Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4463479 | Grit seal for cotton gin roller bar A cotton gin bar including a roller assembly comprising a pair of discs rotatably arranged on the upper portion of the bar at the ginning point, the discs being operative on opposing sides of the bar for detaching lint from the seed. Each roller disc is p... | 08/07/1984 |
| 3959851 | Cotton ginning apparatus A cotton ginning apparatus having a rotating ginning saw drum for engaging and holding the fibers of the seed cotton. A cylinder-like serrated kicker device extends across the path of the seed cotton being admitted for directing the seed cotton onto the g... | 06/01/1976 |
