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Churn-Top.
Patent for a churn top, which prevents the milk from splashing out of the churn while it is in use and keeps out bugs and dirt.
Date:
February 1, 1910
Creator:
Lewis, Lola
System:
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Churn
Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date:
May 10, 1910
Creator:
Hopkins, Samuel M.
System:
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Back-Band Buckle.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple back-band buckle that doubles as a trace-carrier and locks the trace into place. It secures to the carriage and locks the trace into place with a snap-hook.
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
Ware, William J.
System:
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Blind Stop.
Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design consists "of a corrugated flange or plate connected with the frame thereof, a spring-retaining strip, a corrugated bar arranged between the retaining strip and the corrugated flange, a socket formed upon the corrugated bar and adapted to receive the slat-bar, and a set-screw carried by the retaining strip" (lines 77-84).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Gulick, Lizzie Talley
System:
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Bag Holder and Filler.
Patent for a new and improved bag holder and filler. This design "consists of an expansible bag holding and filling funnel composed of a metallic strip having overlapping edges and provided with attached spring-wires, such funnel being capable of contraction to enter a bag, and of expanding therein for the purpose of holding and filling the bag" (lines 13-19).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Adkisson, Duncan Rudolph
System:
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Stalk-Cutter Attachment.
Patent for a planter attachment. It allows quick attachment of a stalk cutter that would let a planter serve two purposes.
Date:
February 7, 1922
Creator:
Haynes, Jack M.
System:
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Improvement in Fence.
Patent for a new fence design that "can be adapted to any desired length, width, or height" (lines 14-15). The patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
February 15, 1870
Creator:
Kerr, James
System:
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Well-Casing Spear
Patent for a well casing spear. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 28, 1911
Creator:
Norris, Joseph B.
System:
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Track Switch
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Track-Switches" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
February 15, 1916
Creator:
South, John T.
System:
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Hoisting Apparatus.
Patent for "an improved hoisting apparatus for use in loading and unloading freight from and upon a wharf, bluff, bank, or other elevated place." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 14, 1891
Creator:
Davis, Benjamin F. & Davis, Matilda L.
System:
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Escapement for Torsion Pendulums.
Patent for a new and improved escapement for torsion pendulums. This design "consists in one or two weighted levers acting in conjunction with an escape-wheel and a spindle, which levers are used as a medium to carry force from the train of a clock to the pendulum" (lines 12-16).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Stahlberg, Charles
System:
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Ship-Protector.
Patent for an improved protection device which may be attached to the bow of a ship.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Wood, Shirley Hay
System:
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Pipe-Tongs.
Patent for pipe tongs used for rotary well boring machinery. The tongs are designed to be carried with and used by rotary machines.
Date:
February 13, 1912
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
System:
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Electric Clock.
Patent for new and useful improvements in electrically operated clocks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1900
Creator:
Iversen, Henry
System:
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Detaching Device for Wheel-Hubs.
Patent for an attachment for a wheel-hub that allows for the hub to be quickly and easily removed or engaged. The invention does not require a nut wrench; "devices for screwing and unscrewing the axle nut are carried by the wheel-hub, and are always in proper position for immediate use whenever it is necessary to detach the nut" (lines 16-19).
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Butler, George H.
System:
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