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Framing-Tool

Description: Patent for a framing tool designed to ease the laying of "rafters, stair carriages and the like" (lines 14-15). The tool assists in measuring proper "dimensions of cuts to be made in timber to accomplish desired construction" (lines 19-20).
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Whitlock, John N.

Extension-Cot.

Description: Patent for an extension cot, which can be widened through the folding out of extra slats from the top of the cot and folds compactly for transportation.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Whitlock, Henry B.

Folding Wagon-Box Step

Description: Patent for a new and useful folding wagon-box steps. This design is to "provide a novel, simple, and safe device of the character indicated which is adapted for compact and convenient folding into a close package when not in use" (line 11-14).
Date: January 25, 1898
Creator: Brown, Marvel C.

Shaft-Tug

Description: Patent for a support that provides "simple and effective means whereby a shaft may be readily inserted in or removed from the top portion of the tug or support instead of by threading the shaft through the latter." (lines 9-13)
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Wiggs, Zeph & Henderson, James E.

Gang Plow

Description: Patent for a gang plow. This invention allows for the attachment of several plows might be towed to till large areas of land. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Ray, Fellix Griffin

Safety-Signal-Board Attachment.

Description: Patent for an attachment to railroad safety signal boards that holds orders for trains in a box that only opens when the danger or stop signal is raised on the semaphore. To get the clear signal, the orders must be replaced in the box or put on a clip on the outside of the box, which rings an alarm while they are there to alert the railroad operator to reset the box.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Gates, William Thomas

Railway Cattle - Guard

Description: Patent for a new and useful railway cattle guard to "improve the construction of cattle-guards and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one which will eventually prevent stock from passing from one field or in-closure into another by way of a railroad-track, roadway, or the like" (line 10-16).
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Wiggs, Zeph

Match Box

Description: Patent for match box. This invention is designed to push matches forward and ejecting it without disturbing the other matches remaining in the box. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Kerley, Melvie V.

Draft Evener

Description: Patent for invention that "relates to four-horse draft equalizers, and is well adapted for use on plows-- gang-plows, sulky-plows, and grain-plows-- and may be used also on wagons and other vehicles drawn by horse-power" (lines 8-12). Illustrations are included
Date: March 15, 1902
Creator: Sleight, Milton W.

Display-Cabinet

Description: Patent for a display cabinet "whereby laces and the like may be displayed and dispensed from the cabinet" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Martin, Lemuel T.
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