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Automatic Siphon
Patent for an automatic siphon. This invention is intended to for the purpose of draining cellars and basements. Illustration included.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Ackley, George D.
System:
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Bridle-Bit.
Patent for new and improved bridle-bits, including illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1900
Creator:
Lee, Joseph Loverel
System:
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Anesthetic Holding And Dispensing Apparatus
Patent for an anesthetic holding and dispensing apparatus. Illustration included.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Maxfield, James R. & Maupin, Seth B.
System:
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Machinery for Irrigating Purposes
Patent for a machine that irrigates with a water wheel. The water wheel is connected to a float and a rod connected that is connected to a crank on the shaft of the wheel.
Date:
September 25, 1888
Creator:
Owen, Benajah Dotte
System:
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Cash-Register.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cash-register that is accurate and alerts the customer to the price. The operator must charge the correct amount for the purchase.
Date:
September 25, 1894
Creator:
Johnson, William W.
System:
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Automatic Flame-Regulator
Patent for a simple mechanical means of automatically maintaining a desired temperature within an incubator lamp.
Date:
September 25, 1917
Creator:
Krizan, Joseph, Jr.
System:
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Centrifugal Gun.
Patent for a centrifugal gun wherein a fixed barrel is provided.
Date:
September 25, 1917
Creator:
Brown, Archie Edwards
System:
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Aerial Projectile
Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
Date:
September 25, 1918
Creator:
Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney
System:
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Liniment.
Patent for “a compound for the treatment of diseases of the kidney, rheumatism, neuralgia, diarrhea, dysentery, cramps, colic, and pains, and dyspepsia” (lines 8-11) which includes ingredients and their measurements . The ingredients are alcohol, spirits of turpentine, spirits of camphor, aqua-ammonia, tincture of opium, chloroform, tincture of ginger, oil of sassafras, balsam of fir, essence of peppermint, oil of black pepper, oil of origanum, tincture of capsicum, tincture of guaiacum, and sulphuric ether.
Date:
September 25, 1885
Creator:
Christopher, George Washington & Grant, James M.
System:
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Windmill-Regulator
Patent for a windmill regulator, specifically windmill breaks "to be used in connection with a windmill placed upon a tower in the usual manner and having the controlling-wire depending therefrom to be drawn upon for stopping the pumping mechanism and to be released for allowing it to resume its operation" (lines 22-28), including illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1900
Creator:
Rohlf, Claus H.
System:
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Stalk Cutter
Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustration included.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Stevenson, William Crook
System:
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Tire-Armor.
Patent for "a flexible protector adapted to be applied to a tire" (lines 8-9).
Date:
September 25, 1917
Creator:
Oatman, Duke
System:
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Trace-Carrier
Patent for trace carrier for a plow "especially designed to support the trace adjustably in a vertical direction, so as to vary the line of the draft upon the plow and also provide a guide and support for the reins" (lines 9-13), including illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1900
Creator:
Smith, William F.
System:
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Speculum
Patent for an improved version of the speculum, a gynecological instrument, including illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1900
Creator:
Morrow, John W.
System:
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Process of Preserving Wood
Patent for a process of preserving wood.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Logan, John Thomas
System:
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Nut-Lock
Patent for a nut lock, to hold a nut in place or act in place of a washer, including illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1900
Creator:
Dowell, Jeff Davis & Galliher, Lawrence M.
System:
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Guard Rail
Patent for a guard rail. Illustration included.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Hibbets, Charles M.
System:
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Harrow-Tooth
Patent for an improvement in the device known as harrow tooth. Due to being constructed differently certain parts of the invention can be arranged any way the user wants and the harrow tooth is also capable of a more thorough cultivation and pulverization of soil which allows closer cultivation of crops or being more precise and thorough when digging up weeds.
Date:
September 25, 1905
Creator:
Smith, James Wilson
System:
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Drill.
Patent for a simple, durable, and effective drill that "automatically expand[s] in the bottom of the well below the tubing, to cut a hole sufficiently large for the tubing without requiring a second drilling or reaming process" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 25, 1894
Creator:
Lindholm, Charlie M.
System:
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Self Packing Cotton Press.
Patent for a new and improved self-packing cotton press. This design "consists in a cotton-press constructed with a pivoted double baling-box, a pair of rolls and their driving mechanism for packing the cotton into the baling-box automatically, and a screw-driven follow-block for compressing the cotton into bales" (lines 22-27).
Date:
September 25, 1883
Creator:
Rummel, Louis C. & Fielder, Emil J.
System:
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Railway Switch
Patent for a railway switch. This invention is designed to allow automatically operated by the wheels of the rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Herrington, Jacob
System:
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End Gate For Wagons
Patent for and end gate for wagons. Illustration included.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Winans, Myron L.
System:
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Pruning Implement.
Patent for a new and improved pruning implement. This design consists in "the combination, with a staff, of the jaw-arms pivoted to the staff and provided with the upwardly-projecting and curved jaws, the collars fitted loosely on the staff, the rods connecting the said collars, and the link-arms pivoted to the collar and to the jaw-arms" (lines 11-17).
Date:
September 25, 1888
Creator:
Hall, Francis Asbury
System:
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Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a quilting mechanism for sewing machines that attaches to a sewing table that extends "over and above and parallel with the overhanging arm of the machine" (lines 20-22), the arm is adjustable and detachable, a track-rail is attached to the end of the arm, and a quilting-frame hangs from the sheaves.
Date:
September 25, 1894
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History