Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-09
MANY PATENTS.
Some of the New Ideas Entered for
 Record at Washington.

" Porter of New Haven has invented and patented winding mechanism for clocks, which he has assigned to the New Haven Clock Go. There is A gear having series of cut out DOT lions in combination with A spring. A winding arbor is provided to one end of which the spring is connected, a plate Is mounted on the arbor to rotate herewith and having a plurality of lips bent outwardly of tae pIate and So arranged as to engage the cut out portions of the gear Means are pro- yided for holding the plate i'll contact with the gear.
 Another New Haven inventor, Will liam M. Zimmerman, has just been granted patent on tension and thread controlling device for sewing machines. He has assigned the same to Edwin J. ToOf, also of New Haven. A spindle extends through the frame Of the sewing machine, one end of which engages the movable plate. or disk, of the tension devise, the otter being provided with an adjusting nut This nut is located fin a position to be engaged from the opposite side of the frame. Means for normally holding the tension disk in operative position are provided An adjusting plate is supported upon the inner wall of the frame opposite of the tension disk and engages with the spindle to prevent q rotary movement Of the same. A slack thread controlling the spring is seated within an opening in the wall of the frame with one end adapted to engage with the thread and the other having connections with the adjust. ing nut
 Harry St. Clair Reynolds, also of New Haven has invented an artificial bait. It comprises body with sock cts projecting outward on opposite sides thereof, and legs piyotaIly con- nected with the sockets. .he legs terminate i'll downwardly extending bowed feet.
 Abraham l.. Adams of Bridgeport has invented folder for cloth strips on which he has just been granted patent. This machine is adapted to fold strips Of cloth preparatory to their being formed into spools. There are ironing spools through which they pass after leaving the folder. One of these rolls has roughened surface, the other being smooth
 The holder has one or more holes transversely there through and trans verse channels. A plate is secured to the under side of the folder to close the mouth of the channel ways. A tension Is provided to maintain the folder in position.
 Hezel1iah A. Benson. also of Bridge port has been granted patent on a new and improved rotary engine.
 August Arens, New Britain in- ventor, has invented and patented a new sash fastener which he has as- signed to P. and F. Corbin of the same city. It is described as a fastener hav- ing a keeper with an inclined portion, a rotary member with a cam lip, CO., operative with one part of the keeper. Automatic setting means are provided and an automatic locking projection in the plane of the base of the rotary member. This setting means being operated by separating the sash mem bers so that the locking projection will cooperate with the inclined portion of the keeper when the sash members are brought together.
 August Arens with Ernest L. Telch, another New Britain man., have also been granted patent on a sash bolt, which they have also assigned to r. and F. Corbin. There is a window stop comprising shell with a nova ble bolt carried thereby. There is longitudinal passage extending through the bolt Means for causing the bolt to be normally projected outward are provided. A latch carried by the shell is arranged to automatically engage the bolt when it is pushed into the shell Means are provided to limit the outward movement Of the bolt
 Andrew O. Campbell of Waterbury has just been granted a patent on a machine for forming balls. and has as- signed his invention to the ID. ]. Man. vile Machine Go of the same city
 Another Waterbury inventor, Hugh l.. Thompson, has invented and the pa tent office has just granted him a pa tent on sanitary attachment for telephones. It comprises a pile of sep arabic sheets, each sheet being pro- vided with lines of weakness to permit of it's being detached from the book. These sheets are composed of antisep- tic. germicidai or disfnfecting material ana are provided with means for at- tachment to the mouth piece of the telephone.