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Bedstead.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design "consists in the provision of adjustable hangers for mattress-supports" (lines 12-13). To this end, it consists, "with the side and end rails having vertical mortises or grooves, the cap-plates covering the upper ends of the grooves or mortises and having threaded apertures, and a mattress-support, of the hangers respectively comprising the vertical shank or body seated in the grooves or mortises of the rails, and the horizontal branch extendi… more
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Currey, George Henry

Folding Car-Step

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Folding Car-Steps" (lines 5-6) to facilitate easier passenger boarding of rail cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1913
Creator: Mayhew, Edwin B.

Vibrating Churn.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vibrating churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the standard, of the vertically-adjustable frame having a vertical opening about its middle, with a horizontal journal bearing at one end, carrying a vertical fly-wheel and crank, and a horizontal and vertical journal-bearing at the other end, the first carrying a vertical toothed segment, a pitman connecting the fly-wheel and segment, and a pinion and shaft-socket arranged about a vertical axis and … more
Date: July 20, 1886
Creator: Fellrath, Charles John
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