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Heater.

Description: Patent for a heater adapted for use in an internal combustion engine for the purpose of assisting the vehicle to start in cold weather.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Pirtle, Claiborne Clinton

Ratchet Pipe Cutter

Description: Patent for improvements to a ratchet pipe cutter, which includes an adjustment system to allow for pipes to "approximately quickly adjusted to different sizes of pipe and subsequently automatically moved toward the cutting roller"(lines 11-13).
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Hestand, Rue S.

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for an improved nut lock that prevents nuts from loosening. The invention is a combined nut lock and washer with spring plate, including illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Teague, Isaac E.

Coupling.

Description: Patent for a coupling invention that consists of a detachable key member and locking key member for a valve plug. It is meant to improve couplings for detachable handles of drain-cocks.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Copeland, Joe S.

Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that improved the cleaning process for machine-processed boll cotton. The invention made it possible to extract more lint cotton from closed bolls which were typically unharvestable by traditional machine-based cotton gins. The machine also improved success in late fall or winter cotton harvesting by allowing bolls containing hard-to-reach cotton to be processed.
Date: September 4, 1918
Creator: Blackmon, Enoch J.

Hopper-Door.

Description: Patent for a hopper door especially designed to be used "with a vertically movable weighing hopper adapted to receive and weigh cotton seed" (lines 10-12). The specifics of how the door is hinged and operates is especially important to the design.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Peck, James F.

Grain-Car Door.

Description: Patent for Grain-Car Door. "The object the present invention is to arrange the door for use in transporting grain without requiring any additional grain door or planking on the inside door opening." (Line 3)
Date: April 23, 1918
Creator: Hartough, Edward W.

Arc-Lamp Attachment

Description: Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
Date: April 2, 1918
Creator: Pratt, James R.

Butter-Mold

Description: Patent for "a butter mold embodying means for cutting and shaping a piece of wrapping paper to conform to the configuration of the mold in which it is adapted to be placed to receive the butter." (lines 9-13).
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Higginbotham, John

Vapor-Condensing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a vapor condensing system that utilizes a mixing chamber and several coils of tubing to produce a cooling effect. The application is suitable for ice machines, refrigeration plants and other systems.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Phillips, John Ernst

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for an improved method of locating the air blast apparatus for cleaning lint from the saw teeth of saw-type cotton gins, so that the cotton lint does not accumulate on the cleaning apparatus and render it inoperative, including illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Hopper, James F.; Stephens, George B. & Young, Harry F.

Peanut Digger.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements to a machine for harvesting or digging peanuts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Amos, Thomas E. & Abernathy, George J.

Trolley-Harp.

Description: Patent for improvements to the efficiency of trolley harps by changing how the currents that power "overhead type electric car systems" (lines 13-14) are conducted.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Carmack, James H.

Dry Closet.

Description: Patent for a new design that improves "construction, utility, and efficiency of dry closets"(lines 10-11) that would also allow the use of an attachment specifically for dry closet seats. Includes design for mesh cloth to capture waste.
Date: April 24, 1917
Creator: Mershon, John H.
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