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Quilting Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design "consists of an improved arrangement of apparatus for suspending the quilting-frame from overhead rods, on which it is made to traverse for passing the quilt along the sewing-machine to be quilted, the essential object being to contrive a simple means of shifting the frame with relation to the machine and for placing it diagonally and for turning it around from side to side, so that when the quilt is very heavy one half can be quilted, a… more
Date: July 17, 1883
Creator: Bledsoe, Robert B.
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Bearing.

Description: Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Godsey, Henry M.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a coupling-pin, of the arm, rod[s], clip . . . and lever . . . [t]he combination, with a draw-bar having the extension of a lever limited by the stop-pin . . . [and] [i]n car-couplings, the coupling-link, made in two U-shaped parts, pivoted together . . . and sustained in coupling position by [a] spring or springs" (lines 96-105).
Date: October 17, 1882
Creator: Hale, Nathan M.
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Rail Bond For Electric Railroads

Description: Patent for improvement to rail-bonds for electrical railroads to aid in maintaining electrical contact, which will then reduce the loosening of parts which results in broken contact. Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date: August 17, 1897
Creator: Hunter, Victor Emmet
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Screen-Operating Mechanism for WIndow-Screens.

Description: Patent for a screen-operating mechanism for window-screens. It is meant to hide the mechanism from view and to improve the way the screen is raised and lowered. It also moves the "upper sash in one direction moves the screen in the reverse direction, the construction being such that the motion-transmitting gearing does not in any manner interfere with the use of ordinary window-sashes balanced by weights or springs, or the use of sashes of which the upper one only is movable" (lines 24-30).
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Leary, Frank S.
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Pumping Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements to a pumping apparatus "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and easily-operated apparatus through the medium of which water may be forced from a well, stream, or other source of supply by the weight of a person" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Simmons, Jessie W.
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