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Air Intake Device.

Description: Patent for an air intake device for automobiles and other internal combustion engines. Provides novel and improved heated air supply for carburetors during cold weather. Adjustable to admit unheated air in various proportions according to the air temperature and weather.
Date: January 29, 1918
Creator: Hornburg, C.A.

Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate

Description: Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: McCombs, Oliver A.

Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in attachments for Sawmill-Dogs. This invention relates to sawmill dogs, and has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient device for retaining the actuating lever of a lever mechanism in adjusted position.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Lynch, C. W.

Automatic Plow-Foot.

Description: Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Dugger, Thomas M.

Automobile-Jack.

Description: Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.
Date: August 29, 1912
Creator: Bouldin, W. Claughton

Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c.

Description: Patent for the improvement of "the construction of spring trips, and to provide a simple and inexpensive spring trip, capable of being constructed of sufficient strength to enable it to be employed on stirring and breaking plows as well as cultivators, planters and the lighter class of agricultural implements" (lines 12-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Alsup, Thomas B.

Bed-Cover Holder

Description: Patent for bed cover holder, particularly the clamping mechanism that holds the covers to the bed and allows the clamps to grasp "covers of different thicknesses" (lines 25-26) without requiring clamp adjustment.
Date: October 29, 1918
Creator: Hillman, Emmie

Blackboard-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a blackboard cleaner that incorporates a "water reservoir having manually controlled means for communicating the water of the reservoir to the rubbing element of the cleaner" (lines 13-17) including an illustration. The rubbing element was also made to be easily removed for replacement or cleaning.
Date: January 29, 1918
Creator: Satrum, Gilbert G.
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