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- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in animal traps, including instructions and illustrations.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal trap, particularly desgned for rodents and birds, which is able to trap animals without having to be manually reset each time. Illustrations included.
- Bale Tie.
- Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design is of a metal band with several slots, so that the accompanying metal button can pass through any two overlapping slots, securing the bale within the band.
- Box-Car-Door Fastener
- Patent for a box car door fastener.
- Burglar Alarm.
- Patent for a new and improved burglar alarm. This design "consists in the combination of the lock-frame with a pivoted plate which is connected to it at one end, and which plate carries the nipple to receive the catch, and is provided with sharp points to catch in the jamb of the door, with a sidewise-moving trigger, which is operated by the door, and a set-screw for securing the lock-plate in position upon the door" (lines 13-21).
- Car Coupler.
- Patent for a new and improver coupler for railroad cars. This design "consists, first, in a transversely-arranged bar supported by suitable hangers secured to the end of the car a suitable distance above the draw-bar, each end of said transverse bar being provided with hand-wheels having a notch on their outer periphery, with which engage weighed pawls suitably pivoted to the side of the car; secondly, in an arm extending from said transverse bar for supporting the link" (lines 22-31).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for an improved car coupling, including illustrations. "This invention relates to an improvement to car coupling, having for its object to effect the coupling of cars with facility and without danger to the operator, the coupling operation being performed automatically, and without requiring the passing of the operator between the cars" (lines 10-15).
- Car - Coupling.
- Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a lever pivoted in the front of the top of the draw-head and provided at its outer end with an aperture, through which the coupling-pin is passed into the aperture in the draw-head, below which lever another lever is pivoted, hanging vertically across the front-opening of the draw-head, and provided at the upper part of its inner edge with a projection, so that when the coupling-link pushes the lower lever inward the upper lever and the pin are raised, and drop as soon as the link has passed into the draw-head" (lines 10-21).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to a car-coupling constructed with draw-heads having stationary hooks and recesses in their sides, and provided with pivoted hooks held in place by springs, and provided with a trip plate and lever, and with chains and a lever, whereby the cars will couple themselves when run together, can be readily uncoupled, will uncouple themselves when thrown from the track, and can be prevented from coupling when run together" (lines 23-32).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design's "objects are, first, to couple cars of various altitudes; second, to couple the cars automatically; third, to uncouple from the top or side of the car; [and] fourth, to dispense with pins" (lines 16-20). It consists in a "draw-head [that] is provided with an elastic cover having a link-lifting arm secured thereto, a lever for oscillating said cover, performing the duplex function of disengaging the link and permitting its egress, a sloping projection from the base of said draw-head engaging the link on contact, and the bent link" (lines 51-58).
- Churn-Operating Mechanism.
- Patent for a churn operating mechanism, which can be attached to a wall.
- Clothes Pin
- Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
- Clothes-Pin
- Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
- Clothes-Pin.
- Patent for a wire clothes pin that is attached to the clothesline and is easily opened or closed to attach or remove clothes.
- Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.
- Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
- Combined Cotton, Corn,and Pea Planter and Fertilizer Distributer
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Combined Mowers and Seed Planter"(lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
- Compound Rail.
- Patent for a compound rail that's joints are as strong as the rest of the rail and prevent jolting when a train passes over the joint.
- Cotton-chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper. The text describes the construction of the machine and explains how it is different from current cotton choppers.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a device by which cotton can be easily, quickly and accurately chopped, "leaving cotton stands the distance apart for future cultivation and to insure the most rapid and satisfactory growth," (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
- Cotton Seed Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "consists in the combination of a front pair of scraping-wings attached to a central furrow-opener, a revolving biconical wheel for pressing open the furrow and operating a toothed or spiked seed stirring and distributing shaft, and a rear covering-roller having a concave periphery" (lines 18-24).
- Dress-Chart.
- Patent for dress-chart, with illustrations. The purpose of this dress-chart relating to "pattern charts for cutting any and all garments" regardless of man, woman, or child (lines 9-11).
- Extension-Bed.
- Patent for a "longitudinally extensible" (lines 12-13) bed. The extension is stored underneath the main portion of the bed when not in use and allows for the bed to be covered completely with netting to protect against mosquitos. Illustrations included.
- Fish-Trap
- Patent for a fish trap that may also be used to capture birds or various smaller animals. Illustrations included.
- Fish-Trap
- Patent for a fish trap. Illustrations included.
- Fish-Trap.
- Patent for a fish trap with a closure, which leads fish coming from any direction into the body of the trap.
- Fish-Trap.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and effective fish trap formed of wire fabric and fabric strips.
- Fish Trap
- Patent for a fish trap. Illustration included.
- Fruit-Picker.
- Patent for an inexpensive, efficient, and durable fruit-picker that picks small fruit and does not bruise them. The picker is easily operated.
- Gate.
- Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive swinging gate that is strong, durable, and doesn't sag. It can be fully opened and easily conteracted.
- Grain-Toller.
- Patent for a simple device that's placed in a grinding mill to automatically extract and regulate the amount of grain being withdrawn.
- Hay Press.
- Patent for improvements to a hay press to be manufactured easily and cheaply while maintaining its effectiveness in pressing hay into bales.
- Hoe.
- Patent for a new and improved hoe. This design consists in "[a] hoe having two blades, the upper blade having a straight cutting-edge projecting from the top of the main blade at an obtuse angle to the inner face of the lower blade and entirely within the plane thereof, and the shank" (lines 79-84).
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a new and improved construction and combination of parts used by machines that convert either into a cotton or corn planter, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improvement to cotton presses, including an illustration.
- Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
- Patent for an improvement in the construction of cotton-scrapers, "which is secured to the stock or standard so as to project out to one side of the cultivator-shovel" (lines 14-16) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for improved plow-stock applying multiple plow-irons to the same plow-frame.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for a new and improved turn-plow which "consists in several features of improvement, by which the preparation and tillage of soil may be done at less the usual expense, and more than the usual convenience to the farmer." (lines 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for the invention of a new and improved type of adjustable plow, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Portable Fences.
- Patent for portable fencing with sections that can be connected and set up in a particular area, or removed and put elsewhere at will.
- Indicator for Scales.
- Patent for a new and improved indicator for scales. This design "consists in a weighted rocker and indicating-arm combined with a scale-beam for operation thereby . . . [it has] for [its] object to dispense with the slides heretofore used and provide for an automatic indication of weight" (lines 8-14).
- Listing Attachment for Plows
- Patent for plow attachment to deflecting soil from the shovel of the plow; does not require special tools to apply attachment to plow.
- Lock
- Patent for a lock. Illustrations included.
- Lumber-Carrier
- Patent for an improved lumber carrier which, as the cart travels down hill with the weight of the lumber it is prevented from rolling backwards if it were to lose speed by engaging of pawls with notches to hold it in place. It can then be manually pushed to get it started again.
- Lumber-Drier
- Patent for "means adapted to superheat steam and supply it to a drying-chamber, substantially" (lines 28-30).
- Mail-Holder.
- Patent for a mail holder which has slots for different types of mail organized by letter, which can be carried in the mail delivery vehicle thus letting the mail only be sorted once.
- Means for Utilizing Electrical Energy
- Patent for a means of using electricity more efficiently, which entails "utilizing the extra current generated by the break in the circuit of an electromagnetic apparatus" (lines 16-18). Illustrations included.
- Means for Utilizing Electrical Energy
- Patent for an apparatus which consists of an electric motor that is operated by a battery and is designed to use electricity more efficiently. Illustrations included.
- Mixture For Fish-Baits.
- Patent for a coating for fish-bait of any kind which includes ingredients and instructions. The ingredients are water, asafeotida {(foul smelling gum resin from the root of several species of Ferula, a perennial herb) see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459456/}, oil of anise, and honey.
- Oil-Circulating Gage.
- Patent for an "oil circulating gage particularly designed for use in connection with the oiling system of the well known 'Ford' automobile."