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- Adding Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved adding machine. This design "consists in the combination, with a box, of a spindle in the same, a sleeve surrounding the spindle, a hand on the spindle, a hand on the sleeve, devices for turning the spindle from the sleeve, a cog-wheel revolving from the spindle, and an extra hand in connection with the cog-wheel" (lines 10-16).
- Adding Machine
- Patent for a machine that adds numbers together using "key actuated accumulating wheels" to reach the desired sum, including illustrations.
- Adjustable Bench Hook.
- Patent for a new and improved bench hook. This design "consists in a bench-hook constructed with a plate carrying a sliding bar, to which is adjustably secured a hook. The sliding bar and hook are locked in place by a clamp and cam attached to the plate, and the plate and its attachments are locked to the bench-front by a stationary lug attached to the plate, and a moveable lug attached to a lever pivoted to the said plate and locked in place by a cam, so that the said hook can be readily adjusted upward, downward, forward, and backward" (lines 20-30).
- Adjustable Head Gate
- Patent for "an adjustable gate adapted to be used in connection with irrigation ditches" (lines 10-12).
- Adjustable Seat for Automobiles.
- Patent for the invention of adjustable seats for vehicles to provide a comfortable seating for travellers.
- Adjustable Vehicle-Headlight
- Patent for a headlight for a vehicle that is able to direct the light towards both sides of the road rather than only straight ahead.
- Advertising-Machine.
- Patent for an advertising machine that reverses the travel of the apron that is used to connect with, and where, the display sign is printed. It also easily and efficiently reverses the driving mechanism once the apron is completely unwound from one of the rollers. The patent includes illustrations.
- Agricultural Implement
- Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
- Agricultural Machine
- Patent for a tool to destroy weeds. This invention reuses several parts from farming tools.
- Air Blast Apparatus for Cotton Gins
- Patent for an air blast apparatus used for cleaning cotton gins. Illustration included.
- Animal Shears.
- Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design calls for a spring with eyes at the ends so that the handles of individual blades may be inserted through them. Then, nuts fasten the individual blades to the spring, which makes sharpening easier and breakage less likely.
- Animal Trap or Dip
- Patent for a trap for small animals. Illustrations included.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a tank of water to be buried in the ground and a collar of cheap material to be attached to the tank and placed over the mouth of an anthill. The concave nature of the collar prevents ants from climbing out of it, so they are forced into the water tank, where they drown; the design is cheaper and less toxic than previous designs.
- Ant Trap.
- Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "[a]n ant-trap, comprising the body and the inward-projecting tubes having the protecting-caps on their inner ends, the outer faces of the caps being convex and provided with apertures of greater diameter than the bore of the inner end of the tube" (lines 90-95).
- Anti Friction Journal.
- Patent for a new and improved anti-friction journal. This design "relates to anti-friction devices adapted especially for hoisting pulleys; and it has for its object to provide a device in which the shaft or axis of the main hoisting-pulley shall be supported or mounted upon the peripheries of wheels of a considerable diameter as compared with that of the hoisting-pulley, whereby the friction may be lessened to the greatest possible extent" (lines 24-32).
- Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil
- Patent for an apparatus for burning crude oil in stoves.
- Apparatus for Burning Garbage, &c.
- Patent for an improved apparatus for burning refuse and consists of a roasting chamber, a garbage grate, grates that slope and carry the product away after combustion, flues that open above the grates, and the wall partly closes on one end to let the products away after combustion.
- Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
- Apparatus For Forcing Fluid From Wells.
- Patent for a narrow device to use fluid dynamics to remove certain fluids without loss of others. The apparatus is let down the well until one end is submerged before pressurized with air to seperate fluids and bring oil up to the surface of the well.
- Apparatus for Killing Rodents
- Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
- Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe
- Patent for a motorized construction vehicle which has a cement mixer and a trench digger on it that allows for the continuous laying of concrete pipes for irrigation.
- Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material
- Patent for a device to remove foreign particles during the processing of cotton. Illustration included.
- Apparatus for the Treatment of Cotton.
- Patent for a machine that puts gins and condensers in a line, which sit over a flue. "The lint cotton in bat form being delivered from all of the condensers in independent bats to a common conveyer, the bat cotton increasing in thickness upon the common conveyer and in its travel to a press, compress or other receptacle, receiving the different bats from the different condensers, one bat lying smoothly upon the other, until at the discharge end of the common conveyer, the bat in which the lint is evenly distributed and which is of considerable thickness, will be conveniently discharged" (lines 13-24).
- Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton
- Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included
- Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c.
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for treating and preserving. This design "insure[s] the complete and perfect treatment or impregnation of timber of varying hardness and density, and to provide a portable organization of apparatus by which timber at various points or stations along the line of a railroad can be treated with great facility, efficiency, and economy" (lines 12-19).
- Artist's Easel and Attachable Rest.
- Patent for a new and improved easel and rest. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rest . . . of the bar pivoted to [a] holder by bolt, the perforated bar pivoted to [another] bar by [another] bolt, and the easel united to the [first] bar by a suitable round bolt" (lines 97-101).
- Attachment for Automobiles or Any Other Desired Vehicles.
- Patent for an attachment to automobiles to facilitate the attachment of luggage.
- Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for an attachment for plows, which "may be utilized as a cutter or the plow converted into a double-shovel plow," (lines 18-19) with instructions and illustrations.
- Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear
- Patent for
- Auger-Bit
- Patent for an auger bit used for boring holes. Illustrations included.
- Automatic Air Controlling Device
- Patent for an air controlling device that supplies air at a constant and unvarying pressure.
- Automatic Car Brake.
- Patent for a new and improved automatic car brake. This design "consists, first, in the combination of the draw-heads . . . connecting-rods . . . and a partially-rotating shaft provided with suitable slotted cams, which cams are attached to the brake-beams, so that when the draw-heads are forced inward or drawn out the brakes will move out of contact with the wheels; second, in the combination, with the slotted cams and a mechanism for moving them, of the rods which are connected thereto, and which pass through the brake-beams, the sliding sleeves, the springs, and the nuts" (lines 13-27).
- Automatic Car-Dump
- Patent for automatic dumpers that can be readily and inexpensively fitted and adapted to most forms of dump car.
- Automatic Cotton-Tramper
- Patent for an automatics cotton presser. Illustrations included.
- Automatic Density-Indicator for Slime-Pulp Separators.
- Patent for devices that thickens slimes for ore milling operations in which it will indicate the density and regulate it so it will not go below a predetermined value.
- Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.
- Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
- Automatic Railway Switch.
- Patent for providing the means for a switch to be actuated which will allow trains to enter or exit a siding of the track.
- Automatic Separating Device.
- Patent for an automatic separating device. This device operates with a link that connects the float level at the top of the tank with a valve handle at the bottom of the tank to control discharge from the tank.
- Automatic Slack-Take-Up and Cooling Device.
- Patent for new and useful improvements to Automatic Slack-Take-Up and Cooling Devices for the manufacturing of flexible roofing and other similar flexible materials, including illustrations.
- Automobile-Alarm.
- Patent for a device to prevent the theft of automobiles capable of producing audio and visual signals as warnings of unauthorized access.
- Automobile-Pump
- Patent for an automobile pump. This invention is designed for quick mounting and dismounting in order to lift an automobile to remove its tires. Illustrations included.
- Automobile Signal
- Patent for an automobile signal which can be attatched to an automobile to signal the automobiles driving intent, stopping, turning etc.
- Automobile-Signal
- Patent for a device to indicate the intention to make a turn in an automobile, with improvements made for nighttime usage, including illustrations.
- Automobile Signal
- Patent for the creation of signals to be used in conjunction with automobiles during traffic.
- Bale-Tie Buckle
- Patent for new and valuable improvements on bale-tie buckles for cotton bales. This relates to buckles securing ties on cotton bales and minimize injury to the persons handling the cotton.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in baling-presses by “simplify and strengthen the frame and operating parts, to secure a better distribution of the strains between the operating parts and the frame, and to increase the speed at which the press may be operated by permitting the platen to rise and fall to a limited extent independent of the power mechanism, so that after the loose fiber is introduced the platen may be dropped instantly a portion of the distance to effect a partial compression of the charge by its weight before bringing the power mechanism into play.” (Lines 17-29) Illustration is included.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for an improved bailing-press.
- Baling Press.
- Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for baling-presses to prevent the inward-drawing or centripetal movement of the fiber in a press of the roller type (lines 96-97) by “disposed intermediate of the rollers and within the plane of the baling-cylinder for opposing resistance to the inward movement of the fiber and overcoming to a greater or less extent the tendency of the upper layer of cotton to form waves or billows in advance of the rollers.” (Page 1, lines 101-102, page 2, lines 1-6.) Illustration is included.
- Ballast-Scraper.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in ballast scrapers, including instructions and illustrations.