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Automatic Measuring Machine

Patent for an automatic measuring machine. Illustration included.

Date: December 21, 1909

Creator: Whitten, Edgar, Jr. & Harrell, Attie Alfred

Mail Bag Catchers and Deliverer

Patent for a mail bag catcher and deliverer. This invention is designed for the retrieval and delivery of mailbags by passing trains. Illustration included.

Date: April 21, 1908

Creator: Anderson, John

Display-Rack

Patent for a display rack.

Date: April 21, 1903

Creator: Wilbanks, William N.

Patent for a new and improved shovel plow. This design "provide[s] a shovel . . . having extensible wings pivoted to its rear surface, and combined with suitable mechanism by which they may be extended and forced inward . . . second, [it] provide[s] novel means of adjusting the angularity of the shovel and its standard with reference to the beam of the plow; third, [it] provide[s] novel means for adjusting the positions of the outer ends of the handles" (lines 16-26).

Date: June 21, 1881

Creator: Conner, Laurance H.

Pulverizer and cultivator.

Patent for improvement of pulverizer and cultivator, which according to the inventors, "pulverizes the soil in an improved manner, and with less expenditure in power in draft, and so that the land can be plowed close up to plants growing in rows, but which are not regularly in line with one another".

Date: July 21, 1885

Creator: Chambers, John R.; Chambers, Silas; Chambers, Asa & Davis, William Jefferson

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists essentially of contrivances for setting the buffer or draw-bar and a pin setting, tripping and uncoupling device higher or lower for adapting the coupling to couple self-actingly with cars different in height" (lines 8-13).

Date: November 21, 1882

Creator: Hale, Nathan Mathias

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "first, to provide for use in such implements a sectional axle which shall be capable of being so manipulated as to cause the wheels to be placed at a greater or less distance from each other; second, to provide the necessary mechanism and suitable combinations thereof for moving the parts of the axle and the wheels into their desired positions" (lines 20-27). This enables the cultivator to adapt to different spacings of crops, marking an… more

Date: June 21, 1881

Creator: Connor, Laurance H.

Cultivator-Cuff

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.