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Car Door Fastening.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car-door fastening. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a staple, a hook-hasp, key, and a key-plate, whereby several advantages are obtained . . . for securing the sliding doors of box-cars and other railway-cars" (lines 8-14).
Date: April 19, 1881
Creator: Alexander, Francis Marion
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Machine for Filing Gin Saws.

Description: Patent for a new and improved machine to sharpen the teeth of cotton gin saws. This design utilizes two bevel-faced wheels connected to a block between two arms that clamp the saw blade. The bevel-faced wheels sharpen the teeth of the blade, and the nuts and bolts of the frame allow for movement as well as tightening and loosening.
Date: August 17, 1880
Creator: McAllister, Alexander F.
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Churn

Description: Patent for a churn designed for churning butter in smaller quantities and preventing foreign objects from entering. Illustrations included.
Date: January 5, 1909
Creator: Bland, William W.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is of "an automatic car-coupling pin that can be adjusted and used for coupling cars having the ordinary draw-bars and coupling pins" (lines 10-13).
Date: July 8, 1884
Creator: Schofield, James
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Harness-Pad.

Description: Patent for "an improved fastening for harness pads or housings which is equally adapted for sweat-pads for horse-collars." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1892
Creator: Powell, John S.
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Angle Cock Device

Description: Patent for "stop cocks for controlling the flow of fluids and more particularly to what are known as angle cocks for use in train pipes of air brake and other fluid pressure systems upon railway cars" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Ellwood, Thomas B.
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Life Boat.

Description: Patent for a new and improved life boat. This design "consists in providing a steam-launch with a float on each side, secured by suitable strong braces thereto, and to provide said floats with a hand-rail, so that persons can hold onto said rails, and are prevented from being washed off" (lines 17-22).
Date: March 13, 1883
Creator: Dwyer, Daniel
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Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements in baling-presses. It consists of movable followers and a sliding drum that has a ratchet secured to a clutch and a shaft. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1879
Creator: Smithson, Richard T.
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Broom-Rack.

Description: Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Smith, Walter I.
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Draft-Beam for Cars.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in draft beams for cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1898
Creator: Saling, Thomas W.
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Bridge.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridge. This design consists in "the combination, with the base, stringers, the top arched bars, and the upright tie-bars, of the intermediate stringers, arched bars, and their horizontal tie-bars, and wedge-keys . . . whereby the structure is greatly strengthened" (lines 85-91).
Date: December 13, 1881
Creator: Ibel, Justus H.
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Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.

Description: Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and belo… more
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Minton, William Dryden & Douglas, Alexander Stewart
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Piston Packing.

Description: Patent for a new and improved piston packing. This design consists in a "piston head cast entire and having radial arms bored out, in combination with the piston-segments, the steam-ports in the piston-plates, and stems of said segments, packing expansible rings on said stems, and the expansible packing-rings inclosing the said piston-segments" (lines 87-93).
Date: February 7, 1888
Creator: St. James, Henry L.
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CAR-BRAKE

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements for Caboose Cars' brakes. The brakes can be applied from within the car, and no strain is applied to the car frame or body.
Date: July 20, 1880
Creator: Dwyer, Denis R.
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Carling-Socket for Car-Frames.

Description: Patent for improvements to "carlings for the roofs of cars, such as used for transporting live or dead freight," (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1892
Creator: Coffin, Walter E.
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Harness-Collar.

Description: Patent for harness collars for horses and mules. This harness collar "is to provide a collar having adjustable fastening mean which preferably are also adjustable as between themselves whereby a better adjustment of the collar is made possible" (lines 22-27)
Date: January 2, 1917
Creator: Mahone, Edwin W.
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Improvement in Car-couplings

Description: Patent for "an automatic car-coupling, that may also be readily coupled with the common pin-and-link and other couplings, and be adjusted without going between the cars, so as to avoid all danger" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 24, 1875
Creator: Harper, Peter
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Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design is "especially adapted for manipulating pipe-joints, though applicable, also, for use in manipulating nuts, &c.; and it consists in the [novel] detailed construction and combination of operating parts" (lines 24-28).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Weir, Duncan
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Spark-Arrester

Description: Patent for "improvements whereby the sparks from a locomotive will be passed directly from the flues through the stack and the outer air will be admitted, which will keep the cinders in motion and force them through fine perforations and against the hard surfaces until they are thoroughly pulverized and all the fire therein is extinguished, and which .will thereby prevent the danger to combustible products by fire thrown from an engine and which will not in any way decrease or interfere with th… more
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Curran, John William
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Spirometer

Description: Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
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