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Adjustable Hoe

Patent for improvement in "the construction of hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and inexpensive hoe, of strong and durable construction." (lines 11-13) including illustrations.

Date: July 27, 1915

Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.

Cotton Picker's Truck

Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.

Date: July 5, 1904

Creator: Franek, Jakob

Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.

Patent for an "improved apparatus by means of which ground-squirrels and gophers can be destroyed in their holes, conveniently and effectively, and at small expense" (para. 4). The mechanism works by gassing underground vermin with sulphuric fumes.

Date: July 10, 1877

Creator: Dreyer, Henry

Insect Destroyer.

Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for distributing liquid poison on cotton and other plants to destroy insect life thereon; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-18).

Date: July 18, 1882

Creator: Binkley, James E.

Lifting Jack.

Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.

Date: July 3, 1906

Creator: Tanner, Calvin W. & Tanner, Eugene

Machine for Sharpening Gin-Saws

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, an d easily manipulated, and by means of which the teeth of gin-saws may be sharpened in a rapid, convenient, and effectual manner" (lines 9-14).

Date: July 1, 1890

Creator: Smith, John Quince

Portable Extensible Ladder

Patent for a portable extendable ladder, designed for use, among other things, as a means of fire escape or observation, along with illustrations and explanations.

Date: July 2, 1918

Creator: Trojan, J. E.

Railway-Ticket, &c.

Patent "to furnish for railway-companies a form of excursion-ticket whose return portion or stop-over portion, as the case may be, is not capable of successful use by scalpers" (lines 11-15).

Date: July 9, 1901

Creator: Smith, Lowndes G.

Seed Planter

Patent for...a seed planting machine which improves upon an earlier cotton seed planting machine. The improved apparatus can be substituted for corn and other seeds. It may also be utilized for ground cultivation.

Date: July 15, 1884

Creator: Pietzsch, Louis; Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Joseph R.