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Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful refrigerator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 2, 1900
Creator: Lewis, Rowland E.

Rein Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a base-plate and spaced posts upon one face of the said plate grooved on their adjacent sides, of a spring-actuated lever provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and a flange projecting from the outer face beyond said surface, the opposite extremity of the lever being curved to form, essentially, a hook, the cylindrical surface being adapted for engagement with one post and the hook extremity with… more
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.

Riding Saddle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design consists in "the upper end of the pommel [being] chambered out to receive the compass, which is inserted within the pommel, and suitably, as by means of a gimbal-joint, held therein, so that the compass shall be operative in all or nearly all the positions which a saddle while in use may assume. A piece of glass or other transparent material through which the compass can be observed, is let into the pommel, so as to cover the compass and exclude… more
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Shock, Floyd

Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for an object that simplifies the operation of rotary engines and motors.
Date: October 16, 1900
Creator: Baxter, James P.

Separator

Description: Patent for a separator for separating grain. This invention is a separator to separate grain from the straw in threshing machines. The straw is shaken and agitated in order to separate the grain.
Date: January 23, 1906
Creator: Crane, James D.

Snuff-Box.

Description: Patent for a snuff box "in which the snuff may be conveniently packed for shipment and sale; and which is also adapted to carry the brush so that it is kept out of contact with the snuff and with the clothing, and to provide means for ejecting the brush handle when the box is open so that it may be conveniently grasped and used" (lines 20-27).
Date: May 30, 1893
Creator: Powell, Charles L.

Spring-Tooth Harrow

Description: Patent for a spring tooth harrow that may be converted into a rake. Illustrations included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Piester, Laval M.

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter that easily attaches to various farm equipment with wheels.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.

Stamp Rack

Description: Patent for a stamp rack. This invention is designed to support ordinary rubber stamps. Illustration included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Owens, James Powell

Steering Attachment.

Description: Patent for a steering attachment that keeps the steering wheels of a motor driven vehicle straight. This device is simple and relatively inexpensive, among other advantages.
Date: May 17, 1921
Creator: Huffman, Orla L.

Stirring-Machine.

Description: Patent for "agitating-machines adapted to be used for various purposes," (lines 8-10) including washing clothes and freezing ice cream. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 8, 1892
Creator: Crawford, William H.

Stock Car.

Description: Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.
Date: June 28, 1881
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C.

Switch Operating Device

Description: Patent for a switch operating device. Illustrations included.
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Hubbard, Willson E.

Tire.

Description: Patent for an improved tire designed with "necessary resiliency without requiring inflation" (lines 14-15). The internal core is designed in such a way that if will not collapse when punctured.
Date: December 17, 1918
Creator: Huffman, Orla L.

Tire-Filler.

Description: Patent for an improved tire filler "adapted to fit within a tire casing" (lines 5-6, p. 2), including illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1920
Creator: Huffman, Orla L.

Tool.

Description: Patent for a hammer with a saw blade folded into the handle.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Montgomery, Henry T.

Trace Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved trace attachment. This design "relates to an improvement in couplings for tug-straps, and has for its object to provide a simple, economical, and durable device, capable of convenient manipulation, and whereby the tug-strap may be expeditiously attached to the cockeye of the whiffletree or detached therefrom" (lines 8-14).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.

Truss.

Description: Patent for an "improved truss or abdominal belt" (lines 40-41) that provides a simple design with added pads.
Date: April 7, 1920
Creator: Buckley, James William

Velocipede

Description: Patent for a vehicle that is powered by foot and guided by hand by the occupants and is for the purpose of transporting one or more persons or articles over streets or smooth roads.
Date: September 16, 1884
Creator: Ellis, Robert Fuller & Norman, Cornelius Asbury

Vibrating Churn.

Description: Patent for improvements in vibrating churns in which the dasher is given a rapid rotary vibrating movement and with but very little exertion to the operator. (Lines 30-32) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Miller, Luther Alison

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a useful washing machine by providing “a device which will thoroughly cleanse the clothes with a minimum of labor and in which the heavier particles of dirt from the pieces washed will be separated from the main washing-chamber and thus kept out of contact with the clothes.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: May 26, 1891
Creator: Hutcheson, Casey E. & Hutcheson, Franklin L.

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements to washing machines that allow the water to be heated to any temperature. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1892
Creator: Eddleman, Dudley E.

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in washing machines, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1892
Creator: Turpen, George Sidney

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a mechanized dolly to improve washing machine functionality and efficiency.
Date: May 17, 1921
Creator: Huffman, Orla L.
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