The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-02
FORTUNES AT AUCTION.
A Sale of Patent Rights In New York
Queer Products of Yankee Ingenuity.

A Sale of Patent Rights IN New York
Queer Products of Yankee Ingenuity.
An auction sale of patent rights was
recently held in New York, at which lis
different inventions were put up. Sew
eral were Withdrawn, but the remainder
realized an aggregate Of over $50, 000
There was very full attendance from
all parts of the country. and bidding was
spirited. Az automatic Hanvas.gfrebcb.
er, for keeping pictures straight, was
sold for $50. An improvement. by
means of which, it is claimed, fruits.
vegetables, berries, etc., may be pre-
served in their natural state an indefinite
length of time, brought 1926. A CON-
bined cane and signal-fag realized S75.
The half interest in an invention which
Consists in providing velocipedes with
shafts in which detachable wooden
horses are geared" turned out to be
worth 1876. A lamp collar, which adj
mits of filing the lamp with oil without
unscrewing the burner, brought $40.
The right to manufacture an improved
churn anywhere in the United States.
except Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, sold
for $500, and the patent right for New
York of an improved water elevator, de-
scribed as complete water-works in
ITSELF" brought $3.50. A combination of
the rule and square sold for $35; an in
vention permitting the blade to be re-
moved from and inserted in the handle
OF pocket-knife at will, for $50; a
folding iron bedstead. convertible into
table, for $3.50; combined sash-fastener
and balance, for $3.50; a pocket-knife
with a detachable milestone and saw
blade, for 1926; an improvement in brick
machines, guaranteed to make from 75,-
600 to loo, 600 properly pressed brick per
day, for $500; sash-fastener which
permits the window being locked while
open, for 1926; portable fre-escape,
with numerous approvals and Centen-
NAL diploma, for 81 $50; an improved
earth-closet, in which the dust cannot
rise and settle on the seat, for $500; an
Improvement in balancing the keys of
pianos, for 1910; chemical printers ink
which changes color if any attempt is
made to alter document, for SITS; a
acknowledgement paper which renders
writing indelible and changes color on
attempted alteration, for $500; design
for checks which precludes the POSSIBLE
1ty OF adding larger amounts than that
for which it was first drawn, for $3.50;
an invention for making hats out of wood,
for 1926; the rights of New York and
New England, except Massachusetts,
OF an improved oil-cup, for 1915;
an improved rubber pad for steps,
sidewalks, ETC., for $17O; shoe-pasting
machine, for $3.50; q corn-planter that
will not clog, for $175; fve-eighths inter
est in an improvement in car-brakes, for
1926; an improved reversible pillow, for
So, 900; an improvement in seed and fertil-
izer sewers, 81 $50; an improved lifting
jack, for $3.50; new game, in which
soldiers are the pieces, for $3.50; pocket
folding kite, for children going into the
country, for $500; liver and blood
tonic, for $170; travellers sleeping col
lar, to enable persons to sleep in the
seats Of railway cars, for 1926,
and an improved cutting implement
(New England States reserved, for 800. |
These were the principal patents dis
posed of. Several curious and useful
articles were passed or withdrawn. One
was machine for cleaning boots by
wholesale. Another was a spring at
tached to o music-rack or piano, the
touching of which turns leaf of music
Instantly. Another was railway switch
which, if left accidentally open, is closed
by the locomotive, making it impossible
to run train off the track. Another was
a combined traveling-bag and bath-tub.
Another was stove-leg on casters for
moving a stove about. Another was a
burner for burning vapor without wick
or chimney, and giving light fully
equal to coal gas at a cost of 45 cents
per l 1000 feet