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
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JW Jacobs was posthumously granted this feeder patent, one of the
many different feeders invented by the family.
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Feed Box
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JW and Harry apparently cooperated on this harness design.
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Harness for Single Horses
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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
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Improved Neck Yoke
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Neck Yoke
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Neck Yoke Center Swivel
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Neck Yoke Ring
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Harry's bottle closure is reminiscent of the selzer bottle of slapstick comedy fame.
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Bottle Closure
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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.
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Car Axle Box
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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
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Animal Feed Box
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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
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Harry patented three agricultural implements: two hoes and one pruner.
Still's Crescent Cultivator was the first one marketed.
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The Apto Manufacturing Company later sold all three. I have been
unable to find the pruner patent.
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Scuffle Hoe
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Scuffle Hoe
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Harry's other railroad patent was for a self-lubricating journal box.
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Self-Lubricating Journal Box
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