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Improvement in Levers for Presses.

Patent for improvements on locks and fasteners of shutters.

Date: March 3, 1873

Creator: Gates, Joseph P.

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Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators.

Date: August 13, 1867

Creator: Adams, Jesse

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Wagon-Bed Elevator

Patent for a wagon-bed elevator that "is to provide an elevator for wagon-beds by means of which a single person can raise the bed from the wagon to any desired height and leave it suspended in position where it can be readily lowered upon the wagon again at any time" (p. 2).

Date: July 24, 1888

Creator: Holliday, William A.

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Improvement in Churns.

Patent for improving a butter church mechanism.

Date: September 24, 1872

Creator: Messick, William P. & Messick, Harvey T.

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Process of Extinguishing Fire

Patent for a method to extinguish fire. In a fire event, a container holding sulfur and alum is added to a tank holding water, soda and salt which will create pressure and eject the water in the tank.

Date: June 14, 1892

Creator: Millis, Hiram S.

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Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. This invention is used to provide stalk-cutting the stalks and chopping of cotton. Illustration included.

Date: February 26, 1907

Creator: Nicks, John H.

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Improved Millstone-Dress.

Patent for an improved millstone dress which allows "the grain [to be] more thoroughly ground, and a larger product of flour [to be] obtained from a given quantity of grain." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: unknown

Creator: Gaines, James W.

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Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues

Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.

Date: August 13, 1872

Creator: Gaines, James W.

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Carriage Top Support

Patent for a carriage top support. This carriage top support is designed "with sufficient resiliency to take up all the jolts and strains between the body and the top" (line 16-18). Illustration included.

Date: August 25, 1903

Creator: Mason, Everett H.

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Mail-Box Hanger

Patent for a mail box hanger for mailboxes that allows the mailman to easily deliver mail to them.

Date: December 3, 1912

Creator: Bell, Fred

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Clevis.

Patent for improvements in clevises in which a clevis can be used upon plows or harrows. When it is used, it “will obviate the necessity of using links or open rings in connection with the clevis and the singletree, as well as enable the plowman to cause his plow to run in the soil any desired depth or to cut a narrow or wide furrow.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.

Date: July 28, 1891

Creator: Bruton, Alonzo D.

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Cotton-Seed Planter

Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. The design "in which the cotton-seeds in the hopper is fed down through the feed-opening of the same by vibrating teeth." (p. 1; lines 15-17) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 1, 1885

Creator: Elliston, John J.

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Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Patent for an Artesian or oil well drilling apparatus that has a detachable drill-bit in its tubing and has an "improved means whereby an expansion drill bit or blade of any preferred construction can be secured to or detached from the drill tubing without removing the latter from the well" (lines 12-15). The tubing does not accidentally detach, and the tubing can rotate in either direction.

Date: October 2, 1894

Creator: Horton, Stephen A.

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Vehicle -Spindle

Patent for Spindles of light vehicles

Date: July 28, 1908

Creator: Thompson, Travis T.

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Agricultural Implement dated September 17, 1918

Patent for agricultural implement used for tilling the soil so as to prepare the land for planting. It is used to reduce clods, loosens, and levels the soil.

Date: 191X

Creator: Powell, George D.

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