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Adding-Machine

Description: Patent for "a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may accomplish with facility and case all the purposes for which it is intended" (lines 13-16).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Wright, Joseph W.

Adding-Machine.

Description: Patent for am adding machine by using two disks, one a units-disk with pins in multiples of ten, one a tens-disk, is an annular disk with pin surrounding the units disk, an outwardly spring-pressed holder having a beveled outer end frictionally engaging the pins of the tens-disk and a carrier having oppositely-beveled ends engaged a supplemental pin and one pin on the tens-disks, teeth in the adjacent faces of the holder and carrier, and an idle-gear between them to enable the adding operation.… more
Date: May 12, 1891
Creator: Wright, Joseph W.

Animal-Poke

Description: Patent for an animal poke which is worn around the belly of the cow or other animal, and pokes the animal when it pushes against a fence and has a hook attached to the back of the poke which will catch onto the fence if they try to go underneath or over the fence.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Bush, Caswell C.

Animal-Yoke

Description: Patent for an animal-yoke.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Landers, Willis M.

Apparatus for Killing Rodents

Description: Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Palmer, Austin D.

Attachment For Cultivators

Description: Patent for an attachment for cultivators. Illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1905
Creator: Burks, Edwin H.

Bale-Band Buckle

Description: Patent for buckles used to hold bands of bales. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Patterson, James S. & Smith, Dallas E.

Baling-press

Description: Patent for a baling-press that will prevent hay or other material from jamming the mechanisms used to bale it.
Date: December 8, 1900
Creator: Dennis, Felix Henry

Bottle Stopper

Description: Patent for a bottle stopper. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1904
Creator: Hogan, Thomas

Chicken-Roost

Description: Patent for an improved chicken roost.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: Conner, Joshua H.

Churn

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn and cooler which allows for easier removal of the cooling liquid and includes illustrations and description.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Sibley, William P. & Williamson, Riley B.

Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for improvement on clothing pin by using a single wire.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Neal, William C.

Combined Cotton-Chopper And Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful combined cotton chopper and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1899
Creator: Parker, Robert L.

Combined Hook and Hammer.

Description: Patent for a combined hook and hammer meant to "combine in its structure the ordinary hook for engaging with the article to be moved, and a handle adapted, when desired, to be used as a hammer, thus dispensing with the necessity for a separate implement of this character, and, second, to combine with the said hook and handle improved means for preventing the accidental contact of the hand of the operator with the article to be handled" (lines 17-26).
Date: July 2, 1895
Creator: Tillett, Henry Augustus; Tarpley, Thomas Dee & Moore, Robert Jones

Combined Lister Plow and Planter.

Description: Patent for a combined Lister plow and planter that both breaks the ground and plants seed. Appears to be a type of early tractor.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.

Corn or Grain Knife.

Description: Patent for an improved corn or grain knife that is simpler in construction and inexpensive to produce. This corn or grain knife is "adapted for use in the hand of the user for clipping the tops of standing grain such as corn, by the simple act of opening and closing the hand" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Holliday, Thomas B.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can shop two rows at the same time and performs the work faster than it can be done manually.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Martin, Joseph W.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustrati… more
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: McCaul, James L.

Cotton-Planter.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient cotton planter that plants four or more rows at once. It works over rough, stony, and uneven ground; its operation is that it opens a furrow, drops the seed, and puts dirt over the seeds.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Mannewitz, Maximilian

Cutting-Table.

Description: Patent for an improved trimming-table that easily measures, holds, and cuts or trims fabrics. It consists of a table with measures, keepers that are attached to the top of the table with a stem, and an arched front portion that ends in a foot-piece.
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Jones, Vina

Design for a Military Uniform.

Description: Patent for a new, original, and ornamental design for a military uniform.
Date: October 25, 1921
Creator: Meacham, Haskell K.

Dish Drier.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dish-drier. This design consists in "[t]he body having perforations and having side projection and spout, in combination with the cover, false bottom supported from the main bottom of the drier, and having the uprights and cross-pieces" (lines 75-80).
Date: September 10, 1889
Creator: Wilson, Alice J.
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