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Cultivator or Plow Standard.

Description: Patent for a cultivator or plow standard that improves "the standard which connects the shoe or landslide of a sweep-shovel or bull-tongue plow with the beam, so as to render ti fixed and secure at any point of adjustment" (lines 16-19).
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: McLain, Jackson H.

Dumping-Car.

Description: Patent for a dumping-car that "can be operated by two men to discharge its contents with a comparatively small amount of exertion on the part of the operators" (lines 14-17). The car is developed to hold gravel, &c., and can be easily dumped.
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: Dunman, William M.

Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a simple and expensive knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, &c. The invention affords "the most perfect protection to the user by protecting his knee against contact with objects which would tend to bruise and injure it, and by preventing the dampness of the ground from being transmitted to the knee, which, as is well known, results in various diseases, such as rheumatism" (lines 13-20).
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: Hamilton, James William & Siebenthall, John Francis

Metallic Buttonhole-Eyelet.

Description: Patent for a metallic buttonhole-eyelet that produces a finished appearance that can easily be attached to the fabric. The eyelet can be made bigger or smaller depending on the size of the button.
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: Wheat, John B.

Sash-Balance.

Description: Patent for a sash-balance made up of a window-frame with a weight-box and window-sashes on either side of the frame. It is operated by one chord, pulleys, a single weight-box, and a locking device.
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: Cayce, Henry P.
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