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Billiard-Ball Holder.

Patent for a simple billiard-ball holder that is meant to "provide a means for holding the balls when not in use, so that they will not fall out of the holder to the floor, and means to provide for the tilting of the holder out of line, so that the balls will roll to the opposite end, and out of the opening into the triangle, thereby saving a good part of the time in taking the balls out of the holder" (lines 20-27).

Date: July 11, 1893

Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel

Item Type: Patent

Truck or Vehicle for Elevated Railways.

Patent for an improved, strong, simple, inexpensive, and durable truck or vehicle for elevated railways that is meant to throw the lateral force of the car-body is exerted vertically downward onto the car's wheels.

Date: July 11, 1893

Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.

Item Type: Patent

Vehicle-Pole.

Patent for a simple vehicle-pole that has an improved fastening. It consists of a table with a socket, a pole in the socket, arms connected to the table, singletrees attached to the extending ends of the arms, and a running gear.

Date: July 11, 1893

Creator: Rohn, Frank G.

Item Type: Patent

Ventilator for Refrigerators.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive ventilator for large refrigerators. It "can be readily applied to an ice box or refrigerator and so constructed that the hot air which is pressed upward is forced through the ventilator and thereby lowering the temperature of the ice box and a consequent saving of ice" (lines 23-28). The ventilator has a valve that releases hot air and automatically closes after the air is released.

Date: July 11, 1893

Creator: Netzer, Joseph

Item Type: Patent

Triangle for Billiard-Balls.

Patent for an improved triangle for billiard balls that consists of sides, movable doors on the bottom edge, a fixed guide on the side of the triangle, and springs to hold the doors.

Date: July 11, 1893

Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel

Item Type: Patent

Air-Brake.

Patent for "a direct air brake system [that is] adapted to be used in combination with an automatic system, whereby the brakes can be applied by either the automatic or quick system, or the direct, or by both, as the conditions may require" (lines 8-13).

Date: July 11, 1893

Creator: Pinkston, Lucien A.

Item Type: Patent

Combined Computing Device and Weighing-Scale.

Patent for "a simple, economical, and portable combined computing and weighing scale for ordinary use so simple in its operation that an illiterate person can manipulate it with as much facility as one trained to the practical use of more complicated devices" (lines 20-25).

Date: July 11, 1899

Creator: Stephens, John H.

Item Type: Patent

Combined Multiple Weight And Pendulum Scale.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combined multiple weight and pendulum scale and appliance, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 11, 1899

Creator: Stephens, John H.

Item Type: Patent