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Clothes Line

Description: Patent for a clothes line. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Owens, Solon Arther
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Acetylene-Gas Lamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 10, 1899
Creator: Josserand, Peter
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Combined Hat and Coat Rack.

Description: Patent for a simple hat and coat rack "wherein a hat holder is supported by two garment hooks" and mounted on a wall (lines 11-12).
Date: November 10, 1914
Creator: Trice, Bacon S.
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Corn Popper

Description: Patent for corn-popper improvement by connecting to the cover of the popper a rotating agitating blade which would prevent the corn within from burning.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Zschiesche, William H. M.
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Coupling

Description: This patent is for a new coupling system to connect hollow pipes. It is specifically designed to address issues of vibration, which cause the coupling pin to become damaged.
Date: July 10, 1919
Creator: Hiegel, Joseph L.
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Collapsible Foot Rest.

Description: Patent for a collapsible foot rest used for shoe shining stands. The invention is meant to simplify and improve the process of one stepping off or on a foot-rest to prevent injury or accident.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Le Laurin, Eugene M.
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Combination Swing and Couch.

Description: Patent for a piece of swinging furniture for infants and small children which can be converted between a seat and a couch. This device is designed to be collapsed and folded for easy storage, as well as to be cheap and easy to manufacture. Illustrations included.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: McDevitt, Leslie I.
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Lynch, Michael L.
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Animal-Poke.

Description: Patent for animal-poke that prevents them from jumping or forcing their way through fences. It consists of a yoke with its ends pointing upward, a brow band, rods that connect the brow band and the ends of the yoke, and bulges at the ends of the rods.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: McWilliams, Anderson W.
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Battery.

Description: Patent for an improvement to batteries, particularly pertaining to their electrochemical components, including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Crowley, Richard Joseph
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Cattle-Stanchion.

Description: Patent for improvements in cattle-stanchions in “which the animal can be released from without its stall, so that the attendant will not have to enter such stall or be subjected to any of the inconveniences of dangers arising therefrom.” (Lines 13-17) Illustration is included.
Date: March 10, 1903
Creator: Garrett, Lee
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Cotton, Berry, or Vegetable Picking or Dairy Stool

Description: Patent for a stool strapped to the user so as to facilitate an ease in picking cotton, berry, or vegetables. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Farley, John C. & Prince, Hyman
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Compress and Packer

Description: Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Griffin, John B.
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Bale-Band Fastening

Description: Patent for "a new and useful bale-band fastening or bale-tie for an object to provide a simple and efficient device for taking up a maximum amount of slack in the band with a minimum movement, while at the same time serving to tightly secure the band about the bale and preventing the same from loosening or the ends thereof from rending apart ." (lines 5-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1900
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
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Cleaning Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and compact cleaning apparatus that tends to a variety of receptacles and dishes.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Peña, Max & Cruz, Patricio
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Aeration and Subirrigation for Promoting Vegetation

Description: Patent for large terminal that can be implanted into the ground, which can supply air and moisture into the surrounding soil to stimulate growth of vegetation.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Rife, Archibald H.
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Barrel-Stand.

Description: Patent for a barrel-stand "designed to support a barrel or other like dispensing receptacle" (line 10) to be tilted for pouring and can be held in a tilted or other fixed position.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Maier, Felix
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Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor

Description: This document is a patent for the invention of the Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor. According to its inventor Frank M. Bell, the object of this mechanism is to fire aerial projectiles or torpedoes more accurately at their intended target. This mechanism can be called an anti-observation balloon/zeppelin weapon and it would see some usage by the Allied air forces during this conflict.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Bell, Frank M.
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Cleaning Cotton Device.

Description: Patent for an apparatus to clean cotton and feed it into a cotton gin, including illustrations.
Date: August 10, 1915
Creator: Dickerson, Eustice E.
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Centrifugal Suction Fan

Description: Patent for improvements made towards in suction fans that are found in cotton picking machines to improve efficiency. The primary improvements detailed in the patent describe and illustrate an improved design of the casing inside the fan to prevent damage to the cotton or the seed once they are sucked into the fan, among other design improvements.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Meier, John & Miller, T. S., Jr.
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Attachment for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for an attachment for cultivators. The attachment allows for quick attachment and removal of the machinery.
Date: February 10, 1914
Creator: Gage, James J.
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Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles

Description: Patent for an apparatus for controlling trolley poles. "This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling trolley poles employed for effecting electrical connection between a trolley wire and a motor on a car, and has for its object to provide improved means for automatically throwing the trolley into position to be placed in engagement with the trolley wire" (line 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Bogue, Judson L. & Jennings, David M.
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Appliance for Training Horses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved appliance for training horses. This design "consists, essentially, in a leg-halter composed of chains or ropes connected by a common ring, or otherwise, and connected with gyves or shackles to encircle the pastern of each leg, a yoke or frame placed upon the withers, or forward or back thereof, and provided with a clamp, and a band passing through the clamp and down to one of the shackles, or to the horse's leg, the other end being carried to a convenient point to … more
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Dodge, Israel Alexander
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