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Animal-Poke.

Description: Patent for animal-poke that prevents them from jumping or forcing their way through fences. It consists of a yoke with its ends pointing upward, a brow band, rods that connect the brow band and the ends of the yoke, and bulges at the ends of the rods.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: McWilliams, Anderson W.

Ant-Trap.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date: April 12, 1898
Creator: Selvidge, Charles W.

Ant-Trap.

Description: Patent for a "trap designed to be placed around an ant-hill and adapted to capture ants leaving or returning to the ant-hill." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1897
Creator: Bond, William Beebe

Ant-Trap.

Description: Patent for an ant-trap with an inflexible bottom with a hole in the middle, a perpendicular section rough on the inside and smooth on the outside, and the perpendicular smooth sides are attached to the edges of the bottom. The trap has a device that prevents the ants from running around the trap.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Carter, William B.

Attachment for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for a wheel-cultivator that attaches to planters or plows. It provides "means whereby a planter or a plow-beam carrying any desired cultivating implement can be attached to the frame of a riding or wheel cultivator frame, and thus enable the cultivator-frame to be applied to uses other than that for which it was intended" (lines 25-30).
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Morris, Thomas R.

Bevel.

Description: Patent for "bevel-squares adapted to be converted into a try-square through the medium of a pivoted and adjustable blade." (Lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Morris, Thomas R.

Buckle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design "is composed of two parts, the upper end forming what may be termed a 'buckle proper,' to secure the end of a strap, and the lower ends formed into curved portions which fit one within the other and constructed to interlock, so that the lower end is adapted to catch a chain, bit, or other device which it is desired to connect a strap to, the . . . parts forming a hinge, whereby they can be turned one upon the other and separated entirely, or at … more
Date: August 16, 1892
Creator: Taylor, John Greene

Churn.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and effective combined churn motor and dasher that continuously and smoothly circulates cream. It has a large wheel the operator turns, which is connected through a series of pulleys to the dasher. A large frame holds the parts in place.
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Baugh, Edward H.

Combination-Tool.

Description: Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Karner, Joseph C.

Cotton-Bag Carrier.

Description: Patent for improved cotton sack carrier: "the object of the present invention is to provide a device whereby cotton sacks may be conveniently carried during the picking of cotton from one portion of the field to another without wearing the sack and with convenience to the picker" (lines 10-15).
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Laird, Archibald F.

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

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.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for "improvements in cotton-gins, and more particularly to that class of saw-gins in which the brush-cylinder is dispensed with and a combined suction-fan and doffer employed to remove the lint from the gin-saws; and the object is to simplify the construction and at the same time increase the effectiveness of this class of gins." (Lines 11-18)
Date: September 28, 1897
Creator: Heffner, John H.

Cotton-Sack Carrier.

Description: Patent for a carrying sack meant to carry cotton to and from the field. It is not carried on a worker's back or dragged on the ground. The sack is on an adjustable axle and "may be arranged at an inclination to cause the truck to travel upon a curved line to facilitate the guiding of the same in operation; and furthermore, to provide a fender to prevent objects from falling between the cotton sacks and the wheels of the truck" (lines 14-20).
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Laird, Archibald F. & Hill, John M.

Cultivator-Harrow.

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.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Wilson, William H.

Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a new design of kitchen cabinets with doors that open downward. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Webb, Samuel Baxtern

Design for Horseshoe.

Description: Design patent for horseshoe with the flat lips projecting upwardly from the outer edge of the shoe and inwardly toward the center.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Cooper, William M. & Cates, John Wesley

Device-for-Cooling-Milk-or-Butter

Description: Patent for a device used for cooling milk or butter by means of evaporation so that there is a constant circulation of cool air around the milk or butter.
Date: January 17, 1893
Creator: Wilder, Joseph L.

Dish-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a dish-cleaner that is used in a sink or another container. Its object is to force "air through the water and in contact with the submerged dishes" (lines 17-18). The invention also has "a water-agitator surrounded with supports for holding the dishes or other articles in a vertical position in close proximity to the outlet-ports of the agitator" (lines 20-23).
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Bond, William Beebe

Fence-Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a simple and practical fence-wire stretcher that stretches "fence-wire in the construction of fences and also taking up the slack in the wire when it sags at any point throughout the line of fence, the device being simple in construction and easily connected and disconnected from the post, as circumstances require" (lines 14-20).
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Baugh, Edward Henry

Folding Camp-Bed.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in folding camp beds, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Long, Reuben

Hay-Rack.

Description: Patent for a hay-rack meant to "provide an improved device for holding or clamping hay within reach of livestock, and which while not impairing the feeding of the stock will prevent them from pulling the hay down beneath their feet" (lines 14-19).
Date: April 16, 1895
Creator: Erskine, William James

Hitching Device.

Description: Patent for "a hitching device which can be applied to a strap between its ends and which is freely adjustable back and forth upon the strap without wearing or injuring the strap in any manner and to form a hitching device which consists of two entirely separate and distinct pieces, thus doing away with all joints, pivots, or other connections, and the necessity for forming holes or perforations of any kind in the strap." (Lines 22-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 6, 1897
Creator: King, Sandy & Myers, Marshall

Hog-Trough.

Description: Patent for an improved and durable pig trough, one that stays clean and can be filled and eaten out of easily without wasting feed.
Date: April 27, 1897
Creator: Neill, George A.

Hoisting Attachment for Wagon-Beds.

Description: Patent for a low cost, removable hoisting attachment for wagon beds, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Baugh, Edward H. & Selvidge, Charles W.
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