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Plant-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Martin, Silas W.

Kiln

Description: Patent for improvements to kilns, which include improvements for transferring heat, "burning lime and clay products"(line 11), powdered fuel feeding and preventing unheated air from flowing into the kiln.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Bone, David R.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper that thins out rows of growing cotton plants by destroying the superfluous plants and leaving stands at the proper intervals, including illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Copeland, George W.

Cotton-Harvester.

Description: Patent for a cotton harvesting machine, that is portable and contains a function to transfer cotton "from the picking spindles to a receptacle carried on the machine" (lines 29-30), including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Lovejoy, Daniel B.

Amusement Apparatus

Description: Patent for an amusement apparatus of the character set forth with and inclined place made of a number of pivoted sections which may be simultaneously moved into horizontal position to form steps or seats and be held in such position by trip device provided with a target which latter upon being hit by a thrown ball will release the several sections of the inclined plane of steps and permit them through the weight of one or more persons thereon to aline one with the other and form a continuous in… more
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Andrews, J.W.

Funnel and Gage.

Description: Patent for a funnel and gage with a mechanism used to indicate "when the proper amount of water has been inserted in the battery" (lines 14-15).
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Burkett, Joseph Benjamin

Bedstead

Description: Patent for metallic bedstead which will eliminate drafts in cold weather as well as pillows working back between the upright rails. This device includes a means for elevating the head or foot of the bed, including illustrations.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Martin, Silas Wright

Furnace

Description: Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Bone, David R.

Folding Car-Step

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Folding Car-Steps" (lines 5-6) to facilitate easier passenger boarding of rail cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1913
Creator: Mayhew, Edwin B.

[Trading Card: Red-Tailed Hawk]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Mother Neff State Park, depicting a close-up portrait of a red-tailed hawk. The back of the card includes information about the species.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
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