Patent for a new and improved blacking brush. This design "relates to an improvement in boot-blacking brushes so disposed that fluid blacking may be used; and to this end [the design] provide[s] a reservoir at one end with a forwardly-projecting tube or nozzle therefrom, the said reservoir having a disk at one side, so that when pressed the liquid will be forced through the nozzle upon the boot" (lines 13-20).

Patent for "Compounds for the Manufacture of Artificial Stone...and it consists in composition formed by mixing certain materials in solution and treating them in further solutions" (lines 5-15).

Patent for improvement of spark-plugs, an automotive engine component.

Patent for "a light and convenient vehicle for the use of mail-collectors in cities, and for the transportation and delivery of parcels, milk, or other articles," (lines 8-12) with instructions and illustrations.

Patent for an improved type of keel construction, "of which the distance between the keel and covering-boards is equalized throughout the length of the vessel and a vessel of exceptional strength and advantageous construction is afforded." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a "self-regulating windmill, so arranged that it will automatically exclude the wind from the wheel during storms and irregular or sudden squalls of wind, while it will equally enlarge the opening through which the wind is admitted to the wheel, whenever the power of the wind is reduced." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a weed killing car that runs on a railroad track. It distributes herbicide along the line of the railroad track.

Patent for a train car that kills weeds on the tracks with illustrations included.

Patent for the improvement of bale-tie fastenings, including illustrations.

Patent for an improvement in hydraulic packing for use in hydraulic rams. Includes illustration and description.

Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).

Patent for a process for making salve from sheep sorrel leaves and stems in a copper pot that produces a medical paste.

Patent for invention of new and useful improvements of Push-Bars for Locomotives for coupling to car

Patent for improvements in the construction feeders for power printing presses.

Patent for improvements in treadle-press feeders "in which the feeder has to lay the paper on the platen and remove it after being printed" (lines 10-12).