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- Agricultural Implement dated September 17, 1918
- Patent for agricultural implement used for tilling the soil so as to prepare the land for planting. It is used to reduce clods, loosens, and levels the soil.
- Alarm.
- Patent for an alarm designed to attach to windows or entryways and sound to alert residents of a burglary attempt, with illustrations.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap that requires the animal to fully enter the jaws of the trap to reach the bait and that reliably springs the trap upon the entrance of an animal but not when refilling the bait in the trap.
- Automatic Air-Brake Coupling
- Patent for an air-brake coupling for railroad cars which connects cars automatically and can be fully controlled by the train engineer in the engine.
- Automatic Train-Stopping Mechanism.
- Patent for an affordable and easily operable mechanical train stopper designed to be installed directly on a locomotive.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a baling-press meant to bale cotton. In this machine, "the power as applied to the plunger is increased in proportion to the resistance offered by the material being baled and whereby the forward movement of the plunger is automatically checked at the limit of its path and is returned to its initial positioin without effort upon the part of the operator" (lines 10-17).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a baling-press for cotton and uses a compression chamber and a head or compressor block to compress the cotton. The invention is more effective and more expeditious than other baling-presses.
- Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.
- Patent for an expansion bit for a well-drilling apparatus that can be "adjusted and removed without without withdrawing the well tubing, and to provide means whereby a bit capable of drilling a hole sufficiently larger than the well tubing to accommodate a casing may be introduced through the tubing" (lines 11-16).
- Buggy Top Support
- Patent for a buggy top support. Illustration included.
- Buggy-Top Support.
- Patent for buggy-top support by providing a device that can “secure the folding top of any vehicle and will protect the bows from strain and breakage, when in lowered position and will also prevent all rattling of and shocks of the folding top.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
- Burglar-Alarm.
- Patent for a portable device that can be hung on a door knob and sound an alarm when the knob is turned, including instructions and illustrations.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in car-couplings “with means for elevating the coupling-link without the necessity of the brakeman going between the cars, and also to provide means for holding the coupling-pin out of engagement with the link when the cars are uncoupled, said pin being automatically released when the cars come together, so that it will fall by gravity and engage with said link.” (Lines 17-25) Illustration is included.
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design relates "especially to that class known as 'gravity-pin supports;' and the object thereof is to provide improved means for supporting the pin so that it can be operated from the top of the car, or so that it will drop automatically when two cars come together" (lines 9-14). It consists, "with the coupling-pin and a supporting-arm pivotally connected to the draw-head and to the upper end of said pin, of a weight carried by said arm, and means . . . for supporting said weight and for tripping it" (lines 6-12).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a combination of “a rod pivoted at its front end to the side of the draw-head and pivotally connected at its rear end..... when the draw-head is driven to the rear by the force of the blow received in coupling with another draw-head, the lug will be pressed to the front,” (lines 30-40) illustration is included.
- Carpenter's Jack
- Patent for a carpenter's jack specifically designed for "carpenters or workmen in laying flooring, putting up siding, or any similar operations" (lines 9-11).
- Carriage Top Support
- Patent for a carriage top support. This carriage top support is designed "with sufficient resiliency to take up all the jolts and strains between the body and the top" (line 16-18). Illustration included.
- Carton
- Patent for improvements made to a carton such as an inclusion of a wrapper and retaining strip to protect and hold valuable objects such as glass along with various other improvements to the overall construction of the carton.
- Carton.
- Patent for cartons, specifically cartons belonging to "the class of collapsible safety wrappers for bottles or other fragile articles." (lines 9-10).
- Carton.
- Patent for a carton used to carry bottles or other fragile containers in a manner that prevents spillage, breakage, or other type of damage to befall the bottles and their contents, includes illustrations.
- Chuck.
- Patent for a chuck used with a jewelers lathe to hold watch crystals in place while cutting them down to size.
- Clevis.
- Patent for improvements in clevises in which a clevis can be used upon plows or harrows. When it is used, it “will obviate the necessity of using links or open rings in connection with the clevis and the singletree, as well as enable the plowman to cause his plow to run in the soil any desired depth or to cut a narrow or wide furrow.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
- Closure for Cistern-Cleaners
- Patent for a closing mechanism for cistern and well cleaners. Illustrations included.
- Compound for Removing Grease and Stains.
- Patent for a compound to remove grease and stains from wood and fabric. Includes instructions.
- Cotton Chopper
- Patent for cotton choppers. This invention is adapted to be attached to a double shovel cultivator so that the chopper will rotate so as to protect plants. Illustrations included.
- Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for "a machine of this class which chall be simple, inexpensive, and efficient in operation" (lines 9-11).
- Cotton-Cultivator Attachment.
- Patent for a cotton cultivator attachment, which allows sections of plants to be left intact or plowed under as desired.
- Cotton-Press
- Patent for a simple cotton press that is adapted to be run from the same source of power as the gin so that the plunger operates automatically (lines 12-16).
- Cotton-Seed Planter
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. The design "in which the cotton-seeds in the hopper is fed down through the feed-opening of the same by vibrating teeth." (p. 1; lines 15-17) including instructions and illustrations.
- Coupling
- Patent for a coupler designed to connect the pipes of train cars. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for an attachment to a cultivator. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for a cultivator attachment. This invention is used to provide stalk-cutting the stalks and chopping of cotton. Illustration included.
- Facing-Slip and Label Holder.
- Patent for improvements “in facing-slip and label holders to be used by mailing and postal clerks” (lines 13-14) “by providing a convenient and readily-accessible means in applying the facing-slips to packages of mail-matter and to adapt such holders for placement with respect to a case of letter-box as to always have such slips and labels with the receptacle containing the letters to receive a slip corresponding with such mail-matter.” (Lines 16-23) Illustration is included.
- Fencing - Machine
- Patent for a new and useful Wire-Fence Machine, including illustrations and instructions.
- Foot Rest for School Desks
- Patent for foot rest that will elevate the feet of a studying student while they are at the desk.
- Hay Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination, with the side walls, of the stop-blocks comprising the places secured in recesses in the same, and the offsets formed integrally with the said plates, the plunger having recesses in its sides which engage said offsets, the operating-lever, and the pitman connecting the latter to the plunger" (lines 93-100).
- Hay Press.
- Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists in "the frame having the pulley, the follower having the pulleys, and the shaft having the loose drums . . . means for locking either of the said drums to the said shaft, the rope attached to the drum and passing over the pulley with which the follower is provided, and secured to an immovable object, and the rope attached to the drum, passed over the pulley and attached to the follower" (lines 27-35).
- Hunting Lamp.
- Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).
- Improved Millstone-Dress.
- Patent for an improved millstone dress which allows "the grain [to be] more thoroughly ground, and a larger product of flour [to be] obtained from a given quantity of grain." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for improving a butter church mechanism.
- Improvement in Collapsible Wagon-Bodies.
- Patent for improvements in collapsible wagon-bodies that will require less labor to use.
- Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator.
- Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators.
- Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues
- Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
- Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
- Improvement in Levers for Presses.
- Patent for improvements on locks and fasteners of shutters.
- Mail-Box.
- Patent for a mail box, which is movable to allow it to be drawn closer to the road for mail delivery and then put back in its original position.
- Mail-Box Hanger
- Patent for a mail box hanger for mailboxes that allows the mailman to easily deliver mail to them.
- Oil-Tank
- Patent for an oil tank.
- Planter Attachment For Cultivators
- Patent for a planter attachment for cultivators. Illustration included.
- Plow.
- Patent for a subsoil plow that is adjustable and includes a root cutter.
- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam and plow, of the semicircular stay-brace pivotally secured to the beam at one end and at the other end formed with a slot and a horizontal portion extending across the top of the beam, the bolt passed through the slot into the beam, the colter, and the adjustable wedge-shaped block having a plurality of depressions upon its inner face to receive the horizontal portion of the brace" (lines 81-90).