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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1900
Creator: Bartels, Henry

Bookbinder's Gluing-Press.

Description: Patent for a bookbinder's gluing press, which can be used for books of varying thicknesses.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Giesecke, Julius; Nebergall, Ben F. & Oheim, George F.

Corn - Husking Machine

Description: Patent for improvements to the corn-husking machine with a butt-end cutter for the ears of corn. (lines 9-10)
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Werner, Anton, Jr.

Corn Husker and Chopper

Description: Patent for a corn husker and chopper. Illustration included.
Date: August 23, 1904
Creator: Willmann, Joseph, Sr. & Leek, William H.

Corn-Husker.

Description: Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
Date: December 22, 1896
Creator: Willmann, Joseph

Wind Engine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wind engine. This design "relates to an improvement in wind-engines, in which a vertical circular frame having a wind-wheel is covered to the half by a hemispherical roof supported by posts" (lines 8-12).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Serdinko, John

Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.

Description: Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Serdinko, John

Collar-Fastener.

Description: Patent for providing a durable structure for fasteners to be used on horse collars for effectiveness and quick manipulation. Illustrations are provided.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Wallace, William F.

Butter-Container.

Description: Patent for a butter container that holds butter and protects against direct handling until it is served. This is inexpensive, two-piece and very easy to clean.
Date: August 12, 1913
Creator: Eiband, Ernst A.

Wheel-Operated Lift Mechanism

Description: Patent for a wheel operated lift mechanism designed for agricultural implements with wheels which can raise the frame of the agricultural implement for easy access to the wheel. This tool is adjustable to raise or lower the frame for easy access to the wheel to disconnect it.
Date: May 17, 1921
Creator: Altgelt, Herman E.

Wrench.

Description: Patent for new design for a wrench that is a "simple, efficient, and inexpensive one adapted for operating on nuts, pipes, rods and other objects." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date: May 8, 1900
Creator: Willmann, Joseph

Wardrobe

Description: Patent for a Wardrobe that is easy to assemble, dust proof and inexpensive construction
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Pape, Bruno L.

Vegetable-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a vegetable cutter which is to be used as a grater.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Wittenborn, Edmund A.

Wheel.

Description: Patent for an improved wheel tire. The improvements to a conventional tire include multiple hinged springs which limit the movement of the wheel in two directions when contact is made with the ground. The wheel includes shoes placed concentrically around the wheel that provides shock absorption, better traction, and overall stability.
Date: April 12, 1919
Creator: Schmidt, Oscar J.

Wire Fence.

Description: Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.
Date: November 8, 1853
Creator: Meriwether, William H.

Windmill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design consists in "the sectional spiral vanes of the wind-wheel, having a flange on the outer edge, widest at the end of the vane on which the wind first takes effect, and inclined to the plane of the vane for deflecting the wind thereon . . . [and] [t]he brake, having guide-pulley and combined with the pull-cord, tail-vane, and the wheel-shaft, said shaft having a friction-wheel" (lines 13-22).
Date: February 24, 1885
Creator: Benoit, Joseph

Improvement in Wheel-Plows.

Description: Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).
Date: September 5, 1871
Creator: Coreth, Rudolph

Improvement in Draw-Gages.

Description: Patent for improving the manner in which leather straps may be cut and avoid slippage.
Date: June 25, 1878
Creator: Tays, John Henry

Tractor

Description: Patent for "novel features of construction and combinations of parts" in tractors to ensure a steady, even pace of travel and allow for traversing uneven landscape while maintaining a level setting, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 23, 1918
Creator: Altgelt, Herman E.

Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.

Description: Patent for an "invention to prevent the breaking of glass globes used in kerosene lamps as reservoirs for the burning fluid; and this invention consists in the application around the reservoir of a rubber ring let into a groove, but projecting sufficiently to receive the concussion in case the lamp is overthrown." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 16, 1872
Creator: Otto, Adolph

Traction Engine.

Description: Patent for an improved version of traction engine with ambulatory wheels that improve the design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Altgelt, Herman E.

Nut Lock

Description: Patent for nut lock. Illustration included.
Date: October 12, 1909
Creator: Braune, Fritz

Sulky-Plow.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and durable sulky-plow that "may be shifted laterally by the driver during the act of plowing whenever such action is deemed advisable, thereby changing the cut whenever occasion may demand" (lines 10-14). The plow can attach to any type of wheeled plow.
Date: June 20, 1893
Creator: Willmann, Joseph

Hoe.

Description: Patent for a new and useful hoe, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Willian, Joseph
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