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Automatic Railway Switch.

Patent for providing the means for a switch to be actuated which will allow trains to enter or exit a siding of the track.

Date: January 22, 1918

Creator: Gullion, Robert, A.

Bale-Band Tightener

Patent for a bale-band tightener, illustrations included.

Date: October 2, 1900

Creator: Splettstosser, Fritz

Patent for brick-kilns to "provide means for burning bricks in a much shorter time and more effectively than is possible with usual constructions, and, further, to protect the kiln-walls against the injurious effects of heat" (lines 9-13).

Date: October 30, 1900

Creator: Aber, Edgar

Broom-Rack.

Patent for an improvement in a device to hold brooms and items with handles by simplifying the design and making it more resistant to strain.

Date: February 14, 1893

Creator: Jones, Wesley C. P.

Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with [a] frame, having [a] hook on [a] cross-piece and [a] tongue on [another] cross-piece, of a loop or keeper, arranged on the under side of frame and between the two cross-pieces" (lines 69-73).

Date: April 10, 1883

Creator: Thomas, Floyd W.

Bumper for Log-Wagons.

Patent for an improved bumper for log wagons that is "mounted to roll on a wagon bolster and adapted to collapse below the carrying surface of the bolster" (lines 11-13); including instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 25, 1913

Creator: Jones, William F.

Can-Opener.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Can-Openers." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 9, 1909

Creator: Davis, James Walter & McBee, Marshall E.

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in automatic car-couplers by providing "the means for automatically coupling cars without exposing the operator to the risk and danger of going between the cars when coupling,” (lines 12-15) includes illustration.

Date: April 14, 1891

Creator: Chandler, Richard

Cart-Scale.

Patent for light, strong, and inexpensive bale weighing scales that "employ a truck or sulky frame, suitable for transporting goods; furthermore, means combined with said frame whereby the goods may be readily weighed; furthermore, means for supporting the goods on the truck independent of the weighing mechanism" (lines 13-19).

Date: August 8, 1893

Creator: Coupland, Benjamin C. & Hough, Franklin T.

Churn.

Patent for an improved, strong, durable, and simple churn that produces butter quickly and with much use of power. It has a slide rest with a rotary driving spindle on one end and guide pulleys on the other end, a slide-block that slides on the end of the slide rest, a turn-peg with a ratchet-head on the slide-block, a pawl, and a chord that attaches all these parts.

Date: October 23, 1894

Creator: Roark, Calvin M.

Churn Motor

Patent for a churn motor. This invention is a manually motored churn. Illustration included.

Date: February 26, 1907

Creator: Cole, Emory W.

COMBINATION RAKE AND FORK.

Patent for a new invention of a farm implement hand-tool which is a combination of a rake and a fork, functioning either as a rake or a fork with a single adjustment, including description and illustrations.

Date: July 15, 1902

Creator: Zwicker, August

Combined Bird and Insect Catcher

Patent for a combined bird and insect catcher. Illustration included.

Date: April 27, 1909

Creator: Martin, Charles H. & Ross, William N.

Combined Door and Gate Stop.

Patent for an improved stop for doors and gates, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 25, 1914

Creator: Ford, John Owen

Combined Plow, Chopper, and Planter.

Patent for a simple, durable, and economic combined plow, chopper, and planter that provides "a machine which will open the land, plant and fertilize at the same time, and which may be quickly adjusted for chopping cotton plants and at the same time cultivate rows of plants" (lines 10-13). The parts can be attached to a common frame.

Date: February 12, 1895

Creator: Newton, Nicholas H.

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton-chopper that cultivates "the rows of plants simultaneously with thinning them out; and a further object of the invention is to provide such a machine which will be durable and simple" (lines 11-14).

Date: February 12, 1895

Creator: Newton, Nicholas H.

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

Cotton Feeder and Cleaner.

Patent for feeders and cleaners for cotton gins: "provide a combined feeder and cleaner for cotton gins which is not only thoroughly and effectually cleans cotton before it passes to the gin, but at the same time it regularly and positively feeds the cotton to the gin in such cleaned condition" (lines 10-15).

Date: April 25, 1893

Creator: Oliphint, Alfred

Cotton Planter and Chopper

Patent for improvements in "combined cotton planters and choppers; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices" (line 9-12), includes detailed illustration.

Date: July 3, 1888

Creator: Lester, Isaac L. & Whittly, Josiah

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner primarily used for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.

Date: June 21, 1910

Creator: Reed, Rufus C.

Derrick.

Patent for improvements in derricks or machines for hoisting heavy objects, which can be easily erected and operated; this device “can be manipulated with ease and by which the article being elevated or lowered may be changed in position without moving the support.” (Lines 20-23) Illustration is included.

Date: April 21, 1891

Creator: Lindsey, William E.

Device For Illustrating the Transposition of Musical Scales

Patent for an improvement in machines for transposing musical scales in which a marked and perforated original scale is run over the machine and automatically transported, with levers and rods to mark the sharps, flats, and other information.

Date: July 28, 1885

Creator: Neill, John, Frances

Device for Loading Baggage

Patent for the description and illustration of an "improved device for lifting baggage such as trunks or other articles, in loading and unloading them form cars, platforms or other locations"(lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new lifting device design with different size baggage, including illustrations.

Date: January 3, 1893

Creator: Samuel Richard Heidelberg

Dumping-Car.

Patent for a dumping-car that "can be operated by two men to discharge its contents with a comparatively small amount of exertion on the part of the operators" (lines 14-17). The car is developed to hold gravel, &c., and can be easily dumped.

Date: August 6, 1895

Creator: Dunman, William M.