The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-05
PATENT REMINDERS.
SOME FUNNY THINGS WHICH IN.
VENTOSS HAVE MACE.

gagements-ManyD evioeS for the Con
yenience of Sleepy Heads-ope to Thwsrt
the Grave Robber.
Psychologists assert that civilized hu
man beings are growing more absent.
minded. The average man of intelli-
genco today is not alert, not so con-
scious of his immediate environments,
as he was century ago. He does more
thinking than he did then, and great.
er part Of his business in life is left TO
the purely mechanical brain functions
The inventors, always step ahead Of
the requirements of the times, are al.
ready at work devising contrivances to
summon absent attention. One of the
latest of these is bracelet that has an
alarm watch attached to it. The wearer.
having an engagement at certain hour.
sets the watch, and when the time ar
rives little needle point pricks her
arm and reminds her of the duty.
At the patent office large class of
inventions is comprised under the head
OF "alarms" these being machines by
which persons who otherwise would not
think are made to think. The average
individual is obliged, however unwill-
ingly, to get up ct a certain time in the
morning. To provide for this require
ment many ingenious persons have APP
piled their talents to the production of
contrivances for awakening people and
compelling them to arise. There is a
kind of bedstead, for example, which
holds its mattress in frame that is re.
tanned in the normal position by a catch.
AT the proper hour the catch, operated
by clockwork mechanism, loses its
grip, and the mattress frame becomes
vertical instead of horizontal, throwing
sleepy head out upon the floor.
There is another sort of bed which |
lets the head Of the sleepy person drop |
when getting up time arrives, one end |
OF the mattress frame collapsing. But |
one of the queerest of the patented |
methods of waking people up involves
the employment of tin pan and a
weight hung by cord. When the
hands OF clock reach q certain point,
the weight is released and falls upon
the pan, making q direful racket. An.
other oddly is frame from which are
number of corks. During |
the night it is lowered gradually by a
clockwork mechanism until at the |
proper hour and minute the dangling
corks begin to beb against the nose and |
face of the sleeper. OF course he wakes
up. The most obvious advantage of
'hese sleep alarms is that they render
anxiety on the part of the sleeper un. !
necessary, so far as rising is concerned.
lie can snooze undisturbed by the neces.
ity of watching himself G
Hayseed visitors in the city will in. c
list on blowing out the gas notwith. +
landing all the newspaper jokes on the e
ubJect. To provide against such acct.
ents, citizen of Ashland, Wis, has L
Invented a little apparatus that is in. I
ended to be attached to every gas fix. i
nre in hotel. The breath of person y
Tho attempts to blow out the gas tits a
delicately balanced electrode and b
loses circuit, giving an alarm in the | n
lice. Another kind of alarm, patented s.
Chicago man, notifies the house. {,
older of escaping gas. If you are Ii
raid of pickpockets, you can obtain t,
rejection by wearing small machine B
lat makes o big disturbance in case cl
lybody tries to put his hand into your ii
)cket. II
Even after death you may find alarms d
service. If grave robber comes ii
ong torpedo placed in the coffin for al
at purpose will blow him to smither. ii
Ms. Surprising that the disturbance Ia
axes you to life again, a clockwork fc
will start bell to ringing. In
lille red flag runs up to the top of la
tombstone, giving notice that a M
ompt resurrection is desired Speak Ia
Ct waking up suggests mention OF "
me ODD contrivances fer doing neces. CIV
~ things before getting out of bed in eli
morning. One of those, patented by Il,
azy Vermonter, enables one 60 turn on
the draft of a stove or furnace and
en- turn over for supplementary til
Ooze. This, however, is a primitive In
ntrivance compaSd with the inven. err
N OF a resident. sf Providence which su
Divides for the feeding q a whole sta. 81
'ful OF live stock at daybreak. Mr. pa
eepy Head simply tgrns on his pillow it,
q jerks cSSd, which opens valve th
the stable and lets down the requisite FL
antity OF feed into trough.
There's are quite a npsber of nven.
ms f9r lighting the fire in the morn.
without getting, out of bed. They to
all operated by clockYprk. The best b,
them is credited to am illinois genius.
clock is set for, a c&tain time, and
len the proper minute is reached the
throws a lever. which
AVIS match across a piece Of sandpa ~,
and ignites the kidding Zone Of the
est patents il for street lampwhiSh ra
clockwofk apparatus attached to ara
40 the correct moment fousvhich th
machine is set it closes an electric hr
cult, at the same time opening the 90
pipe. Immediately the gas is ipnit. ~
and it burns until shut of by the a.,
ckwork at daybseak In the norniffCN
this way the street lamps all over a an
may be made to light themselves 60,
lultaneously without the interysn.
OF human hands. q
citizen Of Austin is the author OF
OF water clock that is wound bv ~.
D. On the roGs of house is trough Wv