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Door-Saddle.

Description: Patent for new and improved door saddles, which consists "of a longitudinal and cross-grooved arrangement of parts coacting with inclined surfaces and shields to cause a perfect drainage of water" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustration.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Vogel, Thomas.
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Adding-Machine.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Brooks, Augustus J.
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Window-Shade Raiser.

Description: Patent for an improved way of raising, lowering, and locking window shades into place. "The operating-cord passes over a pulley located between two larger disks, one of which is screwed toward the other by a spring to clamp the folds of the cord and is screwed in the opposite direction by means of a lever, upon which the chord itself acts when drawn in the proper direction" (lines 14-20).
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: McCauley, John H.
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Stock Car.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal stalls in stock cars. This design "has for its object to provide these stalls in such a manner that they can be readily and cheaply applied to and removed from the cars; and it also has for its further object to provide for rendering the stall-partitions laterally yielding or elastic, and yet under such a degree of tension as to withstand or resist the movements of the animals" (lines 11-18).
Date: April 17, 1883
Creator: Lewis, Henry A.
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Extension-Brace for Ladders.

Description: Patent for an extension brace for ladders that improves on the inventor's previous patent (No. 416,413). The invention's parts "are positively raised and lowered by means of direct acting mechanism which is so constructed and arranged as to obtain the most beneficial results from a comparatively small application of power, the parts being strong and durable easily operated and readily understood" (lines 20-26).
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Crews, Dayton H.
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Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Lee, John Chester
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Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for a railroad-tie that improves on a patent granted to John C. Lee (No. 513,792). The improvement that simplifies and makes the tie stronger and uses less materials.
Date: November 5, 1895
Creator: Mansfield, Robert Allen
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Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a pipe-wrench that can "be adjusted to fit accurately pipes and rods from the smallest to the largest of those in more common use, that will grip each with almost any desired degree of force and yet will not materially mar or injure it, and that may also be used for ends not usually possible with pipe-wrenches" (lines 12-18).
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
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Curtain-Fixture.

Description: Patent for improvements in curtain fixtures "in which the brackets supporting the spring curtain-roller may be raised or lowered to admit light above the curtain." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: Winfrey, Edgar M.
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Cotton-Chopper Attachment.

Description: Patent for Cotton-Chopper Attachment. This invention relates to cotton chopper attachments for cultivator frames and has for its object to provide an attachment of simple structure which may be easily and quickly applied to the frame of a cultivator or detached from the same" (lines 9-14).
Date: unknown
Creator: Mathus, Charles W.
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire stretchers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1899
Creator: Smith, William C.
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Well-Drill Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench for drill pipes used in drilling wells. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Osborne, William Rush & Lebus, George Franklin
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Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a type of vehicle wheel made of a unique hub, rim, and resilient spokes. The design allows for the hub and spokes to rotate independently of the rim, reducing the need for compensating gearing. This is done by having the spokes frictionally engaged with the rim rather than a rigid, static design.
Date: December 26, 1911
Creator: Bartle, John N.
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Stopper.

Description: Patent for improvement in stoppers by “combining a stopper and funnel adapted to be used for pouring liquids from one vessel to another without wasting, provision being made for pouring the liquid into a large vessel or into a small vessel, and when the stopper is not in use it may be closed for the purpose of preventing leakage and evaporation.” (Lines 12-19) Illustration is included.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Hyer, William D.
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Process of Making Lubricants.

Description: Patent for "an improved process for making a lubricant especially adapted for parts of moving machinery which will be efficient to keep said parts and their bearings cool and which may also be used to cool heated journals and bearings" (lines 11-16).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Hudnall, Millard Stewart
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow, by John W. Hudson. This plow has a beam that can be adjusted to carry different sizes of plows. Beam is designed to help equalize resistance between the two sides of the beam.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Hudson, John W.
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Strap Fastener

Description: Patent for a strap fastener to be used for clamping devices such as harnesses, saddles, reins, and tie-straps. Illustration included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Carlson, Frank A. & Rhodes, L. D.
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