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Dirigible Headlight.

Description: Patent for improvements in dirigible headlights. This headlight is used for automobiles and self-propelled vehicles where the usual headlights are directed to throw their beams of light in the direction of travel upon actuating the steering mechanism.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Harris, Robert L. & Geeslin, Eli M.
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Design for a Curling Iron Holder

Description: Patent for a design for a curling-iron holder.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Campbell, Orton G.
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Car Brake

Description: Patent for a car brake. This is an invention for a brake on railroad cars.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Brown, Herbert Eddes
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Gearing for Windmills

Description: Patent for gearing used in the operation of windmills. This invention improves the rotary motion of the wheel shaft that operates the pump. "A further object of the invention is to provide a wheel supporting frame in which is mounted for vertical movement the pump actuating rod" (13-16). Illustration included.
Date: January 28, 1908
Creator: Brown, Herbert E.
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Equalizer

Description: Patent for an equalizer for horse harnesses that equalizes the draft between horses pulling a vehicle.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: McNatt, Daniel W.
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Spring Bed-Bottom.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable spring bet bottom that consists of a frame, slats, separate inverted cone-shaped coiled springs that sit on the slats and that loop together at the tops, clamps that hold the springs onto the slats, and hooks that hold the upper coils to the frame.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Crowder, George Washington
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Saw-Cleaner for Cotton Gins

Description: Patent for a saw cleaner for cotton gins that cleans the saw teeth when the gin is cranked backward.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: House, Charles D.
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Resilient Wheel

Description: Patent for the improvement of resilient wheels meant to be applied to any vehicle running gear. Resilient wheel will allow tire to move freely and absorb shocks.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Burgess, Richard H.
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Spring-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a spring wheel, which absorbs shocks.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Burgess, Richard H.
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Riding-Cultivator.

Description: Patent for improvements in riding-cultivators in which the cultivator is “capable of easy adjustment so that each part may be placed independently of other parts in position for most thorough service” (Lines 15-18). Illustration is included.
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Kennemer, James O.
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Axle-Skein.

Description: Patent for an improved version of a certain type of axel skein or spindle holder (the kind in which a spindle with a box or housing rigidly holds a tapered axle.) This patent claims to be an improvement by “simple and inexpensive construction and in which the connections are such that the parts can be conveniently joined or separated and when joined produce a strong and durable combination” (lines 14-21).
Date: September 29, 1903
Creator: Cryer, Henry M.
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Car Brake

Description: Patent for a rail-car brake system. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Brown, Herbert E. & Brown, Marcus L.
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Bridle Bit.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle bit. This design "consist[s] of curb-plates provided with the mouth-bar and having the upper ends provided with slots and the lower ends formed with longitudinal slots, and the cheek-plates loosely fitted to the outer ends of the mouth-bar and having their opposite ends formed with openings for the attachment of the head-stall and reins" (lines 72-79).
Date: March 11, 1890
Creator: Allen, John Hudson
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Churn

Description: Patent for a churn. This invention is a class of rotary dasher churns using two paddles. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Roberts, Chandler Y.
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Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Description: Patent for removing dead bolls, insects and other parasites from growing plants.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Harper, William E.
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Crate

Description: Patent for a type of crate used for shipping eggs. Illustrations included.
Date: April 6, 1909
Creator: Brown, Willaim F.
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Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Description: Patent for improvements to a device for exterminating insects, in particular corn weevils, including illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Geeslin, Robert Worn
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