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Improvement in Policemen's Batons.

Description: Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.
Date: October 14, 1873
Creator: Beery, Simon & McDonald, John W.
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Steam-Cooking Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a steam-cooking apparatus, "in which the heat of steam in pipes or tubular jackets is made to cook food without the direct action of fire by radiation, conduction, or convection" (lines 8-11).
Date: October 29, 1878
Creator: Curtin, Martin
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Improvement in railroad switches

Description: Patent for an improvement in railroad switches, including illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1872
Creator: Fitzsimmons, Henry
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Improvement In Circular-Saw Mills.

Description: Patent for an improved Circular Sawmill with an " improved adjustable feed mechanism" (pg 1). Illustration Included.
Date: October 22, 1872
Creator: Jones, John B.
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Improvement in Heating Tables.

Description: Patent for improvement of heating tables, "by steam to keep the meat and other articles at proper temperature. It consist more particularly in an arrangement of the steam-heating apparatus that will admit of its application to dining-tables, and will allow the plates of the diners and such of the dishes as may be desired being kept at the desired degree of warmth without necessitating the heating of warmth without the necessitating the heating of all the articles on the table."
Date: October 29, 1878
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
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Improvement in Bed-Plates for Steam-Engines.

Description: Patent for the invention of a new improvement in bed plates for steam engines, allowing improved water-feeding and venting of exhaust steam.
Date: October 14, 1874
Creator: Richardson, John Dunn
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