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Calculating-Machine.
Patent for an improvement to mechanical calculators by providing the "means for facilitating the addition of successive numbers of the same or different denominations, and also for subtracting and multiplying the same by substantially the means employed in adding" (lines 10-14). It includes a written explanation and illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1894
Creator:
Stallard, Sherman R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canning Apparatus.
Patent for an improved boiling apparatus for canning.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Still, Cuthbert A. Jr.
System:
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Car Coupling
Patent for train car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Evan S.
System:
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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "[i]n a car-coupling, the combination of a recessed draw-head having abutments . . . and a transverse ridge, of a link adapted to rock on said ridge, a pivoted coupling-hook carrying a diagonally-projecting pin near its forward end, and a spiral spring arranged diagonally above the coupling-hook and surrounding said pin" (lines 93-100).
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Nutting, Adrain
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a combination of “a rod pivoted at its front end to the side of the draw-head and pivotally connected at its rear end..... when the draw-head is driven to the rear by the force of the blow received in coupling with another draw-head, the lug will be pressed to the front,” (lines 30-40) illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Bright, Tom Full
System:
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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a coupling-pin, of the arm, rod[s], clip . . . and lever . . . [t]he combination, with a draw-bar having the extension of a lever limited by the stop-pin . . . [and] [i]n car-couplings, the coupling-link, made in two U-shaped parts, pivoted together . . . and sustained in coupling position by [a] spring or springs" (lines 96-105).
Date:
October 17, 1882
Creator:
Hale, Nathan M.
System:
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Car-Coupling
Patent for a new and improved design concerning automatic car couplings that is novel in the some of its parts.
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Bullock, Henry Purnell
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a novel, simple, and practical car coupling that has a link and gravity pin. It "may be set to coupe two of the improved couplings on approaching cars, when these devices engage each other, and also that may be manipulated by the usual lever or chain attachment to uncouple two connected drawheads, effecting such a detachment from the sides or roof of the car" (lines 12-19).
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Tiner, John F.
System:
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Carbon Holder for Electric Arc Lamps
Patent for improvements made to the carbon holder for electric arc lamps to improve efficiency in replacing the lamps. To improve upon the current design, the patent illustrates and describes a new level clutch system to allow movement, as opposed to the gravity-based design previously implemented.
Date:
March 17, 1914
Creator:
Lacy, Benjamin Burton & Elrod, Henry E.
System:
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Carpet Stretcher
Patent for carpet stretcher. Illustration included.
Date:
October 17, 1905
Creator:
Williams, Robbert D.
System:
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Cartridge Crimper.
Patent for a new and improved cartridge crimper. This design consists of "tweezers having biting-heads, an interposed core and printing-stamp arranged within said core, a shell-holder surrounding the core, and a trimming-knife" (lines 78-82).
Date:
December 17, 1889
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
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Centrifugal Pump
Patent for centrifugal pump design meant to improve upon past models in which pieces of the pump wear out over time.
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Duda, Oswald
System:
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Check-Punch.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and compact check-punch that can be operated by one hand and doesn't take much power to operate. The machine consists of two movable members, "one of which carries all of the male and the other all of the female dies, said members being so related that when moved relatively to each other in one direction all the male dies move as a single member...and enter the female dies, and when moved in the opposite direction all of said male dies are withdrawn" (lines 12-20).
Date:
March 17, 1896
Creator:
Woodworth, Charles H.
System:
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Chimney-Jacket
Patent for a chimney jacket construction for naval vessels. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1912
Creator:
Newell, Allen
System:
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Chopping Attachment.
Patent for a chopping attachment for a cultivator. The attachment has an adjustable height in order to cut shorter and taller crops.
Date:
March 17, 1919
Creator:
Chenault, George N.
System:
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Churn.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Dallin, Bruce
System:
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Churn-Dasher.
Patent for an improvement in a churn-dasher by constructing the head of a dasher with a series of spirally-slanting blades, the front and rear edges are curved inward forming vertical openings with lancet-shaped ends. So that it would meet with less resistance when churning with the upward stroke.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Sterling, Isaac F.
System:
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Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn power. This design "relates to improvements in churn-powers in which suitable gearing and frame-work operate in conjunction with a vertically-reciprocating dasher; and the objects of [the] improvements are, first, to provide a spring-power and suitable gearing for operating the dasher, with a view to rendering the same in a high degree effective, convenient, and especially adapted to the requirements of service; and second, to afford facilities for the easy winding of the powerful spring required for such service" (lines 8-19).
Date:
February 17, 1885
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph A.
System:
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Clothes Pounder
Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Turner, James S. & Campbell, John Luther
System:
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Coin-Holder
Patent for " a new coin holder that holds coins of different denominations in given amounts for circulating purposes," (lines 8-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Sledge, Clarence Linden
System:
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Collapsible Receptacle for Vehicles.
Patent for an invention to improve collapsible receptacles for use in vehicles, more specifically wagons. Item is designed to be used on the spring seats of wagons for the purpose of storing items under the seat of wagons. Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1900
Creator:
Williams, Anderson D. & Walsh, Charles D.
System:
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Collar.
Patent for a collar that can be fastened without the need of a button. It is meant to be attached to any shirt and constructed so that it can stay without a button through a tab system.
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Narmore, Missouri A.
System:
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Combination-Plow.
Patent for combination-plow by providing a plow with “interchangeable parts, whereby the same may be used as a double-foot plow, a middle-breaking plow adapted for deep and shallow running and a sweep-stock” (lines 10-13), includes illustration.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Davis, William H.
System:
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Combination Show-Case.
Patent for new and useful improvements in combination show cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Sanger, Phillip
System:
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