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Window-Shade Hanger.

Patent for a window shade hanger, which can be used with different size rollers and is able to be opened from top or bottom.

Date: October 15, 1907

Creator: Brown, William F.

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Patent for a wire-coiling machine that improves on a previous patent (No. 296,806), that was granted to Wildermuth. The improvement allows for either left- or right-handed use, by making the crank movable to either side and by "providing the upper end of the post at opposite sides with stationary cutter blades and a single movable cutter adapted to be shifted for operation with either one of the said fixed cutters" (lines 28-32).

Date: October 9, 1894

Creator: Crowder, George Washington

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Insect-Collecting Attachment.

Patent for an insect-collecting attachment for cultivators and similar equipment, with an illustration. The attachment is designed to "shake loose the insects from the plant and to collect said insects for removal and destruction." (lines 16-18). Specific plants that are ridden with insects are particularly difficult to remove, hence the creation of this attachment which will shake the stems of the plants, dislodge the insects and collect them in a receptacle.

Date: October 23, 1917

Creator: Stebbins, Benjamin F. & Forehand, Blake W.

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