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Radiator for Automobile

Description: Patent for radiator for automobiles that mat be easily dislocated and repaired without damaging any surrounding pipes or ducts. This radiator is easily taken apart and split into large parts for repair purposes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas Jefferson

Lawn-Mower Sharpener.

Description: Patent for a new device that improves lawn mower sharpeners, including illustrations. It is a detachable device that attaches directly to the lawn mower and sharpens the blades while in use.
Date: October 17, 1922
Creator: Lancaster, Edmund Banning

Hair Clipper

Description: Patent for improving structure of clipper forming co-pending application Serial No. 469,842. Simplifying manufacturing and adding other features.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: Monroe, Collier

Ice-Holding Device.

Description: Patent for a device to hold ice upon running-boards of vehicles (lines 10-11.) This device is flexible in use (it can be pulled up to reveal the ice, and put back out of the way), simple in design, and cheap to construct.
Date: March 21, 1922
Creator: Barton, Warren D.

Automobile Block.

Description: Patent for improvements to automobile blocks, specifically employed for pulling automobiles from muddy or other places where the power of the car cannot be utilized. The patent is for a small, portable device that can be conveniently carried in the vehicle.
Date: January 17, 1922
Creator: Schaudies, Charles E.

Lock.

Description: Patent for lock that is stronger when locked due to its unique structure and requires special knowledge to use, making it more secure against intruders.
Date: October 4, 1921
Creator: McGill, Wisdom

Tool-Handle.

Description: Patent for a hammer handle with an inner reinforcing plate which is strong and slightly flexible, so as to "be practically unbreakable" (lines 25-26) and "afford the necessary yielding action or spring to avoid jarring the hands of the operator while in use" (lines 26-29). Application of the design principle to other similar tools, such as "hatchets, axes, shovels, spades, hoes, etc." (lines 22-23), is also suggested.
Date: August 23, 1921
Creator: Johnson, George T.

Ironing-Board.

Description: Patent for an ironing board that has no legs or braces, but is securely held and provided with a cabinet that can be attached to the side of a wall or built into a wall to not take up space in the room by being placed out. Makes for easier ironing of garments, such as dresses and skirts, by allowing them to be inserted on the board.
Date: July 12, 1921
Creator: Trammell, Earl, M. & Carothers, Willam C.

Hair-Clipper.

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements" (line 6) in the Hair Clipper, concerning the introduction of more efficient "double-acting clippers" (line 12), including illustrations.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Jones, Sidney P. & Wallace, David P.

Tractor

Description: Patent for an improved tractor where the "propelling force is delivered through traction blocks...(lines 11-12)."
Date: March 22, 1921
Creator: Aerl, Van Vivian

Steering Gear Stabilizer

Description: Patent for a steering gear stabilizer for car steering wheels. Intent of gear is to keep steering wheel from getting out of the driver's hands when going over rough terrain.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: Hornburg, Charles A

Curtain for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for side roll curtains on foldable automobile tops. The invention's aim is to fit multiple sizes of vehicle tops and be able to be raised and lowered easily without interfering with the the vehicle top's folding function.
Date: November 9, 1920
Creator: Schwarz, Henry W.

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for improving railway rail joints "without the use of fish plates or clamping bolts" (lines 12-13) and for quick and secure assembly "by any person without previous skill or knowledge" (lines 24-25).
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Fenske, Paul J.

Rotary-Razor

Description: Patent for rotary razors that includes a rotating blade that approaches and passes over the skin to avoid cuts or scrapes. The blade on the razor is tilted too far out to cause cuts and scrapes, yet it provides a sufficient shave.
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Jones, Sidney P.
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