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Gas-Compressor.

Description: Patent for gas compressors for ice and refrigeration machines, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Ambrose, Joseph D.

Two-Wheeled Delivery-Vehicle.

Description: Patent for "a light and convenient vehicle for the use of mail-collectors in cities, and for the transportation and delivery of parcels, milk, or other articles," (lines 8-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Boone, Manly Breaker

Railroad Stock-Guard.

Description: Patent for "a guard which will effectually prevent cattle from entering adjoining fields to which ingress is afforded by means of a railroad traversing them and to provide means for preventing the guards being injured by trains passing over the road," (lines 11-16) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Bridges, William J.

Means for Lowering or Raising Drill Disks or Plows.

Description: Patent for a means of raising and lowering drill disks on plows to allow the machine to travel and not get tangled in obstructions such as underbrush or rocks.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Burks, William Edward

Garbage-Burner.

Description: Patent for a garbage incinerator, which has a rotating grate to speed up the evaporation of moisture from the garbage and produce quicker burning.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Burwell, John A.

Mail Bag or Pouch

Description: Patent for an improvement of the device known as a mail-pouch, along with detailed illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Campbell, Parker

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for "a cotton-chopper attachment for cultivators... to be applied to the ordinary sulky-cultivator frame... and when so applied to constitute and efficient machine for chopping and thinning cotton." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Cansler, Hurnon K. & Cansler, Thomas G.

Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.

Cotton Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-scraper. This design "is to produce a cotton-scraper of economical construction that will cut a wider furrow with lighter draft, do the work more perfectly, and at the same time be more easily held to the row than the scrapers in the present general use" (lines 11-16).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Cooper, Richard

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard for railroad tracks, which is activated by the pressure of a cow stepping on its platform and raises bars to block the the cow from crossing the track. It goes back down automatically when the pressure is removed off the platform.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Crouch, Jim L.

Steam-Engine.

Description: Patent for a steam engine which is more economical than other steam engines. "Steam is cut off in the earlier or later part of the stroke, according to the conditions of the work" (lines 15-17), according to a governor or engineer.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Dickson, Henry L.

Harness Saddle

Description: Patent is for "improvements in harness saddles" (lines 6-7) that will "not injure animals' backs and which will be automatically adjustable to a back of any size or shape."
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Edelbrock, Frank E.

Attachment for Vehicle-Brakes.

Description: Patent for "an extension-handle for the manipulating-levers of vehicle-brakes" (lines 9-10). This invention was designed especially for vehicles with extra side-boards, so the brakes can be employed as conveniently as possible while the driver would normally have a hard time reaching the brake-lever.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Edwards, Joshua H. & Edwards, Willie W.

Automatic Wagon-Brake.

Description: Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Elliot, Joseph Samuel

Churn.

Description: Patent for a churn in which a can has an opening in the center of its lid, in which a dasher-staff fits. The can fits in a frame. There are two parts to the frame, the part that rotates the can, and the part that holds the churn in place. The frame also holds the dasher-staff and a crank to rotate the can's frame.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Everhard, Joseph

Tourist's Glasses.

Description: Patent for tourist's glasses which include a compass, a mirror, and binoculars which fold up into a compact case and includes adjustable lenses.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Faerhrmann, John M.

Improvement for Cotton Chopper

Description: Patent for improvement for cotton choppers “so that the operator may regulate the depth of cut, and may shift the cutting member forward or back” (lines 18-20). Instructions and illustration included.
Date: February 2, 1915
Creator: Finch, Arthur M.

Metallic Packing.

Description: Patent for metallic packing for piston rods and valve stems of engines to create a tight joint.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Fulford, Marcus F.

Photographic Copying Apparatus

Description: Patent for a simple and effective photographic-copying apparatus capable of making copies of small objects of different sizes. The machine is for general commercial use "that may be successfully operated by persons not particularly skilled in the photographic art" (lines 23-25) including illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1915
Creator: Gregory, Oscar T. & Carkhuff, Norman W.

Keel.

Description: Patent for an improved type of keel construction, "of which the distance between the keel and covering-boards is equalized throughout the length of the vessel and a vessel of exceptional strength and advantageous construction is afforded." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Grothgar, John & Garfield, John M.

Beer Tapping Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new and improved beer tap. This design calls for the air pipe to go within the beer tapping pipe and for a pump to supply the air pipe with air. This eliminates the need of a rubber nipple to connect the air pipe, easily cleans the pipe coil, and allows for the tapping of the keg from without the icebox.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Haenig, Emil

Seal-Lock.

Description: Patent for car locks "that cannot be tampered with without the fact being readily perceptible, and thus prevent the car passing unobserved the point where such lock was opened." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Haley, Fred H.

Funnel for Forcing Molasses, &c.

Description: Patent for a new and improved funnel. This design "relates to improvements in funnels for transferring molasses and other thick liquid and substances from one receptacle into bottles, jars, and other vessels; and the objects of [the] improvements are to provide a funnel with means for securing it to a table, counter, &c.; to provide said funnel with means for forcing a liquid therethrough and the forcing apparatus with a detachable spout thereunder" (lines 10-19).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Henke, Henry

Power Stand.

Description: Patent for a new and improved power-stand. In this design, "a single pulley is mounted upon a stand, the shaft of said pulley bearing at each end, outside of the stand, one part of a friction or other clutch, which may be engaged with or disengaged from the corresponding part of a clutch attached to the shaft of a machine" (lines 13-19).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Hetherington, Johnathan S.
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