Patent for the usefulness of baling press.

Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.

Patent for a churn actuated mechanism that is operated by means of a rocking chair.

Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.

Patent for an integrated air-venting commode.

Patent for a machine for tufting mattresses "whereby the tufts or washers are periodically fed to and affixed upon the feed-wheels between which the mattresses is intermittently advanced and compressed, said tufts being placed upon the mattress by the periodical fractional revolution of the feed-wheels and secured by stitching the entire transverse series of tufts by the automatic action of a series of needles, and a lower corresponding series of knotter-heads and devices co-operating therewith" (lines 11-21).

Patent for an improvement on a previous patent application (Serial No. 552,724), of which Patterson was an assignee. The improved and simply designed machine has a variety of assets, the main goal being to produce bats of uniformly thick and clean cotton.

Patent for a new and improved hydraulic propulsion. This design "is to provide an improved means for the application of the jet principle in the hydraulic propulsion of vessels; and it consists in the combination, with the hull of the vessel, of one or more main or trunk tubes arranged longitudinally to the vessel and of tapering shape, largest at its front end, which is open, and provided along its length with a series of nozzles opening along the side of the vessel in rearward direction, and one or more propeller-wheels arranged within the main tube and adapted to suck water in at the front" (lines 8-20).

Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).

Patent for "an improved crate for catching, loading and handling hogs and the like stock" (lines 14-16)

Patent for "an improved projectile for guns and ordnance of various classes and bores" (lines 7-9).

Patent for improvements to pneumatic pillows, specifically the ventilator within the pillow.

Patent for a new signaling mechanism to help warn people of an approaching train.

Patent for side roll curtains on foldable automobile tops. The invention's aim is to fit multiple sizes of vehicle tops and be able to be raised and lowered easily without interfering with the the vehicle top's folding function.

Patent for improvement in cotton-elevators by providing means for the air-conduit and the cotton-conduit to communicate with the body of the elevator; and means for the air-conduit to communicate directly to the cotton conduit in order to effectively and uniformly distribute the cotton when fed to the gins. Thus preventing the cotton from being fed unevenly, which would clog and otherwise retard the action of the gins. (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.