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Account-Book.
Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date:
August 28, 1917
Creator:
Exline, Marcus, P.
System:
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Adjustable Book-Cover
Patent for a book cover that can be adjusted to fit any book size.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Toland, Thomas L.
System:
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Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for an improved and simple apparatus for boring wells that is easily adjustable. The drill head will stay intact in most drilling situations with this apparatus.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
System:
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Automobile-Bed.
Patent for Automobile-Bed which creates a bed space in the back of automobiles for users to comfortably sleep on roll-out mattresses in their vehicles.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Turner, John S.
System:
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Baby-Walker.
Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Lawson, Henry William
System:
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Black-Land Plow.
Patent for a plow that operates in mud or sticky dirt without becoming clogged and has an improved share and mold board.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Vestal, William B.
System:
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Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders
Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
System:
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Canopy
Patent for an invention that relates to certain improvements in carriage-covers; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the frame and cover and the manner of operating the same; and the object of the invention is to produce a cover for the protection of carriages while standing idle (Winants, 1902).
Date:
September 28, 1899
Creator:
Winants, Frank C.
System:
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Car-Shading Adjuster.
Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Smith, Earl W.
System:
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Clevis
Patent for "improvements in clevises or draw-bars for plows and other similar implements" (Lines 8 – 10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Hendon, Walter Preston
System:
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Coffee and Spice Mill.
Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
System:
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Cotton-Gin Brush
Patent for "a cheap, durable, efficient, and simple brush adapted for use in cotton-gins, the parts of which may readily be assembled or detached for purposes of construction, renewal, replacement, or repair" (lines 9-14).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Swann, Warner Minor & Swann, Richard Tompkins
System:
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Cotton Seed Cleaner
Patent for a cotton seed cleaner. Illustration included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Benefield, Chauncey R.
System:
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Curing-House.
Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
System:
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Desk or Cabinet.
Patent for a simple and economical desk that is designed to be completely sealed and protected when it is closed. When the cabinet is opened, "the machine may be operated with as much ease as though the machine were placed upon an ordinary table, and whereby further, when the cabinet is opened, an extensive table will be provided at each side of the machine for the reception of work which is to be performed or which has been executed, or for any purpose that the operator may desire" (lines 20-28).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Billington, Theophilus
System:
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Disk Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements relates to disk or revolving plows.
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Wolcott, Oliver P.
System:
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Distributer or Conveyer Belt.
Patent for belt related "to distributer or conveyer belts and more particularly to that type of belt used in gin-distributers. The object of the invention is to provide a belt of this character which is strong and simple of construction, extremely durable in use, and in which the spikes or fingers will be securely fastened to maintain their proper relation and to prevent their being pulled out" (lines 12-21)
Date:
October 28, 1902
Creator:
Tinsley, James F.
System:
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Draft-Equalizer
Patent relating to improvements to draft appliances for tractors. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
System:
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Electric-Current Meter.
Patent for an electric-current meter that measures "the amount of electricity passing over a given branch of derived or (if desired) line circuit, thereby indicating the amount of electricity used for the translating or other consuming devices in the circuit, having for its object the construction of an apparatus which will respond more accurately to the variations in the said currents and indicate more exactly upon a dial or dials provided for the purpose, the quantity of electricity which passes" (lines 10-20). The meter's range can be extended.
Date:
November 28, 1893
Creator:
Mottram, William T.
System:
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Electric Hairbrush
Patent for an improved electric hairbrush having an insulated electrical heating element and separately charged electrically conductive metallic bristles. The hairbrush is designed to straighten hair and/or to electrically treat a user's hair and scalp with a low-voltage current. A device in the handle allows the user to regulate the heating of the element.
Date:
November 28, 1922
Creator:
Harvey, Birdie
System:
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Electric Heater
Patent for an electric heater that is insulated from foreign bodies or fluids. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 28, 1911
Creator:
Harvie, Arthur H. & Davis, William G.
System:
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Garment-Waist Adjuster.
Patent for improvements made to a garment-waist adjuster including specifications and illustrations. This patent describes improvements made to the device outlined in a previous patent associated with the same inventor, Albert K. Hurst.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hurst, Albert K.
System:
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Gate.
Patent for the invention of gate which can be opened inward and outward by certain features such as supporting brackets and a spirally grooved shaft that can rotate between brackets.
Date:
August 28, 1906
Creator:
Gilbert James Madison
System:
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Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the gate composed of the latch-upright, hinge-upright, longitudinal wires and cross-braces, of the spring-depressed latch, pivoted to the brace just in front of the crossing part of the opposite brace, the double-armed lever pivoted through its center to the inner surface of the top of the latch-upright, and the cords connecting said arms to a proper point of the latch" (lines 82-90).
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
England, David
System:
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