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Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate

Description: Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: McCombs, Oliver A.
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Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute

Description: Patent for an apparatus to produce a lard substitute from cotton seed oil. "An important object of this invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and continuous in operation."
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
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Automatic Service-Switch.

Description: Patent for a new automatic service switch "which will be entirely concealed within a casing ordinarily kept locked, thus preventing any unauthorized parties from endangering themselves by tampering with the switch, and furthermore impeding any attempt to defraud the company furnishing the current by rendering the switch difficult to access." (lines 35-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 7, 1914
Creator: Wetter, Ralph E.
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Blow-Out Guard

Description: Patent for a blow-out guard for double tube tires. It is meant to a barrier "interposed between the inner and outer tubes of a pneumatic tire, to reinforce an apertured or weakened place...preventing the inner tube from 'blowing out' at such a point." (Line 11-16)
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Holloman, Alfred A.
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Boll Breaker and Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a boll breaker and cleaner with a casing with a pair of revolving cylinders with boll-breaking arms adapted to work with additional boll-breaking arms projected from rocking shafts in the lower portion of the casing. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Hale, John W. & Galey, John I.
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Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders

Description: Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Lamb, William R.
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Centrifugal Suction Fan

Description: Patent for improvements made towards in suction fans that are found in cotton picking machines to improve efficiency. The primary improvements detailed in the patent describe and illustrate an improved design of the casing inside the fan to prevent damage to the cotton or the seed once they are sucked into the fan, among other design improvements.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Meier, John & Miller, T. S., Jr.
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Churn

Description: Patent for an improvement to churns; this invention provides a churn in which milk is thoroughly agitated via the opposite rotation of two dashers, and will simultaneously allow for observation of the churning operation via a glass vessel.
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Samuel C.M. Anderson
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Combustion Device

Description: Patent for a combustion device that allows for the control of fuel to one or two burners of the same fire box. This device is also built in an upright position to assist in supporting the burner members of the box. This device is built stronger and simpler than other devices of its kind.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Halliburton, Orville G.
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Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for improvements to Cotton-Gins' brush cylinders that includes "a longitudinal tubular member having a brush cylinder cooperating therewith and which serves as a conduit for the passage of the lint cotton from the gin and also as a connecting means for the legs of the gin frame and as an end outlet for the gin, and leaving the rear of the latter unobstructed and freely accessible" (lines 13-21), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
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Cotton Seed Linter

Description: Patent for "improvements in cotton-seed linters" (Lines 5-6) for improving efficiency of "separating the the lint from motes and other dirt and trash" (lines 15-16) including illustrations.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Vardell, Arthur A.
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Curtain-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a curtain stretcher where the parts can be disconnected and readily assembled to accommodate curtains of various types. It permits stretching without screwing curtains or disengaging them from the clamps. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Hiegel, Eugene J.
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Disappearing Coffin Panel

Description: Patent for improvements to disappearing coffin panels. This invention allows coffin interiors to be inspected without taking the coffin lid off. These disappearing coffin lids will not change the ornamental appearance of the coffin lid.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Fisher, Alfred
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