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Aeroplane.

Patent for improved propulsion for airplanes involving propellors in the front and rear of the plane. This aids in regulating air currents to stabilize flight, landing and speed. The patent includes illustrations.

Date: June 12, 1917

Creator: Campbell, John R.

Air-Chamber.

Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.

Date: June 18, 1861

Creator: Creuzbaur, Robert

Animal Shears.

Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).

Date: June 8, 1886

Creator: Harrell, Joseph J.

Attachment for Spoons.

Patent for an attachment for spoons, forks, and the like. The attachment is a metal wire loop that attaches to a utensil and is bent to hook onto a vessel such as a bowl to keep the utensil from falling in the vessel.

Date: June 6, 1916

Creator: Allen, Harry P.

Automobile-Headlight

Patent for a headlight design that turns with the front wheels, allowing the driver to illuminate the road ahead whether driving straight or turning.

Date: June 30, 1914

Creator: Fay, Peter J.

Base Ball Game.

Patent for a new and improved board game. This design "consists of a game-board marked out to represent a baseball field and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, provision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs" (lines 13-22).

Date: June 3, 1890

Creator: Maxcy, John Wharton

Casing Water Packer

Patent for improved casing water-packer used for Artesian wells.

Date: June 9, 1903

Creator: Haas, Charles

Caster.

Patent for a new and improved insect-killing furniture-caster. This design "consists in a cup shaped shell having a bowl or liquid-receptacle at its lower edge and a filling orifice or passage extending through the shell and leading to the bottom of the liquid-receptacle. A socket or inwardly-projecting tube at the top of the shell encircles the shank of the caster and rests upon a shoulder on said shank, which serves to hold the insect guard in position" (lines 17-25).

Date: June 27, 1882

Creator: Tumey, Charles Henry

Ceiling-Plate.

Patent for improvements to ceiling plates that allow a ceiling plate through which a pipe passes to remain securely attached to the ceiling (or other surface) even while the pipe expands or contracts.

Date: June 19, 1917

Creator: Donnelly, John R.

Child's Bib.

Patent for improvement in children’s bibs, by providing bibs with a pocket at its lower end to catch any food or drink that might be dropped or spilled, thereby preventing soiling of the clothes and the carpet or floor. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.

Date: June 25, 1901

Creator: Ziller, Robert L.

Churn.

Patent for a simple, efficient, and improved churn that thoroughly aerating and stirring the cream. It has a removable vertical dasher and two dasher cups.

Date: June 11, 1895

Creator: Franklin, Edward A.

Churn Dasher

Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.

Date: June 9, 1908

Creator: Franklin, Edward A.

Cigar-Package.

Patent for an improved cigar-package that complies "with all the requirements of the revenue laws, to be retailed to purchasers, who destroy the stamp upon opening the package, the construction being such that the packages thus opened can be used as pocket cases for the protection of the cigars" (lines 21-27).

Date: June 5, 1894

Creator: Philipson, Sigmund

Combined Automobile-Wheel and Flexible Tire.

Patent for improving tires for the motor vehicles. The invention provides a wheel with a tieldably connected tire so as to take up the vibration upon the vehicle equipped with the wheel. Further, invention provides vehicle wheel with a yieldable rim. This rim is for a wheel formed from sheet metal instead of usual pneumatic tire, eliminating the expense of repairs from punctures and blow-outs.

Date: June 18, 1918

Creator: La Bauve, Henry John

Controlling Device for Water Heaters.

Patent for a device that controls the gas supply valve for water heaters. Patent includes illustrations and specifications.

Date: June 13, 1916

Creator: Cochran, Harry A.

Cotton-Packer

Patent for an apparatus used for packing cotton prepared for baling. Illustrations included.

Date: June 7, 1910

Creator: Dixon, Albert S.

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for an efficient burner of crude or fuel oil that can be used with less dangerous fuels while maintaining the same high level of heat and vaporization necessary for use in domestic environments.

Date: June 14, 1921

Creator: Holmes, Watson W.

Door-Check.

Patent for an improvement on door-stops meant to "check the door at any point in its traverse and at the same time serve as a door fastening and stop" (lines 14-16). It is hand adjustable operating-rod.

Date: June 2, 1896

Creator: Campbell, Thomas Jefferson

Electrical Battery

Patent for an electrical battery. Illustration included.

Date: June 14, 1904

Creator: Haschke, Juluis E. & Haschke, Feodor G.

Fertilizer

Patent for fertilizer.

Date: June 28, 1904

Creator: Wright, Edward Fondi

Fish Box

Patent for a fish box. This box is collapsible and may be stored away when not in use, but proves sturdy when being used.

Date: June 6, 1916

Creator: Hofer, John T.

Flushing Tank

Patent for a flushing tank. Illustration included.

Date: June 21, 1904

Creator: Walker, Benjamin, Jr.

Fruit Squeezer.

Patent for a new and improved fruit juicer. This design consists "[i]n a fruit-squeezer having flat or nearly flat pressing-surfaces, the combination of jaws having lever-handles integral therewith, and face-plates held in transverse dovetail seats in the faces of the respective jaws by means of clamping-screws, and supported therein by central set-screws" (lines 89-95).

Date: June 26, 1883

Creator: Stein, Philip H. & Tams, James

Gas-Burner.

Patent for improved gas-burning water heaters. Improvements are meant to "insure complete and economical combustion of gas and to "prevent water of condensation accumulating on the exterior of the coil of the water heater from dropping into the flame opening of the burner and casing injury to the screen thereof" (Lines 20-24).