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Car-Replacer.

Description: Patent for improvements in car-replacers by using a jack-screw with a swiveled rest secured on top. The swiveled rest consists of an oblong box having rollers projecting above its upper edge. A windlass with a rope is journeyed in the jack-screw, passing through the swiveled rest, over a pulley and out of one end of the rest; the rope end having a hook or other suitable means for connecting it with the car. When the windlass is turned, “the car-body is moved laterally upon the rollers until … more
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: White, James L.
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Ant-Trap.

Description: Patent for a new type of ant trap that captures ants by having them crawl up a wooden central chamber and then fall into a sheer metal pit. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Walker, Stephen A.
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Car-Door.

Description: Patent for improvements in car doors. These improvements make the doors fire and water proof and allow the door to be locked. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Moore, Francis A.
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Means for Operating Blowers.

Description: Patent for the improvement and simplification of the construction of blowers and to enable a forge-blower to be readily operated by the foot, to leave the hands of the operator free. Includes illustration.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Murphy, Thomas A.; Murphy, John H. & Carroll, J. Y.
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Mowing-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in mowing-machines by “providing a simplified means of applying the power direct to the cutter-bar by means of levers and connections,” (lines 16-18) in which will result in an easily run and quieter machine. Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Rich, Benjaman F.
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Tire-Heater.

Description: Patent for improvements in tire-heater by using a tire box with a number of horizontal bars, tires are placed “into the front of the box and moved into correct position upon the horizontal bars without necessarily lifting the tires.” (Lines 29-32) Diverging arms are secured to the axis inside the tire box. Lamps are secured at the outer ends of the diverging arms. These diverging arms operate by a regulating crank which makes the lamps revolved beneath the tires, therefore heating the tires… more
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Parks, James H.
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Feed-Trough.

Description: Patent for improvements in feed-troughs in which a controlled amount of feed can be placed in a feed box, and in which the latter will be fed as rapidly as consumed and the unconsumed feed will be protected. (Lines 11-14) Illustration in included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Webb, William James
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Seed-Planter.

Description: Patent for a more simple and affordable way to make seed planters "in which there is used some sort of opener to make a furrow into which the seed are dropped, and some sort of devices which follow after and cover over the seed," (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
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Car-Brake.

Description: Patent for improvements in car brakes, "wherein the ordinary brake-beams are dispensed with and wherein the several brake-shoe-carrying levers will be self-adjusting." (lines 8 - 11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Braun, Henry F.
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for improvements in rotary engines to allow for the expansion of steam after admission and minimum leakage in order to provide an engine that is capable of long-continued use with a minimum of wear and working friction (lines 15-22), including illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Stocker, James M. & Stocker, Ziba O.
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Shoe-Fastening.

Description: Patent for improvements in shoe-fastenings by using a “pivoted clasp-lever which has a tail-piece acted upon by a leaf-spring for holding the lever in its closed or open position.” (Lines 11-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Dessoir, Julius
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for improvements in car-couplings by enhancing a device called pin-lifter to couple and uncouple rail cars. Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Weathersby, Sarah Ann
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a draw-head having a chamber and a recess from its upper face into the chamber, of a coupling-dog pivoted in the recess and having a notch in its under faces and a hook at its forward end...... and the chain and levers connected with the said eyes.” (Lines 32-41) Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Lewis, Thomas E.
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