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Adjustable Rack for Railway-Cars.

Description: Patent for improvements on racks in railway-cars including more storage for smaller items, an adjustable rack for children or elderly persons to be able to reach without needing to stand on the car seat, a titled hinge that allows a rack to be pulled for ward and pushed back, and other improvements.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Butler, Michael

Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Elam, William E.

Apparatus for Separating Substances of Different Dielectric Capacities.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for separating substances of different dielectric capacities; the objective of this invention is to provide means for the material to be separated into its component particles for the purpose of producing material of dielectric hysteric impedance and collecting the separated particles according to the difference in time that the particles maintain their polarity due to the impedance generated from them.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.

Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Brown, John Walter R. & Otey, George S.

Copy Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved copy-holder. This design "is [for] an improved copy-holder intended especially for holding deeds when being transcribed to the records, and seeks to provide a simple, inexpensive construction by which the deed may be held and to and from which the deed or other paper may be adjusted without difficulty, such construction serving also to mark or indicate the particular line of the paper being copied" (lines 7-15).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Adair, Irvine James

Cotton-Boll Separator.

Description: Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.

Cotton-Saw Gummer

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton saw gummers. The patented improvements include a cutter rather than a puncher in the gummer's design, as well as means for adjusting the cutter.
Date: September 2, 1913
Creator: Nelson, De Witt C.

Cuff-Holder.

Description: Patent for an improved cuff-holder that is simple and inexpensive, and is "adapted to serve as a sleeve button and a cuff support, and capable of read adjustment to enable the wearer to arrange his cuffs as desired, and to show them beyond the coat sleeve to a greater or less extent" (lines 12-16).
Date: October 2, 1894
Creator: Shaw, Wilber S.

Cultivator

Description: Patent for improvements to a new cultivator which eliminate side drafting and improving the means of cultivating and adjusting the shovels with ease.
Date: April 2, 1918
Creator: Ashley, John F.

Game Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new game apparatus that can be playing indoors or outdoors and made in both large and small sizes "in which the elements, of chance, skill, and endurance constitute important factors in the successful playing of said game." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Schuler, Joseph & Overbeck, Harry A.

Gas Meter Attachment.

Description: Patent for a gas meter attachment that will allow the meter to still function properly when somehow placed in a position other than upright. Valves that would not be functional due to changes in gravitational forces resulting from the meter being in a position other than upright are remedied using this attachment by new register and valve design.
Date: July 2, 1917
Creator: Morris, Henry C.

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvement in cultivators in which the plows can be adjusted by width, height and laterally to regulate the depth and angle of inclination. The plows, which can be operated by a foot device, may be simultaneously thrown from the ground. (Lines 73-76) Illustration is included.
Date: November 2, 1869
Creator: Baker, William T.

Improvement to Elevator Signal Systems

Description: Patent for an improvement to an elevator in which “to provide an elevator signal system that will permit a party at any landing to indicate his desire to go up or down to the elevator operator by pressing one of two buttons” (lines 10-15). Instructions and illustration included.
Date: February 2, 1915
Creator: Johnson, Charles S.
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