ever-Level Table.
- Patent for tables designed for trains or ships where it is important for maintaining the table top constantly level. It allows for the top to be held constantly level and for maintaining its position without sudden movement or causing overbalancing.
- Excavator.
- Patent for an excavator that quickly and without much effort shifts dirt and "can be readily and easily employed for such purposes as building embankments or levees or for excavating extensive or large areas" (lines 19-22).
- Expansion Reamer
- Patent for expansion reamer provides scope for a better and improved expansion reamer.
- Fire Box For Boilers
- Patent for a fire box for boilers. Illustration included.
- Freight Car Door
- Patent for a freight car door. Illustration included.
- Gate
- Patent for a gate. This inventions is designed to be open without having to dismount from horseback or from a vehicle.