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Body Stretcher

Patent for a body stretcher. This invention is for exercising and stretching muscles. Illustration included.

Date: March 21, 1905

Creator: Seidler, William Wilson

Patent for a new and improved sack for cotton pickers. This design "is to improve that class of sacks which are used by cotton-pickers and form a receptacle for cotton after it has been culled from the bolls, and in which it is carried to the gin. These sacks as now made are packed with cotton so as to be unwieldy, difficult to manipulate, and unhandy to empty, thus necessitating a great deal of labor and much waste of time" (lines 7-15).

Date: April 21, 1885

Creator: Dye, Charles Headen

Car-coupling.

Patent for a new and improved car coupling of the Janney type that increases "efficiency in service and enable[s] an operator at the side of the train to readily and with safety set the improved car-coupling to disconnect it from another of the same style" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 21, 1897

Creator: Smith, Thomas Henry.

Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)

Date: August 21, 1917

Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.

Landside Cutter for Plows.

Patent for a new and improved landside cutter for plows. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a colter . . . and the landside attachment secured to the landside of the plow, the said landside attachment having the laterally-extending cutting-wing . . . the plate in front of the landside attachment, and the colter on the front edge of the said plate" (lines 66-75).

Date: September 21, 1886

Creator: Reed, Benjamin B.

Stalk-Cutter

Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.

Date: June 21, 1910

Creator: Sanders, Lee

Design for Kitchen Cabinet

Design patent for a kitchen cabinet that is useful and ornamental. Leading feature includes rectangular upright position that has a framework of strips provided with a longitudinal beading or ribs.

Date: September 21, 1897

Creator: Ferguson, John F. G.