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Machine for Splitting Hogs and Cattle Through the Backbones.
Patent for a butchering machine for cutting hogs and cattle through the backbone into two sections lengthwise.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Burleson, Andrew M.
System:
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Wire-Fence Stay.
Patent for a wire fence stay, which holds wire fences together.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
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Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a new and useful lifting jack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1898
Creator:
Hughs, George Washington
System:
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Instep Bearing Or Guard For Stirrups.
Patent for a new and improved instep bearing or guard for stirrups, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1899
Creator:
Kellner, Charles J. E.
System:
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Insect Destroyer
Patent for an insect destroyer. This invention is designed to destroy insects on growing cotton plants. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Butz, John F.
System:
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Liquid-Fuel Burner
Patent for a liquid fuel burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
McQuerry, James Cravens & Everett, Arch Letrobe
System:
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Watch
Patent for a watch case that can have different size clock works put in it.
Date:
November 12, 1912
Creator:
Friedman, Adolph
System:
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Train-Order Signal.
Patent for a train order signal device, which sets off an alarm or signal when the train order pad is removed, which cannot be turned off until the pad is replaced.
Date:
November 24, 1908
Creator:
Van Zandt, Luther H.
System:
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Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machines.
Patent for an improved Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machines in order "to provide an improved machine for cutting the bands of gavels or bundles of grain, and feeding the same to the cylinder of a thrasher."
Date:
November 5, 1878
Creator:
O'Neall, James M.
System:
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Piston Packing
Patent for extansible rings for piston packing.
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Miles, Charles H.
System:
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Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton
Patent for machine that cleans harvested cotton.
Date:
November 7, 1916
Creator:
Dickerson, Eustice E.
System:
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Mandolin.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Mandolins to"obtain a tone for mandolins as nearly as possible equal to that of violins and other stringed instruments played by bows"(line 8-10)
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Simpson, Roy B.
System:
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Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved machine for "distributing poison upon vines and plants that will be under the complete control of one man and which is operation will not injure the plants being treated and which will also insure an equal distribution of poison simultaneously upon three to seven or more rows of plants" (line 7 - 14).
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Richter, Frank L.
System:
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Stirrup
Patent for a stirrup. Illustration included.
Date:
November 7, 1905
Creator:
Kellner, Charles J. E. & Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
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Pump
Patent for improvements to pumps in working barrels, packing, and packing chambers, the purpose of which is to eliminate easily worn parts and improve the efficiency of these pumps, including illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1922
Creator:
Kerr, Michael A.
System:
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Guitar.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stringed musical instruments, such as harp guitars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Ward, George Cooper
System:
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Hair-Spring Locator
Patent for a hair spring locator, a tool used to locate and measure the hair spring of a watch. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Friedman, Bernhard Zadoc
System:
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Hitching Device
Patent for hitching device for use with hitching posts. Illustration included.
Date:
November 27, 1906
Creator:
Hazlewood, George W. & Robinson, Henry C.
System:
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Tent and Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved tent. This design is "to provide a tent-frame in such a manner that it may be readily folded into small compass, and which when extended for use will be very strong and serviceable" (lines 14-17). To this end, it consists of a cap, "of the rafters pivoted in the walls of said recesses and having their ends formed with a short incline or bevel and a longer or different incline or bevel" (lines 1-4).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Turner, Epraim Meral
System:
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Suspenders.
Patent for suspenders that have the minimum number of straps, buckles, and buttons. The suspenders can be easily attached and the wearer can move freely and be comfortable while wearing them.
Date:
November 7, 1893
Creator:
Post, Charles W.
System:
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Electric Time-Signaling Apparatus.
Patent for an electric time-signaling apparatus meant for use in hotels or other places where employees need to be alerted. The invention rings a bell and turns on a light when the signals goes off. "If the current of an incandescent electric-light system was electrically connected with a time-circuit, it would destroy the whole mechanism of the time-circuit" (lines 26-29).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Todd, James T. A.
System:
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Fountain Tooth Brush
Patent for a fountain tooth brush. Illustration included.
Date:
November 29, 1904
Creator:
Hosmer, Arthur
System:
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Fence Post
Patent for a fence post. Illustration included.
Date:
November 1, 1904
Creator:
Narsh, Joseph Maxfield
System:
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Self Supporting And Extension Ladder Elevator
Patent for self supporting and extension ladder elevator. This invention is for moving materials and tools to an elevated position. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Maxey, Ernest & Moreland, Quinn T.
System:
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