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Automobile-Windlass

Patent for improved windlass for an automobile that attaches to both rear wheels to prevent idling

Date: April 20, 1920

Creator: Davis, Marion A.

Boltless Rail-Joint.

Patent for improvements in connecting rails without the use of bolts and nuts but instead using two fish-plates.

Date: April 20, 1915

Creator: Richardson, Charles I. & Hall, William D.

Ant-Trap

Patent for an ant trap with a removable bottom which allows the trap to be emptied easily.

Date: September 20, 1910

Creator: Miller, Charles R.

Headlight-Reflector

Patent for a headlight reflector to be adapted to trains. Illustrations included.

Date: December 20, 1910

Creator: Pratt, R. James

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.

Date: June 20, 1905

Creator: Dickey, John Splann

Patent for a new and improved conflagration arrester. This design "is to provide a device by which the sides of a building adjacent to other buildings on fire may be protected by a uniform continuous sheet of water covering the sides of such building" (lines 9-13). It consists in "the combination of a series of inclined arms provided with eyes at their outer ends and having hooks to engage the side of a building, a shelf or deflector, and a rod so connecting the latter pivotally with the eyes o… more

Date: January 20, 1891

Creator: Puckett, Florence N.

Car-Door Fastening.

Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.

Date: January 20, 1880

Creator: Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.

Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device.

Patent for a tool "which is adapted for stretching wire for fencing purposed and which may also be used for drawing the staples from the posts and splicing between posts when such action is necessary." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 20, 1897

Creator: McElroy, Jesse Roberts

Wire Tightener and Splicer

Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).

Date: August 20, 1889

Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.

Water Gage.

Patent for a new and improved water gauge. This design "consists in the arrangement of a chamber attached to the lower valve of an ordinary water-gage; and the object of [the] improvement is to prevent the foam and sentiment of steam-boilers from accumulating in the glass, stuffing-boxes, and valves of water-gages" (lines 8-14).

Date: January 20, 1885

Creator: Willis, Robert L.

Fire Kindler.

Patent for a new fire-kindler which lists the composition of ingredients. Patent for "a new and improved fire-kindler can containing the composition" (lines 15-16) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new fire-kindler design, including illustrations.

Date: December 20, 1892

Creator: Rogers, Silas M. N.

Quilting-Machine.

Patent for a quilting-machine that is meant to "improve the construction of quilting attachments for sewing machines, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which will be capable of lateral vibrations, longitudinal movement, and a rotary motion, in order that any form of design may be worked" (lines 12-17).

Date: November 20, 1894

Creator: Click, Washington B. & Click, Isaac A.

Fruit-Gatherer.

Patent for "improving fruit-gatherers designed to be thrust into a tree and cull each fruit separately" (lines 17-20).

Date: January 20, 1880

Creator: Eddleman, James P.

Improvement in Rotary Churns.

Patent for an improvement of the churn that is, "within a square wooden box, of a rotating dasher or paddle, and the mechanism for driving the same, that various parts being constructed, arranged, and operated" (lines 20-24). Illustrations included.

Date: February 20, 1877

Creator: Dean, Charles C.

Improvement in Earth-Augurs.

Patent for a new auger design for "boring and excavating wells" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.

Date: November 20, 1877

Creator: Yarborough, William H.

Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides

Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.

Date: July 20, 1869

Creator: Bean, W. O.