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Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton.

Patent for a machine for separating and cleaning hulls and trash from seed cotton. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a boll threshing machine.

Date: December 10, 1918

Creator: Cass, Thomas M.

Bottle Holder.

Patent for a bottle holder, to hold ink bottles to a surface such as a desk or table. It is designed to be both a permanent or detachable fixture.

Date: December 3, 1918

Creator: Kayser, Mary Louise

Patent for a combination lock and jack to prevent automobile theft. The jack locks the operating levers of an automobile to prevent them from moving, and the lock prevents its removal. The jack can also be detached and collapse for easy storage.

Date: May 5, 1919

Creator: Brittain, William Franklin

Saw-Handle.

Patent for improvements in saw-handles. Invention provides for adjustable and detachable means for clamping of a saw blade. The device includes a "head member, means for clamping the end of a saw blade" (lines 19-20).

Date: February 18, 1919

Creator: Smith, Lee A.

Peanut-Harvester

Patent for a peanut harvester that uproots the peanut and lifts it for delivery to a carrier. This harvester also includes a pair of colters that roll alongside the row of peanuts to cut grass and loosen the soil, this includes a mechanism for raising and lowering the digging structure and fingers to guide to stems of the plants so that they are not cut.

Date: June 18, 1918

Creator: Phillips, Preston D. & Phillips, Herbert L.

Nutcracker.

Patent for a nutcracker with an adjustable jaw and a smaller number of parts.

Date: November 27, 1917

Creator: Gradick, Wiley, Sr.

Door Fastener

Patent is for door locking device for fasteners that can be carried around in a pocket. It is an improvement on models in circulation.

Date: June 12, 1917

Creator: Price, John

Cotton-Boll Picker

Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.

Date: May 11, 1915

Creator: Hewitt, Daniel

Automatic Brake.

Patent for automatic wagon brake which removes the strain on draft animals when the vehicle is descending down an incline.

Date: March 3, 1914

Creator: Matthews, Dudley A.

Attachment for Plows

Patent for "improvements in attachments for plows for the purpose of cutting roots, sods, and the like, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed attachment which not only provides a suitable cutting implement but likewise includes a removable landslide." (9-15)

Date: January 25, 1916

Creator: Reeves, Wesley L.

Clock Attachment

Patent for an improved clock attachment to operate "a series of alarms or signals arranged in different rooms of a building or in other separated stations for simultaneously sounding the alarms or for operating the signals at predetermined times." (lines 11-17) including illustrations.

Date: January 11, 1915

Creator: Moore, John R.

Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutter

Patent for a stalk cutting machine adapted for cutting corn and cotton stalks after the stalks have been stripped

Date: February 16, 1915

Creator: Pair, Robert, B.

Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines

Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.

Date: May 11, 1915

Creator: Bell, Thomas

Cotton Boll Threshing Machine.

Patent for a cotton boll breaking mechanism and a means for breaking cotton bolls which are not opened sufficiently for the cotton to be picked.

Date: March 20, 1917

Creator: Cass, Thomas

Wrench

Patent for improvements in wrenches, particularly relating to the type generally known as the spanner wrench. The object of this invention is to provide an improved spanner wrench including means for reliably retaining the wrench head in proper position with relation to the object being rotated.

Date: January 4, 1916

Creator: Wright, John G.

Truss.

Patent for improvements to trusses, which uses "a pair of spring hangers each carrying a pad of particular construction and arrangement" (lines 9-11). Patent includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 14, 1916

Creator: Gilmore, Aaron W.

Type-Writer Line-Shift.

Patent for line shifter attachment for typewriter which makes it possible for the typewriter to print characters above or below the standard line of print. This attachment makes the typewriter useful for taking stenographic notes.

Date: May 30, 1916

Creator: Byrne, Henry E.

Switch.

Patent for a switch mechanism for use on railroads. The switch can be installed without cutting the railroad tracks. Instructions and illustrations are included.

Date: March 20, 1917

Creator: Allen, Gus V.

Improvement in Clasps.

Patent for improvement in clasps "especially adapted for garment supporting" (lines 9-10) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 5, 1915

Creator: Stafford, Beverly F.

Knockdown Frame

Patent for improvements to the knockdown frame for easy setup and take down and for supporting a block and tackle. This invention also provides a device for locking the fall rope of a block and tackle after the load is raised.

Date: July 14, 1914

Creator: Padgett, Harry H. & Bookout, Louis L.

Excavator

Patent for excavator.

Date: December 19, 1916

Creator: Story, Ela D.

Composition of Matter for Use in Killing Trees and Other Vegetable Growths

Patent for a composition or recipe for tree and plant killer

Date: February 22, 1916

Creator: Eason, John F. H.

Support for Telegraph and Telephone Wires.

Patent for a circular metal support for telegraph and telephone wires; including illustrations.

Date: November 11, 1913

Creator: Hoybook, Henry Levid

Fender.

Patent for a device "to be secured to the prow of a ship or vessel and which projects forwardly therefrom for the purpose of protecting the vessel against injury from a collision" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 4, 1915

Creator: Barton, Charles H.