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Cotton-Cleaner

Patent for an apparatus that is designed to clean cotton before it is placed in a cotton gin. Illustrations included.

Date: February 15, 1910

Creator: Felton, Thomas W.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the body, or receptacle and its cover, of the dasher having a frame provided with inner apertured or perforated corner blocks and journaled in the body or receptacle, and a second apertured or perforated cross-shaped dasher journaled within the other dasher, the tripod-frame comprising the arched meeting side bars, and a third connecting-bar having an aperture, through which the upper end of the inner dasher-s… more

Date: June 15, 1886

Creator: Lines, Daniel & Long, Charles T.

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for improvements in a device that is "adapted to take up slack in barbed and other wire fences," (lines 11-12) with instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 15, 1891

Creator: Wilson, Jesse H.

Windmill-Tower.

Patent for "skeleton towers of a character more especially adapted to support a wind-wheel" (lines 8-10) and that allow the wheel to be lowered.Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 15, 1891

Creator: Walton, Jacob Gipson

Post Hole Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design consists in "the shank forked and continued in the arms, the latter having elbows at their lower ends, in combination with the ring-shaped band having a sharp lower edge and bolts passing through said bands and arms and through said elbows and arms" (lines 91-97).

Date: October 15, 1889

Creator: McCall, Dugald Bell

Horse-Power

Patent for an alternative horse power design without cogs that has the same level of efficiency with an increased speed of output as well.

Date: November 15, 1892

Creator: Walton, Jacob Gipson

Cotton Stalk Puller.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk puller. This design utilizes "[a] pulling-wheel having radial jaws that are opened and closed by cam devices" when "[i]t is driven astride the [cotton] row, and will be found to operate rapidly and with absolute certainty. It is simple, durable, and may be constructed at a very small expense" (lines 79-84).

Date: March 15, 1881

Creator: Wilson, John C.

Improvement in Ant-Traps.

Patent for catching burrowing insects, especially for large ants.

Date: July 15, 1873

Creator: Rubarth, Leander