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Car-Seal.

Description: Patent for a car seal, made of a long, thin, and narrow metallic strip. When it is looped through two parts of the car body, the ends can be pinned together with sealing irons. This car seal cannot be tampered with without visible evidence showing.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Lawler, Claude B.; Bryan, William A. & Keller, John.

Interior Bracing For Silos

Description: The invention relates to silos and the removable devices that prevent the silos from collapsing when empty. The object is to provide wooden stave silos with certain adjustable and economical braces which are easily and quickly applied. It will be highly efficient in preventing the blowing down or collapsing of silos when empty. They would also be able to be easily and quickly removed when the silos are being filled.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Galbraith, Henry William

Oil Burner

Description: Patent for oil burner "in which the oil will be atomized by and thoroughly mixed with air or steam under pressure and if used in the presence of steam be preheated before admixture ... of use in power plants and in stoves, furnaces and the like" (lines 11-18).
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Mayer, E. R.

Rope Guide and Protector.

Description: Patent for improvements to rope guides and protectors for "unloading grain from cars, to prevent the rope from wearing during its passage around the door jamb of the [train] car, and also to prevent friction during such passage of the rope" (lines 14-18).
Date: July 27, 1915
Creator: Early, Allen
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