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Improvement in Fences.

Patent for a new arrangement of posts, rails, and false posts in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 12, 1872

Creator: Stone, John H.

Improvements In Machines for Distributing Compounds for Destroying Cotton-Worms

Patent for improvements on machines to distribute poison for cotton worms in the field. It consists of vibrating,sifting boxes combined with a suspension bar which is secured to the front of a horse saddle so the rider can shake the boxes to distribute poison powder to two rows of crops at a time.

Date: March 16, 1875

Creator: Willie, William T.

Improvement in folding tables.

Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.

Date: March 21, 1876

Creator: Arnold, James Edwin

Improvement in Automatic-Gates.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Farm-Gates" (lines 3-4) allowing persons riding to open and close a swinging gate.

Date: March 3, 1874

Creator: Kenney, Martin M.

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.

Date: March 21, 1876

Creator: Jones, Henry B.

Combination-Plow.

Patent for combination-plow by providing a plow with “interchangeable parts, whereby the same may be used as a double-foot plow, a middle-breaking plow adapted for deep and shallow running and a sweep-stock” (lines 10-13), includes illustration.

Date: March 17, 1891

Creator: Davis, William H.

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists "[i]n a plow, the combination, with the beam, mold-board, point, and landside-plate, of a standard consisting of a longitudinal bar, to which the beam is attached, and provided with a transverse elongated slot, two downwardly-extending arms connected together by a cross-brace and having serrations and elongated slots on their extremities, and bolts, nuts, and serrated washers for adjustably connecting the landside-plate thereto, the forwa… more

Date: March 23, 1886

Creator: Wilhelm, Albert

Glove Holder.

Patent for a new and improved glove holder. This design "is to provide a new and improved device for holding gloves, bills, papers, and other articles in such a manner that any one of the articles can be withdrawn from the holder without disturbing the rest" (lines 7-12).

Date: March 6, 1883

Creator: Franklin, Eduard, A.

Folding Packing Case.

Patent for a new and improved folding packing-case. This design "consists in the construction of a folding packing-case with a bottom tray adapted to receive the inner detachable partitions of the case when it is folded up for transportation, and with a lid formed with flanges adapted to overlap and inclose and thus protect the edges of the sides and ends of the case and tray when folded down, so that it will the more securely withstand rough handling in shipment, and in providing ventilating-a… more

Date: March 20, 1883

Creator: Van Hutton, William B.

Dish-Cleaner.

Patent for a dish cleaner that consists of an oscillating vessel where dishes are placed, which goes inside another vessel. The inner vessel has openings so the water can go in and out while cleaning dishes, and the vessel is hand-turned by a crank on the top of the machine.

Date: March 17, 1896

Creator: WIllie, William Thomas

Cotton Picker.

Patent for a new and improved cotton picker. This design "is to provide a light, simple, and easily constructed cotton-picking device, capable of being operated by hand, and which can be manufactured and placed upon the market at a low cost to the purchaser, who, by the employment of the same, is enabled to gather the cotton fiber from the bolls without regard to the height of the stalks, and at the same time such portions of the product that may have become detached from the bolls and fallen t… more

Date: March 3, 1885

Creator: Walling, Mary C.

Roller Compress

Patent for roller compress. This is an "improved roller-compress,especially adapted for forming cylindrical bales from cotton-bat by winding the same in successive layers upon itself" (p. 1, lines 8-11), including instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 30, 1900

Creator: Carter, E. D.

Rail-Joint

Patent for a rail joint. Illustrations included.

Date: March 26, 1912

Creator: Savoy, Edward

Method and Composition for Reclaiming Gummer and Linter Files.

Patent of the methods and compositions for reclaiming Gummer and Linter Files. The invention is used to reclaim the files used in sharpening linter saws that are used in cutting lint from cotton seed after the long fiber has been removed from the seed. This invention ensured cost effective reclaiming of the files instead of their reformation.

Date: March 22, 1921

Creator: Lockett, Landon J.