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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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Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in a plow-beam "having a downwardly-projecting extension or arm at its rear end and a plow-standard pivoted to the beam in front of said extension, of a plate connecting said standard and extension and adapted to slide vertically thereon and an adjusting screw for operating said plate" (lines 1-7).
Date: September 9, 1890
Creator: Swiedom, Ernst J.
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Plow Gage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow gauge. This design "may be adjusted as desired without loosening the connection of the share with the plow-stock, and that when it is desired to shift or change the stock, it may be readily done by running off [a] nut and swinging the bar and shoe forward on the hinge and entirely free from the bolt connections of the plowshare" (lines 73-80).
Date: September 18, 1883
Creator: Holt, Theodore
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