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Center and Other Tables.

Description: Patent for a new and improved table. This design consists "[i]n a table, stool, or other like article of furniture, the combination, with a slotted standard and rods extending across the slots, of the legs having dowel-pins entering holes in the under side of the table-top, and cam-shaped hooks connected to the legs and engaging with the slots and rods of the standard" (lines 73-79).
Date: September 15, 1885
Creator: Burroughs, William Thomas
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Child's Crib.

Description: Patent for a new and improved child's crib. This design utilizes "a rock-shaft with inward-projecting arms, from the inner ends of which the cords are suspended, [and it] avoid[s] the friction and wear of the cords incident to the carrying of these through the screw-eyes, as shown in [a previous patent], making them last much longer, beside simplifying the construction of the crib" (lines 67-74).
Date: March 15, 1881
Creator: Brown, Fred Harvey
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Coffee Roaster.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coffee roaster. This design calls for "a revolving cylinder; and the invention consists of a cylinder provided with a hollow trunnion, and of a semi-tubular tester introduced through said trunnion into the cylinder, which tester serves as a handle for revolving the cylinder, and can be withdrawn from time to time with samples of coffee to enable the operator to judge of the progress of the roasting process" (lines 11-19).
Date: February 15, 1881
Creator: Owens, Harrison
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Coffin

Description: Patent for a lightweight and sturdy coffin made of two solid pieces of baked or burned clay which can be sealed with cement and secured further with nuts and bolts.
Date: June 15, 1915
Creator: Arnold, Price
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Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of steam cotton presses using a change in the frame and use of hydraulic-pressure pumps to operate the press. The pumps are driven by steam
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Turnpaugh, James William
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Fan

Description: Patent for fan or blower for the conveyance of materials such as cotton, cottonseed, and saw dust under suction and air pressure from supple source to the delivery point. The travel of material is continuous and the materials will not come into contact with the blades of the fan or blower.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: Dickerson, Eustice E.
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Fence-Stay.

Description: Patent for a fence stay that can be put on without any special tools. The stay also forms a clamp in itself and does not require any other tie to keep it in place.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
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Hose-Bridge.

Description: Patent for a hose bridge for placing on street car rails over fire hoses to allow the street cars to run while a hose is crossing the tracks.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Troutt, Martin E.
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Improvement in Farm Gates.

Description: Patent for "a gate herein I dispense with the use of hinges and other similar devices and prevent sagging; also that the operation of opening or shutting the gate, owing to its balanced and suspended condition, is attended with little or no exertion on the part of the operator..." (lines 84-90) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1875
Creator: Snider, Tunis
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Life Boat

Description: Patent for life boats to use for large passenger ships, cruise and other boats that can be installed at the sides of the ships for easy access during evacuation.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Sargeant, Benjamin F.
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Matrix Molding Device

Description: Patent for invention relating to the matrix molding device that is used in linotype or intertype or linecasting machines for molding printers' slugs. This invention is to provide devices by which type high printing slugs can be molded with printing surfaces of various designs.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
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Metal Packing-Case for Food Products.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful packing-case for food products" (lines 13-14), particularly for cured meats. It protects "against flies, souring, shrinking, &c., than the ordinary forms of packing" (lines 20-21). It is made from metal, stamped into a packing-case.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Blanke, Louis H.
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Nutcracker

Description: Patent for improvements in nutcrackers that make it easier and safer to use, and more easily retrieve the contents of the nut. It is durable and can be manufactured at low cost.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Dato, Edward
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