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Battery-Connector

Patent for a battery connector for providing electricity in homes without being connected to a power plant.

Date: October 15, 1912

Creator: Hall, James Monroe

Cloth Measuring Device

Patent for a cloth measuring device. Illustration included.

Date: May 30, 1905

Creator: Taylor, Wiliam A. & Churchwell, Theodric R.

Adjustable Arch and Beam-Balance for Cultivator-Frames

Patent for an adjustable arch and beam balance for cultivator frames which allows the draft tongue to be lifted up and down.

Date: April 27, 1909

Creator: Buckhannon, Edward M.

Can Soldering Machine

Patent for a can soldering machine. This device is designed to solder multiple units of lids to cans. Illustration included.

Date: November 5, 1912

Creator: Irwin, Wiley I.

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "a new and useful car-couplers to enhance the operation of coupling." (line 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 29, 1900

Creator: Rhodes, Asa Alonzo

Bonnet.

Patent for new and useful improvement sin bonnets, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 9, 1900

Creator: Thornton, Frances E.

Cross Arm

Patent for a cross arm. Illustration included.

Date: December 27, 1912

Creator: Crabtree, Lawrence L. & Ripley, T. Charley

Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling

Patent for an invention that provides "a single structure in which the air-brake pipes will be simultaneously coupled with the coupling of a car" (lines 14-17).

Date: September 6, 1892

Creator: Thomas, James Bryant

Air-Pipe Coupling.

Patent for an improved air-pipe coupling that is airtight and watertight and has a flexible union for railroad cars.

Date: May 2, 1893

Creator: Thomas, James Bryant

Patent for a new and improved prop for carriage tops. This design consists in "a prop-joint for vehicles, the combination of the bow, the prop-casting having the circumferential flanges lying against the opposite sides of the bow, and the opposite extension plates lying against and secured by screws to the rear edges of the bow" (lines 70-75).

Date: July 31, 1888

Creator: Jacobs, William Ramsey

Convertable Corn Sheller and Grater.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive convertible corn sheller and grater that, when shelling, can fill a receptacle without spilling or clogging. The sheller also separates dust from the corn. The grater is easily removable for cleaning.

Date: February 20, 1894

Creator: Crockett, William E.

Bale Tie.

Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design "consists of a buckle or tie consisting of a base-plate having one or more projections or hooks on its face, to one of which is permanently secured one end of the wire or band, while the other end is passed around the bale and secured to the opposite hook or projection" (lines 21-27).

Date: March 31, 1885

Creator: Tippit, James A.

Combination-Plow.

Patent for a combination-plow that "may be combined with facility to form a variety of plows designed for work of different kinds, the present invention being an improvement upon that shown and described in Patent No. 492,462, granted to [the inventor] February 28, 1893" (lines 10-15).

Date: July 14, 1896

Creator: Dean, John Rowe

Automatic Quick-Acting Vise.

Patent for a quick-acting, easily operated vise "in which the jaws are automatically held closed upon the work until released." Its simple construction enables it to be inexpensively and efficiently manufactured.

Date: August 14, 1917

Creator: McCullough, Daniel B.

Stock Feeder

Patent for stock feeder, for automatically feeding grain (or mill food) to stock (particularly hogs) with feeding troughs on opposite sides of oscillating storage hopper.

Date: November 22, 1921

Creator: Dierks, John

Wire Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration included.

Date: April 11, 1905

Creator: Bays, Lafayette

Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a new and useful wire tightener, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 5, 1898

Creator: Brown, William

Vehicle Shaft Carrier

Patent for vehicle shaft carrier. Illustration included.

Date: January 31, 1905

Creator: Randall, Osro W.

Ironing Table.

Patent for a new and improved ironing board. This design consists in "the rigid supporting-frame of an ironing-table, a cross-piece secured to the outside of the upper ends of the supports at one end of the frame, so that its upper edge shall project above the supports, an ironing-board top hinged to one side of the cross-piece, and a shelf secured to the upper edge and projecting to the opposite side of said cross-piece" (lines 86-94).

Date: October 19, 1886

Creator: Adair, Annie E.

Lemon and Lime Squeezer

Patent for an improved lemon and lime squeezer that can divide the lemon and lime into two halves and squeeze the halves in succession, or one half be left un-squeezed.

Date: June 3, 1919

Creator: Bolton, Jack R.; Williams, John D. & Struve, Felix L.

Leaf-Turner.

Patent for a new and improved leaf turner which allows the piano player to turn the pages of their sheet music without taking their hands off the keyboard. This leaf turner is "noiseless and efficient in operation and...will respond instantly to the actuating impulse" (lines 21-23). It is not expensive to make, and securely holds music and releases it without effort.

Date: January 11, 1921

Creator: Holcom, Jarret C.

Machine for connecting pipe-sections

Patent for embodying an improved construction whereby the ends of relatively heavy and large pipe sections be screwed together with minimum amount of manual labor.

Date: June 20, 1916

Creator: Simms, Joe M.

Vehicle-Tire

Patent for a bolt-free spring connection between a vehicle tires inner and outer rims, allowing for an air cushion between rims and improving overall performance of vehicle tires.

Date: September 18, 1917

Creator: Horne, Henry M. & Buford, John C.

Wrench.

Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).

Date: October 26, 1920

Creator: Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.