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Log-Loading Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it above… more
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Fletcher, William Andrew
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Log-Loader.

Description: Patent for improvements in a machine that hauls logs and loads them on railways, based on a patent application submitted by the inventor previously (serial no. 563,242). A swinging crane loads and unloads the logs.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Fletcher, William A.
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Log-Carrier.

Description: Patent for a log-carrier with an improved construction from a previous patent (No. 539,380). Improvements include a change in "the angle of strain of the draft-chain as the lever approaches the horizontal position...when the load is elevated" (lines 34-37). It also maintains "a uniform leverage without the use of guide-rollers or other means" (lines 54-56), and balances the sliding tongue so that "the team is relieved of the weight thereof" (line 62).
Date: December 8, 1896
Creator: Carroll, Joseph Alexander
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Trunk-Strap Fastener.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple trunk strap fastener meant to "insure a strong tightening of the same without resorting to the old laborious method of buckling the strap about the baggage, while at the same time the invention also contemplates the employment of a specific arrangement of the strap about the article being bound therewith, in combination with the fastener proper whereby a stronger and more efficient strapping is effected" (lines 16-25).
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Webb, William James
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Valve For Oil Wells

Description: Patent for a valve for oil wells. This invention is designed to control the flow of oil during drilling. Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Bernard, Horace D.
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Vapor Burner

Description: Patent for a vapor burner. Illustration included.
Date: July 11, 1905
Creator: Todd, Clarence C.
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Life-Preserver.

Description: Patent for a life preserver with features to support both a wearer's waist and neck.
Date: August 12, 1913
Creator: Hansen, Carl Albert Edvard
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Valve

Description: Patent for a valve. Illustration included.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Smith, Frederick C.
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Tubular Tank Inspector And Gage

Description: Patent for a tubular tank inspector and gage. This invention is designed for the measuring level of fluids in the tank. Illustration included.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Gregson, William
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Improvements in Apparatus for Concentrating Acid

Description: Patent for an apparatus for concentrating acid. This apparatus relates to concentrating weak acid taken from petroleum sludge.
Date: October 10, 1911
Creator: Gray, Elisha Burritt
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Wall And Floor Brace

Description: Patent for wall and floor brace. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1904
Creator: Ettler, John Adolph & Sutherland, John
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Life-Preserver.

Description: Patent for life preserver worn on the human body and inflated with a valve attached to rubber tubes. Includes illustration.
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Graham, George
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Injector-Burner

Description: Patent for an injector burner which "consumes a mixture of oil and steam" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Wiggs, James A., Jr.
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Improving Oils.

Description: Patent for a method of improving the quality of more volatile petroleum oils, such as gasoline and burning oils.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: McAfee, Almer M.
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Improvements in Burners

Description: Patent for improvements for burners. It is related explicitly to hydrocarbon burners. Its purpose is to keep the oil and steam separate as they leave the burner by keeping them in two separate streams.
Date: June 19, 1918
Creator: Trahan, Clair A
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Velocipede

Description: A patent for a quadrucycle, or bicycle with four wheels, adaptable for use on railroads.
Date: June 13, 1882
Creator: McCombs, Paul
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Improvement in Jack-Screws and Clamps Combined.

Description: Patent for an invention "to combine a jack-screw or lifting-jack with a clamp, so that they may be interchangeably used." (Lines 19-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.; Jackson, Asberry C. & Watson, Claudius S.
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Improvement In Percussion-Shells.

Description: This patent was created for individuals to be able to hit an object with the instrument and the oject immediately explodes on impact. It then produces an excessive amount of explosions. The invention is made out of shells with sections assembled together infused with different substances, and connected by a fuse.
Date: April 9, 1878
Creator: Urquhart, John M.
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Trailer.

Description: Patent for trailers for attachment to trucks that is strong and compact and will not be distorted by the turning of the trailer relative to the truck.
Date: August 31, 1920
Creator: Feigelson, Alexander
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Trailing Device for Tractors and the Like

Description: Patent for a device built to connect behind tractors and other farming vehicles. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Fiegelson, Alexander
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Tree and Brush Cutter.

Description: Patent for a motorized tree and brush cutter that is portable.
Date: February 14, 1911
Creator: Andrews, Robert Lyle
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