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Box-Cabinet

Patent for cabinets which are "adapted to hold boxes of the kind used by druggists, as containers for medicines and small objects" (lines 9-11).

Date: February 4, 1919

Creator: Hines, Bascom L. & Johnson, Mannon G.

Patent for a terrace-marker that has "improved means for quickly and conveniently marking or laying out and leveling terraces which shall be light and consequently easily portable, durable and inexpensive to manufacture" (lines 13-17) including an illustration.

Date: January 15, 1918

Creator: Norris, William C.

Railroad Cattle-Gate

Patent for a gate or guard to be positioned on a railroad track to prevent cattle or persons crossing the railroad track from turning up or down the track, and so avoid injury or death to cattle or persons. It is designed to be automatically activated by the passing train, and is of a simple design that is inexpensive to construct.

Date: February 5, 1918

Creator: Seay, Thomas A.

Railway Frog

Patent for railway frog which "will tend to minimize the danger of train derailment at switch crossings" (lines 12-13).

Date: July 30, 1918

Creator: Jackson, George Ferris

Straw Rack for Threshing Machines

Patent for a rack that will separate the grain, straw, and chaff to the fullest extent.

Date: October 3, 1916

Creator: McGraw, Walter A.

Oil-Burner.

Patent for a device which effectively burns "kerosene, gasoline, naphtha or crude oil" (lines15-16) in a bunsen-burner fashion that is also easy to manufacture and cheap to maintain.

Date: July 20, 1915

Creator: Veach, Joshua H.

Combined Broom and Cloth Hanger.

Patent for a combined broom and cloth hanger, which allows a broom to be quickly engaged and supported at any desired elevation above the user's floor. It can also be folded against the wall when the broom is not in use, "...whereby the ordinary broom cover...can be conveniently clamped and held securely in position between the lower end of the bracket and against the support by passing the broom cover over and through the rods when the hanger is in a receiving position" (lines 24-30).

Date: May 6, 1913

Creator: Ussery, Walter R. & Cook, Enoch J.

Washing Machine

Patent for a washing machine. This invention consists of cooperating rotary rubbers.

Date: January 4, 1910

Creator: Hollingsworth, James Hollis