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Clock Striking Mechanism.
Patent for a new and improved clock-chimes. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chime of bells in the clock case, of the wheel having the lateral pins, the rock-shaft, a lever extending from the rock-shaft and engaging the said pins, and the hammer arms respectively connected with the rock-shaft by the short arm" (lines 21-26).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Witherspoon, Frank.
System:
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Cloth-Bolt Clamp.
Patent for a clamp "to hold the folds of a bolt of cloth in position and to prevent the same form being unwound except when desired." (Lines 23-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Leveritt, Nicholas T.
System:
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Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Kitts, William Caluway
System:
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Clothes-Pounder
Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Van Landingham, Lewis E.
System:
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Combined Chair, Cot and Bed
Patent for a combination of a chair, cot and bed and improvements made unto it. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
July 8, 1882
Creator:
McClelland, Stephen
System:
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Combined Pen or Pencil Holder and Pin.
Patent for a new and improved writing-utensil holder and pin. This design "not only forms a convenient receptacle for a pen or pencil, but . . . it is also adapted for use as an ornamental scarf or breast pin, and to this end the bands may be appropriately shaped to confine a stone or other setting, which can be held from endwise displacement, if necessary, by means of lugs . . . at each end of the bar" (lines 63-71).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Stewart, Samuel F.
System:
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Combined Water Heater and Smoke Consumer
Patent for a combined water heater and smoke consumer. Illustration included.
Date:
August 14, 1906
Creator:
Miles, Joseph Furnas; Rodgers, A. N. & Wade, James William
System:
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Compression Means for Fountain-Pens
Patent for a compressor for fountain pens. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Edwin R.
System:
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Computing Yardstick
Patent for an attachment to yardsticks in order to compute correct measurements. Illustration included.
Date:
March 29, 1904
Creator:
Cogburn, William S.
System:
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Condiment-Holder.
Patent for condiment holder that can be filled with different condiments that can be dispensed separately or both at the same time. This design is also more durable, efficient, and low cost.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Peters, Shafeh
System:
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Corn Sheller.
Patent for a new and improved corn sheller. This design "comprises a double-shelling surface of peculiar construction in one plate or bed-piece, whereby a corn-sheller having but little weight is produced, which shall be capable of shelling either one ear of corn, or, by using both hands, two ears of corn at the same time, and which shall do its work with increased ease, ready clearance for the shelled corn, and protection, when using both hands, against their striking each other" (lines 12-21).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Matthews, Luther
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a mechanism that aims "to promote convenience in adjusting and regulating cotton choppers" (line 44-46), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Mowrey, Ephraim L.
System:
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Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 10, 1907
Creator:
Higgs, William A. & Hamilton, Morgan S.
System:
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Cotton Chopper and Harrow
Patent for "a cotton chopper, the combination, with the wheeled vehicle, of the side and central section-bars carrying the inclined knives, the handles secured to the central section, and double rack connecting said handles, the adjusting-levers pivoted to the central section, and the pivoted perforated arms connecting the levers and outer section bars" (lines 40-47).
Date:
December 26, 1882
Creator:
Roberts, George W.
System:
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Cotton Chopper and Scraper
Patent for new "construction and combination of devices" (lines 10-11) to improve cotton choppers and scrapers, with illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Rouse, Samuel James
System:
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Cotton Gin Feeder.
Patent for a new and improved feeder for cotton gins. This design consists in "the combination, with the driving mechanism, of the alternating sections, the shaft or rod, loop-rods and staples, the crank-shaft, and hooked rods . . . [and] of the adjustable comb, the crank-shaft, hinge-connection, arm, and cross-bar" (lines 3-12).
Date:
April 3, 1883
Creator:
Nix, Manning Lafayette
System:
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Cotton Picking Sack and Holder
Patent for a cotton picking sack and holder. This invention is designed to be worn by the worker.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Montgomery, Robert B.
System:
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Cotton Planter and Chopper.
Patent for planting and chopping cotton.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Pitts, Lee Paschal
System:
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Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the side bars of the main frame, the plow-standard connecting the front ends thereof, and the covering board connecting the rear ends of the side bars, of the handles secured to the side bars near the front end of the machine, the rectangularly-bent brace-bar secured to the side bars and to the handles, and the centrally-bent brace-bar secured to the side bars and the brace-bar" (lines 86-95).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Secrest, Louis Evin
System:
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Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 7, 1910
Creator:
Shaeffer, Charles
System:
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Cultivating Machine
Patent for a cultivating machine. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Gray, Albert
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "a draft-bar, a connecting rod or bar which connects the two beams together at any suitable distance . . . vertical standards which are secured to the rear ends of the beams, adjustable connecting-bars . . . and a connecting-rod which connects the bars together in a line with the beams . . . to loosely attach two cultivators to a single draft-bar, and then connect these two cultivators together . . . [so] each of the cultivators has a universal movement independently of the other, and yet they are always kept at about the same distance apart" (lines 15-32).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
De Witt, Martin V.
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in cultivators. This design is for "bedding cotton, corn, and all other seed which are planted in beds or rows" (line 14-18).
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
Russell, Cal
System:
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Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 1, 1910
Creator:
Davis, George W.
System:
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