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Cotton Checker and Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton checkers and cultivators by “providing a device in which the width of the hills or rows may be adjusted to suit the requirements of various grades of soil.” (Lines 15-17) Another improvement is to provide a “means to which the plows of the cultivator may be simultaneously raised or lowered, and when so raised or lowered may be kept in their adjusted positions.” (Lines 19-22) Illustration is included.

Date: January 11, 1910

Creator: Hamilton, Robert

Cotton Checker and Cultivator

Patent for a cotton checker and cultivator. Illustration included.

Date: January 11, 1910

Creator: Hamilton, Robert & Humble, Henry O. V.

Combined Ruler and Paper-Cutter

Patent for a ruler that may also be used as a paper cutter. Illustrations included.

Date: June 28, 1910

Creator: Dibrell, Frank A.

Cold-Iron Straightener.

Patent for a cold iron straightener for straightening wagon axles or pipes while they are still on the vehicle, which allows for more forceful bending than previous devices and restoration of the parts to their natural position.

Date: May 14, 1907

Creator: Keith, John David

Attachment for Planters

Patent for attachment for planters, provides a simple, inexpensive, easily-applied, and effectively operating attachmentc for cotton, corn, or other seed-planting machines in which is included a truck or a carriage whereby a sweep-plow can be connected with the planter truck or carriage for laying out a furrow and covering the seed (Johnson, 1902).

Date: June 14, 1909

Creator: Johnson, Major

Branding-Chute.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in branding-chutes for "securely holding live stock during the process of branding the same" (line 12 - 14).

Date: April 19, 1898

Creator: Bennett, Joe

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with hoes on a shaft, which turns and that makes a straight furrow.

Date: March 31, 1908

Creator: Smith, Calvin Ewing

Clinometer

Patent for a clinometer. This invention is designed to measure the grades and angles of inclination of structures and objects of various descriptions. Illustration included.

Date: May 19, 1908

Creator: Keith, John David & Faulkner, Walter Edgar

Animal Poke

Patent for an animal poke which is attached through a nose ring and pulls on the animal if it tries to crawl under or over a fence.

Date: October 4, 1910

Creator: Kelley, Howard T.; Matthews, George N. & Davis, George F.

Apparatus for Irrigating Land.

Patent for a new and improved irrigation machine. This design "consists in an irrigating-pipe having lapped side joints and notches in the inner edges of the lapped joints. The invention also consists in the combination, with a tank, of a trough below it, tubes projecting from the trough, and irrigating-pipes connected with the said tubes" (lines 12-18).

Date: November 17, 1885

Creator: Briggs, Elias

Bedstead Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved bedstead attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails and head and foot boards, of the plates having angular projections provided with wedge-shaped grooves and small inclined recesses at their upper parts, and the plates having the tapering wedge-shaped projections provided with the lugs integrally formed with their upper portions and adapted to engage the recesses, whereby when the projecting engaging portions of the plates . . . wea… more

Date: December 27, 1887

Creator: McCormick, Henry Jasper

Bridge

Patent for the construction of substantial bridges of wood adapted for long spans, and which can be put up where iron bridges would be too expensive.

Date: May 24, 1881

Creator: Brenner, August W.

Copy-Holder for Record-Books, &c.

Patent for a simple and efficient copy-holder meant for recording things. The invention feeds paper line by line, so the records are straight. The copy-holder also holds the pages of a book in place.

Date: July 30, 1895

Creator: Powell, Phanor P.

Adjustable Tongs

Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.

Date: August 4, 1914

Creator: Beyer, Albert

Wire-Winding Device

Patent for a wire winding device for repairing wooden bars.

Date: April 23, 1912

Creator: Wilkinson, Charles C.

Well-Liner Clamp.

Patent for a well-liner clamp for oil, gas, and other similar wells that prevents the well from caving in. The well-liner clamp is made of resilient material to hold in place, contracts while being placed into the well, and can be released after being placed into the well to expand to fit the walls of the well.

Date: May 31, 1921

Creator: Bigelow, Robert J.

Windmill

Patent for a new windmill design with improvement to the "mechanism for transmitting the motion of the wheel shaft to the pump rods."

Date: November 25, 1902

Creator: Morrisson, Andrew

Weaning-Bit

Patent for a weaning-bit. This bit "[admits] air into the mouth of the animal, thus obviating any drawing or sucking action." (lines 10-12) Additionally, this bit was created to be of better construction which would make it cheaper and longer-lasting.

Date: July 24, 1917

Creator: Turner, Wiley Ernest

Cotton Blocking Machine

Patent for an inexpensive attachment to a cotton cultivator/checking machine to improve the intake capacity of the cultivator itself. The blocking machine would be used to replace the manual labor task of chopping cotton before insertion into the cultivator for processing.

Date: October 19, 1920

Creator: Ford, Barnie S.

Lubricated Bullet.

Patent for lubricated lead bullets to prevent the deterioration and rusting of the inner barrel of rifled firearms, so as to maintain their accuracy. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 3, 1897

Creator: Stewardson, Samuel Clinton

Type-Writer.

Patent for a new device for typewriters which allows for shifting from lower case to upper case by means of "the one set of keys ordinarily employed, but of modified construction" (lines 14-15) including descriptions of the device, operation, and illustrations

Date: May 6, 1902

Creator: Austin, Thomas R.

Tying Attachment For Baling Presses

Patent for tying attachment for baling presses for hay. Illustrations included.

Date: May 31, 1904

Creator: Johnson, Robert S.

Transmission-Gearing

Patent for a car power transmission gearing which is operated by one simple stick that does not require lateral movements and eliminates the danger of stripping the gears.

Date: July 2, 1912

Creator: McCurdy, Horace L.

Transmission Mechanism.

Patent for a transmission mechanism which "provides an improved mechanism by which the motion of of a drive shaft rotating at an uniform speed may be transmitted to a driven shaft at variable speeds and also to provide for the reversal of the driven shaft at different speeds" (lines 8-14).

Date: January 25, 1910

Creator: Jameson, William C.