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Water-Elevator

Description: Patent for a water elevator in which compressed air may be used to raise water from a well. Illustrations included.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Martin, Edward G. & Hake, John Henry
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Switch.

Description: Patent for a switch mechanism for use on railroads. The switch can be installed without cutting the railroad tracks. Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Allen, Gus V.
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Improvement in Clasps.

Description: Patent for improvement in clasps "especially adapted for garment supporting" (lines 9-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Stafford, Beverly F.
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Knockdown Frame

Description: Patent for improvements to the knockdown frame for easy setup and take down and for supporting a block and tackle. This invention also provides a device for locking the fall rope of a block and tackle after the load is raised.
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Padgett, Harry H. & Bookout, Louis L.
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Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for an improved design of the plow consisting of a modified foot of the plow and curved blade. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Moore, Thomas M.
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Improvement in Combination-Hoes.

Description: Patent for "hoes in which the blade is made detachable from the handle-eye, and the latter made to receive several blades or other attachments." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 4, 1877
Creator: Nelson, David A.
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Improvement in Harness.

Description: Patent for an economically designed harness that can be attached and detached to the animal with greater simplicity.
Date: June 25, 1872
Creator: Ellis, Ira
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Improvement in Compounds for Fish-Baits.

Description: Patent for a new compound to be used as fish bait, consisting of oil of anise, asafetida, cardamom-seed, golden, yellow, or black root, and buzzard root. Includes instructions.
Date: January 21, 1873
Creator: Goodman, Samuel A., Jr.
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Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Description: Patent for a press that reduces the bulk of cotton, "allowing it to be baled into convenient form for transportation. It consists in a novel mode of attaching the side of the press-box, so that they can be speedily thrown down from the cotton after compression to allow its convenient manipulation. It also consists in a new mode of connecting the follower with its superposed lever, so that it can be readily turned up out of the way when the cotton is being filled into the press-box. It also cons… more
Date: September 9, 1873
Creator: Nelson, David A.
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Improvement in Harness.

Description: Patent for a new improvement in harness that "enables the detachment of the horse therefrom instantaneously" (lines 8-9) including illustration. It may also be called "safety harness" (line 10).
Date: January 27, 1874
Creator: Ellis, Ira
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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Description: Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale ties, with description and illustrations.
Date: July 21, 1874
Creator: Cooper, William
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Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for an "invention to produce a cheap and convenient tie, which is durable, and which will not unlock should the rivet holding the button break from any strain on it, the button still holding by means of slots, and the strain being transferred to a slot in the end of the tie in which the button was riveted." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 20, 1874
Creator: Brown, Maurice T.
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Improvement in Bale - Ties.

Description: Patent for new and improved bale - tie, and to be applied to other things, such as barrels, tubs, bracelets, and ladies' garters.
Date: December 29, 1874
Creator: Cain, Washington G.
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Improvement in Corn-Cob Splitters.

Description: Patent for an improved corn-cob splitter for feeding stock using a tapering pin operated by a rack and pinion to split corn whether shuck is on or off. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 2, 1878
Creator: Smith, Joseph F.
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Steam-Engine

Description: Patent for a steam engine, improving on the original design so as to "provide a steam-engine having few parts so as to avoid the use of eccentrics, slide-valve, valve-rod, piston and connecting rods, stuffing-boxes, and glands, thus increasing the actual power by decreasing the friction" (lines 26-31).
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
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Stamping or Dating Machine

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements to printing or stamping machines.
Date: October 29, 1889
Creator: Spivey, Edward Franklin & Spivey, George Washington
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock for use on railroad joints.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Seeton, James H.
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Excavator

Description: Patent for excavator.
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: Story, Ela D.
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Mechanical Motor

Description: Patent for "a motor of cheap and simple construction, which is adapted for driving various classes of light machinery, and more especially for use in connection with fans, such as are commonly used for creating currents of air in bar-rooms, dining-rooms, and the like" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 9, 1889
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
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Tile Roofing or Covering.

Description: Patent for tile roofing and siding, which does not leak and is easily installed.
Date: July 7, 1908
Creator: Walker, Isham P.
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Tool for Cleaning Out Nuts.

Description: Patent for a tool for cleaning out internally-threaded apertures. This removes rust and dirt from screw-threads without damaging the threads, and is much less destructive than acid baths, heat, and screw-taps.
Date: September 22, 1896
Creator: Rall, Frederick A.
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Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for an improved, cheap and convenient bale-tie. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1875
Creator: Brown, Maurice T.
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Improvement in Collars.

Description: Patent for a device improving the speed and efficiency of shirt collar fastening, as well as the securing of items such as scarves and ties, including illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1876
Creator: Mitchell, Frank G. & Saunders, William J.
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Spark Arrester.

Description: Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the stack, of the upper and lower portions . . . of the inner cylinder, separated by the annular opening, the spiral wing-guide, the collar-flange, between the stack-wall and [a] section, and the cylindrical partition below said collar-flange in the flue" (lines 73-79).
Date: November 25, 1884
Creator: Jones, James A.
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