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Bottle-Holder.

Description: Patent for an ink bottle holder that allows for sturdy tilting and prevents ink from spilling.
Date: April 27, 1920
Creator: Smith, Edwin Ruthven

Cane-Stripper.

Description: Patent for cane stripper with v-shaped opposing spring jaws and double cutting edges on its blades. Its simple construction can be created at a low cost and then be sold for profit.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Haynes, Robert J.

Funnel

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in Funnels. Patent is for the provision of a funnel having a valve controlled outlet.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Hodges, Eddie C.

Agricultural Machine

Description: Patent for improvements to certain components of agricultural machines, particularly the plow, planter, and stalk cutter attachments.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Johnson, O. J.

Condiment-Holder.

Description: Patent for condiment holder that can be filled with different condiments that can be dispensed separately or both at the same time. This design is also more durable, efficient, and low cost.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Peters, Shafeh

Brick-Kiln Construction

Description: Patent for Brick Kiln Construction. The particular innovation enables bricks and tiles to be manufactured, burned, and dried in one building. This helps in saving fuel, using the fuel economically, and reducing the time needed for the burning of bricks.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Pokorny, James T.

Valve.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Valves" (lines 5-6) used in pneumatic inner tubes to stop leakage, including illustrations.
Date: December 14, 1920
Creator: Cheek, Alex L.

Liquid-Indicator for Tanks.

Description: Patent for a liquid indicator to determine if the supply of oil has been depleted in the crank case of an automobile's internal combustion engine. Further purposes of this patent include the closing of an electrical circuit when the oil in the crank case becomes low in order to sound an audible noise that alerts the driver that more oil is needed. The patent intends to make the invention durable, easy to use, and inexpensive to manufacture.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Pippin, William R.

Linting Machine.

Description: Patent for a linting machine (Carver type) that contains an air pocket at the end of the passage to prevent cotton from clogging the machine.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Woodrow, George N. & Bruce, Thomas D.

Plow

Description: Patent for a technologically improved combination plow and cultivator which includes a "combined winged plow and cultivator with a specially constructed beam to ensure stability, and hold the plow and the wings in proper contact with the earth (lines 13-16).
Date: unknown
Creator: Braband, Max H.

Farming Implement

Description: Patent for a new farm implement. It is described as a ridable frame that a farmer could attach assorted tools, making it a multipurpose farm tool.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: McHam, John Warren

Safety-Crank

Description: Patent for a new Safety-Crank for starting auto vehicle engines, which is capable of effectively imparting the necessary forward movement to an engine for starting, but having means conjoined with it, whereby it will be automatically released from positive engagement with the starting shaft on any retrograde movement of the engine.
Date: July 1, 1919
Creator: Farley, Bert T.

Pencil Attachment.

Description: Patent for a pencil attachment that holds a picture that is designed to have a picture mounted in an opening of the pencil. When the opening is held close to the viewer's eye, the image is magnified. The main purpose of the device is to be used for advertising or souvenirs.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Tippit, Thomas Oland

Pipe-Painting Machine

Description: Patent for pipe-painting machine. The invention details improvements in devices for painting pipes or "other elongated substantially cylindrical objects". The object was designed to create minimal waste when operating the device.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: McNulty, Charlie A.

Automobile Wheel

Description: Patent for a type of wheel called a spring wheel, and will allow for simple and efficient means of producing a spoke, and eliminate the need for an inflated tire when attaching the spoke, including illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1913
Creator: Lewis, Alfred M.

Check-Book.

Description: Patent for a checkbook holder that includes a special binder for check stubs, with instructions and illustration. When a new set of checks and binder are inserted into the holder, the old binder of stubs can be easily removed and saved, for receipt purposes.
Date: July 11, 1916
Creator: Bennett, Paul H.

Adjustable Cultivator-Plow Standard.

Description: Patent for an adjustable cultivator plow that is designed to be strong and durable as well as efficient and simple.
Date: December 15, 1914
Creator: Wright, James B.

Wrench

Description: Patent for an improved wrench wherein various shaped and sized heads can be quickly and easily put on and taken off. This allows for the wrench to be used with nuts of varying shapes and sizes.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Davis, George W. & Davis, George W.

Inside Trimming Machine for Trimming Wooden Handles for Tools and the Like.

Description: Patent for a machine to trim wooden handles for tools. The "invention relates to trimming machines and more particularly to machines for trimming the inside portions of wooden tools or handles, such as handles for spades, shovels, and like articles." (Lines 10-14)
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Kimerer, Joseph C.

Improvement to Oil-Burners

Description: Patent for the improvement of oil-burners in which it is “extremely cheap and simple, which may be readily installed, and which is adapted to burn oil practically without smoke” (lines 12-14). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Hope, William H.

Knee-Protector.

Description: Patent for a knee protector that enables the wearer to fasten the device to the knee and includes a frame and knee receiving pocket.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Russel, Callie B.

Tug-Clip.

Description: Patent for a new form of tug clip which will not damage the collar to which it is attached.
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Duncan, Walter B.

Plow

Description: Patent for a plow augmented by an adjustable knife attached at the rear that improves plow cutting and stability.
Date: October 12, 1915
Creator: Barker, Spencer A.
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