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Derailing Block dated October 1, 1918

Description: Patent for new and improved detailing rocks for railroads. What makes this unique is that the clamp can be quickly and effectively clamped to railroad tracks.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Samuel Harvey Garrett & Joseph Owen Staude
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Process of Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Cotton.

Description: Patent for improvements to the processes of ginning, cleaning, and bleaching cotton, and "particularly to stripping the lint cotton from the seed and for treating cotton with an air treatment after it leaves the saws" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Hodo, Wesley A. J.
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Automatic Fuse Plug

Description: Patent for "improvements in automatic fuse plugs" (lines 12-12). These are "adapted to be successively engaged by a swinging contact arm" (lines 16-17).
Date: May 19, 1914
Creator: Bowman, Levi M.
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Safety-Catch for Breastpins, &c.

Description: Patent for a safety catch for breast pins, brooches, and other jewelry, that, while easy to easy to use, will not come lose during normal wear. It uses a rigid guard and spring to hold the tongue of the pin in place until released with a lever.
Date: September 19, 1911
Creator: Ferruggiari, Cesar
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Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a washing machine, which has rubbing devices that will not injure the clothes and attaches to any tub and braces it.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Zachary, Archie A.
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Washing Apparatus

Description: Patent for a washing apparatus that cleans clothes with boiling soapy water. Illustrations included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Sheard, Harry Hitner
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Auxiliary Piano Pedal

Description: Patent for an auxiliary piano pedal. This invention is an improvement to the construction of an auxiliary pedal and foot-rest for children. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Norcross, Levi Watson
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Tie for Wire Fencing.

Description: Patent for tie for woven fencing that holds the vertical and horizontal wires firmly together and uses less wire in the tie, thereby making the ties more cost effective.
Date: February 19, 1907
Creator: Collar, Charles T.
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock with a locking plate that can be used for multiple nuts, "particularly those used in securing the joints of railroad rails, frogs, switches, and crossings" (lines 10-12), with illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1906
Creator: Taylor, James T.
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Bag-Holder

Description: Patent for bag holder " an improved cabinet for holding paper bags and the like articles; and the object is to construct a useful, inexpensive cabinet which will be light and compact and practical and in which bags may be placed and taken out when needed without mutilating the bags" (lines 7-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 19, 1901
Creator: Thompson, King D.
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Folding Cot.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvement in folding cots, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Martindale, James Henry
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Electric Time-Signaling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an electric time-signaling apparatus meant for use in hotels or other places where employees need to be alerted. The invention rings a bell and turns on a light when the signals goes off. "If the current of an incandescent electric-light system was electrically connected with a time-circuit, it would destroy the whole mechanism of the time-circuit" (lines 26-29).
Date: November 19, 1895
Creator: Todd, James T. A.
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Angle-Cock.

Description: Patent for "a locking device for the train pipe valve or plug, and a connection separate from the train pipe and under the control of the engineer, to manipulate the said locking device and secure the valve or plug in position." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Waldron, William J.
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Aerial Ship

Description: Patent for "a ship for navigating the air, which shall be almost or quite as easily governed and controlled as regards its course of travel, irrespective of the direction of the wind and in other respects, as a ship provided with propelling means, used to sail in or through the water" (lines 9-15).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Riddle, William Nelson
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Street Car.

Description: Patent for a new and improved street-car. This design "is an improvement in street-cars, and has for an object to provide a draft attachment by the use of which the necessity of turn-tables will be obviated, and the horses will not have to be unhitched from the car until they have finished their work" (lines 13-18).
Date: May 19, 1885
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
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