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Churn.

Description: Patent for improvements in churns, "specifically a churn disclosed in Patent No. 1268766, L. M. Payne, R. A. Thompson and L. P. Morris, June 4, 1918."
Date: March 9, 1919
Creator: Wilson, William W.

Chair Cot.

Description: Patent for "the provision of a chair or a seat which may readily be converted into a cot when occasion demands" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Griffith, James Elliott

Adjustable Window-Shade Support.

Description: Patent for an adjustable window shade support that can readily attach a shade to a window frame and the roller can be adjusted to any desired location or elevation.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Simmons, Oscar C.

Combined Mail-Box and Door-Bell

Description: Patent for a combined mailbox and doorbell. The invention automatically sounds a bell when mail is placed inside that can be set up directly on the house or at a distance. The invention also serves to protect the mail from rain and mail thieves.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: McDonald, James A.

Crude-Oil Separator

Description: Patent for crude-oil separators mainly improves crude oil separators of baffle plate type.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Lawrence, William P.

Apparatus for Sulfur Mining

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvement" for sulfur mining by Mr. Robert Carmichael. This device has particular application for mining in subterranean environments, "by use of pumping a heated fluid down into contact with a sulfur strata" (lines 14-15).
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Carmichael, Robert E.

Bottle-Cap

Description: Patent for Louis Skala's improvement on the bottle cap. This design features a clampable bottlecap design for better functionality and a better seal
Date: March 9, 1918
Creator: Skala, Louis

Mechanism for Removing Useful Fiber from Seeds

Description: Patent for an adaptation to machines that will "remove fibers from their attachments, such as gins, cotton seed linters, wool-burring machines, and the like" (lines 10-12).
Date: August 9, 1919
Creator: Vardell, Arthur A.

Bell-Holder

Description: Patent for a bell holder that attaches to the neck of an animal, prevents loss of the bell, and is easy to use and cheap.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Pappas, Peter G.

Bevel-Square

Description: Patent for improvements in bevel squares used by carpenters, mechanics, and other similar work to represent the work of multiple bevels at once "to minimize and facilitate operations in fitting the parts of an objective structure together..." (Lines 19-21).
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Seay, Mathew E.

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a bale tie buckle where "an internal shoulder adapter to cooperate with the tie or band to prevent the latter from accidentally slipping through the entrance throat in the buckle when the tie is slackened" (lines 16-20).
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Schutz, Frank

Combine Dimmer and Adjuster for Headlights

Description: This patent is for the improvement of illumination and more particularly relates to a combined dimmer and adjuster for headlights. The primary aim is for the improvement of dimmers on the lamps of a motor vehicle so that the dimmers might be adjusted together with respect to the lamps so that various positions of vertical and horizontal adjustment are possible and if necessary, the removal of the cover of the lamps.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Averitt, Robert W.

Broom Rack

Description: Patent for a Broom-Rack
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Horn, Jacob S.

Advertising Device

Description: Patent for an advertising device meant to sit on a desk as a ruler. This device is designed to make the images on its surface appear to be suspended in air when it is lifted. It can be manufactured cheaply and is intended to be distributed for free as both a ruler and advertisement.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Glisson, Amos Adolphus

Clod-Crusher

Description: This patent is for a clod crusher. The purpose of this patent is to make clod crushing more effective and efficient through the action of the cutting members and not by the weight of apparatus alone.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Weems, Thomas J.

Boiler Skimmer or Cleaner

Description: Patent for improvements for a boiler skimmer or cleaner with suitable valves to control the blowing off from scum, steam or water.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Phillips, Eugene N. & Dick, Harvey H.

Patent for Diver's Mask

Description: Patent for Diver's Mask that has a water-tight contact with the wearer's face. This mask allows for an inlet and outlet for air and eliminates the need for an ordinary diver's helmet and suit.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Runyan, Benjamin F.

Wrench

Description: Patent for a tool to enable its user to turn certain objects, such as nuts and bolts, efficiently.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Bonelli, Liborio C.

Vise for Drilling-Machines

Description: Patent for a vise for drilling-machines with a novel construction and combination of parts. The work is positioned and clamped under the drill.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Joyce, James M.

Lock-Strike.

Description: Patent for simple and durable lock plates for door frames. This patent is for the keeper plates for door locks and is an invention "for rendering the plate adjustable both vertically and horizontally without detaching the same from the door jamb" (lines 11-14). Includes one illustration page and description.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Russell, Leo

Automobile Extracting Device

Description: Patent for an Automobile Extracting Device, which may be readily carried in compact form in one of the storage compartments of a motor vehicle, including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Morrow, Thomas B.

Window-Sash Lock

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Sash Locks" (lines 5-7). "The object in view is to produce a simple and efficient device..., [which] consists essentially in the provision of means for permitting either sash to be locked or one sash to be partially or fully opened..." (lines 17-22).
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Rickel, Tremont W.

Wheeled Sectional Harrow.

Description: Patent for an improved wheeled section harrow with a simple construction that provides a way to raise and lower the harrow sections as needed, and improves construction of the truck carrying the harrow.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Mize, William H.
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