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Bridge.

Patent for "a simplified and cheapened construction of bridge whereby the weight and strain will be more equally divided and the braces so arranged that expansion and contraction laterally are avoided, while permitting of the necessary expansion and contraction longitudinally of the bridge." (Lines 13-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 16, 1896

Creator: Mitchell, Hirtie F.

Bridge Construction.

Patent for a new and useful bridge construction, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 14, 1898

Creator: Davidson, James Allen

Combined Shears And Knife

Patent for a knife attached to shears.

Date: June 26, 1900

Creator: Fulks, Fredrick F.

Electric Motor.

Patent for a new and improved electric motor. This design "consists, essentially, in such combination of an automatic circuit-breaker with a bar of soft iron secured centrally on a shaft journaled in bearings secured to the motor frame and rotating within a coil or helix that the rotation of said bar will continuously make and break the circuit, and that the action of the circuit-breaker will cause the continuous rotation of the bar" (lines 17-26).

Date: June 22, 1886

Creator: Emley, James E.

Grain-Drill.

Patent for an improved grain drill that is simpler and more efficient than other grain drills. It consists of a disk with a central hub, an annular recess around the hub, segmented washers, radial slots, radial seed apertures, gravity slides, and stems on the slides.

Date: June 6, 1893

Creator: Lawrence, William G.

Insulator.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable insulator meant for protecting wires for telephones and telegraphs. The insulator has two sections with recesses and locking apertures.

Date: June 18, 1895

Creator: Patterson, James M.

Planter Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a planter attachment for cultivators and " it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency." (line 10-13)

Date: June 2, 1903

Creator: Taylor, William F. & Williams, John T.

Plow Attachment

Patent for an inexpensive and simple plow attachment meant to convert the single foot plow stock into a double shovel plow or a gang plow. The attachment is adjustable in order to "straddle the rows to be cultivated; and finally, means for adjusting the standards of the plow whereby the same are adapted to run at any desired depth" (lines 16-20).

Date: June 5, 1894

Creator: Jensen, Ole T.

Rein Holder.

Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a base-plate and spaced posts upon one face of the said plate grooved on their adjacent sides, of a spring-actuated lever provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and a flange projecting from the outer face beyond said surface, the opposite extremity of the lever being curved to form, essentially, a hook, the cylindrical surface being adapted for engagement with one post and the hook extremity with… more

Date: June 4, 1889

Creator: Turman, William F.

Spring-Tooth Harrow

Patent for a spring tooth harrow that may be converted into a rake. Illustrations included.

Date: June 2, 1908

Creator: Piester, Laval M.

Stock Car.

Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.

Date: June 28, 1881

Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C.

Vibrating Churn.

Patent for improvements in vibrating churns in which the dasher is given a rapid rotary vibrating movement and with but very little exertion to the operator. (Lines 30-32) Illustration is included.

Date: June 23, 1891

Creator: Miller, Luther Alison

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the well-bucket, having the rabbeted opening in its bottom, and provided with the apertured cross-bars of the valve-rod passing through the apertures in said cross-bars and the opening in the bottom of the bucket, and the valve secured to the lower end of said rod" (lines 56-62).

Date: June 10, 1884

Creator: Foat, Robert H.