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Blind-Slat Fastener.
Patent for improvements in shutter attachments, in which it locks the slats in place at a desired angle. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Winslow, Walter W.
System:
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Bridge Construction
Patent for a truss bridge which also uses suspension cables and is lighter than previous truss bridges.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Carroll, John Morton
System:
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Automatic Stabilizer for Aeroplanes
Patent for an automatic stabilizer for aeroplanes. This invention is a gyroscopically controlled means for correcting undue tilt in longitudinal axis. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1912
Creator:
Yeamans, Eugene
System:
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Apparatus for Applying Dry Hot Air to the Face
Patent for a hot air blowing device for blowing on the face that has adjustable temperature settings.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Smith, William Lee
System:
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Boring-Tool
Patent for a boring tool that has both a bit and a reamer.
Date:
October 1, 1912
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
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Beamless Brake Mechanism
Patent for a beamless brake mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
System:
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Book
Patent for a book with margin numbering which allows for page numbers to be visible with one glance, including illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Rhodes, Samuel E.
System:
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Churn
Patent for a new churn with a simplified and improved construction, includes illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
New, John
System:
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Automatic Automobile-Top.
Patent for an improvement on automatic automobile-tops. The primary objective is that when in inoperative positions, the actuated drum neatly appears as a weather proof roll. Another objective is to provide side curtains so that the vehicle may be closed on all sides.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Montroy, Phiip A.
System:
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Chain-Lock.
Patent for an improvement in chain-locks. The improvement locks one end of a log chain to a car so that it cannot be accidentally released.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Clarkson, Jay Caleb.
System:
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Cement and Concrete Construction.
Patent for improved, integrated construction materials system including, "reinforced cement, concrete or similar materials," air ventilation, lathing securing, and down spout construction, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Parker, Barton J.
System:
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Truck
Patent for a transportation truck. This truck is designed to better secure drums and barrels so that they can withstand tough roads.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Golding, Charles D.
System:
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Tube-Mill.
Patent for improvements in tube-mills (employed for ore and other substances) which is meant to help support and drive rotating drums or cylinders of the mills allowing for more full appearances.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Bergman, Julius G.
System:
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Wrist Blotter
Patent for a wrist blotter that provides a simple and inexpensive blotter to be attached to the wrist.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Cardwell, Harland W.
System:
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Vehicle Axle
Patent for a vehicle axles. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Wagner, Samuel C.
System:
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Wagon-Body
Patent for wagon body which fits on many different types of running bodies, including illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Winans, Myron L.
System:
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Vehicle Step
Patent for vehicle step. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Lannom, Wilson A.
System:
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Plow
Patent for a plow with an adjustable pitch and share.
Date:
October 1, 1912
Creator:
KilPatrick, Robert L.
System:
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Pneumatic Conveyer Valve
Patent for a valve for a continuous pipe-line with minimum bend or curve and free from internal switch-plates or other obstructions or reduction of capacity on a cotton-gin, the valve will work on intake and out-take ports. This valve will also serve as both a receiving medium to connect the main conveyer-pipe directly with a loaded wagon or to a warehouse stored with seed-cotton or to a discharge medium after the seed-cotton is ginned to connect the main conveyor-pipe with a seed-cotton bin and cotton-seed bin.
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Shannon, Grant S.
System:
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Process of Purifying Vegetable Oils.
Patent for a process of purifying vegetable oils, specifically cottonseed oil, using a little or no soap-stock and without losing oil. It also improves the purifying process. This process is meant for crude oil, but can be used to further refine already refined oil.
Date:
October 1, 1895
Creator:
Latting, Richard G., Jr.
System:
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Stenographer's Desk
Patent for a stenographers desk that can be put over a typewriter and is foldable.
Date:
October 1, 1912
Creator:
Long, James C.
System:
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Multiple Submarine Destroyer
Patent for a munitions delivery system designed for anti-submarine warfare. Specifically, this devise is a multi-stage explosive that periodically (period of deployment determined by depth measurement) deploys first a primary detonating charge, followed up by the detonation of multiple, smaller charges scattered by the primary explosion, ensuring an area of effect should the primary canister miss it's intended target. The patent notes that should the canister actually make contact with an object on it's bottom facing, all explosives in the canister will be triggered at once.
Date:
October 1, 1917
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
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Sweep Stock Attachment for Plows
Patent for an "improved sweep-stock attachment for plows", so that a "sweep or shovel may be attached to a plow and operated at any desired angle." (lines 8-11)
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Ziecheck, John M.
System:
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Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "a central post, the latch-posts arranged at equal distances on opposite sides of the central post and provided with suitable catches, the latches pivoted at their inner ends to the center post and adapted to engage the said catches, the operating-bar affixed at its center to the upper end of the center post and at right angles to the gate, the loop connected at its free ends, respectively, to the latches, and the operating-cords running over guide-pulleys . . . and connected at their ends to the closed upper end of the loop" (lines 1-13).
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Eubanks, Thomas Jefferson
System:
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