Plow.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Hyer, Robert Stewart
Description: Patent for an improvement in plows by “employing a combined brace for the mold-board and a locking device for the share” (lines 46-48), including illustration.
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Device for Cooling Milk and Butter.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Hall, Charles T.
Description: Patent for improvements in devices for cooling milk and butter by using textile materials to cover the buckets or pails that contain milk or butter or other food articles, then saturated these textile covered buckets or pails with water; thus reducing the temperature of the articles contained in the buckets or pails, owing to evaporation. Illustration is included.
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Car-Coupling.
Date: September 15, 1891
Creator: Harrington, Charles
Description: Patent for improvement in car-coupler particularly to that known as “swing-pin.” This is how it works “a pin comprises a pin proper whose upper end is connected by a chain with the front end of the arm on a horizontal rod. The body of this pin passes through a catch, from which it may be removed.” (Lines 40-45) “The catch has a transverse pin and a rounded upper edge, terminating in a shoulder at its front end and a tongue at its rear end.” (Lines 46-49) Illustration is included.
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Cotton-Chopper.
Date: October 27, 1891
Creator: Poole, Luther M.
Description: Patent for improvements in cotton-choppers by "providing a frame in which is journaled the shaft carrying the cutting-wheel, which derives its motion through connection with the traction-wheels, the said shaft being arranged at an angle to the line of travel of the machine and connected by knuckle or swivel joint with a shaft comprising a part of the driving mechanism.” (Lines 19-26) Illustration is included.
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Cotton Picker.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Hyde, Thomas Burke
Description: Patent for machine for picking cotton that is simple in construction and comparatively inexpensive.
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Wire-Working Implement.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Murphy, George Washington
Description: Patent for an invention that stretches fencing wire that is being nailed or stapled into a post. The implement is also used for twisted two wires together.
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Plow.
Date: January 26, 1892
Creator: Hyer, Robert Stewart
Description: Patent for a plow. This invention relates to an improvement in plows, and more particularly to the means for securing the share to the plow.
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Cotton-Chopper
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Hyland, Robert R.
Description: Patent for a new and improved Cotton Chopper, which explains what it is used for and what the new improvements are.
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