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Car Door

Description: Patent for a car-door. The design is to prevent rattling and reduce wear on rail car doors. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1910
Creator: Lott, Andrew Gains & Handley, John A., Jr.
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Churn.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Christie, James B.
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Beef Tenderer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved meat tenderizer. This design consists in "the combination, with the triangular end plates having the bearing-notches, the detachable connecting-bar provided with the threaded ends and shoulders, the thumb-nuts, the smooth rollers, and the coiled springs, of the crank-handle and the [other] roller provided with the teeth having square flat faces and flat sides at right angles to said faces and arranged in aligned longitudinal series and spirally arranged circumferen… more
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: Welch, Lee L.
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Button.

Description: Patent for a new and improved button. This design consists "[i]n a detachable button, the combination, with the hollow threaded shank of the button-head, having end serrations, and the base-disk, having a central screw, of the loose clamp-disk, applied on the screw, and having a spring-pawl or projection to engage the serrations of the shank" (lines 70-76).
Date: March 11, 1884
Creator: Matthews, William H.
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Coffee Parcher

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in coffee parchers. Easily used on a range which is also simple and durable. Illustrations included.
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: McCall, Daniel
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Automatic Water Cut-Off

Description: Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Goodridge Wilson B.
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Chimney-Cowl

Description: Patent for low cost chimney cowl improvements to insure proper draft and prevent fires.
Date: March 12, 1918
Creator: Burch, Robert S.
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Band-Saw

Description: Patent for improving band-saws for lumber "which can be inexpensively produced, which will not readily crack or otherwise deteriorate in use" (lines 15-18) by "reinforc[ing] the gullets of the teeth that the tendency for cracks to form at this point will be reduced to a minimum" (lines 33-35).
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: McCormick, Merton H.
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Fishhook.

Description: Patent for a fishhook that allows for a swiveling motion that does not interfere with the connection to the fishing line.
Date: December 20, 1921
Creator: King, James Manning
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Link Gear

Description: Patent for a link gear that provides a valve gearing for locomotives resembling a link motion. This link gear has a reduced number of parts compared to other link gears.
Date: unknown
Creator: Flournoy, Robert
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Turntable.

Description: Patent for an improved turntable "designed to be attached to and carried beneath a motor car" (lines 12-13) that would allow the car (train car) to be elevated or lowered onto railroad tracks. The device includes a base, pedestals, and a rotatable base.
Date: January 3, 1922
Creator: Westmoreland, James P. & Bullington, John D.
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Mail-Bag Catcher

Description: Patent for improvements of mail bag catchers. This patent proposes improvements on the construction and arrangements of mail bag catchers including the alteration of the jaw and the addition of springs. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Davis, Tomie
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Well-Drilling Tool.

Description: Patent for a bit that can be attached to a rotary tool for drilling wells. It features a means for using water to dislodge any accumulated mud from the tool.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Clore, Franklin H.
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Lumber-Dolly.

Description: Patent for a lumber dolly, which has an anti-tilting device that can be used while loading or unloading the dolly.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Lott, Andrew Gains
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Lifting-Frame.

Description: Patent for a lifting frame for hoisting engines, which allows a car to be put under the engine easily.
Date: May 4, 1909
Creator: Knox, Hiram
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Well -Bucket

Description: Patent for an improvement in well -buckets adapted for cleaning and drawing water from drilled wells.
Date: March 19, 1916
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.
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Standard for Logging Cars.

Description: Patent for a new and improved standard for logging-cars. This design "consists of a pivoted standard connected by links to a lever a short distance from its pivot, so that when the lever is turned out of alignment with the links the standard will be firmly locked in position. . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a standard for cars and wagons which can be readily turned down out of the way when loading, and which, when turned up into position, will be firmly and securely held" (lin… more
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Minnock, Edmund Junius
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Telegraph-Transmitter.

Description: Patent for an improvement to telegraph transmitters of the pendulum type in which signals are transmitted through use of a series of dots and dashes.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Moore, Leo I.
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Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for the improvement of cultivators using adjustable blades and is adaptable to use different types of blades for a variety of other uses, including illustration.
Date: January 15, 1861
Creator: Alexander, J. T. D.
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Motor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists in the reciprocating "bar, the shaft mounted in the lower portion of the chair, the drum on said shaft, cord coiled around the drum and connected to the bar, the rest secured to the upper end of the bar, and the spring coiled around the said bar between the chair-seat and the rest" (lines 1-6).
Date: April 30, 1889
Creator: Lovejoy, De Soto
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