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Saddle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "consists in a rubber or other elastic seat having a thick central portion with tapering thin edges and a leather covering for the same" (lines 9-11).
Date: November 4, 1884
Creator: Adams, James E. & Shero, Philip

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a content chopping device with an adjustable lever and cutters. The cotton chopper can be attached to different cultivator frames (farm equipment) and adjusted to chop or thin out different rows of cotton stalks (or other plants).
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Adams, Joe B. & Miller, Lawrence M.

Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.

Description: Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Adams, John R.

Oil-Converting Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that can be built at moderate cost, which will enable a high rate of commercially efficient work to reduce "the specific gravity of various grades of hyrdo-carbon oils, especially those of a semi-refined character" (lines 22 - 24).
Date: October 28, 1919
Creator: Adams, Joseph H.

Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils

Description: Patent for a process for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils that converts these fluids into more buoyant products with lower specific gravities and boiling points. This process seeks to meet demand for engine fuels, gasoline, and oils, and augment the diminishing supply of these natural products.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Adams, Joseph H.

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for improvements to the joints for railway rails to prevent "bumping of the wheels against the ends of rails and the cross ties adjacent to the joints" (lines 16-18) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Railway-Crossing

Description: Patent for crossings for railway tracks and particularly to means for closing the cut in the rails made for the flanges of the wheels, and the object is to provide sliding members which can be easily operated to close the slot or cut in the crossing rails for the flanges of the wheels so that a continuous tread will be formed for every wheel that passes over the crossing and to provide a mechanism for the tracks.
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Standing Valve

Description: Patent for a Standing Valve. This standing valve is designed to improve the way the fluids pump through oil and water wells. it also includes an improvement in the way the standing valve is secured to the wells. The new valve can also be easily replaced because of the materials it is composed of.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Adams, Thomas M.

Corn and Cotton Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton scraper. This design "is to provide an improved corn and cotton scraper for turning or shovel plows for the cultivation of cotton, corn, and other plants, which is adapted to be attached to the beam of the plow without weakening the same by cutting or boring. The scraper is so arranged as to be adjusted either to the right or left, as desired, and up and down, on a central slotted foot-piece, by means of which the line of draft on the blade of the s… more
Date: November 9, 1886
Creator: Adams, William Hinyard
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