Bank-Protector.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Saxon, James A.
Description: Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included.
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Bank-Protector.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Saxon, James A.
Description: Patent for a bank-protector that consists of vertically moving shields arranged just within the cashier's and teller's windows and the outer door of the bank, and a mechanism that allows the cashier to drop the shields and sound an alarm. Illustrations included.
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Extension-Ladder.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Crews, Dayton H.
Description: Patent for improvements in extension ladder by using two sliding ladder sections, "these two sections can be secured by a windlass and a hook detachably bolted to the upper rung of the upper section." (Lines 38-40, p.3) Illustration is included.
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Hay-Press.
Date: August 11, 1891
Creator: Cox, Benjamin G.
Description: Patent for improvements in baling-presses and is practically adapted to bale hay, in which “the hay may be held at the rear end of the frame against the pressure of the follower and head-blocks or presser-blocks.” (Lines 17-20) Illustration is included.
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Improvement for Machines for Washing Photographs.
Date: February 6, 1877
Creator: Miller, Noah J.
Description: Patent for an improved machine for washing photographic prints allowing metallic or other rigid plates to be washed in addition to flexible prints.
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Improvement in Clevises
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah, B.
Description: Patent for an adjustable clevis, consisting of a hinged loop and an eyebolt.
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Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.
Date: September 26, 1897
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Description: Patent for improvements in cotton hoes: "such as are employed in thinning cotton and other plants" ( lines 16-17).
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Improvement in Cotton-Plow and Planter
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah
Description: Patent for improvements to cotton-plows and planters.
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Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
Date: July 29, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Description: Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
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Improvement in Machines for Washing Photographs
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Caylor, J. L.
Description: Patent for "a new and improved apparatus for washing photographic prints after fixing, for the purpose of removing the double hyposulphite of soda and silver formed in the body of the paper during the process of fixing" (lines 6-11).
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