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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton-chopper which is steered using the feet, and where the chopping apparatus is adjustable and can be raised or lowered. The chopping apparatus also rotates, and the operator can adjust the speed of rotation. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Engler, Charles

Oil-Expressing Cage and Press.

Description: Patent for improvements to Oil Expressing Cages and Presses "for the extraction of oil from cotton seed cake or the like" (lines 11-12) that allows for multiple oil cakes and press plates which can be "readily inserted in or removed from the press as occasion requires" (lines 22-23).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Henry, Nelson B.

Wrench.

Description: Patent for new and useful improved invention of wrenches include both pipe wrenches and general-purpose wrenches particularly.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Otey R.

Trap.

Description: Patent for animal trap that has a mechanism in connection with spring traps, which is controlled by the closing of the trap, with U-shaped jaws that are spaced slightly apart in order to avoid severing or crushing the animals leg when the jaws of the trap closes. It is meant to prevent the animal from escaping by leaving its leg in the trap.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Manning, James, Sr.

Stove.

Description: Patent for "a novel means for supplying liquid fuel to stoves and other burners and for igniting the fuel from a distant point."
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Peters, William E.

Peanut-Harvester

Description: Patent for peanut harvesting machine. It helps pull the peanut plant from the ground easily and aids in bunching them without having to use your hands.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Phillips Willie Orman

Decapitator.

Description: Patent for improvements to decapitator handles which "may be very cheaply produced and will present a broad surface for the hand of the operator which will permit him to exert all necessary pressure without any discomfort to himself" (lines 71-75).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Rece, Frank S.

Poultry-Killer.

Description: Patent for a new poultry killing device which is inexpensive and easy to use by anyone to kill poultry quickly and painlessly with or without decapitation. Design shape ensures that the poultry cannot twist their way out of the device.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Rece, Frank S.

Wrench.

Description: Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.

Cotton-Cleaner

Description: Patent for a cotton-cleaner with beveled beaters attached to a central shaft. The shape of the beaters and rotation push the cotton outwards and downwards, thus preventing the cotton from clogging or collecting around the central shaft. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Stacy, Grover C.
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