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Poise for Scale-Beams.
Date: January 5, 1892
Creator: Wilkening, Gustav
Description: Patent for scale-beams to balance "for the poise or its suspending attachment to move on when being adjusted to weight" (lines 10-13) including illustration.
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Parcel-Delivery Apparatus.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Gieseke, Otto
Description: Patent for improvements in mail and parcel delivery apparatus: "is designed particularly for use at suburban residences, or where the distance from the house to the street is considerable" (lines 11-14).
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Coin Holder of Package.
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Heim, Charles
Description: Patent for improvements in coin holders or packages by using three metallic strips, A, B, and C; the end of strips A and B are bent at right angles to the body portions of coins of a particular denomination. Strip C is “pivoted at its ends to the ends of the strips A and B at their point of attachment and adapted to be turned upon its pivots, so as to embrace the edges of the coins contained in the holder.” (Lines 85-89) Illustration is included.
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Soap-Making Apparatus.
Date: August 18, 1891
Creator: Grant, William A.
Description: Patent for improvements in soap-making apparatus by using the “same frames to mix the ingredients and in cooling the prepared mass, thus obviating the necessity of the removal of the mixed mass from the mixing-frame to a cooling-frame.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration
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Hay-Press.
Date: May 19, 1891
Creator: Grant, Richard A.
Description: Patent for improvements in hay-presses by using the combination of a ram having a connecting rod, a rack engaged with a rotatable cog-wheel, a bed-plate, a weighted lever, a buffer and other minor parts to create the pressing operation. Illustration is included.
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Axle.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Stewart, John A.
Description: Patent for improvement in axles by using a “combination of a bar, two skeins and means for holding the skeins in place upon the bar,” (lines 17-18) includes illustration.
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Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.
Date: January 5, 1875
Creator: Cleary, Edward
Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
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Improvement in Fluting-Machines.
Date: January 14, 1873
Creator: Saunders, David R.
Description: Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
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Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Raiford, Philip H.
Description: Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
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Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.
Date: June 9, 1868
Creator: Milner, Thomas
Description: Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165152/