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Crate.

Description: Patent for an improvement in crates that contains fruit in perfect condition without any bruising or mashing and can be stacked on top of each other.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Woodruff, William Douglas

Automatic gas-lighter

Description: Patent for automatic gas lighter, designed for igniting the headlights of auto vehicle, the principle object was to attach a simple automatic lighter to any automobile which is cheaper and reliable.
Date: July 11, 1916
Creator: Ben F. Keith

Wedge Cutter

Description: Patent for a device that cuts wood into different sized wedges. This is a device used in the construction industry.
Date: July 14, 1915
Creator: Echols, Elijah B. & Zindler, Herman J.

Capsule-Filler

Description: Patent for a capsule filler which allows a prescriptionist to simultaneously fill multiple capsules with medication. Illustrations included.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Brown, Patrick Henry

Clothes Pin

Description: Patent for clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Grubbs, Marion F.

Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for a railroad tie, which can be used with ordinary rails that improves the fastening and unfastening process and forms a track gage.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Whitaker, George

Rail Connection

Description: Patent for a rail connection which provides a smooth connection between rails and "dispenses with the angle bars which the ordinary rail connection requires" (lines 15-17). Illustrations included.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: MateÌŒjka, Frank

Pin for Engravers' Blocks.

Description: Patent for a pin for engravers' blocks for holding items to be engraved on the block. It has grooves of various widths on the sides to fit different size objects.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Martin, Joseph Clay

Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars

Description: Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
Date: July 8, 1890
Creator: McWhirter, Robert & Scheble, Eugene S.

Water Cooler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water cooler. This design consists in "the combination, with an outer casing, a central ice-receptacle having a perforated bottom, a water reservoir surrounding the ice-receptacle, provided with a packing of filtering material in the bottom, of an auxiliary reserve held beneath the ice-receptacle and main reservoir and connected with the latter by a series of tubes, and a tank in the bottom of the casing surrounding said auxiliary reserve adapted to receive the dri… more
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: Glück, Solomon

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Description: Patent for a new mechanism by which corn planters may be converted into a machine for planting cotton.
Date: July 16, 1878
Creator: Clary, Stephen S. & Clary, John F.

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design is "to combine a single and double plow so that they may be used either conjointly or independently of each other, and to provide means for the ready adjustment of the plow-beams with relation to each other and for the adjustment of the shovels so as to present the same at different inclinations for penetrating the ground at various depths" (lines 8-16).
Date: July 15, 1890
Creator: Walton, Sam Houston

Hair-Tonic

Description: Patent for use the liquid preparation is applied to the head once a day why the scalp is thoroughly irrigated, and the after once or twice a week. By its use the hair will be prevented from falling out as often occurs after fevers, and when the foilices are not dead a new growth of hair will be formed on bald heads.[20]
Date: July 24, 1888
Creator: Wallace, William, T.

Seed-Cotton Receiver

Description: Patent for seed cotton receivers so that each gin receives a specific amount of cotton, allowing it to self-regulate.
Date: July 5, 1892
Creator: Schulze, Andrew

Ribbon and Braid Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ribbon and braid holder. This design "consist[s] of [a] V-shaped wire having the cross-piece and the pin, having eyes at its ends, through which eyes the shanks of the V-shaped wire pass freely . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the roll, having the central aperture" (lines 55-61).
Date: July 14, 1885
Creator: Stone, Charles M.
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