Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet.
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Webb, Samuel Baxtern
Description: Patent for a new design of kitchen cabinets with doors that open downward. Includes illustrations.
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Cultivator-Harrow.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Wilson, William H.
Description: Patent for improvements in cultivator-harrows in which an adjustable “harrow-frame is adapted to the ready attachment of cultivators, plows, sweeps, scrapers, and various forms of cultivating devices which are interchangeable with each other and can be used either with or without the harrow-teeth, according to the character of work to be done.” (Lines 80-86) Illustration is included.
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Plow.
Date: September 15, 1891
Creator: Wilson, William H.
Description: Patent for improvements in plows: "This invention relates more particularly to double mold board plows, but it is applicable to ordinary sulky and other plows having a rotary colter over the plowshare and friction wheel with acts as a rotating support or sole in rear of the plow" (lines 8-13).
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Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators by using “the shearing action between a rotary hoe and a cutter-bar traveling along beside the row” (lines 20-22) to cut off the cotton. Illustration is included.
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Improved Cultivating-Plow.
Date: March 25, 1856
Creator: Crenshaw, Micajah
Description: Patent for a cultivating plow with a series of cutting-disks and digging-hoes, including illustration.
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Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Date: May 1, 1855
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
Description: Patent for the improvement of the gang plow by the plows arrangement and pivoted beams to be adjustable for convenience, including illustration.
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Improvement in Plows.
Date: April 3, 1855
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
Description: Patent for the improvement of the Rotary-Disk Cutters for plows that enable it to swivel and be supported by guides, including illustration.
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