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Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved design of washing machines "which combines simplicity of construction with economy in operation" and helps "to minimize the opportunity for wear, breakage or derangement" (lines 30-35), including illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Seifert, John W.
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Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for automatic car-couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Yarnell, Leon, J. & Schmidt, Joseph H.
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Design for Kitchen Cabinet

Description: Design patent for a kitchen cabinet that is useful and ornamental. Leading feature includes rectangular upright position that has a framework of strips provided with a longitudinal beading or ribs.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Ferguson, John F. G.
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Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Howard, Joseph
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Grave Cover.

Description: Patent for a new and improved grave covering. This design calls for a concrete slab, slightly larger than its lidless wooden box, to rest on the upper edges of the latter. A slat in the slab will receive a headstone, which will rest on the slab via flanges.
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Thomas, James R.
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Sleeve-Protector

Description: Patent for a device which protects the wearer's sleeve from becoming wet while washing his hands, brushing his teeth, etc.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Conine, F. B.
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Rotary Churn.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rotary churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting frame, the walking-beam, two crank-shafts journaled in the rear part of said frame, means for connecting the walking-beam with said shafts, a balance-wheel and dasher carried by one of said shafts, a larger balance wheel connected to the other shaft, and a churn-body secured to said balance-wheel" (lines 50-57).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Stafford, George A.
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Expansible Boot Tree

Description: Patent for expansible boot tree. This device is designed for the ability to stretch boots and shoes. Illustration included.
Date: September 21, 1909
Creator: Malmberg, Anders G. & Olsen, Lawrence
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Blacking Brush.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blacking brush. This design utilizes springs to move a blacking brush to and from a can of polish. This results in "evenness of wear of the bristles of the brush, economy of blacking, absence of spattering while extracting the blacking from the box, convenience in substituting the circular brush as a lid for the box in case of loss of the box-lid, and the saving of time in looking for a blacking-brush and a blacking-box separately" (lines 53-60).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Wood, Edmund Lorenzo.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car coupling of the Janney type that increases "efficiency in service and enable[s] an operator at the side of the train to readily and with safety set the improved car-coupling to disconnect it from another of the same style" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Smith, Thomas Henry.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bee-Cage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved design of bee cages that facilitates the feeding of bees during transportation and provides "the proper ventilation of the air through the cage to prevent the bees from smothering" (lines 17-19), including illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Ault, Eugene B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Retailing Shot.

Description: Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Stokes, Micajah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee Pot.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design consists in "tubes having their upper ends bent downward, a bridge or cross-piece connecting their upper ends, the suspending-rods depending from the bridge, the ring on the lower ends of the suspending-rods, the [other] ring, and the separate strainer held removably between the two said rings" (lines 84-90).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Lawrence, Joseph Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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