Brazelle Engine Co. - Assigned Patents

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Brazelle Engine Co.
St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Steam and Gas Engines

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
54,815	May. 15, 1866	Improved self-rocking cradle	Benjamin Brazelle	Nashville, IL	The Patent Office's annual report has the given names of co-assignee Brown as "J. Clark" where the patent says "I. Clark".
172,602	Jan. 25, 1876	Improvement in governors	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO	By 1891, the inventor had improved his governor designs and they were being manufactured by the Mid-Continent Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis.
172,603	Jan. 25, 1876	Improvement in balanced slide-valves	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
183,446	Oct. 17, 1876	Improvement in variable cut-offs for direct-acting engines	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
208,149	Sep. 17, 1878	Improvement in governors for steam-engines	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
229,948	Jul. 13, 1880	Governor for engines	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO	Improvements to the inventor's patent 208,149.
240,299	Apr. 19, 1881	Steam-generator	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
188,101,798	Apr. 26, 1881	Improvements in steam generators	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO	See US patent 240,299.
245,775	Aug. 16, 1881	Steam-engine	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
245,777	Aug. 16, 1881	Steam pumping-engine	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
245,778	Aug. 16, 1881	Boiler-feeder	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
245,774	Aug. 16, 1881	Steam-engine	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
245,776	Aug. 16, 1881	Feed-water heater and purifier	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
255,136	Mar. 21, 1882	Cut-off valve	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
271,781	Feb. 06, 1883	Steam-engine	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
284,173	Sep. 04, 1883	Direct-acting engine	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO	Improvement to patent 271,781.
300,758	Jun. 24, 1884	Machine for making hook-headed nails	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO	Machine to manufacture the hoop-keeper nails of Joseph J. Heim's patent 273,076.
313,168	Mar. 03, 1885	Governor for engines	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO	Improvements to the inventor's patent 208,149.
365,294	Jun. 21, 1887	Apparatus for manufacturing gas	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
458,413	Aug. 25, 1891	Steam-boiler	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
482,001	Sep. 06, 1892	Process of and apparatus for purifying, refining, and carburizing metals	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO	The 1893-02-25 issue of The Age of Steel carries the following note. "The Brazelle Iron and Steel Company will shortly be incorporated to work the Brazelle hot blast steel and pig iron process, covered by letters patent issued to Benjamin Brazelle, under date of September 6, 1892, for a 'process of and apparatus for purifying, refining and carburizing metals.' After incorporation and organization the first step of the parties interested will be, so we are informed, the erection of a plant with a capacity of 25 tons of steel per day, to demonstrate the feasibility and merits of the process. Mr. Brazelle, after whom the process takes its name, lives at 2201 Eugenia Street, this city, and is the inventor of the Brazelle engine governor and an open-hearth process for making muck bar and steel, using oil and gas as fuel. Patents for the latter invention are still pending."
510,153	Dec. 05, 1893	Apparatus for burning fluid fuel	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
529,476	Nov. 20, 1894	Process of and apparatus for smelting ores	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
870,615	Nov. 12, 1907	Wire-rope packing and process of producing same	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO	This is the earliest patent showing Brazelle living in Kirkwood, a suburb of St. Louis.
870,616	Nov. 12, 1907	Oil-well appliance	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO	"My invention relates to appliances used in connection with oil and water wells, and has for its principal objects, to render the use of wire rope practicable for pumping oil and water..."
895,397	Aug. 04, 1908	Rope-clamp	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO
928,103	Jul. 13, 1909	Process of manufacturing gas	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO
1,022,177	Apr. 02, 1912	Internal-combustion motor	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO	The innovation is to mix cooler atmospheric air with the exhaust gases to reduce load on the engine cooling system. This patent was subject to litigation between the Leschen & Sons Rope Co., and the inventor. Leschen had had a contract with Brazelle where Leschen would pay for Brazelle to develop an engine based on an idea that Brazelle had already developed. Brazelle developed the engine and applied for what became this patent and 1,022,178.
1,022,178	Apr. 02, 1912	Internal-combustion motor	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO	This patent is similar in intent to patent 1,022,177, which was an earlier patent application.
1,031,834	Jul. 09, 1912	Fluid-pressure engine	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO
441,450	Aug. 06, 1912	Moteur Ã explosions	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO	This is the French equivalent of US patent 1,022,177.
1,065,339	Jun. 24, 1913	Single-acting engine	Benjamin Brazelle	Kirkwood, MO	"The object of my invention is to provide a simple, compact and durable fluid pressure engine of the piston-hammer type adapted for application to drilling and chipping rock, driving rivets, cutting metal, and analogous uses..."
1,132,649	Mar. 23, 1915	Pneumatic tool	Benjamin Brazelle	St. Louis, MO
1,469,581	Oct. 02, 1923	Method of supersaturating liquids	Benjamin Brazelle	Los Angeles, CA	See Canadian patent 238,531 for more information related to this rig intended to produced oxygenated water as a quack medicine.
238,531	Mar. 11, 1924	Method of supersaturating liquids	Benjamin Brazelle	Los Angeles, CA	A 1926 article on reform in regulating proprietary medicines in "Reports of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association" says, "Aquazone is stated by the Aquazone Laboratories, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif., to be a supersaturated solution of oxygen in water carrying approximately five and one-half times as much dissolved oxygen as ordinary water..." Aquazone was supposed to kill bacteria and "toxins". In short, this patent covers a method of producing a quack remedy. See also US patent 1,469,581. Of peripheral interest because the inventor had earlier patented steam engines, steam engine governors, and internal combustion engines.