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Amalgamator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up throu… more
Date: September 12, 1882
Creator: Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry
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Refrigerator-Car

Description: Patent for a refrigerated train car "containing ice receptacles and equipped with pipe coils through which the brine given off from the ice may be circulated around the walls of the car" (p. 1, lines 10-15) which also circulates the cooled air through the car.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Dietz, Maurice B.
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Reporter's Desk.

Description: Patent for a new and improved collapse-able desk. This design consists in "a top and base arranged . . . one above the other, an intermediate connection inclining from a vertical line, having a portion of the front side, near the upper end, in contact with the rear edge of the top, forming a rest or stop for said top, and a portion of the rear side, near the opposite end, in contact with the front edge of the base, which latter forms a rest or stop for the lower end of the section, and brackets… more
Date: September 7, 1886
Creator: Weiner, Isidore H.
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Apparatus for Making Soap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved soap-making machine. This design "consist[s] of grease and soda tanks, the latter tank having a diaphragm . . . a register-tank, pipes leading from said grease and soda tanks to said register-tank, a pivoted converter, a rotary shaft in said converter and blades, a shaft journaled in uprights attached to said converter and provided with a crank and a bevel wheel, the latter gearing with a bevel-wheel on said rotary shaft in the converter, and removable furnaces for… more
Date: September 20, 1887
Creator: Grant, William A.
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Dry Separator

Description: Patent for a separator for mills designed to separate valuable material from extraneous material. Illustrations included.
Date: September 28, 1909
Creator: Snowden, Rene Ravenel
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Machine For Picking and Cleaning Cotton

Description: Patent for a machine for picking and cleaning cotton. Illustration included.
Date: September 4, 1906
Creator: Richmond, George E. & Desel, Charles L.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for automatic freight car coupler, including illustrations. The coupler "obviates the necessity of any one going between the cars while being coupled" (lines11-13).
Date: September 26, 1882
Creator: Chapman, John Edward Howard
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Form for Building Concrete Structures

Description: Patent for a form for building concrete structures. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Duller, David M.
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Winding Drum.

Description: Patent for a winding drum that will prevent the overlap of the coils during winding, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 22, 1914
Creator: Voigt, Philip H. & Kuehne, Oscar C.
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Rotary Boring-Drill

Description: Patent for rotary boring-drill attachment for a rotary drill stem for drilling oil or water wells.
Date: September 16, 1919
Creator: Hughes, Howard R
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Resilient Wheel

Description: Patent for Resilient Wheel
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Kettler, Martin F
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Pipe-Gripping Device.

Description: Patent for a device designed to hold and sustain a string of pipe in an elevated position during the process of unscrewing and separating it into sections, primarily used for drilling operations where pipes are connected and disconnected within a borehole.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Steen, Buford J.
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Gasolene-Measuring Device.

Description: Patent for a device which allows for gasoline to be measured while under constant flow.
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: McKallip, John C.
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Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine

Description: Patent for a pencil vending machine that is coin-operated, with illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Mathes, John W.
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Rim Breaker

Description: Patent for Rim Breaker
Date: September 26, 1916
Creator: Du Bois, Homer. M.
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Process of Treating Hydrocarbons

Description: Patent for a new or improved process which distills heavy hydrocarbon oils into large volumes of gasoline or other lighter volatile liquids.
Date: September 18, 1918
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin & Averill, Willard C., Jr.
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Lure-Conveyer

Description: Patent for a conveying lure used in dog races. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Smith, Owen P.
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Concrete Construction

Description: Patent for improved concrete construction methods for creating buildings made of or with concrete. These improvements include lighter walls with an air space that prevents dampening.
Date: September 12, 1913
Creator: Howard, Frances H.
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Cotton-Picking Machine

Description: Patent for a cotton picking machine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 6, 1910
Creator: Stoops, Harry James
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Levee.

Description: Patent for reinforced levees with "means whereby the water will be positively prevented from seeping therethrough and weakening the levee" (lines 14-16).
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Beazley, John Sr.
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Safety Device for Locomotives.

Description: Patent for a safety device for a locomotive that can be automatically tripped to shut off the steam from the locomotive engine and apply air to the brake mechanism. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Conover, James W.
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Ditching-Machine

Description: Patent for a ditching machine to be used in railroad construction. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Griffin, George Conrad
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Mattress-Support.

Description: Patent for a new device that will improve mattress support, including illustrations. It is "designed to take the place of the ordinary spring now in common use and it is formed of inflatable units arranged to be inflated by the use of air, hot or cold water or other similar fluids" (lines 11-15).
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Monks, Frederick I.
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