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Animated Sign
Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
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Automobile-Wheel
Patent for an automobile wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Messerli, John J.
System:
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Baling-Press.
Patent for an improved quarter circular press with a rebounding plunger. The "improvements are in the arrangements and securing of the plates to receive the king-bolt; and braces to guide and support the lever; and, the links linking the plunger-bar direct to the king-bolt, and suitable tripping mechanism" (lines 20-26).
Date:
September 5, 1893
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
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Baling Press
Patent for Baling Press
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
North, George W.
System:
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Breast Pump
Patent for a maual breast pump. Illustration included.
Date:
September 5, 1905
Creator:
Ezell, Uberto Desaix
System:
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Car-Wheel.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Clark, Fred
System:
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Churn Dasher
Patent for the churn dasher. This invention relates to dashers, or agitators, for churns and similar devices and aims to provide an improved assemblage of the component elements of the dasher, whereby to facilitate the agitation of the material and to aerate the same. Illustrations are provided.
Date:
September 5, 1917
Creator:
Lambie, R.C.
System:
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Cigarette Package.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Packages" (lines 5-6) including "the method of dispensing or extracting cigarettes from the package and as well to the method of making a cigarette package" (lines 9-12), including one illustration.
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Sohn, Elmer L.
System:
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Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine
Patent for a pencil vending machine that is coin-operated, with illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Mathes, John W.
System:
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Compressed-Air Engine
Patent for a compressed air engine. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Dick H.
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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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
McGillivray, William
System:
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Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer
Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Batla, Thomas H. & Holan, Heny J.
System:
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Design for a Plowshare.
Design patent for a plowshare with a substantially triangular plowshare or moldboard.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Kegans, John Hamelton
System:
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Device for Hanging Pictures
Patent for Device for Hanging Pictures
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Mastin, Mignon W
System:
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Engine Valve Mechanism
Patent for an engine valve mechanism. This invention is a "class of steam engines wherein the cylinder-inlet and exhaust-ports are controlled by separate and distinct values." Illustration included.
Date:
September 5, 1905
Creator:
Moore, Ezra G. & Moore, Frank T.
System:
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Flexible Stay Bolt
Patent for Flexible Stay Bolt
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Bearicks, Charles F
System:
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Hame And Trace Connector.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in Hames, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Dodson, Roy
System:
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Harrow
Patent for a harrow to be used with a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Wolfe, James A.
System:
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Heat Distributor
Patent for Heat Distributor
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Jueschke, Charles A
System:
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Hot and Cold Cotton Seed Cake Cutter
Patent for Hot and Cold Cotton Seed Cake Cutter
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Helm, Clyde D.
System:
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Hunting-Knife.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in hunting knives, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Shelton, William J.
System:
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Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.
Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Bunker, Thaddeus
System:
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Improvement in Combined Spading, Plowing, and Stalk-Cutting Machines.
Patent for an earth working machine that can be used for spading, plowing and stalk-cutting by arranging “a series of spades in a plane parallel with the axis of the machine and interposed spades in planes at right angles thereto, all attached to a reciprocating cross-bar.” (P. 2, lines [29]-[33].) The spades are adjustable in height and, it can be removed to use as a cultivator. For stalk-cutting, the plows may be removed. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Mathes, William McConnell
System:
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