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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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Electric Belt.
Date: August 27, 1889
Creator: Everett, Charles
Description: Patent for an electric belt producing "an exceedingly gentle and moderate [current], so as to insure the precise remedial results desired" (lines 91-93) including illustrations.
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Electrode for Secondary Batteries.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Boyd
Description: Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.
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Elevated Railway.
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Description: Patent for improvements in elevated railways: "provide simple means for regulating and adjusting the weight of the car so as to throw the preponderence thereof upon either the upper or the lower track or to equally divide the weight so that each track bear a like proportion" (lines 12-17).
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Escapement for Timekeepers.
Date: October 12, 1858
Creator: Bishop, Josiah
Description: Patent for the improvement in the escapement of the watch for a "more regular and less liable to get out of order" through wear (lines 23-24), including illustration.
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Excavating and Grading Machine.
Date: July 19, 1859
Creator: Morrel, Z. N.
Description: Patent for a cultivating machine that pulverizes colds of soil using a revolving cylinder of blades, including illustration.
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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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Facing-Slip and Label Holder.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Gaines, Thomas W., Jr.
Description: Patent for improvements “in facing-slip and label holders to be used by mailing and postal clerks” (lines 13-14) “by providing a convenient and readily-accessible means in applying the facing-slips to packages of mail-matter and to adapt such holders for placement with respect to a case of letter-box as to always have such slips and labels with the receptacle containing the letters to receive a slip corresponding with such mail-matter.” (Lines 16-23) Illustration is included.
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Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Miller, George W.
Description: Patent for fan attachment for sewing machines: "adapted to be readily applied to a machine and capable of family an operator effectively without interfering with the work of the machine" (lines 12-15).
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Fanning-Machine.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Wallace, James T.
Description: Patent for improvements in fanning-machines by making the fanning-machine portable, so that it “can be placed upon a table or other support or attached to a bed, chair, lounge, or seat of any kind;” (lines 18-21) it also can keep away flies and insects from people. Illustration is included.
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