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Improvement in Mechanical Movements.

Description: Patent for a specific arrangement of a single-cylinder engine and two shafts with connecting rods that can be used to drive boat propellers.
Date: May 5, 1874
Creator: Franklin, Robert Morris
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Improvement in Floating-Docks.

Description: Patent for an elliptic floating dock.
Date: December 8, 1874
Creator: Marcusey, Edward; Herbert, Dozier G. & Bunting, R. F.
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Improvement in Distilling Turpentine.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in apparatus for distilling turpentine to permit continuous distillation.
Date: April 15, 1872
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
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Improvement in External Window, Door, and Shutter Sprinklers

Description: Patent for improvement in external window, door, and shutter sprinklers. The sprinklers would be used to wet the wooden pieces in case of adjacent fire, and are designed to run down the side of the building instead of into the building, reducing water damage inside, with illustration.
Date: August 27, 1878
Creator: Bennison, John
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Improvement in Middlings-Purifiers.

Description: Patent for a "machine for purifying the middlings in the process of making flour that will free them more completely from impurities that has heretofore been done, and to construct the parts of the machine so that air-blasts will be completely under control" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1879
Creator: White, Henry
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Train-Stopping Apparatus.

Description: Patent for "to provide a track instrument for automatic train stopping apparatus which will be useful in conjunction with block signaling system." (lines 16-19) including illustrations.
Date: July 13, 1915
Creator: Labit, Girard E.
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Trap-Net.

Description: Patent for improvements in net traps for fish. The trap is constructed of two sections that "can be held open at any depth" and automatically close when lifted.
Date: June 22, 1915
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
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Trap for Crustacea

Description: Patent for a trap used to catch various crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters. Illustrations included.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
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Trap.

Description: Patent for a fishing trap box that holds the bait securely and can be used for catching fish or crustaceans.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
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Trap For Crustacea

Description: Patent for a crustacea trap. This device is designed for use in catching crabs, lobsters, and other crustacea. Illustrations included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
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Ventilating Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design consists in "a fan casing, constructed and arranged . . . of the fan arranged therein, the gearing placed above the fan, the air-ducts leading to the fan-chamber, the endless weighted chain or cord, and drums and pulleys . . . [and] an open bottom secured to a ceiling and communicating with air-ducts passing between the floor and ceiling of a building" (lines 80-90).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Garfield, John Morris
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Transplanter.

Description: Patent for a machine that transplants small plants while avoiding "clogging of the mud in soft soil" (line 20). It has a cylindrical cutter and a cylindrical plunger that fits just inside it. The plunger is usually away from the base of the cutter, and an adjustable rod extends from the plunger.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Harris, Hiram S.
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Vacuum Electric-Arc Furnace.

Description: Patent for "an improved electric furnace having means to positively insure the thorough fusion or reduction of the substances placed therein without loss due to combustion or the oxidation of such substances, while at the same time providing an effective distribution of the heat and the prevention of the loss of carbon by combustion" (lines 17-25). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 1, 1897
Creator: Eldridge, Hilliary; Wright, George Hudson & Clark, Daniel J.
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Propellor Pitchometer.

Description: Patent for instruments which measure the pitch of propeller blades.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Frank, Lawrence
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Improved Process of Sterilizing and Packaging Rice

Description: Patent for sterilizing and packaging rice by subjecting it to heat for twenty minutes or more. After this, the rice is sorted in a shaker and put into packaging while maintaining the air temperature. This prohibits the rice kernels from cracking.
Date: April 21, 1914
Creator: Davis, Waters Smith, Jr.
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Improvement in Automatic Detaching Hook.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvements Hooks"
Date: September 12, 1876
Creator: Wyckoff, Cornerius P.
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Improvement in Bale-Band Stretchers

Description: Patent for improvement of bale-band stretcher design "for the purpose of taking out the slack of the band that cannot be taken out by hand." (lines 18-20). Included illustration shows bale-stretcher in both open and closed positions.
Date: December 12, 1876
Creator: Pearre, Charles M.
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Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.

Description: Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Hodges, John C., Jr.
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Improvement in Automatic Fans.

Description: Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
Date: November 3, 1877
Creator: Boone, John Baxter
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Improvement in Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for an improved Cotton Chopper. The device is horse drawn with adjustable wheels, plows and drivers seat (pg 2). Illustration Included.
Date: October 8, 1872
Creator: Matthews, Ebenezer T.
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Improvement in bale-ties

Description: Patent for cotton bale ties, involving a lateral arm. Includes illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1872
Creator: Lloyd, Arnold
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Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for fastening iron or other bands on cotton-bales or packages that put up with iron bands, including illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1873
Creator: Quin, Michael
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Improvement in Combined Spades and Forks.

Description: Patent for a new improved and combined spade and fork to be used as a spade. It "consists in a sheet-metal sheath or pocket adapted to receive a fork and be secured" (lines 16-18 ) including illustrations.
Date: July 15, 1873
Creator: Stone, Heber
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