Annunciator.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Fouts, Lambert F.
Description: Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
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Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Thomas, Robert S.
Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton that “use a pneumatic tube, through which cotton is drawn by an exhaust-current.” (Lines17-19) Illustration is included.
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Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Elam, William E.
Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
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Automatic Track Sweeping and Oiling Attachment for Street-Cars.
Date: May 12, 1891
Creator: Nesmith, Robert Henry
Description: Patent for improvements in automatic track sweeping and oiling attachments to street cars by having a transverse shaft carries a hub which has a series of brushes. When “the street car moves forward, the brushes on the transverse shaft are revolved, which sweep the rails and keep them clean.” (Lines 90-93) Illustration is included.
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Baby-Walker.
Date: April 28, 1891
Creator: Lawson, Henry William
Description: Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included.
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Car-Coupling.
Date: January 19, 1892
Creator: Lemon, Eli Jeremiah
Description: Patent for car-coupling. The object of this invention is to provide an improved automatic car-coupling of simple, durable, and effective construction that will permit the necessary longitudinal and lateral play of the coupling-link to correspond with inequalities of the track, facilitate the turning of curves, and enable the coupling to accommodate itself to draw-heads of unequal height.
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Car-Coupling.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Goss, Wilson Lumpkin
Description: Patent for improvement in car-couplings by using many separate parts to work together to connect cars; and it can be operated without the operator going between the cars. Illustration is included.
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Cotton Conveying and Cleaning Apparatus.
Date: May 5, 1891
Creator: Elam, William E.
Description: Patent for improvements in cotton conveying and cleaning apparatus by using the combination of “a rearwardly-open feeder and a conveyer in position to receive cotton discharge at the rear of the feeder” (lines 103-105), as a result when a conveyer bring “cotton to the feeder, it would provide a branch in position to take up the cotton delivered by the conveyer” (lines 106-108) thus preventing undue accumulation of excess cotton and continuous movement of the cotton in all the parts. Illustration is included.
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Design for a Badge.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Edwards, Charles L.
Description: Patent for design for a badge.
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Electric-Arc-Light Reflector.
Date: July 27, 1897
Creator: Bolles, Charles Morris
Description: Patent for an electric arc light reflector, including an annular band to support the reflector on the arc-light cone, and a reflector with an aperture.
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