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Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars

Patent for "a brake of simple and inexpensive construction, that may be readily attached to steam or tramway cars, that is automatic in its working, and to do away with the brake-beams now employed, which through their breaking down are two-thirds of the causes of car derailments" (lines 19-26).

Date: January 27, 1891

Creator: Inglis, Thomas & Schiermann, William

Flue Beading Tool

Patent for a flue beading tool. Illustration included.

Date: June 27, 1905

Creator: Faessler, John W. & Rall, Frederick A.

Flue Expander

Patent for a flue expander. Illustration included.

Date: June 27, 1905

Creator: Faessler, John W. & Rall, Frederick A.

Gate-Hinge.

Patent for a "gravity-hinge for causing a gate to automatically close, and which is susceptible of such adjustment that if the gate-post and the latch-post, either or both, become disarranged as regards their perpendicular position, or if they are not exactly coincident with relation to each other, the gate can be centered relatively to the latch-post, or rather the hinged end of the gate can be set precisely perpendicular or be shifted laterally to any required angle of inclination for the pur… more

Date: July 27, 1897

Creator: Berry, John S.

Improvement in Farm-Fences.

Patent for "a cheap and easily-constructed fence, and one which neither small nor large stock will be able to jump over or pass through." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 27, 1875

Creator: Rush, Alonzo & Yarbrough, Fisher

Improvement in Harness.

Patent for a new improvement in harness that "enables the detachment of the horse therefrom instantaneously" (lines 8-9) including illustration. It may also be called "safety harness" (line 10).

Date: January 27, 1874

Creator: Ellis, Ira

Nutcracker.

Patent for a nutcracker with an adjustable jaw and a smaller number of parts.

Date: November 27, 1917

Creator: Gradick, Wiley, Sr.

Wedge-Buckle.

Patent for improvements in wedge-buckles by using a “combination of a stiff plate having wedge-shaped side jaws, of the strap having an inwardly-curved spring portion terminating in projections and flanges which engage the jaws, and adapted to be straightened outwardly in clamping a belt of band between the plate and strap” to (Lines 18-24, p. 2) Illustration is included.

Date: November 27, 1900

Creator: White, Lee