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Attachment for Wheel-Plows.

Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.

Date: March 11, 1879

Creator: Cummins, John Randolph

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car-coupling that has a draw-bar attached to the car, a hollow draw-head with a flaring opening that sits horizontally to the draw-bar, a spring that holds the draw-head in the horizontal position, a bar that raises and lowers the forward end of the draw-head against the spring, a coupling-pin that sits in the draw-head, a chain that connects the draw-head to the bell-crank lever, a cam that supports the chain, and a device that turns the cam in either direction in order to tighten… more

Date: March 31, 1896

Creator: Epps, Charles

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with a solid hoe for thinning cotton and a toothed hoe for pulling weeds.

Date: March 7, 1911

Creator: Hart, Granville M.

Cutting-Nippers.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cutting nippers, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 27, 1900

Creator: Love, Robert Hamilton

Grain-Scale.

Patent for “improvements in grain-scales, especially adapted for location at the rear end of a trashing-machine and for receiving therefrom the thrashed grain, weighing and subsequently bagging the same in predetermined quantities” (lines 7-12), includes illustration.

Date: March 17, 1891

Creator: Butts, Alexander W.

Harrow

Patent for a harrow. Illustrations included.

Date: March 28, 1905

Creator: Stanley, Simon K.; Maynard, Willie C. & Maynard, William T.

Improvement in Solutions for Preserving Meats.

Patent for preserving perishable foods. The "Texas Meat-Preserving Process." (lines 9-10)

Date: March 26, 1878

Creator: McCulley, Franklin

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in waching machine design, including illustrations.

Date: March 18, 1873

Creator: Millegan, William E.

Knee Pad for Cotton Pickers &c

Patent for a knee pad for cotton pickers with a pneumatic cushion.

Date: March 4, 1913

Creator: Herron, William Patrick

Machine for Grinding Disks.

Patent for improvements in grinding-machines in which it can “hold the disk rigidly at a desired angle and can be adjusted from or toward a grinding device;” (lines 13-15) by using a “combination of an adjustable gear, a grinding-wheel and means for imparting motion from the grinding-wheel to the gear; of a spring-pressed roller above the gear and adapted to hold a disk thereon in contact with the wheel.” (Page 2, lines 65-70) Illustration is included.

Date: March 17, 1903

Creator: Shipp, Abijah T.

Pen Point Holder.

Patent for a pen point holder, made cheaply with a small number of necessary parts. The pen point holder allows the nib of a pen to be removed from the pen without use of the fingers so that they may remain clean. Instructions and illustrations are included.

Date: March 13, 1917

Creator: McCombs, Charles C.

Plow.

Patent for an improvement in plows by using a series of spring-tines that are secured above the mold-board, when in operation these independently-moving tines “serve to jar and break the clods, thus not only pulverizing the clods to a certain degree but also insuring the freeing of the tines of all dirt” (lines 90-93), including illustration.

Date: March 3, 1891

Creator: Ball, Alfred Fine

Printer's Galley.

Patent for a new and improved printer's galley. This design consists of a novel arrangement of the galley parts that "dispenses with the time, labor, and expense incurred in manipulating quoins and side-sticks, mallet, shooting-stick, &c." (lines 60-62).

Date: March 7, 1882

Creator: Rudolph, Elijah K. & Wolfe, Joseph A. L.

Putty-Trowel.

Patent for a putty trowel for use in installing windows.

Date: March 5, 1912

Creator: Wright, Sam F.

Saw Gage.

Patent for saw gage "adapted for use in connection with hand saws where the same is to be employed in cutting kerfs." (Lines 10-13)

Date: March 9, 1915

Creator: Faires, Elisha J. & Stockburger, Charles W.

Smoke Stack Protector

Patent for adjustable smoke stack protector that stays open when in use and covers the opening when not in order to protect from rain, wind, dirt to protect the stack from deteriorating.

Date: March 17, 1914

Creator: French, Elmer C. & Craig, Thomas E.

Window-Sash Gearing and Lock

Patent for a window sash mechanism that allows the upper and lower portions of a window to be adjusted and locked independently of each other.

Date: March 1, 1921

Creator: Peaden, William H.