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Ant-Trap
Patent for an ant trap,with illustrations. Purpose of the invention was to be efficient more efficient in both cost and use in comparison to other ant traps being sold at the time.
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
Davis, Edwin E.
System:
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Water-Tank.
Patent for improved water-tank of which will provide a construction to prevent leakage, bruising, and warping of the wood and in which water will be kept cool and clean.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Evans, Edwin Fousiiee
System:
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Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1850
Creator:
Milner, George B.
System:
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Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for fumigation insect destroyer, in particular cotton boll weevils, but also for prairie dogs and other vermin.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Koy, August & Kveton, John
System:
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Veterinary Mouth-Speculum.
Patent for a mouth speculum for use by veterinarians to hold open the mouths of animals during surgeries on their teeth.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Rutherford, Frank E.
System:
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Life-Preserver.
Patent for life preserver worn on the human body and inflated with a valve attached to rubber tubes. Includes illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Graham, George
System:
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Well-Bucket.
Patent for a well bucket with a float attachment to prevent the bucket from hitting the bottom of the well and stirring up sand or mud.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Thomas, Eliga Moran
System:
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Improvement in Hame-Fastenings.
Patent for improvements in economical and durable hame-fastening.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
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Improvement in Churn-Motors
Patent for an improvement in churn-motors, which would allow for the motor to run faster or slower as needed, with illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Julius A.
System:
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Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a thill-coupling that has a clip-eye, pivot-bolt, and an open-slotted thill-iron that has flat and extended jaws with a hole. The jaws are lined up with the thill-iron, meant to secure a railroad spike into place. The invention also has a flat bar-spring attached to the thill-iron.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Dibrell, Anthony
System:
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Pressing and Drying Garments.
Patent for pressing and drying pantaloons and garments which includes a hollow form made of sheet metal that is closed steam-tight and uses a steam pipe inside to dry the garments.
Date:
October 8, 1881
Creator:
Wolf, Louis
System:
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Knockdown Seat.
Patent for seats which are easy to set up and take down as temporary seating for events and which can be folded up in small pieces for storage.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Garrison, Thomas Lee
System:
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Method of Forming Round Bales.
Patent for a method making round cotton bales at cotton gins more efficiently by providing a way of winding the bat of cotton into a ball in between press runs.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
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Plow.
Patent for an improvement to plows that allows adjustments to be made to them both vertically and angularly.
Date:
July 30, 1920
Creator:
Zebranek, Joseph
System:
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Harrow-Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a harrow attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Kovar, William L. & Wlha, William
System:
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Gate
Patent for "a gate which can be built at a comparatively low price, which will be durable and practical, and which can be opened from either side with ease" (lines 13-17).
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Baker, Cicero McRee
System:
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Third Seat for Vehicles.
Patent for an extra third seat for vehicles, which folds up when not in use.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Bond, Tom, Sr.
System:
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Hame-Fastener
Patent for an improved hame fastener, including illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Dodson, Roy
System:
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Elevator Signal System
Patent for an elevator signal system that can be installed in elevators which indicates "the floor positions of all the cars as well as the car carrying the indicator" (lines 10-12), including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
McNabb, Alvin C.
System:
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Reel
Patent for a reel for barbed wires. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Kennedy, William H.
System:
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Railway Frog
Patent for railway frog which "will tend to minimize the danger of train derailment at switch crossings" (lines 12-13).
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
Jackson, George Ferris
System:
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Folding Paper Box.
Patent for a folding cardboard box with a lid made from one piece of cardboard.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Rhodes, Albert May
System:
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Fan for Rocking Furniture.
Patent for a new and improved fan for rocking furniture. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the fan-supporting frame . . . the fan adjustably journaled to the bar, and the holding forks pivoted to uprights of the fan pivoted to the ends of the horizontal arms of the frame, all arranged to form a set of fans for front and rear service" (lines 94-100).
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry Alexander
System:
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Fiber Unwinder and Mixer.
Patent for a fiber unwinder and mixer meant to pick apart, unroll, and mix lint-cotton or other similar material. It then presses the lint-cotton into cylindrical bales "in order to restore the cotton or similar material in such bales to the loose condition requisite for the usual process of manufacture in mills, and to mix different grades of cotton or like fibrous material, when desired" (lines 17-22).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
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