The morning times., 1896-03-21
UNIQUE ideas PATENTED
Some Queer Things Bright Minds
Have Thought Out.
NOW GUARDED BY THE LAW
One Mans Hat Is to BE Charged With
Electricity, 10 BE Used on Darh
Nignts-Another Has Flying Ma
chine Sure-An Elevator Device
Among Them.

Among 474 inventions upon which the
Commissioner OF Patents acted fayoraoiy
this week are to be found some very unique
and queer and others OF great Importance
Perhaps the oldest invention, which was
pateRted last Tuesday, is the electric eye
glasses of c. E. Quimby, aud its patent
number is Dot, 6,693. Quimby's scheme is
to convert man into veritable perambs-
lating night owl, and he proceeds TO TINS
end in this way:
Into a mans hat is TO be fitted smaH
but strong electric plant or battery, the
wires of which are to pass about the cir
conference of the top OF the head, thus
crowning the individual with charges OF
domestic lightning. Then two miniature IN
candescent electric lamps, having a re-
flector on one side aid an orlfice On 'he
other. and mounted on spectacle frames
are placed on the nose, so each lamp VIII
fail in front of either eye. The electric1S
then manifests itself in bright giafeS Oh
light from the lamps on the line OF Nlsion
OF the party wearing Quimby'S apparatus
Thus equipped, the inventor cialilS' ipin
NAV see far ahead aud traverse the DARK
est road or grotto without trouble
The automatic air-pump for bicycles pat
ented by Walter A FL. Osborne OF New iork
CITY will doubtless prove boon Tor cy-
clers The rear cycle wheel operates tue
nump. which is TO be affixed TO the frame
of the bicylce whenever I'm motion, ana II
is practically Impossible TO lose the
wind from the wheel tires, as the pump
i always connected by tubes TO the tires,
and consequently they remain inflated at
all times or until perforated or cut.
A FLYING MACHINE.
Manoel V Coutinho OF Para, Brazil, re-
ceived letters patent from Uncle Sam TINS
week for flying machine, which, It's IN
yentor claims, "wm fly" The Brazilian
scientist in his air ship uses nat bailooh,
poised in such a way that 1t Is a natural
aeropane. Halyards hold the car ana con-
tain sails and wheels. Senor Coutinho AYERS
that he has readily discovered the long
sought solution of aerial navigation ID his
! ''aerostat."
w. r. Dales. q New Yorker, is respon-
/ sible for a bait protector in the form OF
conglomeration of screws, wires and hooks
| TO encompass the bait on an anglers line
and prevent said bait from swimming Off
! its hook and other fish from carrying il
away piecemeal.
= patent has also been granted TO the Ia
nous Count A. Gray of New South Wales
for his race starter" a barrier OF cross
/ wires strung from slide posts are To be
/ Dlaced in this invention across the track
near the ground, and the horses line up
behind il with their noses nearthe starter.
At The opportune moment a handle is re-
leased and the wires spring up above the
horses heads, allowing all the participants
in the race 30 start abreast
In Albert A. Woods Atlanta invention
/ the inventor claims he has discovered per
petual motion. This ingenious AtlautaiaI
places i tank at each end of an equally
balanced bar or lever and pours quantity
of water in one tank. The side Of the Level
upon which that system is fixed. being theT
heavier, descends. AT the lowest point o
descent a valve or aperture is automatically
opened. allowing the water within the TAM
To flow out The motion of the lever in de
1 sccnding. in the meantime, is converted
into power To pump water into the highc
tank, and that, by force OF gravity, de
sccnds. This motion. states the inventor
continues Indefinitely and may be used a
power for mechanical propulsion.
ELEVATOR DEVICE.
Bad the invention OF August W. Meyer
OF Chicago been before the world before
the list OF those who have died from tn
effects of falls down elevator shaft
through careiessnesS would be more ab
breviated. Mr.. Meyers really importan
invention consists in an elevator shaf
door controlling device, which will no
permit a door leading to steep elevate
shaft TO remain open unless the elevate
is nearly on aIevel with the landing. Thus
should the elevator conductors, rs i
frequently the case, descend in the ca
and forget or neglect to close the doc
leading out into space from an uppe
floor, the door wearing Meyers devic
viii slide shut-of its own volihon, thu