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Mail-Station Device

Description: Patent for a mailbox in rural areas for outgoing and incoming mail to be placed in a convenient manner in a designated area. The mailbox will also have individual receptacles for individual persons to access with their designated key.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Gibson, Joe

Stalk-Header and Ensilage-Cutter.

Description: Patent for harvesting machine that simply and efficiently cuts heads off stalks to save seeds and also cuts stalks close to ground for for use for ensilage or to be left as fertilizer. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Welch, William

Switch-Stand

Description: Patent for switch stands. The improvement is to provide a mechanism in connection with stands of the character specified for moving the points of a switch to deflect trains from the main track on to the switch, wherein locking mechanism is provided for locking the switch points in safety or main line position and connected to the operating mechanism for moving the points in such manner that when operating arm for the switch is moved into the inoperative position after returning the points to th… more
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Philips, Smith F.

Fire Alarm System

Description: Patent for a new and improved fire alarm system. This alarm system will allow the room on fire to be identified and alert the fire department that there is a fire in that house. Using a minimum number of wires, for safety, this alarm signals only one bell no mater the room on fire.There is also a self test feature within this system.
Date: January 21, 1915
Creator: Ammons, John B.

Engine-Canopy for Motor-Vehicles.

Description: Patent for an improved and cheaper engine canopy for motor vehicles, that "may be applied to any conventional auto-mobile without the necessity of structural change" (lines 20-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Preston, Frank W.

Silo.

Description: Patent for new and various improvements in silos, the goal of which is to provide an invention that is "strong, durable, efficient and simple, and comparatively inexpensive to produce"(lines 23-25) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Moad, John S.

Cultivator-Cuff

Description: Patent for a cultivator cuff, which is directed to improvements in connections for cultivator beams, and has for its object to so construct a device of this character that the distance between the shovel standard and the beam may be regulated and adjusted, and held in position independently and without molesting the angle or fastenings which control the angle of the shovel standard.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Forrester, Robert E.

Cultivator Attachment

Description: Patent for a cultivator attachment "of a plurality of cutter blades which are adapted to be adjustably secured to the supporting frame of a cultivator in such a manner as to efficiently cut the weeds and dig into the soil without injuring the plants which may pass therebetween" (lines 12-17), including illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Doak, Clifton
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