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Improvement in Traction-Engines.

Description: Patent for a traction engine "for running on common roads and rails, and to be used for drawing plows, and as a motive power generally" (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1877
Creator: Walker, Leander
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Nutcracker.

Description: Patent for a nutcracker "of simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, having few parts and which may be conveniently operated." (lines 9-10) including illustration.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Watson, Charles J. E.
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Stovepipe-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a stovepipe fastener for the purpose of securing the end of the stovepipe into a sheet metal thimble and preventing the stovepipe being pulled out of the chimney and into the room.
Date: December 31, 1918
Creator: Schuch, Anthony
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Automobile Steering Apparatus.

Description: Patent for automobile steering apparatus, adding two rear wheels and mounting an enlarged body on the frame which will allow a considerable number of passengers to be carried and many advantages had as a public service vehicle.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Rebman, Joseph
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Artificial Hand-Grip.

Description: Patent for an improvement to artificial hand-grips that includes a pair of jaws that attaches to an artificial arm and allows wearers to perform various activities.
Date: December 31, 1918
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
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Dental Swaging Apparatus

Description: Patent for a dental apparatus that produces gold facings and cusps for individual teeth, as well as plate and bridge work.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Crawford, Lyter H.
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Elevator-Door Sill.

Description: Patent for an elevator sill that bridges the gap between the floor and the bottom of the elevator when the elevator doors are open.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Doren, Lewis W.
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Suspended Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for a suspended rail-joint that improves on the anglebar railjoint. The improved design has the minimum amount of bolts, does not use railbolts, has a newly designed fastener, allowance for the rails to expand and contract, and adjustable guards against creeping.
Date: July 31, 1894
Creator: Lang, Otto H.
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Air-Tight Heating-Stove

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
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Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "consists of a slide or continuous collar or ring, made of lead or other soft or compressible metal or material, having a hole so that it will fit or pass over the end of an ordinary bolt, and adapted to be pressed into the threads of the bolt and against the face of an ordinary nut by a suitable die" (lines 16-23).
Date: August 31, 1886
Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel L.
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Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for a clothes pin made from spring metal that "automatically adapt[s] itself to lines of different thicknesses, and whereby the pin may be used to retain an exceedingly thin article in engagement with the line as effectually as an exceedingly thick article, the pin being capable of holding a bit of lace and likewise a heavy blanket or quilt" (lines 11-18). It is especially designed for use with metal clothes lines.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Jones, George W.
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Garment.

Description: Patent for a device to keep a coat from sagging or becoming wrinkled as a "garment-stiffening device" [Lines 83-84].
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Hudson, George Jackson
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Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.

Description: Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date: December 31, 1896
Creator: Flatau, Louis, S.
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Mechanical Attachment for Pianos and Organs

Description: Patent for a "mechanical attachment for pianos and organs whereby and musical composition executed upon the instrument shall be automatically recorded upon a travelling strip or band or, if preferred, on the cylindrical surface of a revolving drum" (lines 10-15).
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Harriman, John Emery, Jr.
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