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Improvement In Shoe-Lacings
Date: June 6, 1876
Creator: Lindemann, August W. H.
Description: Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
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Device for Packing Cotton.
Date: December 15, 1885
Creator: Summer, Dewitt C.
Description: Patent for an improvement in devices for packing and compressing cotton in press-boxes. This patent is an improvement on the inventor's previous Letters Patent of the United States granted June 26, 1883, No. 280,333.
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Improvement for Machines for Washing Photographs.
Date: February 6, 1877
Creator: Miller, Noah J.
Description: Patent for an improved machine for washing photographic prints allowing metallic or other rigid plates to be washed in addition to flexible prints.
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Water-Wheel.
Date: June 20, 1891
Creator: Walker, James C.
Description: Patent for a water-wheel. The object of this invention is to provide a water-wheel in which the energy of the water shall act upon a series of peripheral buckets on a principle of hydraulic pressure in contradistinction to that of mere impact and momentum.
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Ant-Trap.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Walker, Stephen A.
Description: Patent for a new type of ant trap that captures ants by having them crawl up a wooden central chamber and then fall into a sheer metal pit. Includes illustrations.
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Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Hawley, Abel
Description: Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
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Electric Belt.
Date: August 27, 1889
Creator: Everett, Charles
Description: Patent for an electric belt producing "an exceedingly gentle and moderate [current], so as to insure the precise remedial results desired" (lines 91-93) including illustrations.
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Fish-Trap.
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Green, John E.
Description: Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.
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Wooden Bridge
Date: April 9, 1891
Creator: Ferguson, Benjamin F.
Description: Patent for a wooden bridge with a focus on increased durability of the structure and effective drainage for moisture from the timbers and for the free circulation of air between, around, or through the structure.
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Trundler For Spooled Wire.
Date: April 13, 1891
Creator: Smith, Cullen R.
Description: Patent for a trundler for spooled wire that is strong, light, and shapely enough to propel or draw spooled fence-wire, telegraph-wire, or similar material that is coiled upon flanged spools, and distribute the same lines for the manufacture of fences or erection of electric conductors.
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