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Ribbon Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ribbon holder. This design consists in "[a] rotary ribbon-holder case made in sections having slots and arc-latches, and the removable rotary-spindles, having squared portions to engage the spools and projecting heads, formed with necks to engage the arc-latches and key-sets" (lines 70-75).
Date: November 6, 1883
Creator: Lane, Isaac Theophilus
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to improvements in plows, particularly to that portion of the plow known as the point; and it has for its object to produce a point that may be reversed, so that both ends may be utilized or may be made to project sufficiently to convert the plow into a sub-soil plow. To this end the invention consists of a blade with two or both sets of bolt-holes and a double-ended point with holes nearer one end than the other" (lines 11-21).
Date: January 8, 1889
Creator: Rhodes, William Taylor
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Railway-Signal.

Description: Patent for improvement to the "construction of railway-signals and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one adapted to utilize the light of a telegraph-office or other structure and capable of housing and protecting parts and of being readily operated for displaying either white or colored light" (lines 10-17).
Date: July 16, 1901
Creator: Walker, Millard Fillmore
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Dredging Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dredging machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a boat or the like, provided with depending hangers at its bow and stern, of the shaft journaled in said hangers, and provided with a spiral screw extending throughout its length" (lines 88-92). It is "for removing sand-bars and similar obstructions in the beds of harbors or in streams by loosening the sand or the like, so that it will be suspended in the water and carried off by the natural or crea… more
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Crockett, John Richardson
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Cultivation of Soil.

Description: Patent for improvements in soil cultivation, relating "to conserving and preserving moisture in the soil for growing vegetation" (lines 8-10), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas N.
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