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Cigar-Box Clip.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive improvement to cigar box clips or clamps, that will make it easier for the box to be left open at a tilted angle, for the purpose of displaying the cigars or other objects inside.
Date: November 21, 1911
Creator: Holder, Andrew Thomas.
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Combination Railroad Cross Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railroad-ties. This design "pertains to certain new and useful improvements in railroad-ties, having for its object the production of a metallic tie extremely simple in construction, and by means of which a rail can be readily removed or secured in place and a firm elastic bearing is secured for said rail" (lines 14-20).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Bagby, William Henry
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Box for Matches, &c.

Description: Patent for a new and improved matchbox. This design "relates to boxes or cases of the class having folding securing flaps or covers . . . To this end [the] invention comprises . . . a box or case open at one extremity for insertion and removal of its contents, and provided with a slot or opening extending from its open extremity to or nearly to its opposite extremity to permit access to and removal of its contents, and having a folding flap or cover adapted to close its openings and be detachab… more
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Marshall, John F.
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Atomizer.

Description: Patent for improvements in atomizers or instruments for distributing powders or liquids in which it provided “provision for closing the exit-passage and preserve the strength of the medicated powders or fluid and permit of the carrying of the same within the body of the device without danger of spilling.” (Lines 17-21) The rubber bulb is detachable and is used as a powder-box or as a bottle for fluid. Illustration is included.
Date: July 21, 1891
Creator: Robinson, Henry
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Automatic Weighing Mechanism for Elevators, &c.

Description: Patent for "means for automatically indicating the amount of weight placed" (lines 10-11) within an elevator cage or platform with illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Sanger, Isaac S.
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Ice-Holding Device.

Description: Patent for a device to hold ice upon running-boards of vehicles (lines 10-11.) This device is flexible in use (it can be pulled up to reveal the ice, and put back out of the way), simple in design, and cheap to construct.
Date: March 21, 1922
Creator: Barton, Warren D.
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Window Display and Advertising Device

Description: Patent for Window Display and Advertising Device including platform with rotating parts, including illusrations.
Date: August 21, 1900
Creator: Moorefield, Armistead Younger
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Improvement in Strap-Protector and Buckle

Description: Patent for improvements in strap-protector and buckle for harness in order for it to not become cracked or bent. Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1879
Creator: Padgitt, Tom
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Water Distributing Apparatus

Description: Patent for a water distributing apparatus. This inventions' design is for hot and cold water and used primarily in connection with heating or cooking stoves so as to utilize the heat furnished there in. Illustration included.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Sanders, Henry M.
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Watch Case Pendant.

Description: Patent for a new and improved watch-case pendant. This design "is to improve the construction of the bow and crown-holder of stem-winding watches, so that they will be prevented from working loose. Furthermore, to produce a bow and crown-holder which may readily be attached to watches having the ordinary holder thereon, and, finally, to produce a stem which shall be simple of construction, and which may be attached to a watch with but a slight expense" (lines 15-24).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Rohrer, Edmond Charles & Joseph, Isidora
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Method of Making Electrotype Embossing-Dies

Description: Patent for a new method of embossing woven materials (such as lace) onto paper using electrotyping.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Evins, Dossa D.
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Alarm for Incubators

Description: Patent for an alarm that sounds upon the temperature in an incubator either increasing or decreasing.
Date: November 21, 1916
Creator: Poore, John F.
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Water-Boiler, Skimmer, and Oil-Separator

Description: Patent for a water-boiler, skimmer, and oil-separator.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Johnson, Willie Harry
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Hame Attachment

Description: Patent for a hame attachment. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Herbelin, Alfred
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Shuttle Operating Mechanism for Looms.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shuttle-operator for looms. This design "has for its objects to provide novel, simple, and efficient mechanism for actuating the picking-sticks which effect the flight of the shuttles; to avoid the use of the ordinary lower picker-shaft; to avoid lateral angles in the picking-levers, which actuate the picking-sticks to throw the shuttles, and to otherwise improve the picking motion of looms for obtaining simplicity, strength, durability, power, and efficiency" (lin… more
Date: October 21, 1890
Creator: Fisher, Finis E.
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Horse Collar Rolling Machine

Description: Patent for horse collar rolling machines. Illustrations included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Goodman, Forest Eduard
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Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates … more
Date: November 21, 1893
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
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