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Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved device used to connect rail cars, including illustrations and descriptions of how the new coupling works.

Date: April 15, 1884

Creator: Hathaway, Charles L.

Composition for Preserving Food

Patent for "combustible compositions which, when ignited, produce a gas or gasses which have preservative and purifying effects upon various substances and surfaces or places exposed to the fumes. It is more especially designed, however, for preserving fruits, vegetables, meats, and other perishable articles." (lines 12-19).

Date: April 15, 1890

Creator: Radam, William

Culvert.

Patent for "a culvert which shall be so constructed that the jarring caused by the passing of trains or wagons will not impair the solidity of the culvert." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 15, 1896

Creator: Parker, William Sink

Drier Rack

Patent for a drier rack on rail-cars to for drying bricks. Illustration included.

Date: March 15, 1904

Creator: Zilker, Andrew J.; Tidmarsh, Albert L. & Armstrong, Charles J.

File-Wrapper and Package Fastener.

Patent for securing expansible envelopes and file wrappers with a flexible cord.

Date: May 15, 1900

Creator: Davis, Frederick Clarke

Fishing-Float

Patent for a float that can be attached or detached from a fishing line and has been improved to prevent the line from breaking. Illustrations included.

Date: September 15, 1908

Creator: Von Rosenberg, William, Jr.

Folding Bracket for Desk-Telephones, &c.

Patent for a folding telephone bracket which can be adapted to a desk and adjusted to the user's convenience. Illustrations included.

Date: September 15, 1908

Creator: Gerhard, William H.

Fuel Produced From Lignite.

Patent for the process by which fuel is created from lignite coal.

Date: December 15, 1891

Creator: Edelmann, Albert

Fuel-Supply System and Starter for Explosive-Engines.

Patent for "improvements in the fuel supply system for explosive engines." (Lines 9-10). Improvements include, utilization of the heat of exhaust gases to vaporize liquid fuel, so that the carburetor and other devices are not necessary.

Date: December 15, 1914

Creator: Lowry, Benjamin F.

Improvement in Joining and Fitting Hoof-Hooks.

Patent for "a new and improved Hoof-Hook or cleaner, for cleaning the hoofs of horses and mules" (line 3) including instructions and an illustration.

Date: September 15, 1868

Creator: Stanley, Frank

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for an improved plow to turn and reverse the mold-board by using a single bolt to secure the reversible mold-board onto the stock of a plow.

Date: May 15, 1860

Creator: Pitts, William C.

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for the improvement of planting seeds using a single seed-slide and double tubes from seed box to distribute seeds to planting point in a more direct route than other seed-planters, including illustration.

Date: May 15, 1860

Creator: Pitts, W. C.

Mold.

Patent for a form of mold that is constructed to expand and contract quickly to form sidewalks and curbs.

Date: July 15, 1913

Creator: Forbis, Frank H.

Nail Driving Tool.

Patent for a new and improved nail-driving tool. This design consists, "with the shell of the tool formed with recesses and a guide-groove . . . the driving-bar provided with notch, die, and roller, spline guided in the groove of the shell, and the returning-spring, of the levers having toes, the former of said levers bearing normally upon the roller, the spring secured to said shell, bearing by its ends upon the ends of the said levers, and the magazine obliquely attached to the shell, provide… more

Date: July 15, 1890

Creator: Brady, William B.

Self Centering Axle Lathe

Patent for a self centering axle lathe. Illustrations included.

Date: November 15, 1904

Creator: Boeckmann, Kurt Von

Siphon-Pump for Oil-Cans.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive siphon meant to transfer oil from a container to another container without spilling the liquid. It can transfer a liquid from a reservoir to a receptacle and back again without spilling.

Date: August 15, 1893

Creator: Franklin, Edward A.

Square.

Patent for a square meant "to provide a simple and cheap steel square embodying also a level, an inclinometer, and mitrometer" (lines 13-15).

Date: September 15, 1896

Creator: Johns, John P.

Vehicle Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a brace consisting of two rings secured together, and having recesses in their meeting sides, and provided with a number of brace-rods passing to one or two rings secured upon the hub of a vehicle-wheel, the spokes fitting in the recesses in the meeting sides of the rings" (lines 19-27).

Date: January 15, 1884

Creator: Stein, Philip Harris

Wrench.

Patent for a nut-wrench capable of tightening different sized nuts. The lower jaw of the wrench has different levels, the overall effect being that of a staircase, while the upper jaw is flat with a bite that holds the nuts in place.

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Tiner, John F.