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Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for an improved animal trap for “catching small animals in a trap which will be ever set and in operative position for catching an animal and which will be automatically reset” (lines 10-13), illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Bassinger, Stephen
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Bank-Protector.

Description: Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Saxon, James A.
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a combination of “a rod pivoted at its front end to the side of the draw-head and pivotally connected at its rear end..... when the draw-head is driven to the rear by the force of the blow received in coupling with another draw-head, the lug will be pressed to the front,” (lines 30-40) illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Bright, Tom Full
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Carbon Holder for Electric Arc Lamps

Description: Patent for improvements made to the carbon holder for electric arc lamps to improve efficiency in replacing the lamps. To improve upon the current design, the patent illustrates and describes a new level clutch system to allow movement, as opposed to the gravity-based design previously implemented.
Date: March 17, 1914
Creator: Lacy, Benjamin Burton & Elrod, Henry E.
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Check-Punch.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and compact check-punch that can be operated by one hand and doesn't take much power to operate. The machine consists of two movable members, "one of which carries all of the male and the other all of the female dies, said members being so related that when moved relatively to each other in one direction all the male dies move as a single member...and enter the female dies, and when moved in the opposite direction all of said male dies are withdrawn" (lines 12-… more
Date: March 17, 1896
Creator: Woodworth, Charles H.
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Combination-Plow.

Description: Patent for combination-plow by providing a plow with “interchangeable parts, whereby the same may be used as a double-foot plow, a middle-breaking plow adapted for deep and shallow running and a sweep-stock” (lines 10-13), includes illustration.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Davis, William H.
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Dish-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a dish cleaner that consists of an oscillating vessel where dishes are placed, which goes inside another vessel. The inner vessel has openings so the water can go in and out while cleaning dishes, and the vessel is hand-turned by a crank on the top of the machine.
Date: March 17, 1896
Creator: WIllie, William Thomas
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Double Foot Plow Stock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved double-foot plow-stock. This design consists "[i]n a double-footed plow, the combination of the beam provided with transverse holes, the cross-bar having slots, the pivot-bolt, and the adjustable braces independently pivoted to the cross-bar . . . [and] [t]he slotted standard having on its front face the notches and the plow-point, in combination with the clip, having a T-head whose lower face is V-shaped to fit in one of the notches of the standard" (lines 83-93).
Date: March 17, 1885
Creator: Page, Dyonisius Oliver
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End Gate Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved end-gate fastener. This design "consists in the hook-ended lever-buckle . . . for drawing up and fastening the ends of chains used on presses, wagons, and other places where a simple and convenient device that can be readily and quickly operated is needed" (lines 8-13).
Date: March 17, 1885
Creator: Swenson, Bengt. J.
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Fly-Trap.

Description: Patent for a fly trap which consists of a motor powered turning cylinder coated in a sticky substance to attract flies, which is placed within a cage to catch flies scraped from the cylinder.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Richbourg, Joseph Fletcher
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Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a gate, one of the rails whereof is about thrice as thick as the remainder of said rails, and is provided with a central groove along its upper face, of three supporting-posts, each having a recess furnished with a roller in its lower part, upon which the aforesaid rail may travel, a tongue projecting from the upper edge of said recess into the groove of said rail, and an upright attached to the central post, s… more
Date: March 17, 1885
Creator: Davis, Richard I.
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Grain-Scale.

Description: Patent for “improvements in grain-scales, especially adapted for location at the rear end of a trashing-machine and for receiving therefrom the thrashed grain, weighing and subsequently bagging the same in predetermined quantities” (lines 7-12), includes illustration.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Butts, Alexander W.
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Hand-Stamp.

Description: Patent for improvements in hand-stamps which “comprised a polygonal block or disk having some of its edges provided with rubber type-strips securely fastened thereto, its other edges cut away to form shoulders, spring-metal guides or holders secured the cut-away portions, and type-strips removably secured in the guides or holders,” (lines 75-82); includes illustration.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Fox, James T.
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Harrow.

Description: Patent for improvements in harrows which can be “adapted to be reversed for pulverizing and leveling the surface traversed, to avoid evaporation as far as possible, and place the ground in the best condition for the travel of harvesters and other machines in gathering crops” (lines 9-14), illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Day, John W.
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