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Syringe

Patent for a syringe. This invention is meant for use with animals to perform artificial insemination. Illustrations included.

Date: January 8, 1907

Creator: Brookes, Robert C.

Patent for the invention relates to improvements in gate-latches. The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of gate-latches and to provide an automatic one adapted to lock the gate when the latter closes and capable of automatically setting itself in proper position for engaging and locking the gate should it be closed instead of open or in position to receive the gate.

Date: May 29, 1900

Creator: Jones, Albert Sidney

Railway-Tie.

Patent for a railroad tie made of sand and cement and threaded with barbed wire.

Date: October 22, 1901

Creator: Joynt, Dudley Layng

Pipe - Grab.

Patent for new and useful improvements in pipe-graps for the purpose of "raising and lowering pipe and tools used in drilling oil-wells" (line 8-10), including illustrations.

Date: May 20, 1902

Creator: Matula, Valentine

Rope-Measuring Machine.

Patent for a new and useful rope measuring machine, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 13, 1898

Creator: Hubbard, Ely Y. Seale

Pie-Plate Lifter

Patent for a pie plate lifter used to handle pie plates or other utensils should they be too hot. Illustrations included.

Date: April 20, 1909

Creator: Blue, Henry L.

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Cultivators to "provide improved means for pivoting the main standards to the plow-beams together"(line 17-20).

Date: November 16, 1897

Creator: Ward, Lee

Signal-Lock for Mail-Boxes

Patent for a signal lock for mailboxes used to "indicate the presence or absence of mail matter in the box" (lines 10-11).

Date: September 8, 1908

Creator: Patterson, Samuel & Wiseman, John W.

Signal-Lock for Mail-Boxes.

Patent for a signal lock for mail boxes, which can only be operated from the inside of the box and locks in position.

Date: January 7, 1908

Creator: Patterson, Samuel

Signal Lock For Mail Boxes

Patent for a signal lock for mail boxes. This "invention relates to devices for locking the signals used on house letter-boxes, and has for its object the provision of a signal lock secured to the inside of the mail-box" (lines 9-13). Illustrations included.

Date: October 23, 1906

Creator: Patterson, Samuel & Wiseman, John W.

Seed-Cotton Cleaner

Patent for a seed-cotton cleaner that has an adapted cleaner attached to it. The cleaner allows the operator to choose whether or not to pass cotton through the cleaner on its way to a cotton gin.

Date: October 24, 1911

Creator: Flowers, Malon I.

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 5, 1899

Creator: McGillivray, William

Couch-Bed.

Patent for a couch-bed, which can be folded out into a single or double bed or have a reclining back on the couch. It also has a shelf pullout for use as bedside table that is stored in the bottom of the couch.

Date: December 1, 1908

Creator: Hunter, Emily

Combined Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine

Patent for "an improvement in combined cotton chopping, planting, and cultivating machines," (lines 9-11) including illustrations.

Date: May 22, 1888

Creator: Pilond, David Winfield

Ant Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "[a]n ant-trap, comprising the body and the inward-projecting tubes having the protecting-caps on their inner ends, the outer faces of the caps being convex and provided with apertures of greater diameter than the bore of the inner end of the tube" (lines 90-95).

Date: February 22, 1887

Creator: McCallum, Walter Randolph

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to make a car-coupler in which the link shall cause the pin to drop within it, which can be coupled or uncoupled from the side or top of cars without danger to the brake[people], and which is provided with means for lifting the link of cars with lower draw-heads" (lines 11-17).

Date: October 7, 1890

Creator: Testard, Adrian

Balance Staff and Wheel for Watches

Patent for an improved design of a balance staff and wheel used for watch repair. The new design allows for an easier repair when replacing a broken staff and decreases the chance that the wheel would be damaged when replacing the staff. Included are instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 18, 1880

Creator: Bugbee, George G.

BUCKLE

Patent for "a new and improved buckle" (lines4-5)

Date: July 20, 1880

Creator: Bardwell, Henery G.

Bed Bottom.

Patent for an improved bed bottom consisting of a series of hooks and eyes and wires with instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 28, 1886

Creator: Peacock, John Calvin; Graves, James Beard & Huffor, George Allin

Insect-Power Distributer.

Patent for a new insecticide distributer using a bellows, a rotary fan, and a tube connecting the bellows to an insecticide reservoir; when pressure is applied to the bellows, the insecticide would pass through the reservoir to a flexible pipe that would distribute the insecticide to any direction without the operator breathing it.

Date: February 17, 1891

Creator: Preston, Leonidas A.

Insecticide Distributor.

Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a base, a bellows mounted thereon, a receptacle arranged in advance of the bellows and adapted to contain poison to be distributed, a forwardly-projecting discharge-tube, laterally-extending discharge-tubes comprising inner rigid sections, outer rigid sections having series of discharge-nozzles, and flexible couplings connecting the rigid sections, and the braces having their inner ends pivoted to the base … more

Date: September 27, 1892

Creator: Talley, Reuben J.

Improvements In Buckles.

Patent for a new kind of buckle along with specifications for construction and illustrations of the buckle.

Date: August 12, 1879

Creator: Carnes, William J., Jr.

Vehicle Axle Lubricator.

Patent for a new and improved axle lubricator. This design utilizes threads to allow for removal and reattachment, as well as easy cleaning.

Date: January 25, 1881

Creator: Rochelle, John Rugeley

Indicator for Merchandise.

Patent for a new and improved advertising sign. This design "relates to apparatus or devices for marking or indicating upon the outside of boxes or drawers the names and prices of the merchandise or other articles contained therein; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a device of the above-mentioned class" (lines 23-29).

Date: April 7, 1885

Creator: Brown, Sampson Harvey