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Lining for Tin Cans.

Description: Patent for a new and improved method of canning seafood with tin cans. This design calls for perforated paper to line the cans, which prevents the discoloration of the seafood inside.
Date: December 28, 1880
Creator: Bartlett, Frederick W.
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Splicing Device.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire splicer. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the casing, of the wires entering the casing at the opposite sides of the respective ends and bent in opposite directions, so as to interlock within the casing, said casing being bent down . . . at each end" (lines 62-67).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Basel, John Conrad
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Hot Box Alarm.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hot-box alarm. This design "relates to alarms to indicate overheated journal-boxes; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character . . . which will be useful upon boxes of stationary engines, car-wheels, or any style or form of machinery in which shafting or boxes are employed which are liable to get overheated" (lines 8-16). It consists, "with a journal-box, of a cylinder supported upon said box and designed to accommodate a liquefying solid, a pe… more
Date: October 4, 1892
Creator: Basel, John Conrad & Fruehauf, Eduard
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Finger-Exercising Machine.

Description: Patent for a finger-exercising machine that is meant to improve the finger strength and flexibility of musicians. "A cylinder provided with friction-rollers imparts motion to a set of keys upon which the fingers are placed; and the object of [the invention] is to impart flexibility to the fingers, and to overcome the otherwise difficult motion" (lines 11-16).
Date: September 14, 1880
Creator: Becker, Francis L.
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Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cutting machine for grain stalks. This design consists in a "table slotted in its middle part and slotted and recessed at or near one edge, the parallel endless bundle-carrying chains working in said slots and having arms, the chain-wheels, the shafts thereof and their supports, the circular saw in the recess at the edge of the table, the mandrel and the gage-plate" (lines 98-105).
Date: May 3, 1887
Creator: Becker, Lothar
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Sash Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window frame and sash, of a fastener consisting of stops secured to the frame and formed with beveled ends and a shoulder . . . and a button pivotally secured to the sash and recessed to form a triangular projection, and a finger-piece extension, which latter serves also as a weight to effect an automatic fastening as the window is lowered" (lines 72-80).
Date: March 4, 1884
Creator: Bendy, Napoleon Bonaparte
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Indicator

Description: Patent for indicator "for vessels by which to show accurately and readily the draft of the vessel, as well as any list and pitch that may exist" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Bennison, Samuel
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Rotary Engine

Description: Patent is for a rotary engine. The design of this rotary engine includes an inlet and exhaust that also prevents internal leakage of working fluid under pressure.
Date: May 8, 1912
Creator: Bennison, Samuel
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Digging-Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, effective, and durable excavator meant to remove sand-bars. It consists of a hollow drum that is drug across the sandbar, and it picks up sand with shovels on the drum.
Date: November 21, 1893
Creator: Bentinck, Eliza J. & Renner, Julia A.
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Pipe

Description: Patent for pipe. It is designed to insulate against heat and cold for all forms of fluid conveying pipes.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Berger, Otto
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Show-Globe.

Description: Patent for "a globe adapted to serve simply for the purpose of illumination and furnishing a pure white bright light for general purposes, or to serve as an illuminated show-globe for druggists," (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 22, 1891
Creator: Berger, Otto & Eldridge, Hilliary
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Lock

Description: Patent for "improvements in locks, having special reference to locks for the doors of freight-cars; and it has for its object to provide a strong lock so constructed as to be comparatively safe from the attacks of lockpickers" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: Bergman, John
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Discharge Pipe

Description: Patent for a discharge pipe. This invention is a flexible connection for use between the sections of metallic pipe in order to discharge material out of the dredger. Illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Berndt, Frank
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Blotter.

Description: Patent for "a combined hand-blotter, ruler, paper-cutter, and pen-rack... especially for the use of book-keepers and accountants," (lines 12-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1892
Creator: Betts, Walter & Herbert, William B.
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Receptacle-Lid Lifter

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in means for automatically opening the closure of a receptacle upon the approach of a person thereto" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Bianchi, Manlio
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Brick Fire Box Construction.

Description: Patent for an improved fire box liner construction for oil fueled locomotives that is made from bricks in an interlocking design that does not require cement and will not shake apart from vibration. Includes illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Blackmond, William C. & Stoy, Guy Everett
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Poultry Coop.

Description: Patent for a new and improved poultry coop. This design's "interior . . . has a vertical central partition between which and the ends of the coop are vertical transverse partitions and vertical longitudinal partitions, which preferably consist of strips . . . forming compartments, each of a sufficient size to contain a given number of a given kind of poultry . . . as the coop is divided off into compartments the poultry can with great ease be examined as to condition, and not being in large mas… more
Date: February 5, 1884
Creator: Bleike, William T., Jr.
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Writing Pen.

Description: Patent for a dip pen or nib pen, with innovations concentrating on the tip (nib). The tip is moderately sharp to glide over paper, bent for smooth writing and ink conservation, and stiff "to enable it to be used in making carbon copies" (lines 26-27).
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Block, Henry, 1875-1939
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