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Ink-Bottle.

Description: Patent for improvements in in bottles: "it consists, essentially, of a hexagonal or analogous polygonal shaped body having dip cups arranged adjacent to one and thereof at such angles as to regulate the flow by turning the body and bringing it to bear on different bases." (lines 12-17).
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Anderson, Alexander C.

Invalid-Bed.

Description: Patent for attachment to beds for invalids. This device allows the invalid to be raised or placed in the sitting position.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Anderson, Young R.

Elevated Irrigation System

Description: Patent for an elevated irrigation system that relates to a useful system for supplying and distributing water, for the irrigation of large tracts of land.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Anderson, Young Rhea

Gate.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Billingsley, John

Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for a new type of clothing pin that allows it to be permanently attached to the clothing line.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Boynton, Willie A.

Cotton-Picker's Knee-pad

Description: Patent for "knee pads especially adapted for cotton picker's use." (lines 10-11)
Date: March 17, 1914
Creator: Boynton, Willie A.

Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad. "This invention relates to pads and particularly to a new, useful, simple and practical knee pad especially designed fo use by cotton pickers." (line 2)
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Boynton, Willie A. & Terrell, George A.

Cotton Boll Thresher.

Description: Patent for a cotton-boll thresher which opens the bolls and separates the cotton. This thresher tries to improve on others by making them "strong, durable, efficient, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 21-23); patent includes illustrations and specifications.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Bryan, Andrew J.

Spring-Wheel.

Description: Patent for improvements to vehicle spring wheels to replace pneumatic wheels, "embodying in its use relatively movable members having coil springs interposed therebetween whereby to secure the proper resilience" (lines 13-16) necessitating very few parts, including illustrations.
Date: October 4, 1921
Creator: Bush, Horace L. & Bryan, Andrew J.

Cattle-Yoke.

Description: Patent for a cattle yoke which enables the yoke to be attached to a cow's head to prevent grazing from other side of the wire fence.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Carr, Jessie D.

Boiler-Cleaner

Description: Patent for an appliance to clean boilers. Device remains in boiler and sucks dirt particles out.
Date: January 1, 1918
Creator: Cross, William G.

Fender.

Description: Patent for fenders for personal vehicles such as cars (street and motor cars) that protect a person from major injury when struck by a car by having padding. This fender design also prevents a person from going under the car and being run over.
Date: September 14, 1915
Creator: Goode, Ovelia M.

Garment-Protector

Description: Patent for a garment protector which functions by wrapping the wearer and her garments in heavy rubberized cloth, so that water and mud do not get on her clothes, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Goode, Ovelia Mamie

Trace Carrier.

Description: Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "consist[s] of a rectangular frame, a central integral transverse bar provided at its upper and lower edges with pairs of spaced-apart superficial ribs having central aligning bores, a spring-pressed bolt mounted in one of said ribs, adapted at its inner end to take into the opposite rib and provided at its outer end with a knob or head, a pintle mounted in the lower pair of ribs, a tongue pivoted upon the pintle, said tongue having its u… more
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Harbour, Thomas J.

Gate or Door Closing Device

Description: Patent for "improvements in closing devices for doors, gates, and the like" (lines 12-13) using a spring connected to the door and frame, including illustrations.
Date: June 26, 1917
Creator: Hawley, Royal A.

Road Grader

Description: Patent for road grader, that applies additional support to the frame.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Hawley, Royal A.

Mail-Bag Catcher.

Description: Patent for a new modification in the device mail-bag catcher, which can be used to either train or track device.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Huff, Barney L.

Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for harvesters and mowers. This design is "to afford means whereby a mowing or reaping machine may be enabled easily to travel over soft or marshy ground; . . . the novelty consists in a shoe proper for each driving-wheel of the machine, each shoe made of a curved piece of metal . . . and provided with a long narrow slot running lengthwise of the shoe, . . . and so adapted that under each wheel one of the shoes shall be placed in such a manner that one … more
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Marshall, Sumner B.

Agricultural Machine

Description: Patent for a cotton chopping machine which can cut plants at regular intervals.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Lax, Alfred A.; Hinson, George W. & Willhoit, James I.

Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Description: Patent for "a simple, novel, and convenient frame capable of being attached to any pattern of sewing-machine and adapted to carry the top and lining of a quilt to the needle" (lines 12-15).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Mandeville, Charles

Thatch Roof.

Description: Patent for a simple, cheap, and effective thatched roof for temporary storage of goods or animal pens. It has "overlapping layers of straw or like material secured or fastened in place by running wires attached to the foundation on which the said thatching or covering is arranged" (lines 15-19).
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Mandeville, Charles

Faucet.

Description: Patent for a novel faucet using a reciprocating valve instead of a rotary valve and resistant to problems caused by ice formation in the faucet, with illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1915
Creator: McLaren, Charles E.

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for improved wire-stretchers. The simple concept allows for the pieces to be produced inexpensively and does not require any machine work.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Moseley, Benjmine G

Rat Trap

Description: Patent for a trap to catch rodents.
Date: unknown
Creator: Newell, Greene E.
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