San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-28
INVENTIONS NEEDED.
Evolve Some of These and Become a
Millionaire.

| 30 SASahO PiotOhs
An engine requiring less steam
than any now in use and at the
same time develop equal power.
A devise to use the exhaust
steam over again in engines. This
should be bonanza.
| A device for forcing water into
boilers that will not get out of
order and at the same time be
cheap and simple.
A cheap steam whistle that will
answer as well as the large COSTLY
ones now in use.
A cheap practical device to pre-
vent sparks, cinders and smoke
from leaving the smoke stack of
boilers and locomotives.
A ball-besring device for rail-
road car trucks that cannot get out
Of order and that can be taken out
and put in by an ordinary work.
man.
A ball bearing device for bug
gies, wagons, etc., that anyone can
take out and put in quickly and
easily and that cannot get out of
order.
A ball-bearing device for bicycles
that can be easily adjusted and
that when once adjusted will re-
main so.
A pneumatic tire for bicycles,
outside rubber to be interviewer
with fine wire or other material
that can not possibly be punctur.
ed.
A pneumatic tire, as good as
those now in use, that can be sold
for about $3.50 per pair. Those
now in use cost $l4 per pair.
A spring steel tire as light as the
pneumatic tires that will ride as
easily.
A cheap practical machine for
setting plants, such as tobacco,
cabbage, tomatoes, celery, etc.
Would sell by the million.
A hand potato planter that Will
make a hole, drop the seed and
cover it by pressing on the handle
at top. Such q device must be
cheap and effective. Millions could
be sold.
A practical method of shipping
thin rind watermelons long dis
tances in perfect condition. Only
the thick rind varieties can now be
shipped and they are always of in
ferior quality. There are never
any choice watermelons on the
market in the northern cities, be-
cause all choice varieties are too
tender to carry we'll in cars as now
handled.
A crate or barrel for shipping
muskmelona, holding three BUSH
els, that will prevent shaking and
MASKING when shipped long dis
tances.
A cheap, practical method of fill
ing cars with fruits, melons, vege-
tables and other perishable stuff,
with carbonic acid, gas or other
preventative that will not injure
the contents of the car. This
would be great boon to shippers.
1t has heen done in an experiment
al way, but no practical method
has yet been devised.
A practical pillow that can be run
by electricity cheaply.
A practical electrical apparatus
that can be used for drawing rakes,
harrows, reapers, carriages, wag-
ons, etc, in the place of horses.
something cheap, simple, easily
operated and that can be made to
go fact or slow in any rolling field
free from stumps, boulders, ETC.,
or on any ordinary country road,
Is what Is wanted.
An electric miners lamp that
can be hung on the hat, cap or car
ried in the hand as ordinary oil
lamps. 1t must be light, cheap
and not be liable to get out of or.
der. 1t must be so constructed
that 1t can be knocked over, let it
fall and handled roughly, as min.
er's lamps have to be, and at the
same time not be injured. Such
lamp is In demand by millions of
coal and other miners all over the
world.
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