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Aeroplane

Description: Patent for an airplane with improved steering capabilities and adjustments for atmospheric conditions.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Canion, William G.
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Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate

Description: Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: McCombs, Oliver A.
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Apparatus for Handling Cotton.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles.
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Autographic Register.

Description: Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Norcross, George A.
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Axle-Skein.

Description: Patent for an improved version of a certain type of axel skein or spindle holder (the kind in which a spindle with a box or housing rigidly holds a tapered axle.) This patent claims to be an improvement by “simple and inexpensive construction and in which the connections are such that the parts can be conveniently joined or separated and when joined produce a strong and durable combination” (lines 14-21).
Date: September 29, 1903
Creator: Cryer, Henry M.
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Barrel-Washer.

Description: Patent for a machine that cleans barrels. It has "barrel-supporting rollers to rotate the barrel in contact with brushes" (lines 13-15), which are more durable than rollers made from rubber tires. The rollers also each have an inner portion, a detachable annular exterior, and an elastic ring around the outside. Brushes are attached on opposite sides of the barrel, held up by a frame.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Herold, Charles
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an improvement on car-couplers, "especially to the class of hook-and-catch couplers in which the sides of the jaws of the coupler securely hold a link between the same by means of a downwardly-extending hook, the sides of the upper jaw carrying the said hook extending down over the sides of the under jaw, thus protecting the jaws from a lateral jar or pressure, the lower jaw being provided with a series of recesses at different angles, which are designed to receive the end of the lin… more
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Krusinski, Ferdinand
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Copy-Holder.

Description: Patent for a copy holder with a firmer clamp and a better support for the line indicating bar than previous versions.
Date: September 29, 1908
Creator: Flynn, Melvina L.
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Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for a cotton gin that removes lint-cotton from the saws using an air-suction mechanism instead of a brush, which pose a fire hazard and can impair the gin's effectiveness. An air-blast mechanism is also an ineffective method of cleaning lint-cotton from the saws. The air-suction mechanism sucks "the lint-cotton directly from the rear portions of the saw-teeth independently of and without a brush, and an apparatus for preventing the withdrawn lint-cotton from passing into and through the … more
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
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Cotton-Packer.

Description: Patent for an improvement that "relates to that class of cotton-packers which receive cotton from the condenser after ginning and pack it in a box preparatory to being pressed and tied into a bale; and its object is to provide means whereby the cotton may be packed int he box automatically" (lines 8-14).
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Hart, Alfred
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Cultivator-Harrow.

Description: Patent for improvements in cultivator-harrows in which an adjustable “harrow-frame is adapted to the ready attachment of cultivators, plows, sweeps, scrapers, and various forms of cultivating devices which are interchangeable with each other and can be used either with or without the harrow-teeth, according to the character of work to be done.” (Lines 80-86) Illustration is included.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Wilson, William H.
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Document File-Case.

Description: Patent for "an envelop for holding papers of various kinds and which is convenient and durable and can be manufactured at small cost" (lines 9-11). the side flaps are adjustable and are connected using elastic straps so they don't accidentally disconnect under tension.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Ward, George C.
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Grass and Weed Exterminator.

Description: Patent for a grass and weed exterminator, especially those weeds that roots are a network of runners that can't be pulled up. The destroyer plows them up, ten inches or more, and sifts through the dirt, pulling up the network of plants.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Briggs, George, W.
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Hame Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "consists of an adjustable regulating fastener for the upper and lower ends of the hames, and this fastener is further provided with a swinging loop, to which the breast-strap may be attached on the lower fastener and the strap on the upper fastener when desired" (lines 19-25).
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Hake, Francis A.
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Hot Box Cooler and Oiler

Description: Patent for a hot box cooler and oiler. This device is for cooling and lubricating journal boxes of railway cars. Illustration included.
Date: September 29, 1908
Creator: Barnes, Ned Eastman
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Hydrocarbon-Burner

Description: Patent for a burner that can use kerosene for fuel and avoid clogging with carbon and to provide heat better in every way (including being hotter) while being easier to clean.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Stone, Melvin T.
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Improvement in Spike-Extractors.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in the class of nail-extractors in which a gripe or grapple formed of pendent springs or hinged jaws is employed." (lines 7-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 29, 1874
Creator: Devine, William
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Ink Fountain for Printing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ink fountain for printing machines. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the shell-shaped frame having an inclined bottom, a hole in the lower part of the front end wall, and a socket provided with a thumb-screw, a vertical arm passing through the said socket and provided with a clamp at its lower end, a roller for distributing ink, journaled at the front of the shell and vertically adjustable therewith, and the removable reservoir having a gate, an inclin… more
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Bomar, Thomas E.
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Internal-Combustion Engine

Description: Patent for an internal-combustion engine with a novel form of rotary valve and other meaningful improvements to a combustion engine.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Clough, George Golden
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Mattress-Stuffing Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved mattress-stuffing machine which is capable of "feeding the stuffing material directly from the bale in super-posed layers, wherein, if desired, the intermediate layers may be of different quality than that of the outside layers or even of entirely different material." (Lines 19-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: White, Charles W.
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