Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.

Patent for "attachments for planters, cultivators and the like" (lines 8-10) "whereby the implement will be permitted to yield to uneven ground" (lines 11-12).

Patent for a boiler compound for purifying water in steam boilers, with ingredients included.

Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included

Patent for an animal. Illustration included.

Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the below the car and one above.

Patent for a new and more effective brake for trains, with illustrations.

Patent for a new and improved book rest. This design consists "of an upright pivoted in a support or base, a sliding lower supporting cross-bar, an upper sliding supporting-bar, both bars having sockets upon their rear sides sliding upon the upright and provided with set-screws, and leaf-clamps consisting of a piece of spring doubled at one end to form slides sliding upon the arms of the upper cross-bar, forming curved yielding portions, forming transverse eyes at the other ends, having flat blocks hinged at the said eyes, and provided with thumb-pieces" (lines 72-83).

Patent for a writing instrument for writing on stacks of carbon paper, which need heavy pressure to show on all the pages.

Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.

Patent for the improvement of tobacco-stemming machines by providing "an arrangement for opening the leaves prior to being fed to the cutters" (lines 14-15).

Patent for a pneumatic system for automobiles for braking.

Patent for a grapple, a device "for handling brick - that is, for moving brick from one point to another" (lines 13-14).

Patent for improvements to hoisting grapples with the design focus on the "arrow-points or engaging ends" (lines 19-20) and the mechanics associated with the grapple design when in use. Patent includes illustrations of grapple in use.

Patent for a new and improved horseshoe. This design "consists in a horseshoe constructed with a base made in two parts, hinged together at their forward ends, and having a cap, also made in two parts, attached to the base, the parts of the cap being provided at their upper forward corners with eyes and a fastening staple, and the hinged parts of the base being locked in place by a screw-rod passing through the hinged end of the base, whereby the shoe can be readily applied and detached, and will be securely held in place" (lines 22-33).

Patent for a device to mulch the ground and kill insects, especially for cotton plants. The device is meant to drag behind a cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved railroad spike. This design consists in "[a] spike for securing a railroad-rail, having a lower portion, having a shoulder, and a right-angular arm for resting against the base-flange of a rail, and the arm or extension" (lines 60-64).

Patent for a drag saw. Illustrations included.