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Autographic Register.

Description: Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-… more
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Bond, George D.
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Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the upright frame supported on the beam and carrying the two pivoted arms, in combination with the wheel having studs on both sides, the wires, and the lever middle fastened to the agitator-shaft . . . a hopper having the circular excision in its bottom, of the horizontal feed-wheel and arms, fast to a vertical vibratory shaft" (lines 79-88).
Date: November 16, 1886
Creator: Williams, John W.
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Egg-Case.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Prechtel, Charles A.
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File.

Description: Patent for a new and improved file. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a file having its teeth cut to extend half-way across the face from each edge and at an angle to each other, and having a longitudinal groove in the middle of each face" (lines 22-27).
Date: November 2, 1886
Creator: Custer, George
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Hame Fastener

Description: Patent for a new type of Hame Fastener that has adjustable hooks attached to it. These adjustable hooks allow for the use on hames that have the lower ends closer together. There are springs on this hame that allows for the hame to be held in any position when places on the collar.
Date: November 8, 1913
Creator: Griffin, John R.
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Portable Extension Top for Stoves.

Description: Patent for a new and improved portable extension for stove tops. This design is for a casing with pot-holes that utilizes a flange and a collar to allow for attachment to the stove top. This increases the usable surface area of the stove by a third.
Date: November 16, 1880
Creator: Hutchinson, John Henry
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Protractor

Description: Patent for a new protractor design that is “particularly to a protractor or gage for use by carpenters in cutting the rafters for a building roof” (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Ernest, Albert C.
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Ptich-Board.

Description: Patent for pitch-board that is "an instrument adapted for use by carpenters and others, the same being so constructed as to serve as a rule, a square, or angle, and adapted to be arranged for indicating accurately any inclination or bevel that may be desired, and finally that is capable of being folded" (lines 6-12).
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Frasier, William E.
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