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Automobile-Headlight

Patent for a headlight design that turns with the front wheels, allowing the driver to illuminate the road ahead whether driving straight or turning.

Date: June 30, 1914

Creator: Fay, Peter J.

Combined Wardrobe and Book-Case.

Patent for a combined bookcase and wardrobe cabinet, with illustrations. The purpose of the bookcase and wardrobe cabinet is to be "used as a bookcase, wardrobe, or show-case at will" (lines 10-11).

Date: November 30, 1886

Creator: Schmidt, Julius Friedrich

Design for a Staple.

Design for a staple provided with series of barbs or spurs and intervening corrugations arranged in continuous series at the inner and outer edges of the staple.

Date: May 30, 1899

Creator: La Prelle, John

Patent for a new and improved fan for rocking furniture. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the fan-supporting frame . . . the fan adjustably journaled to the bar, and the holding forks pivoted to uprights of the fan pivoted to the ends of the horizontal arms of the frame, all arranged to form a set of fans for front and rear service" (lines 94-100).

Date: July 30, 1889

Creator: McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry Alexander

Improvement in Hat-Ventilators.

Patent for improvement in mode of ventilating hats, bonnets, and or caps by “providing the inside of the head-coverings, at the point of contact with the head, with a liuing or an elastic spiral formed into a cushion, through which the air can freely circulate around the whole head.” (Lines 28-32) Illustration is included.

Date: March 30, 1869

Creator: Stremme, Conrad C.

Lining for Pneumatic Tires and Other Pneumatic Articles

Patent for a lining for pneumatic tires and other pneumatic articles. The invention is designed to immediately close ruptures. It applies to bicycles, automobiles, and the like. Illustration included.

Date: April 30, 1907

Creator: Petmechy, Fred

Process of and Apparatus for Cleaning, Tinting, and Polishing Pecan and Other Nuts.

Patent for a new and improved method and machine for cleaning, tinting, and polishing nuts. This design facilitates "[t]he process of cleaning and tinting pecan and other nuts, which consists in first subjecting them to the action of a lye, abrading substances, and water within a rotating close vessel, and subsequently to the action of a dyeing solution in a separate rotating close vessel" (lines 5-11).

Date: October 30, 1883

Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.

Rubber Compound.

Patent for a new and improved rubber compound, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 30, 1899

Creator: Petmecky, Joseph Charles

Shears

Patent for shears to be used by metal workers. Illustrations included.

Date: May 30, 1911

Creator: Burkett, Thomas

Type-Writing Machine for the Blind

Patent for "an improvement in machines for the production of writings for the blind, under what is technically termed the point system" (lines 8-11).

Date: December 30, 1890

Creator: Sthreshley, Lizzie

Windmill.

Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)

Date: August 30, 1892

Creator: Campbell, George W.