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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car coupling that consists of a pin, a lever, a catchbar, a drawhead that sits under the catchbar and guides it, a rack slide, and a curved lifter. It improves on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 437,734).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Testard, Adrian
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an improved car coupling that can be operated without going between cars. The coupling facilitates "the coupling of cars having drawheads at the same and different heights by readily guiding the link of one of them into the other" (lines 14-17).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Norcross, George A.
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Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.

Description: Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Anderson, Anders Peder
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Burglin, Bernhard
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Tumbler-Washer.

Description: Patent for a device that is meant to thoroughly clean the inside and outside of glasses, mugs, and similar articles. The operator need not get their hands wet, and the brushes that clean the glasses are adjustable for different sized glasses.
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Zauner, Alexander
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Pneumatic Cotton-Picker.

Description: Patent for an improved pneumatic cotton-picker that is meant "to produce a simple machine having a cotton receiving box or vacuum box and arranged to use both a blast and suction pipe, these pipes being oppositely arranged and the suction pipe being made to deliver into the cotton box" (lines 10-17). The cotton is sucked from the plants and delivers it into a cotton box. A guide lines the machine up with the row of cotton.
Date: May 23, 1893
Creator: Mauermann, Gustav A.
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Hoof-Cleaning Tool.

Description: Patent for an improved farriers tool that cleans animals' hoofs that is a specially designed hook. It works quickly, thoroughly, and easily.
Date: July 25, 1893
Creator: Jenner, Robert C.
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