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Mail-Bag.
Patent for a mail-bag meant to "provide such bags or pouches with a secure, efficient, and durable fastening for the mouth which can be easily and quickly opened and closed" (lines 13-16).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Knight, Moses G.
System:
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Kitchen Cabinet
Patent for a kitchen cabinet.
Date:
June 7, 1904
Creator:
Rosser, Virgil O.
System:
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Kitchen Cabinet
Patent for a kitchen cabinet. This invention is equipped with compartments and bins that distribute granular substances via cut-off valves. Illustration included.
Date:
June 2, 1908
Creator:
Curtice, William H. & Rosser, Virgil O.
System:
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Inflatable Tire.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in inflatable tires, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1898
Creator:
Heelan, Lawrence W.
System:
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Valve Gear
Patent for a valve gear. Illustration included.
Date:
June 28, 1904
Creator:
McCain, Sidney Lea
System:
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Improvement in Fluting-Irons.
Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
McCausland, William I.
System:
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Improvement in Machines for Oiling Slides and Glides.
Patent for a new machine to be used for oiling slides and glides for engines, &c., includes illustration.
Date:
June 4, 1878
Creator:
Bates, Asa N.
System:
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Venetian Blind or Shade.
Patent for a mechanism to control the opening and closing of Venetian blinds both by opening the slats or moving the whole blind up or down. It consists of rollers and gears that operate the blinds.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Hughes, Wallace B.
System:
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Process of and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Materials.
Patent for improvements in process of and apparatus for sizing and classifying comminuted materials, according to the size of the particles of the material. It allows for particles to be classified according to size and discharged from the apparatus in different receptacles, with the particles in each receptacle being substantially the same size.
Date:
June 1, 1915
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.
System:
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Huller-Gin
Patent for a huller gin that sends the cotton hulls out of the gin machine automatically and runs continuously.
Date:
June 4, 1912
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
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Station-Indicator.
Patent for a station-indicator for trolley cars meant to "produce an automatic apparatus of this kind which is worked by the movement of the car and in which a map is employed, which is moved in such a way that the various points at which the car stops will always be correctly indicated" (lines 13-18).
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Baker, Artemas
System:
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Mandolin.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in mandolins, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 13, 1899
Creator:
Simpson, Roy Berkeley
System:
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Projectile.
Patent for improvements in projectiles for use in smooth-bore guns of any caliber, the same being so grooved or rifled as to insure rapid rotation and great accuracy and range in flight. (Lines 8-11.) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Croom, Alvis F.
System:
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Step Ladder
Patent for a step ladder. Illustration included.
Date:
June 6, 1905
Creator:
Soergel, John G.
System:
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Telephone Equipment.
Patent for telephone equipment. The invention provides an easy to use attachment for automatic phones that illuminates the dial and only turns on while it is in use to facilitate the use of telephones in the dark.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Haralson, William Major & Pilkington, John F.
System:
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Pantaloons and Overalls.
Patent for new and improved overalls and pants. This design "consists in a garment cut in four pieces of peculiar form united in a peculiar manner, whereby the seat and crotch and the inner sides of the legs are made of double thickness and the leg and crotch both rendered seamless, in order that they may be worn without the discomfort attending the use of garments in which heavy seams or welts exist in the middle" (lines 10-18).
Date:
June 2, 1885
Creator:
Blake, Samuel Diggs
System:
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Grate-Bar.
Patent for a grate bar for furnaces, which allows for proper air distribution in the furnace.
Date:
June 28, 1910
Creator:
Wilderspin, Anderson
System:
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Spring Wheel for Vehicles.
Patent for spring-wheel that will supply resiliency for shock absorption, preventing shocks and jarring to the body of the vehicle.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Crowe, Thomas J.
System:
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Gin-Saw Cleaner.
Patent for a gin saw cleaner for use in cotton gins, which cleans all the teeth of the saw at once.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Roberts, George P.
System:
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Horse-Collar.
Patent for a horse collar that prevents "grinning", i.e., "a slight enlarging of the apertures or slits provided in the outer edge of the lining of a horse collar to receive the thong lacing commonly employed to connect said edge to the corresponding edge of the front of the collar."
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
Schenkenberg, Frederick
System:
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Horse-Collar.
Patent for a horse collar that maximizes strength and minimizes material by addition of a joint.
Date:
June 27, 1914
Creator:
Schoellkopf, Jacob F.
System:
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Engine.
Patent for improvements in engines including governors which have "inertia bars or governing weights" (lines 12-13) including illustrations. In this improvement, the "inertia bars constitute parts of the counterweight" which "counterbalance engine cranks" (lines 14-16).
Date:
June 17, 1919
Creator:
Pratt, Clarence E.
System:
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Drill-Bit.
Patent for improvements in drill bit constructions that allows the drill bit to be switched out and the new bit locked in so it is secure.
Date:
June 22, 1920
Creator:
Midgett, Penelton G.
System:
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Ignition Device.
Patent for improvements in Ignition Devices. This device will assist in locating trouble when a multi-cylinder gasoline engine is not firing regularly and one cylinder is "missing".
Date:
June 8, 1920
Creator:
Wood, Robert N.
System:
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