Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-05-27
PATENT REMINDERS.
SOME FUNNY THINGS WHICH IN.
VENTORS HAVE MADE.

- man beings are growing moro absent
minded. The average man of intelli
gence 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 tc
the purely mechanical brain functions.
The inventors, always a 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 a bracelet that has an
alarm watch attached to it. The wearer
having an engagement at a certain hour,
sets the watch, and when the time ar.
rlves a little needle point pricks her
arm and reminds her of the duty.
AT the patent office a 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.
lngly, to get up at certain time in the
morning 10 provide for this require
ment many ingenious persons have ap-
Piled their talents to the production of
contrlyances for awakening people and
compelling them to arise. There is
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 a cord When the
hands OF clock reach certain point
the weight is released and falls upon
the pan, making a direful racket An
other oddly is frame from which are
suspended 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 bob against the nose and
face OF the sleeper. OF course he wakes
up. Tho most obvious advantage Of
these sleep alarms is that they render
on the part of the sleeper I'M
necessary, so far as rising is concerned.
tie can snooze undisturbed by the neces- ,
ity of watching himself. :
Hayseed visitors in the city will in. !
list on blowing out the gas notwith- :
landing all the newspaper jokes on the y
ubJect. To provide against such acct ,
ents, citizen Of Ashland, Wis, has J,
Invented little apparatus that is in r.
ended to be attached to every gas fix Z
ure in hotel The breath of person =
7ho attempts to blow out the gas tits ~
delicately balanced electrodo and a
loses circuit giving an alarm in the ~
f1lce. Another kind Of alarm, patented Il
y Chicago man, notifies the house. w y,
older of escaping gas. If you are r
fraid OF pickpoclsets, you can obtain cl
rejection by wearing small machine .cr
lat makes big disturbance in case ~
lybody tries to put his hand into your Y
)cket. a.
Even after death you may find alarms RI
service. Ii grave robber comes to
ong, torpedo placed in tho coffin for oh
at purpose will blow him to smither. nm
us. Surprising that tho disturbance tr,
axes you to life again, q clookwork w
will start a bell to ringing, do
1ile red flag runs up to the top Of fl,
tombstone, giving notice that a Me
ompt resurrection is desired. Speak. no,
OF waking up suggests mention of GO,
no odd contrivancos for doing neces- mn
y things before getting out of bed in Wi
morning. One of these, patented by mi;
azy Vermonter, enables one to turn t;o,
the draft of a stove or furnace and An
N turn over for supplementary inc
'oze. This, however, is a primitive sno
trlvance compared with the inyen- S,n
OF q resident of Providence which estr
vides for the feeding of whole sta MA,
ful OF live stock at daybroak. Mr.. Pre-
epy Head simply turns on his pillow
jerks cord, which opens a valve
ho stable and let's down the requisite I
nifty of feed into q trough a di
mere arc quite a number of inven- eacl
IS Tor lighting the fro in the morn. Fac
without getting out Of bed. They two
all operated by clockwork. The best trib,
hem is credited to an Illinois genius. the
lock is set for certain time, and in IL
II the proper minute is reached the bead
hanlsm throws" q lever, which not {
VS. a match across piece of sandpa- ing,
and lgnltes tho kindling. One of the their
st patents is for street lamp which even
a clockwork apparatus attached to w
at the correct moment for which bead
machine is set it closes an electric folds
lit, at tho same time opening the up or
pipe. Immediately the gaS is ignit- above
md it burns until shut of by the desir
work at daybreak in the morning. Whel
lis way the street lamps all over a beard
may be made to light themselves 'Pra
ltaneously without the interven- the "
of human hands.
citizen OF Austin is the author of q Ar
OF water clock that is wound by s,,oa ~
On the roof of house is a trough ,,puan
catches the rainwater, which flows t;aa'1
The tank. When the tank is filled t 49," ,
certain point, it empties the water Gov l.;
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