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Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a draw-head having a chamber and a recess from its upper face into the chamber, of a coupling-dog pivoted in the recess and having a notch in its under faces and a hook at its forward end...... and the chain and levers connected with the said eyes.” (Lines 32-41) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 8, 1891
Creator:
Lewis, Thomas E.
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvement in car-coupler particularly to that known as “swing-pin.” This is how it works “a pin comprises a pin proper whose upper end is connected by a chain with the front end of the arm on a horizontal rod. The body of this pin passes through a catch, from which it may be removed.” (Lines 40-45) “The catch has a transverse pin and a rounded upper edge, terminating in a shoulder at its front end and a tongue at its rear end.” (Lines 46-49) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 15, 1891
Creator:
Harrington, Charles
System:
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Fruit-Picker.
Patent for a fruit-picker that has a jaw or jaws that severs the stem of the fruit, a fabric tube that brings the fruit to the operator or a basket. It bruises the fruit less than other pickers do.
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Williams, Thomas Page
System:
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Calendar.
Patent for "a perpetual calendar embodying such a construction that the movement of a finger device will turn wheels, so as to successively display the names of the days of the week, the numbers of the days of the months, and the names of the months, the mechanism being such that the name of a month will be displayed until the numbers of all its days have been displayed, when the name of the succeeding month will be displayed, and so on." (Lines 13-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1896
Creator:
Dickason, Frank B.
System:
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Car-Coupling
Patent for automatic car-couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Yarnell, Leon, J. & Schmidt, Joseph H.
System:
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Design for Kitchen Cabinet
Design patent for a kitchen cabinet that is useful and ornamental. Leading feature includes rectangular upright position that has a framework of strips provided with a longitudinal beading or ribs.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Ferguson, John F. G.
System:
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Calculator
Patent for a calculator. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 13, 1910
Creator:
Goss, George Wilson
System:
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Device for Killing Boll-Weevils
Patent for a "means for destroying weevils, vermin, and the like that thrive in cotton fields" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date:
September 1, 1908
Creator:
Rosson, William L.
System:
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Design for Railroad Spike.
Design patent for a barbed railroad spike.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Banks, Henry N.
System:
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Design for Horseshoe.
Design patent for horseshoe with the flat lips projecting upwardly from the outer edge of the shoe and inwardly toward the center.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Cooper, William M. & Cates, John Wesley
System:
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Calculating Device
Patent for an improved calculating device including a calendar.
Date:
September 30, 1914
Creator:
Moody, Jason B.
System:
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Design of the Child's Quaker Bonnet
Patent for ornamental design bonnet manufactured out of the coarse fiber loofah.
Date:
September 26, 1913
Creator:
Schwenke, Albert
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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Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine
Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, durable, and easily operated" (lines 11-14).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Piland, David Winfield
System:
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Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.
Patent for improvements on cotton cleaners and distributors, specifically means for pneumatically raising cotton, cleaning the dirt from said cotton, and releasing quantities of cotton collected in the distributor.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
System:
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Cotton-Cleaner and Gin-Feeder
Patent for a machine that cleans cotton and feeds it into a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 8, 1908
Creator:
Sheppard, James M.
System:
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Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a machine that cleans cotton by placing the seed into a rotating cylinder it is carried and removed using air presser through spiral fan blades and pins to rid impurities, including illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1860
Creator:
Smith, Charles
System:
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Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Howard, Joseph
System:
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Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the main frame . . . provided with the hopper, covers, and transporting-wheel, of the vibrating-lever pivoted at its lower end to the side of the frame, and pivoted at its middle to the lateral arm, secured to the feed-slide and operated by means of the pitman, which is connected at its lower end to the crank-axle, the upper end thereof being pivoted to the upper end of the lever" (lines 17-26).
Date:
September 8, 1885
Creator:
Williams, George W. & Hook, Joseph
System:
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Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to a combined corn and cotton planter; and it has for its object to provide an improved hopper for containing the seed, and an improved slide or cut-off, and means for automatically operating the same" (lines 9-14).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Wear, William Foster
System:
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Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "a cotton-cultivator which will chop out the superfluous plants and at the same time work up the soil between the rows of plants, the implement being made to straddle the row and produce a fine tilth on both sides thereof" (lines 15-20).
Date:
September 2, 1890
Creator:
Smith, Thomas H.
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton chopper that is "adapted for simultaneously forming rows and cross-chopping the same, thus bringing plants, such as cotton, &c., to a stand, all in one operation, and thereby avoiding the necessity, as occurs in some cases of plowing or cultivating two ways in a field for the purpose of forming rows and then the stands or for any hand hoeing, as is also commonly done" (lines 12-19).
Date:
September 12, 1893
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
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Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
September 6, 1910
Creator:
Weber, Charles Wile
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with an adjustable disk.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Burton, Walter C.
System:
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