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Weather Board Gage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gauge for weatherboards. This design utilizes a guiding loop and a hinged part to create a gauge that, "after it has been attached to the house, will support at least two boards in position while they are being nailed on, before it is necessary to the move the gage [sic] into another position, and which gage will be so securely held in place that the boards can be moved back and forth without displacing it in any manner" (lines 27-34).
Date: August 9, 1881
Creator: Lawrence, John Madison
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Walking Seed-Planter.

Description: Patent for a walking seed-planter. It has a frame, a supporting-wheel between two beams of the frame, a seed-slide with forwardly-projecting arms and blocks that are engaged by cams, a hopper that overlies the seed-slide, springs attached to the hopper and the seed-slide that return the slide to its usual position, a pin that limits the seed-slide's movement, shovels on the frame, a seed-spout, a bolt that holds the frame together, and brace-rods.
Date: February 4, 1896
Creator: White, Lee
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Latch.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in latches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Lott, William E.
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Latch.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in latches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1898
Creator: Lott, William Edward
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Vehicle-Axle.

Description: Patent for a vehicle axle for buggies, which has easy access to the inner parts of the axle for repair and runs easily.
Date: September 3, 1907
Creator: York, Doctor Alonzo
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Vehicle Seat Brace

Description: Patent for a vehicle seat brace. The invention is a brace for seats to sustain weight placed in the seat. Illustration included.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Cool, Isaac W.
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Vehicle Running-Gear.

Description: Patent for vehicle running-gear, catered toward machinery that has fifth-wheel reach beams. Designed for smoother vehicle functioning.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Singler, Frank J.
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Improvement in Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in steam-engines which shall be so constructed as to give a full application of the steam and a free exhaust at regular intervals, which will enable the engine to be easily reversed, can be easily attached to any engine, which will enable an engine to be worked by water-pressure, will run smoothly and with very little friction, and will be very durable." (Lines 11-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1877
Creator: Davis, James H. & White, William
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Steam-Condenser.

Description: Patent for a steam condenser, which performs the function of a re-boiler to remove harmful gases from water during the process of making ice.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Pendleton, George W.
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Tire

Description: 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
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Mechanical Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved engine. This design "relates to mechanical powers, the object being to combine with an ordinary tread-wheel mechanical advices adapted to be operated by horse-power to revolve said wheel. The invention consists in the features of construction and combination of parts" (lines 9-14).
Date: July 10, 1883
Creator: Perrin, William J.
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Tongue Support for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for a new and improved tongue-support for vehicles. This design "is to provide a spring for bearing downwardly upon the rear end of the tongue, and thereby raising and supporting the front end thereof, to relieve the horses' necks of the weight of the tongue, and thereby enable them to draw the wagon more readily, and with less exertion" (lines 23-29).
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Ham, Zachariah Melton
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Miller Exterminator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved insect exterminator. This design consists in "[a] lamp having an external upwardly-projecting sleeve and a side socket and a wick projecting through the sleeve, in combination with a pole or standard fitting into said side socket and a pan having an inward sleeve fitting over said sleeve on the lamp" (lines 49-54).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Woods, John B.
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Plow Attachment.

Description: Patent for a plow attachment by using a socket adapted to be clamped in position upon the beam (line 15). “Plow equipped with the attachment may be used at a straddle-row cultivator, or a middle furrow cultivator, and that the teeth may be so arranged as to cast the soil toward or away from the plants, as occasion may require” (lines 35-40). Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Farrington, Johnathan William
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Switchboard

Description: Patent for a switchboard for use with telephone exchanges and electrical plants. The invention is designed to connect any line wire to the jack wire. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Weir, Welby D.
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Oil-Cloth Rack.

Description: Patent for an oil-cloth display rack that includes a measuring device along the side.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Sisler, Charles C.
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Step For Carriages

Description: Patent for a step for carriages. This invention is meant "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device ... for use on buggies, wagons, and other vehicles" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Hopper, Ceburn Elzworth
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for improvements in nut-locks, "wherein a ratchet and pawl is employed to prevent retrograde movement of the nut after it has once been turned up into the desired position." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Magee, William L.
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive nut lock that can be easily used and removed. It lengthens the life of the bolt. The invention is "a bolt with a longitudinal groove or slot in which fits a tongue or lug on a washer which is provided with a notch or notches into which may be forced a portion or portions of a washer made of bendable material, opposite portions of which are designed to be forced into notches in the faces of the nut and thus the nut and both washers are bound or hel… more
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Woods, John B.
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Sweep-Holder

Description: Patent for a sweep holder intended for keeping the rear sweep of a plow straight and secure. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Reid, William W.
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