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Bill-Posting Blanking Device.

Description: Patent for bill-posting blanking device for applying strips of paper to bill-boards.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Gallia, Paul

Collapsible Rim.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements related to demountable rims that are collapsible. This improvement facilitates the removal of a tire in an easier and expeditious manner.
Date: May 20, 1919
Creator: King, Willis C.

Combination Plow and Pulverizer.

Description: Patent for a combination plow and pulverizer, designed for the purpose of improved plowing and sowing of seed, with illustrations and explanations.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Curtis, W. W.

Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer.

Description: Patent for a tool used for shaving or hair trimming. This device has a reversible plate carrying a guard and comb teeth. The plate being reversible to permit the guard to be used in connection with a blade for shaving and to permit the teeth to be used in connection with a blade for hair trimming.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Brasier, William Harry

Burner

Description: Patent for a "simple and relatively inexpensive burner" (line 9) for use in the kitchen with kerosene or other oil fuel.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Catron, John

Continuous Vacuum Dehydrator.

Description: Patent for improvements in speed, cheapness, and more efficiency in continuous-vacuum dehydration and filtering for the purpose of extracting valuable ores with water including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Biesel, Charles

Advertising-Sign

Description: Patent for large outdoor advertising sign that is inexpensive to illuminate but still catches attention by providing the illusion of movement.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.

Boiler-Skimmer

Description: Patent for a boiler-skimmer that assist in preventing external pressures from collapsing the float values. These type of boilers are used in steam locomotives.
Date: May 20, 1919
Creator: Schreiber, Norbert

Car-Door Seal.

Description: Patent for a lockable seal to be affixed to doors of passenger cars.
Date: October 20, 1916
Creator: Wright, Memory G.

Clock-Actuated Display Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a clock actuated display apparatus comprising a casing, a spring-pressed rotatable reel, and display tape adapted to wind which will cause the drum to rotate.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Shure, Ralph Deane

Cotton-Bur Separator.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating burs from cotton lint despite severe weather conditions, illustrations included.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Irwin, Samuel D.

Method of Seperating Associated Liquids.

Description: Patent for a new method of seperating liquids, specifically those "in which particles of one liquid are held, or bound in mechanical suspension in another" (lines 10-12). The inventor provides the specific example of water and crude oil.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.

Lock Attachment for Automobiles.

Description: Patent for a lock attachment for automobiles in relation to the gear-shift levers to prevent unlicensed interference with or stealing of the car.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Dobler, Joseph G.

Valve-Closure for Ventilators

Description: Patent for a new valve-closure for ventilators on plumbing systems by W.L. Hamilton and G. McCullough.
Date: December 20, 1917
Creator: Hamilton, William L. & McCullough, George

Vehicle Body Suspension.

Description: Patent for swing suspension for trucks to absorb shocks sustained by the chassis.
Date: June 20, 1919
Creator: Harper, William David

Folding Coop

Description: Patent for folding coops for the shipment of meat products, such as poultry. This invention will ensure greater efficiency in shipment of products.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Randall, John G.

Trailer.

Description: Patent for improved construction and arrangement of trailers. This improvement will allow an easy turning movement where a number of trailers are connected while admitting of strain between the various trailers when they are turning a corner or going around a curve.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Watkins, Leigh

Support for Line-Wires.

Description: Patent for support for line wires that can be quickly connected to the line wire and at the same time preventing the line wire from being bent to a large extent.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Head, Vernon

Plate-Guard for Secondary Batteries.

Description: Patent for a plate-guard for secondary batteries. The invention relates to guard sheaths or envelopes to provide light, rigid, and inexpensive frame of acid-proof material to be build around the plate to protect the exposed metal of the plate.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Luthy, Joseph O.

Ensilage-Cutting Machine.

Description: Patent for ensilage-cutting that will efficiently cut corn and other rough feed. It can be driven clockwise of anti-clockwise, can discharge the cut feed at different points, and has few parts. There are no cogs or gears to catch the operator's clothing.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Sinclair, William

Power Transmission

Description: Patent for improvements in power transmission by inventor Gordon R. Sturgis.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Sturgis, Gordon R.
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