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Hame Attachment.

Description: Patent for a hame attachment, used in the collar of a draft horse, that is simple in construction and operation and can be produced for little cost. The attachment would prevent wear of lines and keep them in place at the same time.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Bilderback, Eddy R.
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Elevator-Guide

Description: Patent for an elevator guide to be used for safety elevators used in mines. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Martini, Henry
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Self Lighting Lamp Burner

Description: Patent for the invention of Self-Lighting Lamp Burners. Steps for creation and use of this item are spelled out with references to the illistration.
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: White, James L.
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Vehicle-Wheel Scraper.

Description: Patent for "a novel device for removing dirt from the peripheries of vehicle-wheels while the vehicle is in motion, and has for its objects to provide a novel, simple, and very efficient device of the indicated character which is readily attachable to the running-gear of a wagon or other wheeled vehicle, which may be readily adjusted thereon to remove dirt from its wheels, which will afford a reliable guard to prevent mud and slush from being thrown by the wheels on the body of the vehicle, and… more
Date: May 19, 1896
Creator: Smith, William F.
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Whiffletree-Clip.

Description: A patent for a whiffletree hook and accompanying attachments meant to replace lap-links in harnesses. Illustrations and material recommendations included.
Date: February 25, 1902
Creator: Curry, Jasper
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Pinless Clothes-Line.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and easy to store clothesline that doesn't use clips, which are damaging to clothes.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Kennedy, William Cambellos
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Umbrella Support

Description: Patent for support item worn as a harness, into which the umbrella can be placed allowing for the user to be hands free while protected from the rain.
Date: November 21, 1916
Creator: Merrill, Dimmitt H.
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J. [?]. Moore & Co.

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs, business name, and text reading: "Dry Goods, General Merchandise, Clothing, Boots & Shoes."
Date: 1897
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Reversible Garden-Plow.

Description: Patent for a walking-plow with simple and compact construction. The depth for plowing is adjustable to height of individual operating.
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Nicholas, Joseph W.
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Pinless Clothes-Line.

Description: Patent for "a simple device constructed of connected links and provided with means for engaging articles to be suspended therefrom, such means being so constructed as to prevent displacement when subjected to severe strains." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Cooper, John A.
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Cultivator.

Description: Patent for improving the cultivator-plow by providing "a standard of novel construction comprising a stationary member bolted to the beam and a foot member having a pivotal relation with said stationary member and capable of being adjusted as to its angle, and also capable of yielding backwardly when the shovel meets with an obstruction for the purpose of preventing the fracture or twisting of said standard." (lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Collard, Job Brown & Hensarling, Hiram Johel
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Cotton Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-press. This design "is to so construct a press that the force shall be applied solely by the pulling action of the screw, and so that the cotton can be put in at the top of the box and compressed without the usual tramping of the same therein by an operative preparatory to applying the force of the press, thereby doing away with a door or opening near the top of the box for inserting the cotton, and dispensing with the tramping operation" (lines 32-42).
Date: September 16, 1884
Creator: Haiman, Elias & Winship, John
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Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rear of beam, the notched cleat, the handle cross-bar, and the hooks, whereby the hopper may be conveniently attached and detached . . . [and] [t]he pivoted gates, having extensions with a series of holes, with the hopper-bottom plate having holes besides the regular seed-outlet, and the pins" (lines 64-72).
Date: November 6, 1883
Creator: Lindsey, William M.
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Saddle-Jack.

Description: Patent for improvements in saddle-jack in which it “can be readily adjusted to hold the saddle-tree in any desired position to enable the workman to conveniently finish the saddle.” (Lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Bateman, Eugene E.
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Monocycle.

Description: Patent for a monocycle/unicycle that allows the rider to balance more easily than on previous models.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Morris, Sydney Albert
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Fence

Description: Patent for fence improvements, "especially to a wire fence made, preferably, of plain strands of wire horizontally disposed and drawn toward one another by means of short pieces of wire which are twisted about the horizontal wires line" (lines 15 – 20) illustrations included.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Bateman, Eugene E.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "comprises a draw-head slotted from top to bottom, and having at its forward end an incline, a peculiar latch to engage automatically with the slot in the draw-head, a pivoted weight for holding the latch in position, and a lever pivoted in the draw-head and operated from the outside for throwing up the latch and uncoupling the car" (lines 15-22).
Date: April 3, 1883
Creator: Coburn, Daniel W.
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and effective car coupling that couples automatically and without anyone having to go between the cars. It consists of a drawhead with a slot on one side, upper and lower slides in the drawhead, a coupling pin that sits in the upper slide, a lever that is connected to the slide, a spring that holds the lower slide in place, and a bolt that connects the lever with the upper slide.
Date: May 30, 1893
Creator: Cundiff, Middleton
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Peanut-Digger.

Description: Patent for improvements to peanut-diggers, specifically a curved frame attached to a plow beam.
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Stevens, Shed P.
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