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Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design has a reversible trough, "having bearings for the detachable rollers and provided with a pair of flat springs affixed rigidly to opposite sides and at opposite ends of the trough, hooked screw-bolts having thumb-screws, and shaft of the main roller" (lines 1-6).
Date: November 15, 1881
Creator: Blake, Llewellyn A.
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Surgical Splint.

Description: Patent for a surgical splint specifically for the substitution of erectile tissue of the corpora cavernous of the genital organ to promote fecundation even in the absence of an erection.
Date: July 13, 1920
Creator: Renois, John J.
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Quoin

Description: Patent for quoin. Illustration included.
Date: unknown
Creator: Crockett, William Vernon
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Base Board

Description: Patent for base board. Illustrations included.
Date: November 12, 1907
Creator: Bryan, Augustus M.
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Gate

Description: Patent for a gate. Illustration included.
Date: May 8, 1906
Creator: Reese, James T.
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Reversible Automobile-Lamp

Description: Patent for a reversible automobile taillight that can be changed to four different colors to indicate different things.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Minhinnett, George F.
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Latch for Gates.

Description: Patent for improvements in latches for gates.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Roots, Preston
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Well-Casing Spear

Description: Patent for a well casing spear. Illustrations included.
Date: February 28, 1911
Creator: Norris, Joseph B.
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Improvement in Bed-Bug Exterminators.

Description: Patent for "a machine for exterminating bed-bugs by steam." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1873
Creator: Fewell, Calvin L.
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Improvement in Combined Cistern Tops and Filters.

Description: Patent for improvements to cistern covers, combining a cast iron, charcoal filled filter and specially shaped cast perforated iron lid with handles for removing the cover and for changing the charcoal.
Date: July 9, 1874
Creator: Stacey, Ephraim Douglass
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Plow

Description: Patent for "an improved plow especially adapted for use in plowing down listed or bedded land to reduce the same to a level and also adapted for other purposes" .(lines 11-14). The plow is designed to improve the physical construction of the plow making it better and stronger while eliminating past flaws.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Killingsworth, Robert Lee
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Improvement in Weeding-Hoes.

Description: Patent for improvment of "the construction of weeding-hoes; and it consists in providing the same with an inclined cutting-edge, in such a way that they will enter and pass through the ground more easily than hoes constructed in the ordinary manner." (11-16)including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1873
Creator: Crossland, Henry S.
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Churn-Top.

Description: Patent for a churn top, which prevents the milk from splashing out of the churn while it is in use and keeps out bugs and dirt.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Lewis, Lola
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Chicken-Coop.

Description: Patent for improvements in coops for fowls and other birds by using a combination of a cage with a door having a depending leg, a post and a lever for raising and lowering the cage; the cage door is “automatically opened when lowered and closed as it is raised,” (lines 75-76) "so that the young will be out of danger from attacks of rodents, collecting water, &c...," (lines 22-23) includes illustration.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Harp, Charles A.
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Blasting Cartridge.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blasting-cartridge. This design is "composed of two similar semi-cylindrical sections having flat smooth faces their entire length, adapted to rest or bear against each other and grooved to form the cylindrical fuse-opening" (lines 94-98). It further consists in the "bore tapering from said fuse-opening to the bottom or inner end of the shell, said semi-shells being provided on their outer sides and at their front ends for a portion of their lengths only with sharp… more
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Todd, James Polk & Welch, John Steel
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Hydrocarbon-Burner

Description: Patent for a hydrocarbon burner.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Higgins, James Franklin
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Hydrocarbon Burner

Description: Patent for a hydrocarbon burner. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Higgins, James F.
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Faucet

Description: Patent for improved cistern or tank faucets
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Lowe, Stiles F.
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Gas Producer.

Description: Patent for improvements to gas producers of the type in which combustible gases are evolved from coal, lignite, etc., during the incomplete combustion thereof.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
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Rotary-Drill Head.

Description: Patent for a drill apparatus that improves the head gears and driving mechanisms that makes for an efficient driving of the apparatus and allows for free vertical movement.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
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Soap.

Description: Patent for a system of making soap and the amount of the ingredients therein.
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Gray, John & Simmons, Abner
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Stovepipe Protector

Description: Patent for a stovepipe protector. Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Graham, Sherman Bruce
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Hames Fastener

Description: Patent for a hames fastener, so that the hames will fit tightly on a horse collar when a strap is adjusted.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Ingram, Lewis J.
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Spark Arrester

Description: Patent for spark arrester. This invention is adapted for use with locomotives. Illustration included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Ridgway, Elzie L.
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