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Automobile-Fender

Description: Patent for automobile fenders to provide a fender that can be used in conjunction with various types of motor vehicles and "prevent a person from being run over by the vehicle equipped with the fender" (lines 13-14).
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Uribe, Marcelino

Barrel for Outhouses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved barrel. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel-head having the opening, of the cover adapted to close said opening, the bolt extending through said cover and into the barrel, the clamping bar longer than the width of said opening in the barrel-head, said bar being centrally pivoted by a rivet to the lower end of said bolt, and a nut screwed upon the upper end of said bolt for clamping said cover in position" (lines 16-25).
Date: May 8, 1888
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.

Blowpipe.

Description: Patent for an improved blowpipe (or hydrocarbon torch), which when activated causes "an extremely hot needle flame" for a Bunsen burner (lines 18-19). Patent contains an illustration and instructions.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Downie, James H.

Boring-Machine.

Description: Patent for Boring-Machine. Particularly a boring-machine for boring brush blanks, and can bore all of the necessary openings, both straight and at an angle, at a single operation.
Date: May 7, 1918
Creator: Miller, Emma T.

Brake.

Description: Patent for a brake (as it pertains to vehicles), that is operated by hand and that employs the use of brake bands and a drum to alter the momentum of a vehicle.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: White, John W.

Burner

Description: Patent for improvements in oil super heating burners used in locomotives and other large engines that require the creation of steam to propel them. The invention describes many improvements involving the fuel ejection and atomizing processes.
Date: May 16, 1919
Creator: Henry, Murray

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for "automatic pin-and-link car-couplings in which a sliding spring-actuated block is employed for supporting the coupling-pin in an elevated position preparatory to coupling." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Lee, Charles

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-bar having a socket and buffer-prongs on its ends, of a ball in the socket, coupling-hooks pivoted between jaws connected with the ball, a weighted stem projecting from the ball, and a sliding latch-rod for engaging with the stem and automatically releasing it when the cars come together" (lines 8-15).
Date: May 19, 1885
Creator: Hampl, Joseph & Jacobs, David

Combined Pneumatic Lift and Force Pump.

Description: Patent for a combined pneumatic lift and force pump, which is able to reach the inexhaustible supply of water found at the depths of five to forty or more feet in the arid region of Texas and Great Central Valley of Mexico. The machinery perfects the simplicity and economy of construction needed to reach and lift a great volume of water in a short time.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: De Hymel, Franklin Oscar
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