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Automatic Signal System

Description: Patent for an automatic signal system for use with railways. Illustrations included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Cattle-Guard

Description: Patent for a cattle guard for use at railroad tracks incorporating a depressible platform connected to a closing mechanism which will impede movement of cattle across the track, but allow for unobstructed movement at other times.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Richter, Fred Otto & Richter, Gustav Adolph

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for an improved cattle-guard by using a guard that has a plurality of spurs, should an animal step thereon its foot will be directed against one or more of these spurs, thus causing the animal to withdraw its foot and not attempt to pass over the rail. This will prevent the animal from crossing railway-tracks, but the spurs will not interfere with the free passage of trains. (Lines 10-20) Illustration is included.
Date: April 2, 1901
Creator: Steinmann, Herman Werner

Clip

Description: Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Porter, Louis H.

Clothes-Pin

Description: Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Cooke, Jasper Newton & Moeller, John Charles

Convertible Dust-Pan.

Description: Patent for a convertible dust pan, which does not require stooping over to sweep up dirt into the pan and can also be used as a shovel.
Date: October 12, 1909
Creator: Epperson, Albert S.

Emergency Rail-Brake.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved emergency rail-brake" (lines 1-5).
Date: January 16, 1906
Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Garment-Supporter

Description: Patent for "an improved garment-supporter adapted to be secured to an inner garment and to be detachably connected to the waistband of an outer garment, whereby the inner garment may be supported from the outer garment." (lines 11-16)
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Waters, Richard H.

Hame-Fastener.

Description: Patent for improved hame-fasteners used to hold the hames together and tighten them up.
Date: October 29, 1901
Creator: Waters, Richard H.

Hay-Press Power.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in Baling-Presses" (lines 1-5) including illustrations and explanations.
Date: January 2, 1906
Creator: Bryant, Warren S.

Hog-Catcher.

Description: Patent for a hog catcher, which has a trigger operated spring loaded claw to catch the leg of a hog and lead it on a chain.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Reichert, Henry

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a lifting jack that releases automatically when the lever is pulled down, is easy to operate, and is powerful.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Yeager, Ernest Curtis

Machine for catching insects.

Description: Patent for a machine that catches pests such as the Cotton Boll Weevil and Colorado beetle as an aid to pest control for growing crops. Illustration included.
Date: October 29, 1901
Creator: Maupin, Owen M.

Plow

Description: Patent for a plow with adjustable height and depth with a locking mechanism.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Michalka, Joseph

Plow Guide and Gage.

Description: Patent for "gages and guides for plows and cultivators. the object of invention is to provide and adjustable guide and gage adapted to be attached to divided standards of plows and cultivators." (lines 11-16) including illustrations.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Lindsey, John Samiel

Pneumatic Rail-Brake.

Description: Patent for a pneumatic rail brake, which operates automatically to prevent derailment.
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Adams, Powell Orgain

Quilting-Frame

Description: Patent for improved quilting frame which may be set up easily, and folded down and stored when not in use. Additionally, the improved design provides for fabric to be secured on all sides, and for the operator to adjust the angle of the fabric.
Date: July 10, 1906
Creator: Berglund, John M.

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for improvements to the joints for railway rails to prevent "bumping of the wheels against the ends of rails and the cross ties adjacent to the joints" (lines 16-18) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Railway-Crossing

Description: Patent for crossings for railway tracks and particularly to means for closing the cut in the rails made for the flanges of the wheels, and the object is to provide sliding members which can be easily operated to close the slot or cut in the crossing rails for the flanges of the wheels so that a continuous tread will be formed for every wheel that passes over the crossing and to provide a mechanism for the tracks.
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Railway-Crossing.

Description: Patent for a railway crossing track, which does not jar the train's wheels as it passes over the crossing.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Rake.

Description: Patent for a rake for raking machine for cleaning fields of stalks or trash.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Jones, William Henry

Riding-Saddle

Description: Patent for a riding saddle.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Beckerman, Fred John

Shovel-Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements in shovel-plows “by enabling the stock and shoe securely mounted and yet adjusted from one position to another, according to the work to be performed.” (Lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Michalka, Joseph

Stalk Rake

Description: Patent for stalk rake. Illustration included.
Date: December 13, 1904
Creator: Gamble, Neill B.
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