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Clothes Pounder

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Allen, William Robert
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Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stalk cutters to "product chopper in which the cutter-wheels may be adjusted with relation to each other to accommodate rows of varying widths" (line 13 - 16).
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Terrell, Joseph E.
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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.
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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
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Dallas Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Location: 32.75 -96.75

Dallas Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Location: 32.75 -96.75

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for "baling-presses of that class wherein motion is communicated to the plunger from a sweep operated by horse or similar power, and the object in view is to improve the construction of the baling-chamber and attachments, and, furthermore, to provide a simple and efficient construction of plunger-operating mechanism" (lines 8-15)
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Pearce, William J.
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Bill File.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bill file. This design "is to provide a cheap and simple file, upon which the papers may be strung and from which they may be removed with the least amount of trouble, and which is adapted to be locked to securely retain the papers thereon in such manner that they are readily accessible for inspection. To this end [the design] provide[s] . . . a wire loop having ends adapted to lap, fit snugly, and lock the one upon the other, and which may be opened for the ready … more
Date: February 4, 1890
Creator: Seaman, Milton L. B.
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Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Austin, John W.
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date: October 9, 1894
Creator: Austin, John W.
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Metal-Cutting Shears.

Description: Patent for simple and effective metal-cutting shears that cuts hot or cold metals. The shears are mounted on a frame, and a hand-operated lever forces the upper shear down.
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Autrey, Benjamin P.
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Muzzle.

Description: Patent for a muzzle for horses that can be easily applied. It prevents the animal from eating while its head is upright, and opens while the horse lowers its head to graze. This prevents the horse from damaging orchards.
Date: February 5, 1895
Creator: Lipscomb, Cicero D.
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Hay-Press.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and efficient hay-press that has an improved plunger mechanism. The mechanism is simple, inexpensive, durable, and easily operated.
Date: May 1, 1894
Creator: Pearce, William J.
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Suspension-Bridge.

Description: Patent for a suspension-bridge “which will permit the main cable to expand and contract in different temperatures without materially affecting the principal parts and causing them to become displaced by reason of the slack of increased camber” (line 24-29, p.1), illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1891
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijan
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Gate.

Description: Patent for centrally pivoting gates that can "be readily opened and closed from a vehicle or from on horseback" (lines 13-14).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Pearce, William J.
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Strainer for Coffee-Pots.

Description: Patent for a strainer "by which the steam from the fluid coffee which has passed through the percolating-cloth to the base of the coffee-pot can rise above the strainer, there condense, and then return again through the strainer, thus causing a thorough extraction of the strength of the coffee" (lines 9-15).
Date: May 5, 1896
Creator: Massey, Andrew J. & Stallings, James W.
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Railway Stock-Guard.

Description: Patent for railroad stock guard "which when stopped upon will rise up from the center in front of the stock, scare them off, and prevent them from passing over it." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1897
Creator: Wiggs, Zeph
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Plow Slide.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow slide. This design consists in "[a] combination tool for use with plows, consisting of a suitable bar having one end turned upward, provided with a beveled edge at the other end, a suitable cross-strap, and having openings at the sides, and bent ends adapted to the nuts used in a plow" (lines 70-75).
Date: October 7, 1890
Creator: Bowers, Thomas Martin
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