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Improvements in Corn-Shellers.

Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 17, 1875

Creator: Creekmore, Hiram C.

Improvements in Riding-Saddles.

Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.

Date: June 10, 1873

Creator: Hamil, Robert C.

Incinerator-Closet

Patent for an incinerator closet with "the purpose of receiving human excreta so the contents may be dried out and burned up" (lines 11-13) within a fireproof device, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 28, 1918

Creator: Greene, George A.

Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine

Patent for insect collecting and destroying machine. This invention uses brushes that mechanically collects boll weevils off of cotton. Illustration included.

Date: June 21, 1904

Creator: Steinmann, Herman Werner

Journal-Box.

Patent for a journal box for railroad cars with an improved bearing and lubricating system.

Date: October 20, 1908

Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis

Journal-Lubricator.

Patent for improvements in lubricators by mounting a box, with a pair holes near its ends, on a bearing; with partitions across the box adjacent each holes, a pair of cord shape wicks and a depending flange, depressing the wicks to the bottom of the box. “When the box filled with liquid lubricant and the cover closed, the lower edge of the flange depresses the wicks, submerging them at the center of the box, and the wicks absorb oil at this point, the oil is lead thence by capillary attraction … more

Date: May 19, 1891

Creator: Hubbard, Benjamin V.

Knee-Pad.

Patent for knee pads that are "simple, inexpensive, and durable, and which is so constructed as to hold the knee of the user in an elevated position above the ground or other surface upon which the pad may be placed, thereby preventing the knee contacting with the ground or other surface and causing injury to the knee (lines 10-17).

Date: December 29, 1897

Creator: Rice, John T.

Knee-Protector.

Patent for a durable, sleeve-like knee protector which contours the knee for comfort and allows for easy application and removal. Includes instructions and an illustration.

Date: December 9, 1913

Creator: McCall, Dougald Bell

Knife

Patent for a knife used for cutting grass and shrubbery. Illustrations included.

Date: May 28, 1907

Creator: Baggett, Robert A.

Lamp or Lantern.

Patent for a new and improved oil lamp. This design calls for transparent material (e.g., glass) to be installed on the top of the oil chamber, so one can better predict the fullness, which prevents overflowing. Additionally, a second opening to the side of the main opening allows the oil chamber to be safely refilled while already lit.

Date: December 21, 1880

Creator: Eason, Bolivar

Land Bedder And Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful land bedder and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 9, 1898

Creator: Parker, Middleton N.

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.

Date: August 13, 1895

Creator: Hough, William S.

Lock-Hinge.

Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.

Date: June 12, 1894

Creator: Bessonette, William T.

Locking Device for Lubricating-Cups.

Patent for a locking device for lubricating cups that prevents the plug from coming out of the cup.

Date: December 27, 1910

Creator: Anderson, Kos M.

Locomotive Ash Pan.

Patent for a new and improved locomotive ash pan. This design "relates to ash-pans for locomotive and other fire-boxes; and it has for its object to provide a simple and improved device of this character in which the contents of the pan may be discharged therefrom by a single operation of a controlling-lever. To this end the invention consists . . . in a sliding frame working in guides, a series of slats forming the entire bottom of the pan pivoted to the frame and carried thereby, a lever for … more

Date: May 31, 1892

Creator: Johnson, Charles J. W.

Machine for Filling Brushes

Patent for a machine designed to fill brushes with bristles. Illustrations included.

Date: March 7, 1911

Creator: Hoover, Orlando B. & Curry, Monroe

Machine for Picking and Cleaning Cotton.

Patent for a new machine for picking and cleaning cotton with all its specifications.

Date: April 2, 1912

Creator: Johnson, Billie

Mailless Horseshoe.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in horseshoes, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 8, 1899

Creator: Hewitt, John Henry

Manufacture of Oil Cake.

Patent for a new and improved process for manufacturing oil-cake. This design "involves but a very slight change in the process ordinarily practiced in the manufacture of oil-cake by compressing it to remove the oil and form the residue into a compact shapely mass; and it consists in providing a paper envelope in which to press the seed, instead of the cloth envelope or bag commonly provided for the purpose, whereby [the design] obtain[s] greatly improved results in the manufacture, and a new a… more

Date: March 23, 1886

Creator: Kay, William V.

Means for Automatically Closing Electric Circuits

Patent for a means for automatically closing electric circuits, specifically for railway systems. Illustrations included.

Date: February 18, 1908

Creator: Keeler, Fayette William

Mode of and Means for Baling Fibrous Materials.

Patent for a mode of and means for baling fibrous materials, especially materials that can be made into a lap or web. The invention doesn't have the issues that other balers have and uses a core, supported by the base, to wind the material around. The bale it forms is square so it can be easily shipped and the risk of fire is decreased. Caps for the bale are secured before the bale leaves the compress.

Date: November 5, 1895

Creator: Bruner, Thomas H.

Motor

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of motors.

Date: October 23, 1888

Creator: Haley, William Louis

Oil Burner

Patent for an oil burner. Invention relates for the use with fireboxes of domestic ranges and stoves.

Date: June 23, 1903

Creator: Rumple, James F.

Padded Hat.

Patent for a new and improved padded hat. This design "is to provide a pad which can be quickly applied and when applied will remain in place, and by means of which a hat that is a trifle too large can readily be made to fit. . . . Heretofore persons wearing hats of odd sizes, or after having their hair cut short, have been compelled to place paper, felt, or some other material in between the sweat-band and the body of the hat in order to make the hat fit. These pieces, not being secured, are c… more

Date: August 20, 1889

Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler