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Pad for Horse-Collars
Patent for a pad for a horse collar that connects to one side of the branch and then the other to maintain hold around the animal's neck when pulled back. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
February 15, 1916
Creator:
Flemming, Julius R.
System:
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Gasolene Tank Filler and Gage
Patent for a means of filling a gasoline tank for a motor vehicle with a sight gage for determining the level of gasoline placed in the tank.
Date:
February 27, 1917
Creator:
Boyce, Leonora
System:
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Process of Tanning Hides.
Patent for "an improved process of tanning hides in an expeditious and economical manner, and to produce a fine quality of leather" (lines 8-11). The limed and haired hides are baited thrice, afterwards the hides are packed into "tanning-vats with bark and covering them with a solution of alum and water" (lines 80-82). The hides are then leached in salt water and scoured and dried.
Date:
July 14, 1896
Creator:
Rogers, John Charsley
System:
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Lace Fastener
Patent for a lace fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
February 23, 1909
Creator:
Schwritzer, William Henry
System:
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Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus.
Patent for "a new and Improved Apparatus for Destroying Ants" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1875
Creator:
Grafton, William
System:
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Tongue-Support.
Patent for a new and useful tongue support, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Wright, George Washington
System:
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Printing Plate.
Patent for a new and improved printing-plate. This design "relates to an improvement in printing-plates designed particularly for printing mailing-lists for newspapers and other periodicals" (lines 8-11). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the bar or holder having the downwardly and inwardly turned ends, and the printing-plates secured on the former . . . of the loop loosely mounted on the plate, and the interposed wedge-shaped locking-key" (lines 5-16).
Date:
July 22, 1890
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
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Table.
Patent for a new and improved table. This design "can be adjusted vertically by turning the screw-spindle, or it can be drawn upward, and will be held in position by the spring-catch, which catches on the shoulders. If the table is to be used at a sick-bed, it can be projected laterally by drawing the table-top in the direction in which it is to project, the track-plate sliding in the grooved plate. The table-top can be locked in the desired position by means of the binding screw" (lines 90-100).
Date:
November 11, 1884
Creator:
Kossbiel, Charles
System:
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Washing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful washing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Schumacher, Hermann G.
System:
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Horse Collar.
Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "consists in forming a portion of the large roll of the collar with leather, and the other part with canvas or ducking of two thicknesses, between which double part of ducking or canvas is placed a medicated composition and preservative, which serves as a remedial agent for the galling of horses shoulders', and as a preventative against gnawing of the collar by vermin. It also relates to an improved manner of stitching together the collar roll" (lines 13-23).
Date:
August 7, 1883
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
System:
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Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "consists of an adjustable regulating fastener for the upper and lower ends of the hames, and this fastener is further provided with a swinging loop, to which the breast-strap may be attached on the lower fastener and the strap on the upper fastener when desired" (lines 19-25).
Date:
September 29, 1885
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
System:
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Snap Hook.
Patent for a new and improved snap hook. This design "consists in a hook provided with a sliding latch on the shank and on the end of the hook, whereby this hook will remain closed in whatever position it is placed" (lines 11-14).
Date:
December 12, 1882
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
System:
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Thill Carrier for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved thill-carrier for harnesses. This design utilizes a loop or ring, and "[b]y this construction of the thill-carriers it will be seen that the trouble and annoyance of running the thills into and backing them out of the thill-carriers are entirely overcome, and by means of the loops or rings . . . the thills are perfectly confined in the carriers . . . [they] may be made very cheap, and also very ornamental to the harness" (lines 66-76).
Date:
March 13, 1883
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
System:
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Engraving-Machine
Patent for improvements "in the peculiar construction and combination of [engraving machines]" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 19, 1889
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
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Float for Delinters
Patent for a new float for cotton seed de-linters. Illustrations are included.
Date:
June 17, 1910
Creator:
Blanchard, George L.
System:
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Fertilizer-Distributing Attachment
Patent for an inexpensive attachment for "drilling compost, manure, or other fertilizing material &c., &c" (lines 9-10). It is designed to be attached to any farm-wagon including illustrations.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
Schlabach, William
System:
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Firing-Valve to Control the Feed of Oil in Firing Oil-Burning Locomotives.
Patent for valve changes that "provide a valve operating means whereby the valve may be very finely adjusted and prevented from being casually turned" (lines 16-18).
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Gilman, Benoist P.
System:
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Grinding-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in grinding machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 2, 1899
Creator:
Post, Bernhard
System:
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Envelope.
Patent for a new and improved envelope. This design calls for "a projecting flap, to which the postage stamp or stamps may be attached in such a manner that the said stamp or stamps may be canceled by perforation (or by means of a punch or otherwise) without danger of injuring the contents of the envelope" (lines 14-19).
Date:
March 16, 1880
Creator:
Terry, James Doss
System:
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Road-Scraper
Patent for a road grading machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1912
Creator:
Wallis, John Wesley
System:
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Riding Saddle.
Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "provide[s] a flexible or elastic seat, consisting of a number of thicknesses of tanned sheepskin, with the wool on, between the saddle-tree covering and the ordinary external rawhide or other covering, thus preventing the said covering from resting on the inner edges of the saddle-tree side bars, which forms a comfortable and easy saddle; and, in addition to this, [the] invention relates to the opening rearwardly and laterally in the saddle-tree for attaching the girth-rigging thereto, in place of the ordinary rings" (lines 30-41).
Date:
July 6, 1886
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
System:
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Addressing-Machine.
Patent for an improved addressing machine, which will "paste, cut, and attach the slip simultaneously, or with one operation" (lines 26-27), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
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Combined Railway-Switch and Car-Replacing Mechanism.
Patent for a combined railway-switch and car-replacing mechanism that is meant to "provide certain improved devices which can be arranged to operate as a switch mechanism, or as car replacing means, which can be easily manipulated, are of a simple construction and which will effectively serve for their intended purposes" (lines 11-16). It can be easily assembled and dissembled.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
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Spring
Patent for a spring for footwear that helps facilitate foot movement such as walking, running, jumping, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 8, 1908
Creator:
Backermann, Henry G.
System:
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