The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-27
SOME CURIOUS PATENTS

An interesting centennial was over
looked n few days ago. The first 100 years
of American patents was completed this
month. Patent No. 1 was issued April 10,
1870. The century closed with No. 425,395.
In the first half of the 100 years the
patent avs were not SO encouraging. In
fifty years only 12,421 patents Were issued.
But we are now making up lost time.
There were issued last year 22,0S0 patents.
The United States Patent Office paid ex-
penses from the fees taken In n laid up
a balance of q clean S2J0,OO0 in the year
1889.
Instead of American ingenuity exhaust
ing itself, the exercise of it seems to make
it more prolific. Every year shows n
larger number of inventions than the year
which preceded il. Here are a few of the
novelties which have been patented since
since 1880 began, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The approach of fly time has suggested
an idea for a cow-tail holder. A clamp
like a ~clothes-pin catches The bushy end
of the tail, and two cords with a snap at
tachment fasten Ia tail to the cows leg,
To a post or to the m~ilking-stool.
The same day that the Nebraska man
got his patent for a cow-tail holder, a
man in Maine got one for the same end.
The Maine mans tail-holder is made of a
single piece of wire, coiled SO as To con-
meet the tail with the cows leg.
Any one might guess that a Kentucky
man is entitled To the credit which at
taches to the invention of a combined
~ink-stand, pistol case and burglar alarm"
No Kentucky editors desk should be with
out il. The application may be Illus
tratcd: An editor sits at his desk writing.
One of the Hatfields or N of the Nc
Coys enters to ask a correction of the re-
rnt,nrt ahnnt that rpw nVqr on Hail.
for-Sartin creek. The editor reacl es
forward, as il to dip his pen in
the ink. He touches a spring in the top
OF the ink-stand. A shallow drawer flies
open towards him and his hand drops.upon
the revolver. AT the same time the alarm
goes off like one of those new devices to
call people at 5 n. m. i'm country hotels.
The mountaineer jumps back as IL he
heard the b-r-r-r of a ~rattler, and before
he RECEIVERS, he is covered. The editor is
master of the situation. The inventor
lives in Louisville.
An umbrella drip cup is a simple con-
trivance which looks as IL il might be
practicable. II slips over the ferule of
the umbrella and catches the water
which usually forms an ugly pool O n the
floor.
Patents keep pace with the fashions.
Eighteen months q there were granted
half a dozen patents a week for bustles.
At the present lime the patents for this
onc Indispensable article Of feminine
p,,t !, soo,ns as 10 ali ~ The ;p,antors VOL,
were working ont new IDEAS in bustles
hal turned their attention To -.o;u-onerat.
ing mechanism. Ii is a rare wee m
the patent Office does not add two or more
are now over iOO OF these slot devices nro.
tected by letters.
A handcar which moves along the tracks
and mows weeds 15 feet ava is n OF
the innovations in railroad machinery. II
,r;l, 10 10 90 ,or, y.oll ,,;,L ,ha 49, :,
snow nIow ns an iiIus,ration of amtomatic
;n,oI,;ganca
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