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Barrel Press

Description: Patent for a barrel press.
Date: September 1, 1903
Creator: Schenck, August

Cord-Tying Device.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cord tying devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Postley, Charles A.

Machine-Gun

Description: Patent for an improvement in a "battery of guns, and has for its object the operating of any one of the guns by the recoil of another and in succession as long as may be deemed necessary" (lines 7-11).
Date: July 1, 1890
Creator: Greer, John William

Match-Safe

Description: Patent for a match safe which can contain many matches at once, but only one at a time may be withdrawn. Illustrations included.
Date: September 1, 1908
Creator: Swenson, Frank Oscar

Mosquito Bar Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved frame for mosquito bars. This design calls for wires, bent at right angles, to be attached to a center piece, in which hanging-cords can be stored. This design represents a lighter, more portable alternative to the wooden predecessors.
Date: November 1, 1881
Creator: Bostick, William T.

Mosquito-Canopy for Folding Bed

Description: Patent for an improvement "to provide a folding bed of any variety with a canopy-frame for suspending a netting which will both fold up when the bed is closed and open when the bed is opened automatically" (lines 9-13).
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Eva, Addison H.

Nutcracker

Description: Patent for a nutcracker. This design is for the automatic feeding of nuts into the hopper through a discharge tube. Illustration included.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Peckham, Samuel C.

Railway-Tie

Description: Patent for a railway tie that can be "firmly secured in the road-bed and which will hold single or double rails" (lines 10-11) so that they cannot be accidentally displaced, including illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Budington, Albert G.

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a boiler washing machine that uses a stove and a hand-operated pounder attachment. This invention makes these types of washing machines more efficient.
Date: September 1, 1896
Creator: Arnold, Isaac Hill
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