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Sulky Plow and Cotton Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved sulky plow and cotton scraper. This design "relates to an improvement in sulky-plows, its object being to render the plow right or left hand for operation, to adjust the angle of presentation of the plow with relation to the line of draft, and to adapt the plow as a cotton-scraper; and it consists of the combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-20).
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Baucum, Samuel C.
System:
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Grave Guard.
Patent for a new and improved grave guard. This design allows for a grave guard that receives fence posts, headstones, and water for neighboring plants, which compiles these effects from various other devices.
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Gent, Alfred
System:
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Electrical Furnace.
Patent for
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
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Electric Signal System
Patent for electric signal system. Illustration included.
Date:
May 16, 1905
Creator:
Adams, Edwin Johnson
System:
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Drive for Motor-Vehicles
Patent for the drives of motor vehicles, which provides the means to the front wheels can be driven by a motor without the interfering with the action of the steering wheel.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Woods, Arthur M.
System:
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Gate-Latch.
Patent for a new and useful gate latch, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Perkins, Oscar P.
System:
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Railway-Switch Stand.
Patent for a railway switch stand that locks "a switch of this class and from which the lock cannot be removed except when the switch is fully locked, thus obviating accidents by always insuring a locked condition of the switch after operation and thereby preventing the switch from being subsequently actuated by unauthorized persons" (lines 11-20), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Berger, James H. & Rosson, George T.
System:
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Foldable Steering Wheel.
Patent for a foldable steering wheel with the capability of swinging downwardly to an out of the way position to enable the driver to easily occupy or leave his seat.
Date:
May 16, 1922
Creator:
Hanes, Dorris A.
System:
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Pump.
Patent for "improvements in pumps which move a long column of water with each stroke but discharge a relatively small quantity" (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Kangas, Frank Oskar
System:
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Oil and Gas Burner
Patent for a burner that can use both oil and gas as fuel.
Date:
May 16, 1922
Creator:
Oney, William M.
System:
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Metal Tie
Patent for a metal railroad tie. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Caton, Augustus B. & Carter, Ernest A.
System:
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Method of And Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas.
Patent for a new and useful method of and apparatus for manufacturing gas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Clark, Daniel Johnson & Blum, Sylvain
System:
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Mattress
Patent for a mattress made with folded layers of material, such as cotton or wool, where the fibers are placed in a vertical position.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Heermans, Wallace T.
System:
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Direction-Indicator.
Patent for a direction indicator that is "extremely simple, durable, efficient in operation, and inexpensive to manufacture" (lines 20-22). It is "an improved electrically operated direction indicator, in the nature of an arm pivotally mounted in a casing and operated by an electro-magnetically controlled lever [...] for indicating the directions in which the vehicle to which the device is applied, is about to move" (lines 10-17), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Justus, Fred E.
System:
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Dish Washing Machine
Patent for "new and useful machine improvements for washing dishes and other articles" (lines 9-11).
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Randolph, Hallie H.
System:
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Cotton Harvesting Machine
Patent for a cotton harvester. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 16, 1903
Creator:
Jackson, A. L.
System:
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Money-Changing Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus for money changing and recording. The apparatus selects and ejects coins and is controlled by keys that can be pressed.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Furttinger, Fred P.
System:
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Head-Rest.
Patent for "an improved head rest which can be easily attached to a car seat without injuring or marring the wood work or upholstering thereof, and which will be compact in structure, light in weight and cheap and durable in general construction, and readily adjustable in height, and angle of inclination" (lines 14-21).
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Wesson, Miley B.
System:
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Dipper
Patent for dipper. Illustration included.
Date:
May 16, 1905
Creator:
Cowart, Laurance P.
System:
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Design for a Churn-Frame.
Design patent for a churn frame.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
O'Marrow, Mattie
System:
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Cuspidor.
Patent for a simple cupsidor that attaches to the floor of railway cars and other places and can be easily cleaned. They are designed to be installed in a line and connected so they can be opened and cleaned at the same time. A valve and a tube hold and empty the contents of the cupsidor.
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Simmons, David Pitman
System:
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Churn-Dasher.
Patent for "a churn dasher to which a rotary movement shall be imparted by the resistance offered by the fluid to the dasher when the latter is given a vertical reciprocating movement in the ordinary manner, the rotary movement being constantly in one direction, irrespective of the direction of the vertical reciprocating movement" (lines 13-21).
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
System:
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Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple planter that is "adapted to plant either corn or cotton and that at predetermined distances; to so construct the machine as to adapt it readily for change from one form of planter to the other; and to improve the manner of securing the furrow-opening shovel-carrying standard and the seed tube, whereby the former and latter are prevented from breaking or becoming injured should they contact with a stone, stump, or other obstacle of sufficient size and firmness to injure them" (lines 10-21).
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
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Hair Clipper.
Patent for hair clippers that simplifies construction, reduces vibration, and improves efficiency.
Date:
May 16, 1922
Creator:
Monroe, Collier
System:
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