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Automobile-Elevator.

Description: Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Wright, Virgil Tilden

Well Bucket

Description: Patent for Improvements in well buckets. The bucket has an inlet valve at the bottom and an air escape valve at the top that permits air to escape freely while preventing the entrance of dirt and extraneous matter to the interior of the bucket.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Reese, Samuel L. & Reese, Samuel L.

Attachment for Rotaries.

Description: Patent for rotary well-drilling machinery where the "ring or bushing to rotate independently of the table and the present invention is directed to means for accomplishing the rotating effect." (line 24-27)
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.

Guide for Drive-Chains.

Description: Patent for a mechanism designed to prevent a guide chain from being displaced from the wheel(s) of its parent machine.
Date: May 17, 1921
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.

Stalk-Cutter Attachment.

Description: Patent for a planter attachment. It allows quick attachment of a stalk cutter that would let a planter serve two purposes.
Date: February 7, 1922
Creator: Haynes, Jack M.

Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a knee pad to be used by berry or cotton pickers, or other workers that are often in a kneeling position. The knee pad consists of a frame made of "one piece of spring wire of rather coarse gage, a roller revolubly attached to the front end of the frame, and cloth or canvas stretched across the frame" (lines 23-27). The cloth is easy to remove and replace.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Holsey, Walter R.

Tubeless Tire and Rim and Lock Therefor

Description: Patent for "an improved tubeless pneumatic tire casing, and an improved rim and locking means therefore, where by to effectively draw the edges together to render the same air tight" (lines 11-15). Also, this patent provides a improved "tubeless tire casing" where adding air pressure makes the joint air tight.
Date: October 22, 1918
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick B.

Surgical Splint.

Description: Patent for a surgical splint specifically for the substitution of erectile tissue of the corpora cavernous of the genital organ to promote fecundation even in the absence of an erection.
Date: July 13, 1920
Creator: Renois, John J.

Terracing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a terracing machine to provide a device to this character constructed in such a manner that farm land can be readily terraced to prevent the soil washing away. Other features are having the means for vertically adjusting either end of the terracing scraper and to allow the scraper to easily and quickly be adjusted into different angular relations to the draft tongue.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Reese, Samuel L.

Sanitary Udder-Protector.

Description: Patent for udder protectors for milch (dairy) cows. To keep foreign matters from contact and to keep the udders warm for the animals' comfort, including illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Thornton, Florence A.

Flour-Sifter.

Description: Patent for a centrifugal flour sifter that removes pests, mold, and debris.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Brewer, Johnson

Rotary-Drill Head.

Description: Patent for a drill apparatus that improves the head gears and driving mechanisms that makes for an efficient driving of the apparatus and allows for free vertical movement.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.

Resilient Wheel.

Description: Patent for improvements in resilient wheels. "This invention relates to a new and useful resilient vehicle wheel embodying flat arcuate springs by means of which the tread or shoe of the wheel is resiliently mounted with relation to the hub."(lines 8-12)
Date: January 15, 1918
Creator: Roberts, Samuel A.

Planter Attachment.

Description: Patent for a seed planter attachment with an easily adjustable shovel.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Sanders, Walter F.

Gas Producer.

Description: Patent for improvements to gas producers of the type in which combustible gases are evolved from coal, lignite, etc., during the incomplete combustion thereof.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.

Impeller-Pump.

Description: Patent for an impeller pump with separate sections and parts that can be connected together. The line of pipe of can be withdrawn without removing the head, and there are measures to keep the liner in operative position. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.

Boll Breaking or Crushing Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements to machines used for breaking or crushing cotton bolls "which will initially break the cotton bolls before the cotton with its bolls passes to the cotton gin." (lines 13-15).
Date: October 26, 1915
Creator: South, John T.

Knee-Pad

Description: Patent for knee-pads that are used for berry or cotton pickers.
Date: May 3, 1915
Creator: Holsey, Walter R.

Tie-Handling Apparatus

Description: Patent for a mechanism mounted on a hand car that will remove old rail ties and install new ones. This mechanism allows for the rails to remain undisturbed and the space underneath to be cleared for the new tie installation.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis

Track Switch

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Track-Switches" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: South, John T.

Hames Fastener

Description: Patent for a hames fastener, so that the hames will fit tightly on a horse collar when a strap is adjusted.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Ingram, Lewis J.

Faucet

Description: Patent for improved cistern or tank faucets
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Lowe, Stiles F.
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