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Improvement in Picket-Fences.

Description: Patent for a new design for a picket fence which is simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture.
Date: December 24, 1872
Creator: Willhite, Joseph
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Clothes-Pin

Description: Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Cooke, Jasper Newton & Moeller, John Charles
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Lamp Chimney and Burner.

Description: Patent for securely fastening the lamp chimney when it is placed on top of a burner to prevent the two from coming detached. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1918
Creator: Anderson, Laura
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Rail-Fastening.

Description: Patent for a rail fastening for padding the connection between the rail and the tie, which has a stronger connection than previous versions of this type of device.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Percival, Herbert E.
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Punch.

Description: Patent for a metal punch for use on cold metal. It is designed to sit atop a blacksmith's anvil.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Tevebaugh, Henry C.
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Broom-Holder.

Description: Patent for a holder for suspending a broom by its head in an inverted position. Primarily a bracket designed to be secured against a wall or the back of a door.
Date: December 24, 1918
Creator: Veach, Dewey M.
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Sash Fastener

Description: Patent for a sash fastener. The invnetion is designed to be of durable use as a window sash fastener. Illustration included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Flaniken, William F.
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Compression Means for Fountain-Pens

Description: Patent for a compressor for fountain pens. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Smith, Edwin R.
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Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators

Description: Patent for a chopping device that can be attached to an existing cultivator, allowing for the use of the cultivator to become a more versatile farm vehicle.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Vickers, John J.
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Harvester Attachment.

Description: Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Marshall, John Henry.
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Insulator and Protector for Electric Conductors

Description: Patent for a casing for electric wires made to protect them from wear, abrasion, or contact from other objects. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Copping, Thomas Cary
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Railway-Track Brace

Description: Patent for a brace for railway tracks. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Reid, John M.
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Straining-Plug.

Description: Patent for a strainer plug for water pipes.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: McEvoy, Joseph H.
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Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen

Description: Patent for an antifriction device used to "prevent dust and grit from accumulating in the anti-friction bearings" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Neighbour, William W.
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Beam or Girder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved girder. This design is "composed of a vertical web and a flange or flanges, a mass of the metal in a flange or flanges projecting from the web at and near one-half the distance between the axis and the neutral line" (lines 48-53).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Cousins, Robert Henry
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Wire-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a wire fastener for telegraph poles, which connects to the poles without the use of other wires to tie the fastener to the pole.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Wilburn, Sylvester & Smith, Thomas E.
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Plastic Fence-Post.

Description: Patent for a plastic fence post that wire fencing or wooden rails can be attached to that has the connection areas on the post hollowed out to protect the parts from the weather.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Libhart, Hugh P.
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Baling-Press

Description: Patent for an improved baling press including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Tom, Joseph C. & Walker, Hiram F.
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Curtain Fixture.

Description: Patent for a new and improved curtain fixture. This design "consist[s] of the brackets secured to the window-frame, and a frame consisting of a single continuous integral U-shaped bar having its arms bent outward from its shoulders . . . and having the end of one of its arms pivoted to the adjacent bracket and the end of the other arm bent laterally and journaled in the other bracket, the curtain-roller being journaled in and extending between the arms" (lines 60-69).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Bomar, Mattie A.
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Derailing Device.

Description: Patent for a derailing device to stop trains from colliding with one another by derailing the oncoming train.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Clegg, William Owen
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Device for Distributing Insect Powder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "the combination of the body of the bellows and the perforate wall or sieve arranged longitudinally therein, dividing the bellows into two compartments, with a nozzle or an air-outlet communicating with one compartment, whereby material placed in the other compartment on the opposite side of the sieve is agitated by the operation of the bellows and delivered to the air-blast in a comminuted state" (lines 25-35).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Hogarth, William H. J.
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Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists in "the combination, with a receptacle having a flange on one end, of a pump, a collar surrounding the said pump and carrying claws which engage and a cam which bears upon the said flange, a perforated tray resting upon the bottom of the receptacle, and perforated pipes connected with the said pump, the said pump and pipes being contained in the said receptacle" (lines 4-12).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: McCausland, William I.
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Percolator.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive water-bath percolator meant to extract "the soluble constituents of various substances" (lines 11-12). "The lid or cover may be sealed hermetically whenever it is desirable to exclude the air or prevent the escape of vapor or volatile constituents" (lines 19-22). It has an inner vessel, the outer vessel containing water. The two vessels are easily disconnected.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Riley, David L.
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Cotton Elevator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton elevator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a frame, a suction-pipe having one end bent downward to receive the seed cotton and the other end terminating in an upwardly-extending dust flue, and a suction-fan having its suction and discharge at the periphery, of a perforated screening-cylinder, an endless belt which co-acts with the cylinder to deflect the cotton into the discharge pipe, and a blowing-fan in the latter for forcing the seed-cott… more
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Swinnerton, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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