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Bale Tie

Description: Patent for "a new and useful bale tie" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: May 14, 1900
Creator: Walker, Millard Fillmore

Baling Press

Description: Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Struve, Clemens A.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for an improved design for a cotton chopper. The patent includes two sets of blades with opposite rotation and the ability to be stopped by the control of the operator. The design also includes improvements on cultivation and chopping for a more efficient process. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1880
Creator: Busch, William

Crate or Box Forming Machine

Description: Patent for a crate or box forming machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Nitschmann, Eduard

Dredging Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dredging machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a boat or the like, provided with depending hangers at its bow and stern, of the shaft journaled in said hangers, and provided with a spiral screw extending throughout its length" (lines 88-92). It is "for removing sand-bars and similar obstructions in the beds of harbors or in streams by loosening the sand or the like, so that it will be suspended in the water and carried off by the natural or crea… more
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Crockett, John Richardson

Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers.

Description: Patent for "the combination, in a cotton-sprinkler, having a fluid-vessel, of flexible ejecting hose, having flaring nozzle sprinklers, with hooks or fastening devices for holding the nozzles in elevated positions upon the vessels, whereby the driver has perfect control both over the flow and direction of the fluid, and is thereby enabled to inject the fluid upon the two rows of plants, without regard to their height or the uncertain movement of the horse between the rows, and to stop the flow … more
Date: May 18, 1875
Creator: Ramsey, Croghan A.

Improvement in Insect-Destroyers

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer that forces fire smoke into the ground, targeting ants and other insects.
Date: May 29, 1877
Creator: Melcher, John C.

Improvement in Painter's Scaffold-chairs.

Description: Patent for use of house-painters and others an improved scaffold-chair that may be elevated and lowered at pleasure by the person sitting on the scaffold.
Date: May 16, 1876
Creator: Crockett, John R.

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam, of the staple secured to the plow-beam, the curved shank provided at its upper front end with the triangular loop having notches on its lower edge, which engage with the said staple, the bolt pivoted in the said plow-beam and connected to the rear portion of the shank under the handles, and the blades secured to the lower front end of shank under the staple" (lines 72-81).
Date: May 1, 1888
Creator: Nitschmann, Franz

Saw Sharpening Machine

Description: Patent for Saw Sharpening Machine. "have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saw-Sharpeners." (lines 5-6) Including illustrations.
Date: May 19, 1885
Creator: Eidelbach, Andrew C.

Stirrup Leather

Description: Patent for a leather stirrup designed as an improvement and "is the production of such devices with a minimum expenditure of material and labor." (12-14)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Wroe, James P. & Lange, Henry F.

Store Furniture.

Description: Patent for a ribbon or tape cabinet with rotating stand which allows access to all compartments through a single cabinet opening.
Date: May 20, 1913
Creator: Koniakowsky, Louis F.

Stovepipe-Cap.

Description: Patent for a stove pipe cap that attaches to the top of a chimney and prevents "birds from building their nests in the smoke stack or pipe, which causes chimney fires" (lines 21-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Fojtik, Peter
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