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Patents of Harry Still & John W. Jacobs |
During the 1880s Harry Still and John W. Jacobs of Beloit, KS were granted several patents, and were also involved in marketing inventions of their neighbors. This is a gallery of those patents. Each patent image links to a larger image; each patent description links to both the USPTO and to Google Patents. The USPTO site requires a TIFF viewer; I suggest AlternaTiff. You may also download a zip archive of all these images in high-resolution (18.8 MB in size). Return from here to the Legend of Cricket or to the Needham Genealogy home page. | |
The Patents | |
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![]() Harry Still managed the Imperial Star Mill Manufacturing Company, which produced the windmill patented by Benjamin Bragdon of Beloit, KS. Pictured above is the company letterhead, a detail of which is to the right. |
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![]() Windmill Google, USPTO |
![]() JW Jacobs was posthumously granted this feeder patent, one of the many different feeders invented by the family. |
![]() Feed Box Google, USPTO |
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![]() JW and Harry apparently cooperated on this harness design. |
![]() Harness for Single Horses Google, USPTO |
![]() Another Jacobs family produced neck yokes. Cricket once mailed a letter in the envelope of the Jacobs Neck Yoke & Manufacturing Company of Tiffin, OH, and would later live near there. This suggests some sort of (yet to be discovered) family relationship. |
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![]() Self-Adjusting Neck Yoke Google, USPTO |
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![]() Improved Neck Yoke Google, USPTO |
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![]() Neck Yoke Google, USPTO |
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![]() Neck Yoke Center Swivel Google, USPTO |
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![]() Neck Yoke Ring Google, USPTO |
![]() Harry's bottle closure is reminiscent of the selzer bottle of slapstick comedy fame. |
![]() Bottle Closure Google, USPTO |
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![]() Harry patented two improvements for railroad cars, no doubt driven by the importance of the then newly-opened railroad to Beloit. |
![]() Car Axle Box Google, USPTO |
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![]() Cricket sent this ad for the National and Economy feeders to Carrie Needham. I suspect that Cricket may have had more to do with this endeavor than Harry did. |
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![]() Feed Box Google, USPTO |
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![]() Animal Feed Box Google, USPTO |
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![]() Harry's last patent, for a horse-feeding device, in keeping with the Jacobs and Still obsession with race horses. |
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![]() Horse Feeding Device Google, USPTO |
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![]() Harry patented three agricultural implements: two hoes and one pruner. Still's Crescent Cultivator was the first one marketed. |
![]() The Apto Manufacturing Company later sold all three. I have been unable to find the pruner patent. |
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![]() Scuffle Hoe Google, USPTO |
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![]() Scuffle Hoe Google, USPTO |
![]() Harry's other railroad patent was for a self-lubricating journal box. |
![]() Self-Lubricating Journal Box Google, USPTO |
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