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Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in acetylene gas generating and storing apparatus to "provide a simple, compact, and economical means for automatically said gas" (line 10 - 13).
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Bryant, Henry

Fastener for Cotton-Bale Bands.

Description: Patent for a new and useful fastener for metal bands or straps used in baling cotton. The fastener is designed to overcome problems experienced with currently used fasteners, such as fasteners that break during baling, as well as sharp portions of bands that injure hands.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Cain, James Patrick

Boat.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boats to "increase the speed and insure greater safety and stability in sailing vessels, row-boats, canoes, and the like" (line 12-14).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Evesson, Martin V. B.

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench that can be used as a pipe-wrench or a monkey-wrench. It has a movable jaw, for easy adjusting, and is "of simple and strong construction" (line 9).
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Flye, Murat K.

Insect Destroyer

Description: Patent for the Insect Destroyer invented by Emmanuel C. Grover. This invention relates to the type of insect destroyers that are adapted to remove insects from growing plants and kill them. This invention is also modified with a moving device to be moved over a growing row of plants and destroy insects therein without injuring the plants.
Date: February 21, 1917
Creator: Grover, E.C.

Card Game

Description: Patent for an invention of a new card game to assist with arithmetical computations and outlines of different objects, including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Hobbs, James Joseph

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for "a motor driven cultivator adapted to be attached to various types of cultivating devices to draw the latter over the ground to be cultivated". (lines 12-15)
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Hodges, Eugene C.

Four-Wheel Drive.

Description: Patent for improvements in four-wheel driving, which uses a "novel flexible driving connection for the steering wheels." Citation: Hodges, Eugene C. Four-Wheel Drive., patent, April 27, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Hodges, Eugene C.

Bascule-Bridge

Description: Patent for improvements in draw bridges, such as a shiftable weight and supporting guide, particularly for bridges of the rocking bascule type, with illustrations.
Date: February 15, 1915
Creator: McKibben, Columbus
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