Patent for a railway switch that can be opened by a car or engine. Illustrations included.

Patent for a new and improved combined Bird-Cages and Fly-Traps. The improvements include the use of netting or wire gauze, making holes at the bottom of the cage to insert feed-cups or let flies in when the cage is used to catch flies, and placing a ring over the seed-cups in order to prevent insects or flies from getting into the cage when it is used as a bird-cage.

Patent for a book rack that can be used as book-rest.

Patent for a car coupling that separately joins two train cars together. illustrations included.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the driving devices and the pivoted dasher-operating lever, of the fly-wheel provided with a series of holes each of square contour throughout the greater part of its length, the wrist-pin shaped to fit in any one of said holes, the cap pivoted on the rear side of the fly-wheel and adapted to cover any one of the holes in which the pin may be placed, and the pitman attached to the wrist-pin and connecting the same with the pivoted lever" (lines 70-80).

Patent for a coil clothes-pin "capable of ready engagement and disengagement with and from the clothesline" and "which may be loosely and slidably mounted upon a clothesline".

Patent for a crown setter that can make impressions of varying sizes with the same tool.

Patent for cutting attachment for a plow, including illustrations.

Design patent for an insect-guard for furniture that is both useful and ornamental.

Patent for a differential driving mechanism which allows axles to rotate at different speeds, includes illustrations.

Patent for improvements to electric-arc lamps to regulate the feed of the carbon-carrying rod, with illustrations.

Patent for improving the performance of starter mechanisms for internal combustion engines.

Patent for a feed-cooler "relates to driers, and more especially to those having vertical shafts; and the object of the same is to produce a machine for cooling and drying molasses feed, hot grain or any granular feed substance or material containing heat or moisture or both" (lines 12-18).

Patent for fire extinguishing devices to "supplying steam to the fluid so that oxygen sufficient to support combustion will not reach the flame" (lines 14-16).

Patent for improvements to furnaces which use oil-fueled, stationary or locomotive boilers.

Patent for "a hitching device which can be applied to a strap between its ends and which is freely adjustable back and forth upon the strap without wearing or injuring the strap in any manner and to form a hitching device which consists of two entirely separate and distinct pieces, thus doing away with all joints, pivots, or other connections, and the necessity for forming holes or perforations of any kind in the strap." (Lines 22-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for improved railway car-brakes, including illustrations.

Patent for improvements to steam-engines that employ oscillating cylinders for the drive-shaft.

Patent for improvements in the construction of plow-beams to be attached to the front axles of a wagon.

Patent for new improvements for key ring clips that will not detach in a seated position.

Patent for a new and improved leaf-turner for sheet music. This design consists "of a rack having attached guides, the horizontally-slidable rods arranged in said guides, one above the other, the leaf-turning fingers carried by one end of said rods, the elastic cords connected with the other ends of said rods for retracting the fingers, devices for holding the rods against the tension of the cords, and a finger-piece for successively disengaging said holding devices" (lines 56-64).

Patent for valves on locomotives that allow the locomotive to continue to operate under specified conditions until it can be repaired or the locomotive has reached its destination, including illustrations.

Patent for a "method of applying a protective corn shuck wrapper to a cigar" (lines 97-98) including instructions and illustrations.

The present invention is directed to a novel neutron and gamma radiation shielding material consisting of 95 to 97% by weight SiO/sub 2/ and 5 to 3% by weight sodium silicate. In addition, the method of using this composition to provide a continuous neutron and gamma radiation shielding structure is disclosed.