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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:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for a new and improved type of cotton bale tie utilizing an automatic leverr-clasp buckle fastener.
Date:
July 11, 1874
Creator:
Lenard, William Rinulda
System:
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Billiard-Ball Holder.
Patent for a simple billiard-ball holder that is meant to "provide a means for holding the balls when not in use, so that they will not fall out of the holder to the floor, and means to provide for the tilting of the holder out of line, so that the balls will roll to the opposite end, and out of the opening into the triangle, thereby saving a good part of the time in taking the balls out of the holder" (lines 20-27).
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
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Truck or Vehicle for Elevated Railways.
Patent for an improved, strong, simple, inexpensive, and durable truck or vehicle for elevated railways that is meant to throw the lateral force of the car-body is exerted vertically downward onto the car's wheels.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
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Vehicle-Pole.
Patent for a simple vehicle-pole that has an improved fastening. It consists of a table with a socket, a pole in the socket, arms connected to the table, singletrees attached to the extending ends of the arms, and a running gear.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Rohn, Frank G.
System:
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Insecticide
Patent for a compound for destroying weevils, rats and mice.
Date:
July 11, 1882
Creator:
Wheeler, John H.
System:
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Ventilator for Refrigerators.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive ventilator for large refrigerators. It "can be readily applied to an ice box or refrigerator and so constructed that the hot air which is pressed upward is forced through the ventilator and thereby lowering the temperature of the ice box and a consequent saving of ice" (lines 23-28). The ventilator has a valve that releases hot air and automatically closes after the air is released.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Netzer, Joseph
System:
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Triangle for Billiard-Balls.
Patent for an improved triangle for billiard balls that consists of sides, movable doors on the bottom edge, a fixed guide on the side of the triangle, and springs to hold the doors.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
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Air-Brake.
Patent for "a direct air brake system [that is] adapted to be used in combination with an automatic system, whereby the brakes can be applied by either the automatic or quick system, or the direct, or by both, as the conditions may require" (lines 8-13).
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Pinkston, Lucien A.
System:
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Fifth Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved fifth wheel for vehicles. This design "consists of improvements in the construction and arrangement of the fifth-wheel apparatus of carriages, the object of which is to enable the parts to be made more cheaply, also to be more readily removable, and also to be more durable in use than as such apparatus is now made" (lines 7-13).
Date:
July 11, 1882
Creator:
Weber, Robert
System:
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Apparatus for Treating Timber.
Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Gerhard, Philip H.
System:
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Attachment For Sewing Machines
Patent for an attachment for a sewing machines. Illustration included.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Bearden, Jackson Thomas
System:
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Combined Computing Device and Weighing-Scale.
Patent for "a simple, economical, and portable combined computing and weighing scale for ordinary use so simple in its operation that an illiterate person can manipulate it with as much facility as one trained to the practical use of more complicated devices" (lines 20-25).
Date:
July 11, 1899
Creator:
Stephens, John H.
System:
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Combined Multiple Weight And Pendulum Scale.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combined multiple weight and pendulum scale and appliance, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1899
Creator:
Stephens, John H.
System:
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Cotton-Picker's Sack
Patent for a sack for cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Kendall, Ernest L.
System:
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Wave Motor
Patent for an improvement to wave motors, intended to use "the force of waves as motive power for operating machinery" (lines 9-10).
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Ford, William W.
System:
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Machine For Forming Wire Bale Ties
Patent for a machine that forms wire bale ties. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Frantz, Ezra A.
System:
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Vehicle-Spring
Patent for an improvement to springs "designed particularly for use upon carriages, wagons, and motor or other cars" (lines 11-13).
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Snow, Arthur Leland
System:
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Vapor Burner
Patent for a vapor burner. Illustration included.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Todd, Clarence C.
System:
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Well-Bucket
Patent for a well bucket. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Thomas, Perry
System:
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Washing-Machine
Patent for a washing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Denton. John L.
System:
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Marine Puzzle for Toy.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in marine puzzles or toys, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1899
Creator:
Butz, John F.
System:
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Spring
Patent for a spring to be adapted to vehicles for supporting heavy loads and absorbing sudden shocks. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Snow, Arthur L.
System:
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Electrostatic Magnetic Separator.
Patent for a magnetic separator that makes use of electrostatic to aid in the process of separation. The invention is said to accomplish "the most efficient magnetic separation in which the action of a magnetic roller is assisted and materially improved by the presence of a static current" (lines 16-19) including illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
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