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Cattle Guard and Gate

Description: Patent for cattle guards utilizing a gate normally disposed across a railroad track. This gate is modified for operation by actuation of a moving train approaching the guard from either direction.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for cotton choppers with a moving hoe-frame. The essential feature of the invention is to secure a special construction and arrangement of chopping blades which are adapted to be adjusted in such a way as to leave a greater or less number of the plants in a row as the chopper is operated.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.

Folding Step for Public Carriers

Description: Patent for public carriers such as cars that are designed for transporting passengers, especially steam operated railways. This patent will provide these carriers with a string of steps at each end upon both sides to facilitate ingress and egress. These steps are stationary and for safety terminate a short distance away from the ground.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.

Gas- Generator

Description: Patent for improvements in gas generators relating to machines that use acetylene gas. These improvements are meant to make gas generators easy to use and easy to construct.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Ferguson, Andrew J

Furniture-Handle.

Description: Patent for a plate that improves the security of drop-handle furniture handles with posses superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability and general efficiency.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Frank, Gustav

Apparatus for Treating Timber.

Description: Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date: July 11, 1905
Creator: Gerhard, Philip H.

Caisson

Description: Patent for a caisson. This invention is used to remove quicksand while sinking piers in rivers. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Gilbert, Edward Nathen
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