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Convertible Mop and Brush.

Description: Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Bagby, William H.

Cooling and Preserving Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a "cooling apparatus in which a cloth envelops a vertically-disposed series of supports, and has its upper end dipping into a receptacle supplied with water; and the object of the improvement is to secure a uniformity of temperature throughout the structure, and particularly in the several compartments formed between the various supports, as well as to prevent the spoiling of food by foreign matters entering the same by accidental dislodgment from a support immediately thereover." (L… more
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Brown, Elijah Clark

Fence-Post.

Description: Patent for improvements to Fence-Posts, preferably made from metal, providing for simple construction and a means for holding wire, which is also of simple construction.
Date: April 7, 1914
Creator: Copeland, Walter G.

Cooking Utensil.

Description: Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Curran, William Ferris

Overall Jacket Or Waist.

Description: Patent for an overall jacket or waists, the construction of which permits of its formation with less material and its use with greater comfort and convenience by terminating at its lower edge in a waist band, which, in use, is intended to be seated upon or lap the upper edges or portions of the trouser sections, thus avoiding the extensions usually present with a wait section or jacket into the trouser section.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Elliot, Joseph Samuel

Hair-Clipper.

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements" (line 6) in the Hair Clipper, concerning the introduction of more efficient "double-acting clippers" (line 12), including illustrations.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Jones, Sidney P. & Wallace, David P.

Perforating Mechanism for Cylinder Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for a perforating mechanism for cylinder printing-presses that is simple and automatic. It produces "lines of perforations at any required distance apart and of any desired length in paper or cardboard at the time of printing thereon the forms for checks, draft, bills, notes, tickets or other printed or lithographed matter" (lines 12-17).
Date: April 17, 1894
Creator: Kellner, Eugene

Stove Pipe Damper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved stove-pipe damper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a damper-blade with a spindle rigidly attached thereto and having at one end a cylindrical pivot projecting beyond the periphery of the blade, and at the opposite end a screw projecting beyond said periphery, of a supporting-ring in which the projecting ends of said spindle are journaled, the bearing of the cylindrical end of said spindle being in an inwardly-bent portion of said supporting-ring" (… more
Date: April 19, 1887
Creator: Lederle, Edward Emil

Device for Teaching Music

Description: Patent for a music education device aimed toward children and basic music building blocks. It is designed to teach the positions of piano keyboard notes through the use of differently dressed and named puppets. These puppets can be adjusted to also introduce basic musical concepts like rests, rhythm, and time.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Maxwell, Annie L.
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