Flower-Pot.
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Simpson, McDuff
Description: Patent for a new flower pot with metal siding and a removable bottom, including illustrations.
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Seed-Planter.
Date: August 25, 1891
Creator: Thompson, John W.
Description: Patent for improvements in seed-planter by using different sizes of disks to construct a hopper that can be revolved, in which it can be adapted to plant cotton, corn or other seeds. Illustration is included.
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Cotton-Chopper.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Baugh, James A.
Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
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Washing-Machine.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Wood, Commodore R.
Description: Patent for improvements in washing-machines known as “roller and bed and it consists of a rubber-bed adapted to operate in conjunction with a rotatory rubber…….the bed being regulated by tightening screw-nuts upon the hooks which connect the springs with the end walls of said casing.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included.
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Wagon-Top.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: James, John
Description: Patent for improvements in wagon-bodies by providing "a simple and effective means for tightening the canvas covering over the bows of wagon or other vehicle-bodies” (lines 17-19), includes illustration.
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