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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for "pin-and-link car-couplings to enable the same to couple automatically and to be readily uncoupled without going between cars, and to provide means for holding the link in substantially a horizontal position for guiding it into the mouth of a draw-head to avoid going between cars and guiding the link by hand." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1897
Creator: Allen, George F.; Allen, Charles D. & Martin, Richard W.

Combined Level and Try Square

Description: Patent for a combined level and try square tool. Illustrations are included.
Date: June 18, 1909
Creator: Blackwell, James H.

Combined Desk and Seat

Description: Patent for combination seat and desk for school installation.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Bloomfield, Benjamin K.

Cultivator-Fender.

Description: Patent for an improvement to cultivator-fenders that prevents rocks and other debris from being throws about while plowing.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Calk, Alonzo E.

Telegraph and Telephone Insulator.

Description: Patent for a telegraph and telephone insulator, which prevents the wires from slipping out of the insulator by the use of grooves placed in the holder.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Copper, John A.

Fishing-Float.

Description: Patent for a fishing float "wherein the staff and the buoyant body of the float cooperate in a novel way to hold a line" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Davis, James B.

Neck-Yoke

Description: Patent for a neck-yoke or tongue attachment used to pull a vehicle or plow.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Davis, James B.

Neck-Yoke or Tongue Attachment

Description: Patent for a neck-yoke or tongue attachment. It is adapted for use with any "type of breast-bar, neck-yoke, or tongue and pole equipped vehicles" (lines 12-14).
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Davis, James B.

Shepherd's Crook.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shepherd's crook. This design "has relation to shepherd's crooks; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the tapering and balanced staff, the slender neck near the head or crook, the broad bearings of the crook, and the guard-knob on the end thereof" (lines 16-21).
Date: April 3, 1883
Creator: Deland, Edward E.

Milk Cooler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design consists in "the combination, with the body or frame provided with water-troughs, of the jacketed cans having the upper ends of their jackets extending into the troughs, and an air-collecting device arranged . . . to collect and direct the air against the exposed jackets" (lines 14-21).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Dodge, Frances A.

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design "consists, essentially, in a series of vessels surrounded or enveloped by fibrous material, dipping into a water-vessel above, and serving to maintain a constant supply of water to the exterior of the vessels through capillary action, the water being caused to pass down in such quantity as to drip from the bottoms of the vessels and collect in a second tank supplying a second series of vessels in the same manner, and finally to collect in … more
Date: January 1, 1884
Creator: Dodge, Frances A.

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a refrigerating apparatus that consists of a circular table that has a reservoir in its middle and jars mounted on fibrous mats and secured in a grid around the reservoir. Fibrous bags surround the jars and the excess material is gathered and goes into the reservoir.
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Dodge, Israel A.

Appliance for Training Horses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved appliance for training horses. This design "consists, essentially, in a leg-halter composed of chains or ropes connected by a common ring, or otherwise, and connected with gyves or shackles to encircle the pastern of each leg, a yoke or frame placed upon the withers, or forward or back thereof, and provided with a clamp, and a band passing through the clamp and down to one of the shackles, or to the horse's leg, the other end being carried to a convenient point to … more
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Dodge, Israel Alexander

Sash-Holder.

Description: Patent for a window sash holder, which is thinner and fits more easily in shallower recesses.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Gabbart, Elihu E.

Scale Beam

Description: Patent for sclae beam that is used to weigh bales of cotton.
Date: January 23, 1917
Creator: Gattis, Thomas W.

Attachment For Horse Powers

Description: Patent for attachment for horse powers. This invention is an attachment for the power transmission for hay presses. Illustration included.
Date: May 31, 1904
Creator: Gentry, Arthur Q. & Burk, Jasper A.

Fleece Binder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fleece-binder. This design "consists in a fleece-binder constructed with a box attached to a supporting-frame, and having inclined flanges upon its side edges, and provided with hinged press-boards and fingers operated by push-bars, a cord, and a treadle, whereby the fleece can be compressed and held while being tied. To the ends of the sides of the box is attached a knife, so that all the twines of the bundle can be cut at a time" (lines 20-29).
Date: September 2, 1884
Creator: Krueger, Theodore C. H.

Insect or Worm Destroyer.

Description: Patent for an insect and worm destroyer that is secured to the frame of a gang or cultivator and both cultivates and exterminates insects, worms, and the like as it moves down each row of plants.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Martin, Samuel H.

Gate

Description: Patent for a gate. Illustration included.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Matthews, Joseph William

Gate.

Description: Patent for a farm gate, which can be opened from a vehicle and stays open until a second operation is performed to close the gate.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Matthews, Joseph William

Wheel Straightening Machine

Description: Patent for wheel straightening machine. This invention is designed for straightening light or heavy wagon wheels when the spokes become loosened and the wheel is excessively dished" (9-11). Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Mayse, Jordan Stewart

Valve.

Description: Patent for a valve for use as part of a tank filling apparatus, which is easy to attach.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: McKnight, Samuel E.

System of Road Drainage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved system of road drainage. This design is "especially . . . for use on dirt and other roads, and adapted to quickly dry the road after a heavy rainfall without disturbing the road-bed. The invention consists of a drain arranged longitudinally under the road-bed and provided with outlet-pipes placed suitable distances apart, and each adapted to be closed at its outer end, and branch air-pipes also extending from the said drain and adapted to be connected with an air-p… more
Date: December 2, 1890
Creator: Mitchell, Alexander

Signaling Device for Automobiles.

Description: Patent for turn signal device for automobiles that "can be easily and quickly attached to the frame of the usual wind shield" (lines 21-22) and allows driver to operate it without letting go of the steering wheel.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Niissle, Charles J.
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