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Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator which has adjustable cutters.
Date:
June 18, 1912
Creator:
Cain, James N.
System:
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Mop Holder
Patent for an improved mop holder that will hold the mop head and the handle.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Anderson, Isaac Nerie
System:
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Bottle Stopper
Patent for a bottle stopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1904
Creator:
Hogan, Thomas
System:
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Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
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Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas
Patent for an apparatus for generating Acetylene Gas which feeds water directly into the carbide from a main reservoir.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Hodges, Samuel F. & Lee, William H.
System:
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BLIND-STOP
Patent for an improvement in Blind-Stops. "My invention relates to improvements in blind-stops, and has for its object to provide a simple, strong, and cheap device of this kind." (lines 15-18) and illustration.
Date:
August 18, 1903
Creator:
Koenig, Charles Louis
System:
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Chain Jack.
Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Phillips, Henry S.
System:
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Candy and Process of Making Same
Patent for a "fruit or nut taffy, comprising two distinct kinds of candy, which are separately manufactured and afterward combined in a single article or piece of confectionery" (lines 11-14), including ingredients and process.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Webb, Jesse B.
System:
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Branding-Chute
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Branding Chutes" (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Honeycutt, John
System:
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Baling - Press
Patent for a new and improved hay pressing or baling machine. This design "relates to presses or baling-machines, and more particularly to that class which are worked bu hand-power" (line 9 - 11).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Younger, William Turner
System:
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Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism.
Patent for improvements in automatic time-controlled operating mechanisms by using a combination of a spring-actuated rotary disk, a clock mechanism, and co-acting cams to automatically operating at predetermined times, electric switches and other devices, such as locking and unlocking doors of warehouses. Illustration is included.
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Chappel, James M.
System:
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Check - Spring.
Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
System:
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Bottle
Patent for a a nursing bottle employing a jacket designed to hold the parts of the bottle together. Illustration included.
Date:
September 18, 1906
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
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Automatic Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplers "wherein the link is automatically engaged with the draw-head of a second car and the link can be quickly disengaged when it needed uncoupling." (Lines 10-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Ponton, Henry H.
System:
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Coffee Urn
Patent for a coffee urn. Illustration included.
Date:
July 18, 1905
Creator:
Robertson, Cullen Andrew
System:
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Apparatus for Making Cotton-Bales.
Patent for improvement in apparatus for making cotton-bales from continuous sheets or bats by “employing only a single press and which permits the ginning and bat-forming devices to be operated continuously which accumulated the cotton in light and fleecy condition during the covering and removal of the bales, which feeds the cotton from the accumulator to the baling apparatus whenever this is desired.” (Lines 68-75) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, William E.
System:
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Cot-Frame
Patent for a cot frame designed to accommodate two people. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Shelton, Robert H.
System:
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Automobile Torpedo
Patent for a submarine torpedo which explodes in the hull of a vessels it hits.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
System:
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Automatic Gun
Patent for an automatic gun which automatically sends the next cartridge to the gun barrel after firing.
Date:
May 18, 1909
Creator:
Lovelace, Charles D.
System:
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Compound Engine
Patent for a compound railroad engine. This design is capable of operating under conditions resulting from an accident, the ability to start under full load via live steam to both the high and low pressure cylinders, and its working parts may be operated with one or both compounds. Illustration included.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Symons, Wilson E.
System:
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Annuciator
Patent for an annunciator. "This invention is designed for use in connection with a complete traction system" (lines 13-14). The design drives instruments via a train air system so that air pressure is constantly maintained. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
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Car Replacer
Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Bowman, James M.
System:
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Collector's Bill-Book.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in collectors' bill - books, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
Ward, George Cooper
System:
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Car Brake
Patent for a rail car brake. Illustration included.
Date:
April 18, 1905
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
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