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- Attachment for Cultivators
- Patent for attachment for cultivators. The invention allows a cultivator's shovel to be spaced apart to facilitate the plowing of corn, cotton, and other similar products.
- Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine
- Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
- Back-Brace
- Patent for improvement on back braces, specifically to improve the performances of people who repeatedly stoop for their jobs. The back brace aims to relieve the stress on back muscles.
- Bale-Tie Buckle
- Patent for a bale-tie buckle.
- Churn-Motor
- Patent for a spring motor intended to operate churns. It has a quality which allows it to be stopped or interrupted during its operation.
- Cigar-Box Clip.
- Patent for an inexpensive improvement to cigar box clips or clamps, that will make it easier for the box to be left open at a tilted angle, for the purpose of displaying the cigars or other objects inside.
- Condenser for Cotton-Gins
- Patent for a condenser for cleaning cotton gins. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator
- Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
- Cultivator Attachment
- Patent for a combined cotton chopper and rolling fender to be attached to a cultivator. Illustrations included.
- Detector for Wireless Signaling Apparatus.
- Patent for wireless signaling apparatus which provides a detector which shall be universal in its application, by means of which any of the well known minerals or materials may be employed and removably held in proper position.
- Envelop.
- Patent for an adjustable envelop design for storing documents and articles. This is a design with flaps within the inner fold that are made to secure and protect the document. Straps that extend from the outer edge secure the outer flap over the contents as well as the inner protective flaps.
- Equilibrium-Retaining Device for Flying-Machines.
- Patent related to automatic means for maintaining equilibrium while operating heavier-than-air flying machines through the use of valves.
- Flexible Wire Mat.
- Patent for a flexible wire mat that is portable, loosely woven to shake out dirt and mud, and which prevents the edges form curling up to trip people.
- Hand-Transplanter
- Patent for a "manually operated device, adapted for the manipulation of small plants, during the transplanting of the same, and the thinning out of closely growing plants" (lines 9-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Ice-Cream Freezer.
- Patent for an improvement on ice cream freezer design in which casing an cream receptacles are mounted within the freezer unit. Special features include to agitate the cream receptacles as well as a mechanism keeping the freezing brine in constant circulation, resulting in an consistency in the quality and texture of the ice cream throughout.
- Improvements in Processes of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil
- Patent for a process to refine oil, specifically crude, cotton-seed oil, using caustic soda. Includes an explanation of how the process works.
- Insect-Destroyer.
- Patent for "an improved insect destroyer" ... "embodying a fuel supply and a burner for the purpose of destroying insects brushed from plants beside which the device is traveling" (lines 9, 11-14) including illustrations.
- Machine for Sharpening Cutlery.
- Patent for machine for sharpening cutlery that clamps object to be sharpened in a moveable carrier in position to be reciprocated between abrading members.
- Parachute.
- Patent for a type of parachute that may be used for a balloon, air ship, or a window of a building as a method of fire escape. The design is such that the parachute may be stored in a compact, unobtrusive way while not in use. This is made possible by mounting multiple parachutes, one above the other, in varied diameter.
- Pipe-Making Machine.
- Patent for pipe making machines in which "concrete, clay or shale is formed into pipe by a combined feeding and molding mechanism" (lines 17-19).
- Process of Removing Ink from Paper.
- Patent for a process of removing ink from paper that uses three chemical solutions that the paper is soaked in after an initial water bath to remove all the ink and produce paper pulp that can be recycled into new paper.
- Roller Bearing
- Patent for improvement on roller bearings that include spaced rings and multiple rollers.
- Roller-Bearing For Shafts.
- Patent for a roller-bearing that allows the thrust of a shaft to go in an outward direction.
- Roller-Drill
- Patent for a roller drill that has a roller spindle which is detachable.
- Roller Drill.
- Patent for roller drills that will leave a central core standing in the hole being formed composed of six cutting rollers.
- Scissors or Shears.
- Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
- Sewing-Awl.
- Patent for an improvement upon the sewing awl that is designed to work well with leather workers. The sewing awl is made to be "adaptable to work with a break or tension device, capable of restraining a thread holding spool against free rotation to prevent excessive undesirable slack or looseness of the thread" (lines 15-19) as illustrated and described.
- Show-Case.
- Patent for a show-case for cigars that can be opened at various points by levers.
- Smoothing-Iron.
- Patent for a redesigned smoothing iron. This includes the design of a hollow transparent body with heating elements. The elements are made of replaceable lights which heat the body as well as lighting up so that the unit may be used in a dimly lit room.
- Spring Wheel
- Patent for improvements on spring wheels especially those adapted for motor vehicles.
- Stalk-Cutter.
- Patent for a stalk-cutter that employs rotating breaking members to uproot the stalk and cut it rather than simply cutting the stalk and leaving the roots underground.
- Support for Compasses
- Patent for a support for compasses used for railway coaches. Illustrations included.
- Tire.
- Patent for a cushioned tire which may be attached without special tools to an automobile wheel when the regular is flat or damaged. It can fold up for easy storage, and then attach to the wheel rim using hinges, rods, and sockets.
- Trap.
- Patent for a trap for catching animals alive.
- Valve.
- Patent for a valve, comprised of a valve seat and a moving part that is made in such a way as to minimize wear and tear. The seat, which attaches to the pump stem, supports the value stem, which is then covered by a thimble that supports a rubber disk. This rubber disk helps prevent liquid and sand from wearing against the valve stem.
- Water-Motor.
- Patent for a water motor that is operated by the current.
- Wire Stretcher and Splicer.
- Patent for a wire stretcher and splicer for building fences and baling hay.