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Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom
Patent for an apparatus for expressing the fluids out of paraffin compositions and separating the scale therefrom. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 4, 1913
Creator:
Hansen, Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. This invention uses a ballast and simulates the appearance and motion of a floating ship under way. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Corneliussen, Ivar
System:
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Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton.
Patent for an apparatus for handling lint-cotton that allows air to move freely without back pressure while putting the fiber into a bat. It has a "trunk into which a series of gins deliver, of a primary condenser having a high surface speed, so that it will rapidly remove the fiber and prevent the bat from building up of such thickness as to check the escape of air, and a second condenser having a slower surface speed and arranged to receive the lint from the first condenser and form it into a thicker bat" (lines 29-37).
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
System:
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Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.
Patent for "lowering and detaching life and other small boats from large ships" (lines 5-7), including illustration.
Date:
March 16, 1858
Creator:
De Veuve, Henry
System:
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Wrench.
Patent for an improved wrench that is effective and durable. Illustration and description included.
Date:
March 28, 1916
Creator:
Collier, Frank A.
System:
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Letter Copying Press.
Patent for a new and improved copier. This design consists in "the combination of the dampening-roller . . . with the smoothing-roller at one side of and in close proximity to it and situated between said dampening-roller and the roll of paper, and the roller journaled in the standard, and the smoothing-rollers placed at one side and beyond the rollers . . . and journaled in brackets . . . whereby the paper is evenly and smoothly moistened before the copy-paper is applied and both are kept smooth during the process of copying" (lines 90-104).
Date:
March 12, 1889
Creator:
Thompson, Charles Albert
System:
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Window Construction.
Patent for window construction improvements to allow for construction of fireproof windows with fireproof sashes which are easily removable for repair or replacement. Improvements include method of securing glass in sashes without using putty, and sashes which will close automatically when subjected to "an unusually high temperature" (line 29).
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Miller, William Henry
System:
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Window-Shade-Operation-Lever.
Patent for an invention that provides a simple and relatively inexpensive means for operating window shades without involving a spring roller.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
Lee, William
System:
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Water Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved water cooler. This design consists in "vessels, packing, cross-bars in [a] compartment, connecting tube, coiled pipe, coupling, and faucet . . . [and] the swinging bracket arranged below the faucet, and having stands for two or more glasses," as well as casing and lining (lines 1-7).
Date:
March 27, 1883
Creator:
Schultze, August J.
System:
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Trap for Crustacea
Patent for a trap used to catch various crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 3, 1908
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for improved bale-tie fastener with flattened hook.
Date:
March 10, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
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Improvement In Bale-Ties.
This patent was crated for an improved way of manufactoring ties to hold packages together that consists of bale, hemp, cotton, rags or substances. It was created to reduce the rising costs or manufacturing products of this caliber.
Date:
March 16, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Water S.
System:
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Hydraulic Pump
Patent for a hydraulic pump. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Russell, Robert H.; Arnold, Clifton W. & Sheldon, Walter L.
System:
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Process of and Machine for the Use of Compressed Air as a Motive Power
Patent for "a new and useful Process of Operating Locomotives by Compressed Air," (lines 6-8) including illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1886
Creator:
Tull, Francis Shales; Kuehn, Herman & Beers, William Francis
System:
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Spirit-Level.
Patent for a spirit level that is simple in construction and can easily determine vertical and horizontal planes accurately.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Martin, Johann
System:
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Spool or Bobbin Holder.
Patent for a spool or bobbin holder that has a spindle with a flange on it, a retractable spring, an actuated catch, and a stem on the spindle.
Date:
March 13, 1894
Creator:
Homer, Arthur B.
System:
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Improvement in Machines for Polishing Marble, &c.
Patent for an improved machine that rubs and polishes marble using a sand and water box moving forward and backward to polish the stone without man power and tools, including illustration.
Date:
March 20, 1860
Creator:
Emmett, William
System:
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Tape Feeding And Checking Register
Patent for an improved register that can verify transactions
Date:
March 30, 1920
Creator:
Greenwalt, Jesse Austin
System:
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Suspended Safe, &c.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "[has a] top projecting beyond its sides . . . in combination with the upright posts having liquid-cups, the rods, and sleeves for suspending the safe from contact with any object" (lines 79-83).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Mason, Sanford
System:
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Washing-Fluid
Patent for invention has relation to improved detergent and it consists in combining certain ingredients and the manner and proportions as will be here in after fully set forth, and particular pointed out in the claim appended.[10]
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Mnnick, Maggie, E.
System:
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Music-Leaf Turner.
Patent for a device for "Turning Leaves of Sheet-Musics, Music-Books and, other Books" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1880
Creator:
Becker, Francis L.
System:
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Tire-Tightener.
Patent for improved tire-tighteners "capable of ready adjustment to contract and expand a tire, to permit the tire to be tightened when a wheel becomes loose in dry weather, and to expand in wet weather to prevent the same from becoming dished." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
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Stirrup.
Patent for "a stirrup having an improved turntable spring-support which will permit the stirrup to turn readily, so that the foot can assume any desired angle toward or from the horse and so that the stirrup will be yieldingly upheld, whereby certain advantages are attained in mounting, particularly when employed in connection with a wild or unmanageable animal." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1897
Creator:
Vann, George G.
System:
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Fireproof Window.
Patent for the Fireproof Window that reduces the construction cost and provide means for automatically closing the lower sash based on the predetermined temperature.
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Miller, William Henry
System:
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