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Clutch Clamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved clutch-clamp. This design "is to provide a simple and effective device for lowering or hoisting the pipe or rods of pumps into bored wells or other places, such as mines or shafts, and without injury to the pipe or rod, such device being not only readily and easily handled in connecting it to or disconnecting it from the object to be raised or lowered, but capable of being manufactured at comparatively small cost" (lines 20-29).
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: McCoy, John William
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Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a new removable quilting frame for sewing machines. Patent for "improvements in sewing-machine attachments for quilting designed to support a quilting frame that can be moved from place to place" (lines 14-21) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new quilting attachment for sewing-machine design with, including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Clark, Chester Cady
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Well Drill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved well drill. This design "consists in a novel construction of a tool for boring or drilling wells, which tool has the drill-bit and the reamer so united as to operate simultaneously, and thus serve the functions of the so-called "Z-bit" and effectually prevent the tool from being thrown laterally out of the line of cutting when striking bowlders; and the invention also consists in an improved construction of the coupling of the tool to the sinker-bar or drill-bar" (… more
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: Titus, Silas W. & Clark, Chester C.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
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Windmill.

Description: Patent for an improved wind wheel that has "every other blade...has a right angled extension or cup to catch the wind, the blades thus formed being set in the hub and rim of the wheel so as to have said right angled portions where they will receive the full force of the wind" (lines 17-22). A ring supports the angled portions of the windmill blades.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Bowman, Charles R.
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Hoisting Device.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive device that is meant to hoist, lift, or extract stumps, stones, or other heavy objects. It also stretches wire and can act as a vehicle jack.
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: Hagelstein, Henry
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Water-Power.

Description: Patent for a water-power. It consists of a dam built halfway across a stream, a power-house with its upper end closed and inclined towards the upstream, gated inlet openings on the side of the power-house, gates that control the inlet openings, and a water-wheel on the stream side of the power-house.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Vernon, William E.
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Tag.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple tag to label bolts of cloth that is "a convenient means for fastening the [tag] in such position upon a bolt of goods as to prevent it from becoming twisted or turned, and so that the tag will always be held or supported so as to exhibit the markings thereon" (lines 12-16).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Winkler, Charles
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Car Coupling

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Gillespie, Charles W.
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Ventilating Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a ventilating apparatus "adapted for use in connection with buildings, storehouses, and school and other buildings, both public and private" (lines 9-12).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Vernon, William E.
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Ice-Tray

Description: Patent describing a "combined water-cooler and ice tray [...for] the cooling of water by ice without the ice coming in contact with the water" (lines 9-12).
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Henning, Thomas W.
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Wheel

Description: Patent for a vehicle wheel with a rigid frame and a hub that has radical range of motion.
Date: April 7, 1903
Creator: Lasswell, William H.
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Family Record Keeper

Description: Patent for a family record keeper that could preserve certificates of birth, marriage, and death, in a manner that would protect them from the elements.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Flanagan, Roland A.
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Tank-Valve.

Description: Patent for tank-valves in which “a valve may be readily detached for renewal or repairs and adaptable without material change of structure to any of the various forms and structures of tanks manufactured.” (Lines 18-22.) Illustration is included.
Date: January 3, 1905
Creator: Burchett, Edward Lee
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Windmill

Description: Patent for a windmill. It turns creating rotary motion, caused by the wind, which is used as a pumping power source.
Date: November 2, 1905
Creator: Doty, David
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Pump-Jack.

Description: Patent for an improved version of "operating pumps and similar apparatus" (lines 8-9).
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: York, Francis M.
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Equalizing Device for Pump-Rods.

Description: Patent for an improved equalizing device for pump-rods used in hand or windmill pumps that increases the operating efficiency and decreases the manufacture cost of the device.
Date: April 10, 1906
Creator: Shipman, John Davis
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Axle-Setting Machine

Description: Patent for a axle setting machine that can be used on any type of axle, has its own lever, and doesn't touch the inside of the axle collar.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Roberts, John William
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Jack.

Description: Patent for a jack for lifting heavy loads on railroads, which has an automatic steady movement of the load up and down without adjusting the jack settings.
Date: August 6, 1907
Creator: Blake, David Alexander & Blake, Charles William
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Trap-Gun.

Description: Patent for a trap gun, which is placed in a trap and fires when bait is disturbed which will only go off when the bait is tampered with and can turn to follow an animals movements in the trap.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Lovelace, Charles D.
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