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Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, one that may be easily operated, and yet be positive in its engagement with the latch to prevent it from being opened by cattle, &c." (lines 8-14).

Date: December 8, 1885

Creator: Dunn, Henry Frankling.

Item Type: Patent

Horseshoe.

Patent for horseshoes that can be attached to the horses' foot without nails.

Date: September 7, 1920

Creator: Lainweber, Mary C.

Item Type: Patent

Improved Bridge.

Patent for an invention that "is to provide certain improvements in the construction of bridges, whereby the parts thereof, of wood, may be readily removed for the substitution of others, when decayed or broken, without interfering with the use of the bridge or weakening it (lines 10-15)". The patent includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 11, 1870

Creator: McDowell, H. S.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement In Bale-Ties.

This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.

Date: April 16, 1878

Creator: Knipscheer, John

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Patent for improvement in cotton bale-ties, with illustration.

Date: August 13, 1878

Creator: Roeber, Alexander

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Churns.

Patent for improvement in churns by using an oblong box with a diamond-shaped dash fixed in the box. The churning is done by rapidly swing the box back and forth until butter is obtained. Illustration is included.

Date: October 8, 1872

Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for the improvement of the cotton-seed planter in the arrangement of the hopper, roller with stirring and feeding teeth attached while distributing seeds accurately, including illustration.

Date: December 27, 1859

Creator: Kesler, Charles & Reinhard, Fred

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for "an apparatus for exterminating cotton-worms by ejecting liquid poison upon the cotton-plants" (lines 6-8). Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 16, 1873

Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for a wheeled vehicular device to destroy cotton worms that can be connected to a horse or a wagon. It carries a poisonous cotton-worm destroying agent and disburse this substance on crops or foliage to deter worms.

Date: December 16, 1873

Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.

Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.

Date: December 16, 1879

Creator: Reager, Francis M.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Fish and Animal Traps

Patent for an improvement in the design of traps intended for catching fish or animals. Includes illustration.

Date: September 18, 1872

Creator: Hartcourt, John T.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Fruit-Corers.

Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.

Date: December 17, 1872

Creator: Alexander, Oscar W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.

Patent for an "improved apparatus by means of which ground-squirrels and gophers can be destroyed in their holes, conveniently and effectively, and at small expense" (para. 4). The mechanism works by gassing underground vermin with sulphuric fumes.

Date: July 10, 1877

Creator: Dreyer, Henry

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds

Patent for improvement in insect,specifically cotton worms, destroying compounds . Included list of chemicals and measures of amount used.

Date: March 3, 1874

Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Portable Fences.

Patent for new and useful improvements in fences made in sections or panels. It consists in the construction and arrangement of the brackets or supports for the panels.

Date: January 12, 1875

Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants.

Patent for a method of destroying ants by digging a pit beside a colony, filling the hole with combustible materials and poisons, placing a pipe through the hole and into the mound, and then setting the pit ablaze.

Date: October 28, 1873

Creator: Dulany, John J. & Dreyer, Henry

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Railroad-Switches.

Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.

Date: September 4, 1877

Creator: Harding, John W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Guards for Cars" (lines 5-6) intended to pervent derailment of railway cars, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.

Date: February 5, 1878

Creator: Harding, John W. & Towell, Issac

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Street-Cars

Patent for an improvement to Street Cars to better navigate curves. Includes description and illustrations.

Date: August 26, 1879

Creator: Towell, Isaac

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Vehicle-Springs

Patent for a newly designed vehicle spring that attached to the axle and features an auxiliary spring.

Date: May 22, 1877

Creator: Faber, Fredrick W.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in washing machines.

Date: January 31, 1871

Creator: Nave, Andrew Jackson

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators

Patent for an improvement in Chain-Wheels consisting "in the construction and arrangement of a device for drawing water from wells, which shall be cheap, convenient, and free from danger, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth."

Date: October 15, 1878

Creator: Knipscheer, John

Item Type: Patent

Insect Destroyer.

Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for distributing liquid poison on cotton and other plants to destroy insect life thereon; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-18).

Date: July 18, 1882

Creator: Binkley, James E.

Item Type: Patent

Lifting Jack.

Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.

Date: July 3, 1906

Creator: Tanner, Calvin W. & Tanner, Eugene

Item Type: Patent

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Gate.

Horseshoe.

Improved Bridge.

Improvement In Bale-Ties.

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Improvement in Churns.

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.

Improvement in Fish and Animal Traps

Improvement in Fruit-Corers.

Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds

Improvement in Portable Fences.

Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants.

Improvement in Railroad-Switches.

Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.

Improvement in Street-Cars

Improvement in Vehicle-Springs

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators

Insect Destroyer.

Lifting Jack.