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Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring and Mortising Machine.
Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine."
Date:
July 11, 1848
Creator:
Swingle, Alfred
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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Book-Sewing Machine.
Patent for improvements in book sewing machines, the descriptions are included by figures.
Date:
July 16, 1867
Creator:
Sims, Ferdinand
System:
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Car Window Lock.
Patent for a new and improved car-window lock. This design consists in "the sliding crank-shaped spring-actuated bolt for locking the window, in combination with the oscillating cam acting upon the bolt to unlock it, said cam having a lateral arm with a spring-guide hinged thereto, a spring surrounding the guide, and means for swinging the cam and thus retracting the bolt" (lines 21-27).
Date:
October 5, 1886
Creator:
Cutter, Martin A.
System:
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Dredge-Pump
Patent for new and useful improvements to Dredge-Pumps. The pump is used to draw up sand and gravel from the bottom of a river.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Stenberg, Anders Gustaf
System:
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Improvement in Dough Kneaders and Cutters.
Patent for new U-shaped dough kneader and cutter, with illustrations
Date:
September 21, 1874
Creator:
MÓ§ckli, Frank
System:
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Brick Fire Box Construction.
Patent for an improved fire box liner construction for oil fueled locomotives that is made from bricks in an interlocking design that does not require cement and will not shake apart from vibration. Includes illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Blackmond, William C. & Stoy, Guy Everett
System:
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Life-Saving Device.
Patent for a collapsible life-saving device that can be stored in little space on a ship or dock and unfolded quickly for use as a flotation device for several persons.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Bradford, Thomas C.
System:
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Composition for Waterproofing Fabrics, Leather, and the like
Patent for improvements in composition for waterproofing fabrics, leather, and the like including ingredients, proportions and manner of compounding. When applied this composition renders fabric waterproof, with a finished appearance, and dries quickly.
Date:
October 29, 1919
Creator:
McIntosh, William J.
System:
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Automatic Firing Device for Explosive Shells.
Patent for automatic firing device where "an explosive shell may be caused to travel any distance within the range of the shell through the air without exploding" (lines 14-17).
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
McCombs, Orville K.
System:
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Spark-Plug
Patent for improvement of spark-plugs, an automotive engine component.
Date:
September 2, 1919
Creator:
Hill, John L.
System:
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Garment-Hanger.
Patent for a new garment hanger with supported arms that can be folded for storage, including illustrations.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Morton, John R.
System:
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Flushing tank for siphon closets.
Patent for flushing tanks to connect to siphon closets that is improvement vacuum
Date:
January 22, 1919
Creator:
Sweeny, John S.
System:
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Valve for Flushing-Tanks.
Patent for a flushing tank valve that reduces the time it takes to fill the tank with a higher accuracy for shut off levels.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Sweeny, John S.
System:
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Amusement Device.
Patent for a Ferris wheel in which the passenger cars rotate horizontally in addition to rotating vertically with the direction of the main wheel.
Date:
May 24, 1921
Creator:
Lindamood, Roy S.
System:
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Improvement in Pile-Drivers.
Patent for an improved pile-driver device which automates the release of the pile-driver hammer as well as including a perpendicular device which advances the device longitudinally as the work progresses.
Date:
January 22, 1875
Creator:
McDermott, Martin
System:
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Writing Pen.
Patent for a dip pen or nib pen, with innovations concentrating on the tip (nib). The tip is moderately sharp to glide over paper, bent for smooth writing and ink conservation, and stiff "to enable it to be used in making carbon copies" (lines 26-27).
Date:
February 14, 1922
Creator:
Block, Henry, 1875-1939
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Screen
Patent for a window screen. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 28, 1907
Creator:
Kemmerling, Warren
System:
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Window-Sash Lock.
Patent for a device which may be attached to the upper and lower sashes of a window to firmly lock them in position. The device is special because "the attachment to the upper sash does not project into the path of the lower sash nor interfere with its operation" (lines 16-19).
Date:
June 8, 1915
Creator:
Merrell, Frederick R.
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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Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that can be adjusted without the use of screws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Thomas, Theodore G.
System:
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Wood-Preservative.
Patent for a compound with preservative qualities for protecting submersed wood from the destructive forces of water, whether sea or fresh, and from shipworms.
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Gallinowsky, Hugo
System:
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Landing-Net.
Patent for improvements to landing nets to make them foldable or collapsible, providing for easier storage when not in use.
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
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