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Bed-Slat Fastener.

Patent for a new and useful bed slat fastener, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 16, 1898

Creator: Sonntag, Edwin C.

Clothes-Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.

Date: December 24, 1907

Creator: Cooke, Jasper Newton & Moeller, John Charles

Automatic Signal System

Patent for an automatic signal system for use with railways. Illustrations included.

Date: December 14, 1909

Creator: Adams, Powell O.

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustration included.

Date: June 13, 1911

Creator: Smith, Columbus

Clip

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.

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.

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

Clevis.

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

Date: June 14, 1898

Creator: Taylor, George H.

Breast-Strap

Patent for a breast strap with snap hooks that reduces wear on the strap.

Date: March 29, 1910

Creator: Hewitt, Ditus P.

Animal-Trap

Patent for a cylinder shaped animal trap for small furry animals.

Date: February 25, 1913

Creator: Fikes, Benjamin M.

Well-Drilling Machine.

Patent for “a new and improved well-drilling machine adapted to be driven by horse-power and arranged to permit of actuating the drilling tools for drilling purposes and to allow of conveniently and quickly raising the tools from the well…” (lines 8-14) including illustrations.

Date: November 18, 1902

Creator: Moore, Robert Burns

Convertible Dust-Pan.

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.

Advertising Device.

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

Date: August 9, 1898

Creator: Hefley, Jefferson D.

Apparatus for Cooling Milk.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.

Date: April 26, 1898

Creator: Porter, Louis H.

Combined Shaft Holder and Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved shaft-holder and wrench. This design "consist[s] of the arms having their lower ends tapered to form screw-drivers of different sizes, the heads on the upper ends of the arms, the jaws on the heads, and the threaded shaft attached to one of the arms and engaging a tapped aperture in the other arm" (lines 92-98).

Date: January 8, 1889

Creator: Nott, Henry W.

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and effective car coupling that is partially automatic, "and in case of accident or breakage the said device is adapted to be used after the manner of an ordinary car-coupling" (lines 17-19).

Date: August 9, 1892

Creator: Felton, Tommas Wesley

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the body, or receptacle and its cover, of the dasher having a frame provided with inner apertured or perforated corner blocks and journaled in the body or receptacle, and a second apertured or perforated cross-shaped dasher journaled within the other dasher, the tripod-frame comprising the arched meeting side bars, and a third connecting-bar having an aperture, through which the upper end of the inner dasher-s… more

Date: June 15, 1886

Creator: Lines, Daniel & Long, Charles T.

Bird-Cage

Patent for "bird-cages of the circular kind, wherein the main-frame wires have a band at their lower ends and a single tie-wire arranged diametrically across the band. . .to utilize the single diametrical tie-wire as a support for an inverted interiorly screw-threaded connecting-cap, and to combine with such a device a pan" (lines 10-12 and 17-23).

Date: September 3, 1889

Creator: Coffield, Charles Hunter

Clasp.

Patent for a new and improved clasp. This design "is to make a fastener for pieces of leather by which bridles and other parts of harness may be made with less stitching and riveting, thereby lessening the labor and cost of manufacture" (lines 15-20). To this end, it consists in "two plates, [one] having key-hole slots with beveled side walls, and the [other] carrying studs undercut . . . and provided with top pin, in combination with the spring-plate perforated . . . to receive [the] pin to fo… more

Date: December 3, 1889

Creator: Waters, Richard H.

Back Band Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved back-band buckle. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive back-band buckle adapted to protect the sides of an animal against rubbing, and capable of enabling the tug-chain to be readily secured thereto and removed therefrom and of securely holding the same without liability of the chain becoming accidentally unfastened" (lines 10-17).

Date: September 30, 1890

Creator: McCall, Dugald B.

Brace.

Patent for a new and improved brace. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the cistern or its equivalent having internal circumferential seats and the brace-sections having edge flanges fitted to said seats and having such flanges cut away at one end, whereby the section may fit at one end in the end of the adjacent section" (lines 30-36).

Date: September 2, 1890

Creator: Henderson, William H.

Axle Skein.

Patent for a new and improved axle skein. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the axle-spindle having a collar at its inner end and provided with a longitudinal groove at its outer end, and the bushing having a rib which engages the groove and a projection which engages the notch in the collar" (lines 29-35).

Date: September 20, 1887

Creator: Nott, Henry William

Combination Plow.

Patent for improvements on the combination plow that can be converted into a single, double, or three plow, including illustrations.

Date: October 28, 1890

Creator: Walton, Jacob Gipson

Combination Cotton-Plow.

Patent for a combination cotton plow that makes hoeing more efficient and profitable. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 8, 1891

Creator: Williams, Charley Mabry