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Car-Replacer.

Patent for a car-replacer that is meant to "provide a strong and compact skid of comparatively light weight to form the body portion of the car-replacer and which shall be especially adapted to raise the car-wheels above the track, deflect toward them toward the rails until the tread of the wheels is suspended over the ball of the rails from an inclined surface terminating in a rounded end, over which the wheels move until they meet the track" (lines 12-21). The car-replacer does not have any … more

Date: October 15, 1895

Creator: Ragan, John

Corn-Planter.

Patent for improvement of corn-planters, with illustrations. The purpose of this corn-planters patent was to improve existing corn-planters through, "peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims" (lines 9-12).

Date: October 18, 1887

Creator: Koepke, William. Wm. Koepke.

Cotton Gin

Patent for a cotton gin. Illustration included.

Date: October 11, 1904

Creator: Bodungen, Clemens G.

Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.

Patent for improvements on insect destroyers to be used in cotton fields, including illustrations.

Date: October 16, 1877

Creator: Fordtran, Eugene H.

Insect Catcher

Patent for an insect catcher. This device is for catching cotton boll weevils. Illustration included.

Date: October 3, 1905

Creator: Krenek, Edward Joseph

Plow

Patent for a plow that has a quicker and easier way to adjust the angle and depth of the plow. Including illustrations

Date: October 17, 1916

Creator: Fehrenkamp, Elo A. & Giese, August H.

Sprinker.

Patent for a new and improved pesticide sprinkler for cotton plants. This design "provid[es] . . . a relief-valve, so that should the nozzle become stopped up at any time this valve will open and let the fluid escape through the piston without doing any harm to the pump or stopping the vehicle" (lines 14-19).

Date: October 19, 1880

Creator: Pinter, Francis T.

Trap

Patent for an improvement on traps. This trap is primarily insect and pest control, meant for ants and flies.

Date: October 17, 1919

Creator: Miller, William B.

Turn-Table for Automobiles.

Patent for a turn-table that rotates an automobile and is powered by the engine of the automobile. It is designed to be operated by the driver of the automobile, without needing to exit the vehicle. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 1, 1918

Creator: Loessin, Julius W.