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Switching Device
Patent for a switch throwing device that can be operated from a train car. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Gordon, Holland F.
System:
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Switch Stand and Lock
Patent for an improvement in switch-stand and locks, being that they cannot be picked or tampered with.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Maupin, John D.; Allen, Harry E. & Baldwin, Springfield
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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Rail Joint
Patent for Rail Joint
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Walker, Asa
System:
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Paper-Folding Machine.
Patent for a paper-folding machine that is intended to fold letters and insert them into envelopes.
Date:
April 21, 1914
Creator:
Causey, Charles W.
System:
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Nut-Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 21, 1912
Creator:
Lance, Andrew M.
System:
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Tire
Patent for an automobile tire that has a "puncture-proof armor" made from links and strips of sheet metal. The armor is placed throughout the inner tube portion of the tire.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Yantis, Guy
System:
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Tourist's Glass.
Patent for improvements to tourists' glasses, "intended for use to tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, minerologists, and analogous purposes" (lines 25-27) including illustrations.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Faehrmann, John M.
System:
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Tourist's Glass.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in tourists' glasses" (lines 5-6)
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Faehrmann, John M.
System:
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Packer for Silos.
Patent for a new packer for silos, "...which may be assembled with any silo of standard construction, to carry out the packing operation" (lines 13-15) including illustrations.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Westbrook, John Albert
System:
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Tier.
Patent for a retractable and reusable package tie device for packages.
Date:
December 21, 1915
Creator:
Clary, Irvin W.
System:
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Tankage and Manure Press.
Patent for a tankage and manure press that collects grease from waste meat materials.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Singleton, Joseph J. C.
System:
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Store Furniture
Patent for a piece of furniture that can hold rolls wrapping paper of various size. The rolls are contained in a device that rotates and allows the user to select and easily pull paper from roll.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Nicks, John H.
System:
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Measure for Oil-Wells.
Patent for a device measuring the depth of oil and other wells by computing the distance preferably by the sand line or other line as it is let down from the earth's surface to the bottom of the well.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Richardson, Robert B.
System:
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Tool-Heater
Patent for tool heaters "adapted to heat a soldering iron by gas" (lines 9-10) to increase the heat applied to the tool, including illustrations.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Juergens, Ernest
System:
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Measuring, Weighing, and Registering Machine.
Patent for machine that automatically weighs cotton seed while in transit from the cotton gin or grain from the grain elevator to the mill.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Muirhead, Alfred Robert
System:
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Torpedo-Guard.
Patent for torpedo guards that can be applied without needing to place the vessel in a dry dock, as well as giving the option of retracting the torpedo guards when not needed. Includes illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Rolf, Frederick G.
System:
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Tie.
Patent for device to make the tying of devices faster, easier, and cheaper than using traditional methods.
Date:
January 21, 1919
Creator:
Day, William H. & Day, Samuel S.
System:
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Switch-Stand
Patent for switch stands. The improvement is to provide a mechanism in connection with stands of the character specified for moving the points of a switch to deflect trains from the main track on to the switch, wherein locking mechanism is provided for locking the switch points in safety or main line position and connected to the operating mechanism for moving the points in such manner that when operating arm for the switch is moved into the inoperative position after returning the points to the normal position, the locking mechanism will be operated to lock the points against movement.
Date:
September 21, 1915
Creator:
Philips, Smith F.
System:
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Alarm for Incubators
Patent for an alarm that sounds upon the temperature in an incubator either increasing or decreasing.
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Poore, John F.
System:
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Tire-Tightener
Patent for a tire tightener. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Slay, Frank F. & Henry, Squire M.
System:
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Center Rail for Key-Actions.
Patent for an easily adjustable, simple, and durable center rail for key actions in pianos which does not require chiseling holes.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Swallow, Oscar L.
System:
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Support for Telegraph Line-Wires and the Like.
Patent for "supports for telegraph and telephone line wires, electric light line wires, and the like, and the object is to provide simple and highly efficient brackets for holding such wires securely in place ... so that the wires will not drop to the ground" (lines 10-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Wilson, James F.
System:
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Mouse-Guard for Pianos.
Patent for "an upright device for closing the opening in the front of a piano directly below a pedal to thereby render the piano mouse proof" (lines 8-11). The device utilizes spring tension to operate.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Bell, Silas D.
System:
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