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Axle-Repairing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new, simple, and efficient axle repairing apparatus for "facilitating the repairing of worn axles without the removal of the wheels or the axles from the vehicle-body" (line 10 -12).
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Hammer, Willie Alice
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End-Gate Lock.

Description: Patent for "a fastening for end-gates of wagons and the like, the arrangement of parts being such as to permit the end-gate being always held in a locked position until it is desired to lower or raise the same." (lines 11-15).
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Murray, Nicholas Charles
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Convertible Corn and Cotton Planter, Stalk-Cutter, and Roller.

Description: Patent for a convertible corn and cotton planter, stalk-cutter, and roller. It has a main frame, a supplemental frame that has its front end hinged to the front of the main frame, a roller with circular journaled in the supplemental frame, transverse segment-plates with removable blades attached to the supplemental frame, spaces between the segment-plates, an axle, driving-wheels, a sprocket wheel and chain, feed-boxes, means for feeding the grain, and wheels for laying the ground and the cover… more
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Mauldin, Columbus Scott
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Car-Brake.

Description: Patent for an improvement "in the application of power to car brakes, whereby the slack is quickly and automatically absorbed, and a powerful leverage is secured, and a perfect equalization of the leverage at each end of the car is obtained, and the convenient and safe adjustment of the brakes in regard to the wheels is effected, and any particular alignment of the brake cylinder in regard to the car body is avoided as the cylinder in regard to the car body is avoided as the cylinder may be pla… more
Date: June 20, 1893
Creator: Ferguson, George J.
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Car-Brake.

Description: Patent for a car brake that "automatically absorb[s] the slack in car brake connecting rods which slack is induced by the wear of the brake shoes and fastening and the stretching of the parts by the strain in applying the brake" (lines 7-12). It is adjustable, inexpensive, and adjustable.
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Ferguson, George J.
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Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a combined cotton and corn planter by having two wheel guards and graduators, one feed-wheel is mounted fixedly on the shaft, the other is removable; so that it can be easily converted from planting corn or cotton-seed, and vice versa, and regulating the planting of either. Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1891
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
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Cotton-Baling Apparatus

Description: Patent for a cotton baling machine in which "the condensing and bat-forming devices will condense and press the lint-cotton so close that the spring of the cotton is broken, thereby avoiding the necessity of providing additional compressing-rollers intermediate the condenser and the press-box. A further object of my invention is to arrange a condenser in such a manner as to save room in the gin-house and to provide means for carrying off the dust and air made by the gin and condenser to the ou… more
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
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Fumigator for Insects.

Description: Patent for a portable fumigator for insects that uses poison laden steam and has a simple, compact, and inexpensive construction. It has a "tubular casing having a liquid-containing tank located within the same, and also having a tampering heating chamber and smoke flue, of a steam pipe located within said tapering chamber and a suitable spirit lamp" (lines 16-20).
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Hammer, Willie Alice
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a fence-wire stretcher with an improved clamping device for holding the wire after it has already been drawn. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Sharpe, Thomas F.
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Valve.

Description: Patent for a new and improved valve. This design is "to provide a . . . valve . . . to cut off the supply of water upon the outside of the induction-port and to drain all water from the valve-body and the connecting-pipes above the same, thereby preventing freezing of the same" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[t]he valve casing or body having oppositely-located ports and provided with a perforated interiorly-threaded lug or projection, in combination with the flanged bushing seated in said valve… more
Date: November 11, 1890
Creator: Morrison, James John
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Twine-Cutter.

Description: Patent for improvements in rope-cutters by designing a “cutter having a slotted bracket with a lateral extension or bearing that has a longitudinal slot and a stop,” with a “combination of a lever-handle having a projecting knife-blade, registering with the slot in the bearing.” (Lines 81-86) This enable the rope to be cut in a single operation without sever the fibers. (Lines 74-76) Illustration is included.
Date: October 13, 1891
Creator: Maulden, Chester Doctor
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Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved washing machine that is meant to "provide a machine which will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic in construction, and wherein clothes may be washed expeditiously and conveniently and without injury thereto" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Jones, James H.
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Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient knee-pad "made of leather or other pliable material, padded with a yielding lining to give comfort to the wearer" (lines 9-11). It prevents gravel, moisture, and other things from injuring the knee of the user.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Dowling, Stonewall Jackson
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Steam-Engine.

Description: Patent for a steam engine which is more economical than other steam engines. "Steam is cut off in the earlier or later part of the stroke, according to the conditions of the work" (lines 15-17), according to a governor or engineer.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Dickson, Henry L.
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