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Account-Book.

Description: Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.

Agricultural Implement

Description: Patent for a novel and improved implement of this general character including a plurality of supporting members provided with ground working elements together with a body positioned upon said supporting members and wherein said said supporting members and body are capable of relative movement transversely of the direction of travel of the implement.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.

Attachment for Internal-Combustion Engines.

Description: Patent for an invention relating to the attachment for internal combustion engines that will provide moisture through the form of liquid or vapors. Other objectives and illustrations of invention are included.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Potts, Hugh

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.

Automatic Quick-Acting Vise.

Description: Patent for a quick-acting, easily operated vise "in which the jaws are automatically held closed upon the work until released." Its simple construction enables it to be inexpensively and efficiently manufactured.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: McCullough, Daniel B.

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Description: Patent for new and useful Improvements in Automatic Railway-Switches, "particularly to automatic railway switches for use in street railways or steam railways" (lines 13-15), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Eisenberg, Louis

Auxiliary Seeding Attachment for Planters

Description: Patent for an attachment to existing hopper fed planters intended for larger format seeds (corn, cotton, etc.), to allow their use in distribution of smaller format seeds (cabbage, onions, etc.).
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Whitworth, John Allen

Clamp for Molds.

Description: Patent for improved clamp, which releases quickly when facilitating mold removal.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Watson, Henry

Coin-Holder and Indicator for Receptacles.

Description: Patent for a device to be placed on empty milk bottles or other receptacles that are left unattended for a delivery person to exchange for full ones, including illustrations. The device indicates to the delivery person the quantity of product desired and is equipped with a pouch or pocket into which the payment for the product can be placed. In this manner, the purchaser can communicate his or her desired purchase amount to the delivery person and provide payment for same, without the requireme… more
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Roberts, William F.

Combined Rule and Square.

Description: Patent for new and useful Improvements in Combined Rules and Squares which makes it "possible to form a rigid straight rule or one or more rigid squares" (lines 24-25), including illustration and instructions.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Grossman, Edwin

Corn-Topper.

Description: Patent for corn-toppers for cutting off the heads of Kafir corn, milo maze, and other similar grain plants.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Pletcher, Thomas S.

Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for cotton-chopper improvements providing a longer elliptical orbit for the hoe in order to chop closer to the ground.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Noblett, Adontram J.

Cotton Cleaner

Description: Patent for cotton cleaners which serve as accessories in cotton ginning operations and in the present instance are used with a pneumatic cotton distributing elevator or conveying means cooperating with gin feeders.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Murray, S.D.

Cotton Tramper and Baler.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton tramper and baler that can more efficiently compress cotton into bales that are convenient for handling and shipping.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Crowell, Pearl K.

Crude-Oil Burner.

Description: Patent for an improved burner that is safe from the danger of exploding and can be made cheaply, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Hudgens, John Albert

Cultivator

Description: Patent for improving attachment for a cultivator whereby an ordinary cultivator and wherein the cutting blade is effectively held against displacement after the attachment has been applied to a beam.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Griffice, George D.

Display Rack

Description: Patent for a display rack for bananas and other fruits for improved mobility.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Stoneham, John A.

Exhibitor

Description: Patent for device which would allow motorists to display road maps in their vehicle while driving. Would also include a light so maps could be visible at night.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Atkinson, Jackson B.

Figure Toy.

Description: Patent for improvements in figure toys which "includes a base or support having figures mounted thereon the said figures being preferably in the form of men and having jointed legs connected with their bodies there being means provided for swinging the legs to cause the figures to have the appearance of running" (lines 13-19); includes illustration.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Salter, Conway

Gate-Operating Mechanism

Description: Patent for an improved gate operating mechanism to allow vehicles to approach the gate and the gate move to the open position and to move to the closed position has passed through the gate opening. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: McDaniel, James M. & McDaniel, Claud M.

Gin Brush

Description: Patent for gin-brush relating to the speed and convenience in removing and replacement of rotatable brushes for cotton gins.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Murray, Stephan D.

Hat-Box

Description: Patent for improved collapsible hat box, which may be folded into a small compact mass.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Fechner, Albert H.
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