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Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a lever to use for maintenance and repairs. The lever can be used to fix wired fences and has interchangeable features.
Date:
August 9, 1921
Creator:
Frank, Fred
System:
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Engine
Patent for improvements to gas engines, including the addition of improved pistons.
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Hunter, Elbert I.
System:
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Peanut-Harvester
Patent for peanut-harvester to plow vines from the ground and feed them into the rear of the machine to catch the peanuts that drop from the vines. This more easily separates the peanuts from the other foreign matter.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
Winters, John William & Winters, Calvin C.
System:
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Clamp
Patent for a clamp for well tubes that can be used to remove the tubes for repair.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Maxwell, Thomas A.
System:
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Cook-Stove.
Patent for "improvements in cook stoves or ranges; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple construction in which two oven-chambers are employed, arranged one above the other in the same vertical plane, and in which the draft and products of combustion are caused to circulate beneath, around one end, and above each of the oven-chambers to thoroughly heat the same." (lines 7-16).
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Turbeville, John B.
System:
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Lever.
Patent for a lever that attaches to moveable cultivator gangs.
Date:
August 6, 1907
Creator:
Gillentine, William A.
System:
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Steam-Heater
Patent for steam heater to keep cooked food warm, suitable for smaller hotels, restaurants, and other venues, who could not afford larger, more elaborate steam heaters, including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Wiley, Dora
System:
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Saw-Oiling Device
Patent for a hand saw blade oiling device built into the handle of the saw. By holding stops and pulling back on the pistons of the device on the saw handle, oil is released and forced into nozzles which deliver oil onto the blade.
Date:
August 14, 1906
Creator:
Stewart, Luther F.
System:
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Shaft-Iron.
Patent for a new and useful shaft iron, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Boynton, Willie Amos
System:
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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher "which may readily be employed for stretching wires to a post for stapling, for stretching or drawing the ends of wires together for tying and for drawing out or removing staples from a post" (lines 12-16).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Palmer, Joshua C.
System:
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Head Rest for Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved head-rest for chairs. This design consists in "[a] head-rest for chairs, comprising a top support . . . a plate fixed thereto and provided with a socket and guides . . . a ball, fitting socket, and retaining-jaws held in the guide of the plate around the ball" (lines 81-86).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Ashby, Daniel S.
System:
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