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Air Brake

Description: Patent for air brakes. Illustration included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Minnick, Hezekiah
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Animal Shears.

Description: Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design calls for a spring with eyes at the ends so that the handles of individual blades may be inserted through them. Then, nuts fasten the individual blades to the spring, which makes sharpening easier and breakage less likely.
Date: February 22, 1881
Creator: Benavides, Cristobal & Arthur, Joshua P.
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Automatic Electric Alarm.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and durable automatic electric alarm that allows people in house or hotel rooms, mines, ships, shops, etc. to signal for another person. The alarm is wired to a clock so it can be programmed to go off at a certain time.
Date: January 7, 1896
Creator: Stansel, Thomas J.
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Automatic Weighing Scale

Description: Patent for moving a pole along a beam that efficiently measures weight as a scale.
Date: June 29, 1918
Creator: Foster Jr., Samuel T.
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Bicycle Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bicycle wheel. This design calls for an inner tire wrapped in uniformly distributed elastic bands to connect it to the outer tire. This new tire allows for the spring and comfort of pneumatic tires while rendering the pneumatic tubes of the latter obsolete.
Date: December 29, 1896
Creator: Neild, Edwin
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Blind-Slat Fastener.

Description: Patent for improvements in shutter attachments, in which it locks the slats in place at a desired angle. Illustration is included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Winslow, Walter W.
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Blind Stop.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design is "to provide a cheap and simple device designed to be secured to a window-casing and be interposed between any two adjacent pivoted slats, and thus support the same and the series in an open position and against accidental closing by their own weight or by the wind" (lines 9-16). It consists in the "holder for slats of blinds, consisting of a spring-metal strip bent at its center to form an eye and opposite terminals, the latter being adap… more
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Deats, Wallen S. & Brown, Daniel
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Car-Roofing.

Description: Patent for "a novel and improved device for fastening corrugated sheet metal roofing, and the running board supports or blocks upon the car." (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Maness, William Curtain
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Cereal Food and Process of Preparing the Same.

Description: Patent for improving cereal food processing by grinding corn and other grains into meal to convert starch into dextrin, and through drying grains to remove moisture and prevent fermentation (lines 17-23). Additionally, the processing will make the cereal appetizing and easily digestible.
Date: November 1, 1921
Creator: Kelly, Martha R.
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Chain Jack.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Phillips, Henry S.
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Combination Tool

Description: Patent for a combination tool. This invention combines tools for a variety uses and box to hold small items. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Brunl, Louis
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Combined Bucket Bail and Lid Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bucket-bail and lid-fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the bucket and the ears, of the wires pivotally connected to said ears, the links pivotally connected to said wires, the cross-wire connecting the said links, and the bail loosely connected with the ends of the said wire" (lines 92-97).
Date: August 27, 1889
Creator: Stukes, John Marion & Reid, Oliver Phillip
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Combined Corn Sheller and Washboard.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn-sheller and washboard. This design "consist[s] of the frame, the backing, the transverse rods secured to said backing upon one side thereof, the vertical strip upon the opposite side of said strip, and the transverse rods secured to the outer edge of said strip, the pivoted legs, and the bars" (lines 96-102). Said bars are pivoted to "side bars of the frame and at the other provided with elongated slots engaging pins on the legs" (lines 1-3).
Date: January 29, 1889
Creator: Stukes, John Marion & Reid, Oliver Phillip
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Combined Land Roller, Furrow Opener, And Marker

Description: Patent for a device that combines the function of a land-roller, furrow opener, and marker. Illustration included.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: MacDonell, Allan
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Composition for Removing Boiler-Scale

Description: Patent for "an extract of the plant know to botanists by the name 'Larrea Mexican,' to be used in removing boiler-scale and in preventing the reformation of the same" (lines 9-13).
Date: April 16, 1901
Creator: Pena, Benjamin
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Crate.

Description: Patent for a fruit and vegetable crate that is collapsable to facilitate transportation, and has strong corners to enable heavy usage.
Date: August 29, 1922
Creator: Cobb, J.
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Derailer

Description: This is a patent for a railway Derailer. This new derailer is less expensive, easier to manufacture, and will be an improvement over older models. For example, it is easier to attach to the rail track and more efficient at stopping railroad collisions.
Date: April 22, 1919
Creator: Gravis, James. C
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Disk Harrow or Terracer

Description: Patent for a disk harrow or terracer that is more efficient in operation for turning soil with an improved structure and functionality.
Date: October 11, 1921
Creator: {Barnes, Jonathan G.}
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Electric Battery.

Description: Patent for a new and improved electric battery. This design consists "[i]n an electric generator, a receptacle for steam, and means for admitting steam thereto, in combination with electrodes consisting of two parallel disks suspended within said steam-receptacle, electrodes of opposite polarity to the aforesaid electrodes arranged between the disks of the first-named electrodes, a shaft extending through the said receptacle upon which the latter electrodes are mounted, and means for rotating t… more
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Emley, James Edward
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Filter.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in filters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 25, 1898
Creator: McLane, Albert L.
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Folding Cot

Description: Patent for
Date: November 12, 1901
Creator: Follett, Charles J.
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Front Sight for Firearms.

Description: Patent for a luminous rear sight for firearms of all types. Including Illustration.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Kaempfer, Effie May Wagner
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Handle-Fastener

Description: Patent for handle fastener for tools such as screwdrivers, chisels, and augers. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: McMillan, Eugene C.
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Instrument for Breaking Car-Seals.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in instruments for breaking car seals, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Leyendecker, Thomas A.
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