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Cultivator Foot Adjuster

Patent for cultivator foot adjuster. This invention is an efficient method to adjust the angle of the cultivator foot piece. Illustration included.

Date: February 21, 1911

Creator: Dickey, John S.

Patent for a new and improved curtain fixture. This design "consist[s] of the brackets secured to the window-frame, and a frame consisting of a single continuous integral U-shaped bar having its arms bent outward from its shoulders . . . and having the end of one of its arms pivoted to the adjacent bracket and the end of the other arm bent laterally and journaled in the other bracket, the curtain-roller being journaled in and extending between the arms" (lines 60-69).

Date: December 24, 1889

Creator: Bomar, Mattie A.

Deposit File

Patent for a deposit file. Illustration included.

Date: April 4, 1905

Creator: Anderson, Samuel C.

Design for a Hame Attachment.

Design patent for a hame attachment that is symmetrical in configuration making it adaptable to be used in either the right or left hand.

Date: May 9, 1899

Creator: Surghnor, Daniel H.

Design for a Pocket-Cuspidor.

Design patent for a pocket-cuspidor with a bowl that has an approximately trunco-conical shape.

Date: August 15, 1899

Creator: Pollard, Philip D.

Design for Tack or Nail.

Design patent for a tack or nail that is both useful and ornamental.

Date: August 24, 1897

Creator: Bogar, Fred A.

Device for Handling Seed-Cotton to be Ginned.

Patent for a gin-house constructed of double tramway that can be used to improve the process of gaining seed-cotton.

Date: April 26, 1881

Creator: James, Andrew P.

Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens.

Patent for a new and improved paper-holder for cake baking. With this design, "[a] cake is placed in the oven, the holder placed in position over it, the hoop or frame raised, and a paper placed upon [another] hoop. The [first] hoop is then pressed down upon it, when the cake may be baked without the top being scorched" (lines 40-45).

Date: December 3, 1889

Creator: Balfour, Emma

Device For Pressing Trousers

Patent for a device for pressing trousers. Illustration included.

Date: March 7, 1905

Creator: Smith, William A.

Device for raising water.

Patent for device for raising water. "Our invention relates to water-elevators in which a bucket or like receptacle is periodically lowered into a well and then raised to be emptied."

Date: June 1, 1897

Creator: Poe, Herbert L. & Sparkman, William C.

Display-Case.

Patent for a display case for food, which has an improved frame.

Date: January 17, 1911

Creator: Folsom, Andrew W.

Display Device for Doors.

Patent for a display case that may be fastened to a door with glass panes, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 15, 1914

Creator: Nunn, John M.

Docket, Record, or Similar Book

Patent for a docket, record or similar book that places all necessary material together for recording events, adjusting the space for each title head so that it is sufficient, easing the strain on accountants who need to continue entries, and also make sure the book is easy and efficient to make.

Date: April 19, 1892

Creator: Fry, Edwin Crittenden

Door Construction for Railway Cars

Patent for a door to box cars, that slides across the car in the same method as a sliding door, rather than opening outward.

Date: October 31, 1916

Creator: Tierney, Henry J.

Draft-Equalizer.

Patent for improvement in draft-equalizers in which the draft-equalizer will “first, take away the side draft; second, to enable the plow to follow the furrow; third, to work three, four, or five horses to the same bars by simply adjusting the bars; fourth, to enable all horses except one to walk on solid ground, the one to walk in furrow; fifth, to enable the operator to place load on any point of the bars he chooses and still have a straight pull.” (Lines 25-34) Illustration is included.

Date: February 10, 1903

Creator: Lawrence, David & Vincent, John

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).

Date: May 14, 1901

Creator: Anderson, Samuel Cornelious

Dress - Supporter.

Patent for new and useful improvement in dress-supporters for the purpose of providing "simple and effective means for removing the weight of a dress-skirt" (lines 9-11) from the hips and shoulders of the wearer, including illustrations.

Date: May 27, 1902

Creator: Caruthers, Martha J.

Dry Closet

Patent for a dry closet.

Date: April 14, 1903

Creator: Davis, Samuel & Hanson, A.

Dry Closet.

Patent for a new design that improves "construction, utility, and efficiency of dry closets"(lines 10-11) that would also allow the use of an attachment specifically for dry closet seats. Includes design for mesh cloth to capture waste.

Date: April 24, 1917

Creator: Mershon, John H.

Dry-Closet Commode.

Patent for a sanitary dry closet commode for areas that do not have a sewerage or water works system. The commode is "readily cleaned, simple in construction, practically odorless, and adapted to be emptied with facility" (lines 15-18). The patent includes illustrations.

Date: August 26, 1913

Creator: Mershon, John Henry

Elastic Chain

Patent for this invention is to provide a chain which yield longitudinally when subjected to a tensile strain and to this end arrangement of parts, as will be herein after described and claimed. [5-10]

Date: December 3, 1889

Creator: Redwood, Charles

Electrode-Holder

Patent for "an electrode holder for the head lights of steam locomotives, interurban cars and analogous vehicles" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.

Date: December 28, 1915

Creator: Pratt, James R.

Engineer's Graduating-Valve.

Patent for an graduating valve that is used with air brake systems in railroad trains. The invention is meant to "produce a comparatively simple valve which is constructed in such a way that it is not likely to clog or get out of order, which is arranged so that successive regular reductions may be easily made in the pressure of air in the train service pipe, which is adapted to automatically act on the governor of the air pipe from pressure either above or below the main valve, which is constr… more

Date: August 15, 1893

Creator: Pelham, Walter O.

Envelop Stamping Machine

Patent for an envelop stamping machine. This machine is designed to process sheets of stamps for the application of one stamp per envelope. Illustrations Included.

Date: February 4, 1908

Creator: Human, Oscor M.