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Washing Appliance.

Description: Patent for a washing appliance that consists of pipes that release hot water within a container. This appliance can be used to wash clothing. The patent explains how the appliance works and the specifics of each pipe.
Date: January 28, 1919
Creator: McFarland, James W.
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Wind-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a wind-wheel that "needs no guiding vane or tail, but shall turn in the same direction at all times regardless of the direction of the wind" (lines 8-11). It is a horizontal wind wheel that rotates on a vertical axis. The blades automatically opens on one side and close on the opposite side.
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Type-Writing Machine.

Description: Patent for a type-writing machine that has an improved variable line spacer. The simple and durable line spacer has the minimum number of parts and is easily adjustable to any distance.
Date: June 19, 1894
Creator: Hudson, John Horace
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Lantern.

Description: Patent for a lantern related to a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 522,062). This patent has a more simple design and improved means for keeping the chimney on the base of the lantern. The base has a pivoted main-bail that extends above the chimney, and the bail has hinged to a handle-bail.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Jarmin, George W.
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Lantern.

Description: Patent for a lantern that has an "exceedingly cheap construction, that is designed for use in high winds, as well as for domestic use, and which may be employed in connection with the ordinary oil and wick or candle" (lines 10-14).
Date: January 8, 1895
Creator: Seys, Cornelius D.
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Ink-Well

Description: Patent for an air and dust proof ink well for pens. Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Banning, Frederick D.
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Ventilating-Flue.

Description: Patent for ventilating-flue made from sheet-metal tubes, and "can be placed in any building without necessitating making the same in one length, the sections being constructed so as to be readily adjusted on each other" (lines 12-15).
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Lange, Fritz
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Tobacco-Pouch.

Description: Patent for a tobacco pouch that will fit easily into pockets and hands while still holding the maximum amount of tobacco. There are also improvements on the ease of getting the tobacco out of the pouch.
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Shumard, Malnor A. & Shumard, Malnor A., Jr.
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Paper-Guide.

Description: Patent for a Paper-Guide that can be folded, when it is not in service position, to allow it to be covered by the typewriting machine it is attached to. The patent includes illustrations.
Date: July 22, 1913
Creator: Davis, Alice Urilla
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Tobacco Substitute.

Description: Patent for a tobacco substitute "compounded of gentian, licorice, prickly-ash bark, and sassafras (lines 37-38).
Date: November 11, 1890
Creator: Rose, William Percy
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Toothbrush

Description: Patent that provides a toothbrush the ability to penetrate the interstices between the teeth and remove the debris by the vertical movement of the bristles, and being able to do so without discomfort. The brush is sanitary and convenient for being carried in a pocket in the clothing or in a traveling bag as well.
Date: September 29, 1919
Creator: Martz, George R.
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Pocket Hair Brush.

Description: Patent for useful improvements on the pocket hairbrush in which the bristles are movably mounted in a supporting frame in order to make the brush more compact.
Date: October 29, 1918
Creator: Walbach, James de B.
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Smoker's Pipe.

Description: Patent for improvements in sanitation, or cleaning, of smoker's pipes. Pipe can be dissembled for cleaning and includes access to duct and stem with no loss of quality in airstream.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Hopkins, George C.
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Hair-Drying Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improved method of drying hair after washing that separates and parts the hair in numerous places to quickly and thoroughly dry the hair. The apparatus, that sits on the shoulders, also has an "improved fastener for holding the frame on the head" (lines 40-41), and the frame is collapsible.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Moffitt, Mansfield M.
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Hair-Wave Former.

Description: Patent for an improved hair-wave former device so "hair may be waved or coiled by a harmless method without heating the air and without rolling the hair with paper" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date: February 28, 1922
Creator: Thompson, Mary E.
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Rotary-Razor

Description: Patent for rotary razors that includes a rotating blade that approaches and passes over the skin to avoid cuts or scrapes. The blade on the razor is tilted too far out to cause cuts and scrapes, yet it provides a sufficient shave.
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Jones, Sidney P.
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Swing.

Description: Patent for a swing that consists of a frame, a wooden horse to ride on, a U-shaped hanger that is attached to the seat in the back and front, a pulley-like rocker attached to the top of the frame, a bolt that is securing the rocker to the hanger, two bars that go from the horse seat to the pulley, and a chord that attaches the two bars and goes around the top of the pulley.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Alston, Samuel I.
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Envelop

Description: Patent for envelopes, particularly for inter-office use, in which an envelope would have an improved means for indicating the designation of the envelope to any series of persons or locations. Additionally, the envelope is provided a series of spaces with a separatable or removable indicator adapted to be located in any said spaces to indicate the destination of the envelope.
Date: October 20, 1919
Creator: Crate, James S.
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Extension-Brace for Ladders.

Description: Patent for an extension brace for ladders that improves on the inventor's previous patent (No. 416,413). The invention's parts "are positively raised and lowered by means of direct acting mechanism which is so constructed and arranged as to obtain the most beneficial results from a comparatively small application of power, the parts being strong and durable easily operated and readily understood" (lines 20-26).
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Crews, Dayton H.
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Mosquito-Net Frame.

Description: Patent for a mosquito-net frame that can support a tester, but does not require one to operate. The net can be draped over a bed and moved out of the way again without interfering with the tester.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Lottman, Albert C.
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Permutation-Padlock.

Description: Patent for an improved and simple combination padlock that only opens if the operator knows the combination, and it can be used with watch charms, bracelet locks, valises, trunks, bicycles, tool chests, writing desks, store rooms, and similar articles.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Sanderson, Benjamin A.
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