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Treadle-Spring.

Description: Patent for an improved treadle spring to be used in treadles that are used in sewing machines, scroll-saws, and similar machines. It is simple, inexpensive, efficient, and requires less effort to operate the treadle. The spring does not move while in use.
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Frank, Gustav, Jr.
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Metal-Cutting Shears.

Description: Patent for simple and effective metal-cutting shears that cuts hot or cold metals. The shears are mounted on a frame, and a hand-operated lever forces the upper shear down.
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Autrey, Benjamin P.
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Plow.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in plows, and it has for its object to provide a plow in which the share is removable therefrom in a convenient and expeditious manner, and is connected with the shank of the beam and with the wing or other support, by a locking connection not involving the use of bolts." (Lines 7-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Kelley, Thomas Jefferson
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Paper-Folder.

Description: Patent for a rotary paper folder meant to fold newspapers as they come from the press in a web. The invention is simple, and cuts the paper into sheets of the desired length. Its folding attachment folds the paper in parallel columns, and the knives do not move in relation to the cylinders.
Date: January 23, 1894
Creator: Carr, Elijah W.
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Switch-Stand.

Description: Patent for a switch-stand for railroads with a vertically movable crank bar that is easily locked into position and a cam lever. The invention is operated more easily than other switch-stands.
Date: September 4, 1894
Creator: Driever, Benjiman F. & Mixon, James W.
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Telephone.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective magneto telephone with a newly designed apparatus that allows the telephone to better receive and transmit calls and "will receive its magnetism from the magnets of the magneto call" (lines 21-22).
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Serdinko, John
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Support for Cutter-Heads.

Description: Patent for a support for cutter-heads that allows the operator to easily sharpen, dress, and treat the bits or cutters of the head. It has a spindle that turns and slides in a bearing and supports a cutter-head a pin in the spindle that is seated inn the grooves in the bearings, and a spring loaded bolt in the end of the spindle.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Kendig, Andrew
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Stock-Trough.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable stock-trough that feeds and waters stock and is easily cleaned. No wooden parts are exposed to the watering portion of the trough, and the invention will not injure the stock.
Date: December 18, 1894
Creator: Harry, Thomas C. & Harry, Hugh W.
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Portable Dairy.

Description: Patent for a portable dairy that consists of a frame with legs, a pan at the top of the frame, a tube that goes from the bottom of the pan and through the middle of the frame, a perforated bottom for the dairy, a cloth that surrounds the dairy while still allowing for air circulation, and the cloth goes into the pan.
Date: May 1, 1894
Creator: McIlveen, James H.
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Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for a refrigerator that cools dairy and other food products by evaporating water. The cooler is a chest with water in it and containers with absorbent material around the bottom of the containers that sits in the water. The outer chest is metal, and a container sits underneath to catch drips.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Greene, George A.
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Piano-Tuning Hammer.

Description: Patent for "a combination tool adapted for turning, driving, extracting, and otherwise manipulating tuning-pegs and other parts of a piano-action, whereby one tool is capable of performing the functions of a series of ordinarily independent instruments." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Fuchs, Benjamin F.
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Quilting-Frame.

Description: Patent for a quilting frame that has "a novel means of supporting and tilting the track, and also other features" (lines 15-16). The frame is suspended in a track, and the track can be tilted so the frame can run in bot directions on the track.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Banker, John P.
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Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a quilting mechanism for sewing machines that attaches to a sewing table that extends "over and above and parallel with the overhanging arm of the machine" (lines 20-22), the arm is adjustable and detachable, a track-rail is attached to the end of the arm, and a quilting-frame hangs from the sheaves.
Date: September 25, 1894
Creator: Stafford, George A.
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Dish-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a dish-cleaner that improves on previous patents for washing machines granted to the inventor (No. 377,765 and No. 427,601). The dish cleaner is especially adapted for use on plates, cups, dishes, and similar things, without an operator working to clean dishes.
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: McCausland, William I.
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Curling-Iron Heater.

Description: Patent for "an improved attachment for gas burners or lamps, which will be adapted to facilitate the heating of curling irons or other light articles" (lines 8-11).
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Fowler, Samuel O. & Taylor, Walter R.
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Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for a mechanism that presses cotton, wool, hemp, hay, or other similar substances that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 451,846). This patent improves on the previous patent by improving the construction of the press.
Date: January 16, 1894
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
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Cotton-Seed Planter.

Description: Patent for a cotton-seem planters that has a frame with a bar bent to make handles, supporting wheels, a hopper, a feed drum, guides, and pins that feed seed along the hopper.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Sawyer, Samuel P.
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Cotton-Sack Carrier.

Description: Patent for cotton-sack carriers "which will offer no impediment to the free movements of the picker," and constructed "such that the ends of the carrier will not engage and 'hang' upon the stalks of cotton, and will pass readily over irregularities in the surface of the field." (Lines 22-38) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1894
Creator: Johns, Calvin L.
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Seed-Sowing Attachment for Plows.

Description: Patent for a seed-sowing attachment for plows which can "drop the seed in a furrow as it is made by the plow, and after it is covered by the formation of a successive furrow, and thereby complete the sowing or drilling process simultaneously with the plowing operation" (lines 14-19).
Date: June 19, 1894
Creator: Johnson, George W.
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Metallic Cross-Tie.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive metallic crosstie that has elasticity and the same vibration as a wooden cross-tie and does not require bolts or nuts. It can easily be placed or removed from rails.
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Budington, Albert G.
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Detaching Device for Wheel-Hubs.

Description: Patent for an attachment for a wheel-hub that allows for the hub to be quickly and easily removed or engaged. The invention does not require a nut wrench; "devices for screwing and unscrewing the axle nut are carried by the wheel-hub, and are always in proper position for immediate use whenever it is necessary to detach the nut" (lines 16-19).
Date: February 6, 1894
Creator: Butler, George H.
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Turn-Table.

Description: Patent for a turn table that is "used for turning locomotives engines end to end; and the object of [the] invention is to provide a simple lever attachment for an ordinary turn-table, by which one man may easily turn the table and its load, and also to arrange the lever mechanism so that it may be easily locked in place when not in use and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 8-16).
Date: March 27, 1894
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
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Doubletree.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable double tree that utilizes the entire force of the strain and divides it equally between the animals.
Date: December 11, 1894
Creator: Beaver, Francis Marion
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Hame-Hook.

Description: Patent for a hame-hook that "may be readily applied to the hames or removed therefrom, and which wile in position is secure against any accidental loosening or removal; and furthermore, is strong, cheap, and durable" (lines 12-17).
Date: January 23, 1894
Creator: Swann, Robert B.
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