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Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for improved design and function in oil burners, specifically on fuel nozzle and needle valve, allowing for greater control of gas that flows through to create combustion.
Date: January 27, 1914
Creator: Butler, Louis
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Gasolene-Measuring Device.

Description: Patent for gasoline measuring device for improving service stations for patrons to see the amount of gasoline. Air pressure will transfer gasoline from tank into measuring device. Gasoline measuring device will be quickly delivered to patrons.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: McKallip, Jonathan C.
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Indexing Device.

Description: Patent for an indexer of paper documents in book form. It is made to open along the center with visible subject headings.
Date: January 18, 1921
Creator: Moran, Stanley C.
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Locomotive Drifting-Valve.

Description: Patent for locomotive drifting valves to admit saturated steam from the boiler to the steam chamber of the valve chest and cylinders while the locomotive is running with the main steam throttle closed.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Meister, Alfred A.; Surles, John W. & Boyle, Edmund F.
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Loose-Leaf Binder

Description: Patent for loose-leaf binders. A strong and easy way to attach or remove loose leaf papers from a flat book.
Date: January 4, 1906
Creator: Owen, Thomas
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Well Drilling Mechanism

Description: Patent for a well drilling mechanism. This invention addresses the time consuming labor of screwing together sections of drilling pipe. This invention "contemplates an apparatus adapted to be attached to the frame of the rotary and operated by the driving mechanism of the rotary...screwing and unscrewing accomplished by mechanical means without manual means" (lines 38-44). Illustration included.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Hall, Samuel N.
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Turning Tool for Bale Band Fasteners.

Description: Patent for "novel construction of turning-tool having simple and efficient means for exerting a powerful leverage upon the turning or winding element of the fastener, whereby all of the slack in the bale-band may be readily taken up and drawn very tight, thus insuring the manipulation of the bale-band fastener in a way to provide for taking up a maximum amount of slack with a minimum movement" (lines 16-25). Includes Illustrations.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
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Improvement in Umbrella-Supporters.

Description: Patent for "a simple and convenient device for supporting and carrying a parasol or umbrella in such a way as to leave the hands free, and which will enable the parasol or umbrella to be tilted or inclined forward or back, or to either side, as may be required" (lines 8-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Arnold, Eliza M.
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Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
Date: January 5, 1875
Creator: Cleary, Edward
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Improvement in Fluting-Machines.

Description: Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
Date: January 14, 1873
Creator: Saunders, David R.
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Vending-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of coin-operated vending machines which automatically lock when coins are not inserted. This device is designed to dispense objects of many shapes and sizes. Illustrations included.
Date: January 6, 1920
Creator: Ogden, Carlton N.
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Transverse-Cutter Rotary Drill

Description: Patent for a rotary boring drill whose head is made of multiple parts, allowing for a larger cutter than a single piece head. The mechanism that holds the multiple parts of the head together also prevents the cross-shaft from rotating with the head.
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
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Transmission Gear Shifting Device.

Description: Patent for a new transmission gear shifting device will "provide means for shifting the transmission parts of an automobile or other motor driven vehicle, without employing the usual hand levers and appliances, and to do so by means of electrically controlled operating mechanisms in combination with certain component parts." (Lines 12-18) including illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: De Witt, G.
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Mechanism For Casing Off Water.

Description: Patent for a mechanism for casing off water in wells so that it does not become mixed with oil or escape into the bore and be discharged to the surface.
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Fuqua, William Y. & Johnson, Charles J.
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Track-Laying Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in track laying machines that enable railway ties to be delivered to the exact location that they are to be places in the track; includes illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Simpson, Charles M.
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Hydraulic Swivel

Description: Patent for a hydraulic swivel to be used with rotary well drilling machines which will carry water to the drill head through a supply line and maintain that supply line in a given position during drilling operation.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
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Putty-Trowel

Description: Patent for a putty trowel which will lay a line of putty and trowel it into place to secure glass in a window sash.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Morris, James G.
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Tourist's Glass.

Description: Patent for "improvements in tourist's glasses" ... "intended for the use of tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, mineralogists, and analogous purposes, the object of which is to combine with a compass a plurality of instruments particularly adapted for the aforesaid persons and purposes" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Faehrmann, John M.
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