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Weather-Strip.

Description: Patent for an improved door weather strip and stop. The device atuates to be both a door stop and a weather strip.
Date: May 28, 1919
Creator: Campbell, Thomas M.
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Improvements in Processes of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil

Description: Patent for a process to refine oil, specifically crude, cotton-seed oil, using caustic soda. Includes an explanation of how the process works.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
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Valve Gear

Description: Patent for a valve gear. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: McCain, Sidney Lea
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Improvement in Flat-Iron Heaters.

Description: Patent for a device which rapidly heats a flat or smoothing iron utilizing a lamp with multiple burners which can be adjusted to raise the temperature of the flat iron to the desired degree.
Date: July 28, 1874
Creator: Wilmot, Byron
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Improvement in Farm-Fences.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Fences"
Date: November 28, 1876
Creator: Sullivan, J. L.
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Ventilated Body-Garment.

Description: Patent for new ventilated body-garments "known as union-oversuits or "unionalls"" (lines 15-16) which improves the shoulder coverings and open armpit areas, allowing the passage of air but covering the area from rain.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Jenkins, William M. & Vaughan, William H.
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Nailless Horseshoe.

Description: Patent for a nailless horseshoe made of adjustable metallic straps, including illustrations.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Hughes, John V.
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Switch Cord Plug

Description: Patent for a switch cord plug that can be adapted to cords and used with telephone switchboards. Illustrations included.
Date: April 28, 1908
Creator: Smith, Eugene Lamar
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Printer's Cabinet

Description: Patent for a printer's cabinet. Illustrations included.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Dorsey, Henry
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Riding-Saddle.

Description: Patent for a ridding-saddle that is an improvement previously granted to Jesse D. Padgitt (No. 540,940). The improvements include increasing the strength to the flexible rear portion of the saddle. The first patent was for a saddle "distinguished by a tree or frame formed of a short rigid fork and a flexible body or rear portion, including a seat and cantle, constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material" (lines 10-14).
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Padgitt, William C. & Padgitt, Jesse D.
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Permutation-Lock.

Description: Patent for an improvement in permutation-locks with illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Haley, Auslem Jayne
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Railroad Signal

Description: Patent for automatic railroad signals that emit sound and lights.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Harrell, William H.
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Electric-Current Meter.

Description: Patent for an electric-current meter that measures "the amount of electricity passing over a given branch of derived or (if desired) line circuit, thereby indicating the amount of electricity used for the translating or other consuming devices in the circuit, having for its object the construction of an apparatus which will respond more accurately to the variations in the said currents and indicate more exactly upon a dial or dials provided for the purpose, the quantity of electricity which pas… more
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Mottram, William T.
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Electric Heater

Description: Patent for an electric heater that is insulated from foreign bodies or fluids. Illustrations included.
Date: February 28, 1911
Creator: Harvie, Arthur H. & Davis, William G.
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Electric Hairbrush

Description: Patent for an improved electric hairbrush having an insulated electrical heating element and separately charged electrically conductive metallic bristles. The hairbrush is designed to straighten hair and/or to electrically treat a user's hair and scalp with a low-voltage current. A device in the handle allows the user to regulate the heating of the element.
Date: November 28, 1922
Creator: Harvey, Birdie
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Draft-Equalizer

Description: Patent relating to improvements to draft appliances for tractors. Illustration is included.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
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Disk Plow.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements relates to disk or revolving plows.
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Wolcott, Oliver P.
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Cotton Seed Cleaner

Description: Patent for a cotton seed cleaner. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
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Cotton-Gin Brush

Description: Patent for "a cheap, durable, efficient, and simple brush adapted for use in cotton-gins, the parts of which may readily be assembled or detached for purposes of construction, renewal, replacement, or repair" (lines 9-14).
Date: May 28, 1889
Creator: Swann, Warner Minor & Swann, Richard Tompkins
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Seed-Cotton Cleaner and Distributor

Description: Patent for seed cotton cleaner and distributor, important for its ability to raise cotton plants into the air and clean them as they are fed into receptacles.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Lamb, William R.
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Garment-Waist Adjuster.

Description: Patent for improvements made to a garment-waist adjuster including specifications and illustrations. This patent describes improvements made to the device outlined in a previous patent associated with the same inventor, Albert K. Hurst.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Hurst, Albert K.
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Account-Book.

Description: Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.
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Distributer or Conveyer Belt.

Description: Patent for belt related "to distributer or conveyer belts and more particularly to that type of belt used in gin-distributers. The object of the invention is to provide a belt of this character which is strong and simple of construction, extremely durable in use, and in which the spikes or fingers will be securely fastened to maintain their proper relation and to prevent their being pulled out" (lines 12-21)
Date: October 28, 1902
Creator: Tinsley, James F.
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Desk or Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a simple and economical desk that is designed to be completely sealed and protected when it is closed. When the cabinet is opened, "the machine may be operated with as much ease as though the machine were placed upon an ordinary table, and whereby further, when the cabinet is opened, an extensive table will be provided at each side of the machine for the reception of work which is to be performed or which has been executed, or for any purpose that the operator may desire" (lines 20-2… more
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Billington, Theophilus
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