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Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.
Patent for an "improved apparatus by means of which ground-squirrels and gophers can be destroyed in their holes, conveniently and effectively, and at small expense" (para. 4). The mechanism works by gassing underground vermin with sulphuric fumes.
Date:
July 10, 1877
Creator:
Dreyer, Henry
System:
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Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvement in churns by using an oblong box with a diamond-shaped dash fixed in the box. The churning is done by rapidly swing the box back and forth until butter is obtained. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 8, 1872
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
System:
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Improvement In Bale-Ties.
This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.
Date:
April 16, 1878
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
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Improvement in Bale-Ties
Patent for improvement in cotton bale-ties, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Roeber, Alexander
System:
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Stapling Machine
Patent for a stapling machine. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Kennedy, William J.
System:
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Automobile-Jack.
Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.
Date:
August 29, 1912
Creator:
Bouldin, W. Claughton
System:
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Washing-Machine
Patent for a washing-machine
Date:
January 27, 1903
Creator:
Cesinger, George Valentine
System:
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Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Brooks, George Washington
System:
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Improvement in Portable Fences.
Patent for new and useful improvements in fences made in sections or panels. It consists in the construction and arrangement of the brackets or supports for the panels.
Date:
January 12, 1875
Creator:
Johnson, Jehu W.
System:
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Plow Attachment
Patent for a plow attachment. This invention works with sweep plows and consists of a runner and secured to the end of the plow beam. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Wiegert, Theodore & Neumann, Louis
System:
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Plow.
Patent for improvements to the turning-plow, with convertible attachments for other forms of plow.
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
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Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, one that may be easily operated, and yet be positive in its engagement with the latch to prevent it from being opened by cattle, &c." (lines 8-14).
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Dunn, Henry Frankling.
System:
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Street Car.
Patent for a new and improved street car. This design "has reference to the construction of steam and other street-cars, whereby the same can be readily turned around corners, having for its object the simplifying of the construction and lessening the cost of construction" of previous street cars (lines 22-27).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Towell, Isaac
System:
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Seed Planter
Patent for...a seed planting machine which improves upon an earlier cotton seed planting machine. The improved apparatus can be substituted for corn and other seeds. It may also be utilized for ground cultivation.
Date:
July 15, 1884
Creator:
Pietzsch, Louis; Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Joseph R.
System:
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Barrel
Patent for ventilated barrels for shipment of fruits, vegetables, meat, and other articles in order to remain fresh
Date:
February 28, 1882
Creator:
McCormick, Willis B.
System:
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Railway-Ticket, &c.
Patent "to furnish for railway-companies a form of excursion-ticket whose return portion or stop-over portion, as the case may be, is not capable of successful use by scalpers" (lines 11-15).
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Smith, Lowndes G.
System:
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Seal.
Patent for a car door seal lock device made of a strip of twistable metal.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Reister, John Christian
System:
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Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a saw filing machine for cotton gin saws.
Date:
December 27, 1910
Creator:
Seifert, Henry
System:
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Switch Operating Device
Patent for a simple, inexpensive and efficient design for an operating switch for use on street-railway cars to enable a motorman to quickly throw a switch or set switch without leaving the platform of the car.
Date:
October 15, 1901
Creator:
Tanner, Calvin W.
System:
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Flash-Lamp
Patent for a flash lamp for taking photographs. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 22, 1912
Creator:
Harrington, David
System:
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Plow
Patent for a new type of plow granted to Anton Schindler.
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Schindler, Anton
System:
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Wheeled Stretcher or Litter
Patent for wheeled stretcher used to transport wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Doole, Thomas P.
System:
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Post Hole Digger.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient device, the levers of which can be readily separated, so that either of them can be used as a spade or shovel to fill in the earth around the post after it is placed in the hole" (lines 14-19).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Armstrong, John J.
System:
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Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Delany, Charles William
System:
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