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Refrigerator

Description: Patent for a refrigerator. This invention uses ice for cooling and designed to provided greater cooling efficiency. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Baer, Sylvan Titche

Station-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a station-indicator for trolley cars meant to "produce an automatic apparatus of this kind which is worked by the movement of the car and in which a map is employed, which is moved in such a way that the various points at which the car stops will always be correctly indicated" (lines 13-18).
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Baker, Artemas

Pantaloons and Overalls.

Description: Patent for new and improved overalls and pants. This design "consists in a garment cut in four pieces of peculiar form united in a peculiar manner, whereby the seat and crotch and the inner sides of the legs are made of double thickness and the leg and crotch both rendered seamless, in order that they may be worn without the discomfort attending the use of garments in which heavy seams or welts exist in the middle" (lines 10-18).
Date: June 2, 1885
Creator: Blake, Samuel Diggs

Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells.

Description: Patent for "an Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells." "The object in view is the provision of means for facilitating the change of an ordinary door-bell into a continuously-ringing alarm apparatus, while leaving the mechanism free to be changed back into its former operative condition as a door-bell."(Lines 10-15) Including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 30, 1902
Creator: Blakeney, Henry

Peanut-Harvester

Description: Patent for a peanut harvester which can be attached to a standard cultivator frame. It is designed to uproot and sever peanut vines, then deposit the newly aerated peanut vines back onto the ground.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Byrd, Gordon W.

Flour and Meal Bin.

Description: Patent for a new and improved flour and meal bin. This design "is to provide a flour and meal bin for family purposes, especially where it is found desirable to economize space and have the bin conveniently at hand ready to have the desired quantity of flour or meal taken from it in a sifted condition" (lines 9-15).
Date: June 16, 1885
Creator: Clarke, Robert

Auto Steering-Lock

Description: Patent for a lock designed to attach to the spokes of a steering wheel with the intention of guarding it from "unauthorized persons" (line 20), including illustrations.
Date: June 1, 1920
Creator: Cosby, Luther F.

Confection.

Description: Patent for confections with an edible packaging. These confections come in the form of a spherically shaped casing, simulating a baseball, which have been secured together and contain an edible filling.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Cressey, John A.

Projectile.

Description: Patent for improvements in projectiles for use in smooth-bore guns of any caliber, the same being so grooved or rifled as to insure rapid rotation and great accuracy and range in flight. (Lines 8-11.) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Croom, Alvis F.

Battery.

Description: Patent for an improvement to batteries, particularly pertaining to their electrochemical components, including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Crowley, Richard Joseph

Kitchen Cabinet

Description: Patent for a kitchen cabinet. This invention is equipped with compartments and bins that distribute granular substances via cut-off valves. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Curtice, William H. & Rosser, Virgil O.

Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Elam, William E.
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