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Pedal Attachment.

Description: Patent for an "improved attachment for pianos, organs, or other instruments provided with pedals" (lines 9-10) to protect the openings underneath the pedals from mice, dust, or other unwanted items entering the instrument through such openings.
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Gross, Rudolph

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists "[i]n a plow, the combination, with the beam, mold-board, point, and landside-plate, of a standard consisting of a longitudinal bar, to which the beam is attached, and provided with a transverse elongated slot, two downwardly-extending arms connected together by a cross-brace and having serrations and elongated slots on their extremities, and bolts, nuts, and serrated washers for adjustably connecting the landside-plate thereto, the forwa… more
Date: March 23, 1886
Creator: Wilhelm, Albert

Plow.

Description: Patent for "an improved device of this character, which may be readily converted from a turning-plow to a shovelplow, or from a shovel-plow to a turning-plow, by resetting the bar, mold-board, and share, and which may be used either with a steel or wood beam, as desired" (lines 14-20).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Wilhelm, Albert

Portable Blacking Kit.

Description: Patent for a small affordable and portable space that "travelers, soldiers, or other parties" can carry a shoe shining kit in. The box can carry "blacking brushes, cloth and the usual articles carried in a kit of this kind".
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Reid, Chauncey S.

Rail-Joint

Description: Patent for a rail joint. Illustrations included.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Savoy, Edward

Railroad Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railroad tie. This design "has reference to improvements in railroad-ties of that class in which two metallic pot-sleepers connected transversely by a brace-rod are employed in place of wooden ties for supporting the rails; and the invention consists of two transversely-connected iron pot-sleepers, which are provided with a longitudinal box-shaped center portion, upon which the rail rests, said center portion being made in one piece with the sleeper, and adapted fo… more
Date: February 7, 1882
Creator: Herbst, Charles F.

Roller Compress

Description: Patent for roller compress. This is an "improved roller-compress,especially adapted for forming cylindrical bales from cotton-bat by winding the same in successive layers upon itself" (p. 1, lines 8-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1900
Creator: Carter, E. D.

Shaker for Mixed Beverages.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shaker for mixed drinks. This design utilizes a spring and a hinge to enable a lid with holes for straining to be attached directly to the cocktail shaker. This eliminates the chance that the straining lid would not be at hand when mixing a drink as well as the chance of losing the straining lid.
Date: January 30, 1883
Creator: Murphy, William H.

Shovel-Plow.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive shovel-plow that consists of a beam "made in two equal longitudinal, rear-curved sections bolted together in front and rear in combination with the slotted adjustable heelpiece secured between the beam-sections, and the handles bolted to the curve of the beam" (lines 42-47), braces for the handles, and a spacer.
Date: October 1, 1895
Creator: Schoenfelder, August

Slate-Operating Means For Shutters.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in slate operating means for shutters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 26, 1899
Creator: Cordray, Henry A.

Spindle-Nut Attachment.

Description: Patent for improvement in spindle-nut by providing “an extension to the spindle-nut, not being a washer in any sense of the word, but to all intents and purposes an integral part of said nut adapted to extend toward the outer end of the axle-box and to hold the same to its seat upon the spindle as efficiently as when the parts were new.” (Lines 35-41) Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Carlton, Edward

Spool

Description: Patent for a spool made by folding one piece of material into the correct shape.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Aven, Scottie Hill

Stovepipe

Description: Patent for an improvement to stovepipes, specifically for cooking and heating purposes, that reduces the possibility of house fires or internal stovepipe damage. Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: McPhaill, Robert

Sweep.

Description: Patent for sweep that is improved with the addition of a middle-break so that it "will be adapted to do its work thoroughly with the least possible draft and which will not be liable to get out of kilter." (Lines 16-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 12, 1896
Creator: Schoenfelder, August

Syringe.

Description: Patent for a syringe that has "vaginal points adapted to be connected with the tube of a hand-bulb or fountain syringe" (lines 13-15). There is a tube with a bulb in the middle, a syringe on one end, and a cap on the other end.
Date: December 10, 1895
Creator: Day, Elisha Little

Toy Race-Course.

Description: Patent for toy race-course.
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Cordray, Henry A.

Trace and Trace Chain Supporter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved trace and trace-chain supporter. This design consists "of the pivoted springy trace or chain keeper, and the hook or loop having its outer branch perforated, whereby the keeper itself is enabled to act as a spring, and after being sprung into its place is retained above the trace or chain by the conjoint agency of a shoulder or offset on the keeper and the outer branch of the loop or hook" (lines 43-50).
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Wroe, Missouria E.

Ventilating-Flue.

Description: Patent for ventilating-flue made from sheet-metal tubes, and "can be placed in any building without necessitating making the same in one length, the sections being constructed so as to be readily adjusted on each other" (lines 12-15).
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Lange, Fritz

Wire-Fastener

Description: Patent for a wire fastener. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Kramer, William C., Jr.

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretcher that has "a body portion bifurcated at one end with the rigid integral forks of the bifurcation oppositely notched with said notches arranged in line substantially transverse of the body portion, whereby the device is adapted to operate in holding the wire for stretching" (lines 75-81).
Date: May 26, 1896
Creator: Willie, William T.
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