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Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton

Description: Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.

Card-File Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a lockable card file cabinet or casing that allows for viewing through a transparent top with use of a rod for moving cards back and forth. The transparent top allows customer information to be stored and used, but not edited without a key.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Reeves, John R.

Clip

Description: Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Porter, Louis H.

Combination Farming Implement.

Description: Patent for "agricultural implements and particularly to soil tilling machines of the rotary type" (lines 9-11) ... "of simple and improved construction embodying a carrying frame, a swingingly supported adjustable frame, and a rotary tilling device mounted on the swinging frame for direct engagement with the ground" (lines 13-18).
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Corbin, George W.

Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.

Description: Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).
Date: November 26, 1895
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick WIlliam

Compression Indicator

Description: Patent for a device that determining the compression of engine cylinders. Is meant to provide a more efficient and quicker way to test compression in explosive engine cylinders.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Lambeth, Acey L.

Engine.

Description: Patent for "engines which employ governors" (lines 11-12) "desirably located within the crank cases to be effectively lubricated by the oil which is dashed about in engine operation." (lines 13-16)
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Pratt, Clarence E.

Filter and Water Purifier.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water filter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a water-pump having upwardly-opening valves, an air-pump having downwardly-opening valves, and two perforated cylinders surrounding the pump-tubes and provided with a packing of filtering material, the water-pump tube opening into the inner cylinder, and the pump-tube passing entirely through both heads of the same" (lines 61-68).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Stiles, Frederick
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