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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

Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring

Description: Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
Date: May 12, 1917
Creator: Annan, Alfred H.

Churn.

Description: Patent for improvements in churns that are made with an actuating motor, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Waller, Charles Floyd

Cleaning Device for Wells

Description: Patent for a device that removes loose debris in wells
Date: July 21, 1917
Creator: Carden, David A.

Automobile Security Lock Device.

Description: Patent for a new and useful form of automobile lock adaptable for use in connection with the steering column and steering wheel of the car or automobile to be locked.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Mushaway, Alden

Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.

Description: Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Craig, Richard M.

Pump-Operating Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a new type of pump operator mechanism with a "novel mounting for the air compressing pump" (lines 18-19) and a more compact form. Illustrations included.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Feagin, Luther W.

Automobile-Elevator.

Description: Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Wright, Virgil Tilden

Composition for Sealing Tire-Punctures and the Like.

Description: Patent for sealing tire punctures consisting of the extract obtained from boiling guayule and candelilla plants in water to which is added asbestos and fullers' earth.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Garza, Ricardo

Combination Fence and Repair Tool

Description: Patent for a multi-purpose tool related to working with wires in and around the home. It is intended to tighten, twist, and/or sever a wire.
Date: September 6, 1917
Creator: Grogan, Edward W.

Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date: September 10, 1917
Creator: Cole, William F.

Churn Dasher

Description: Patent for the churn dasher. This invention relates to dashers, or agitators, for churns and similar devices and aims to provide an improved assemblage of the component elements of the dasher, whereby to facilitate the agitation of the material and to aerate the same. Illustrations are provided.
Date: September 5, 1917
Creator: Lambie, R.C.

Draft-Equalizer

Description: Patent for a device that can be attached to the draft tongue of an animal-drawn agricultural machine to equalize resistance and allow it to be drawn evenly in a straight line.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Butts, Jim P.

Attachment for Coffee-Roasters.

Description: Patent for an attachment to a coffee-roaster that assists in separating coffee beans from foreign matter.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Liberto, Samuel

Grader-Blade.

Description: Patent for a new form of grader blade for road graders and ditchers for road and ditch work, with illustration.
Date: December 4, 1917
Creator: Wendell, Benjamin J.

Wire-Screen Frame.

Description: Patent for a more economical, foldable wire screen frame for doors with removable wire mesh, and included illustration.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Carroll, Houston Monroe

Cultivator Fender

Description: Patent for cultivator fenders, which will assist in tilling the earth for proper planting methods. This invention will allow for the removal of weeds close to plants without burying the plants in soil.
Date: November 16, 1917
Creator: William M. Peel

Braking Actuating Mechanism for Automobiles

Description: Patent for an improvement to braking actuating mechanism for automobiles to allow for safer braking with the lever right of the driver's seat, in particular adaptable to Ford emergency brakes.
Date: November 30, 1917
Creator: Baker, Howard A.

Attachment for Internal Combustion Engines.

Description: Patent for an attachment to internal combustion engines that allows for vaporizing part of the fuel mixture to introduce air and steam that aid combustion efficiency.
Date: August 16, 1917
Creator: Lynch, Floyd W.

Basin-Protector

Description: Patent for a flexible basin lining that improves sanitation in areas where washrooms are often-used and rarely cleaned.
Date: January 23, 1917
Creator: Van Dunker, Charles L.

Automobile Signal

Description: Patent for a signal of the nature indicated including a signal arm controlled in novel manner and movable from one position to another, the signal arm being inoperative in one position, and when moved to the other position being visible to other vehicles and pedestrians both in front and in rear, to warn them of the intention of the operator driver to turn.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Deats, O.G.

Armored Car.

Description: Patent for an armored car or portable fort, that aims to provide a novel and improved armor unit of that nature.
Date: December 11, 1917
Creator: Spence, John J.

Tillage Implement.

Description: Patent for an improved type of tillage implement of the harrow type that can be used in places other harrows can't operate, as well as being capable of being operated in close proximity to plants without damaging them. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1917
Creator: Bonds, Walter P. Jr.
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