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Convertible Car.

Description: Patent for improved convertible cars pertaining to railroad rolling-stock, that can be converted from freight-car into a box-car or cattle-car. This invention is tighter in corners when serving as a box-car, to prevent leakage of transports.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Cothern, John K.
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Cloth Rack.

Description: Patent for a new and improved clothes rack. This design "essentially consists in constructing a vertical rectangular revolving frame, each side of which carries a tier of racks. Each of the racks is provided with a support on which the bolt of cloth or similar material may be readily turned, and has pivoted parallel to and in front of said bolt a roller, which retains the same in place, and over which the free edge of the cloth passes from the lower surface of the bolt, and which, in addition, … more
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Palmer, William Washington
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Body Stretcher

Description: Patent for a body stretcher. This invention is for exercising and stretching muscles. Illustration included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Seidler, William Wilson
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Cane-Header.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in cane headers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Easley, William Dudley
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Wire-Cloth Supporting and Measuring Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a support and measuring device for wire-cloth in stores. It features areas to store rolls of cloth and allows cloth to be measured and cut, and rolled from one roll without removing the other rolls stored on the device.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: March, William Wells
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Bat-Forming Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a machine for use in making cotton batting which takes the cotton in by an air current and then distributes it evenly throughout the mold for the batting. Illustration is included.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
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Car-coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car coupling of the Janney type that increases "efficiency in service and enable[s] an operator at the side of the train to readily and with safety set the improved car-coupling to disconnect it from another of the same style" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Smith, Thomas Henry.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has relation to that class of car-couplings in which the open ends of a coupling bar or link are engaged by hooks in the draw-heads; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a coupling, in which the hooks are projecting from the under sides of arms pivoted upon the draw-heads and dropping down by their gravity, and in which the said hooks project into registering recesses in the upper sid… more
Date: June 29, 1886
Creator: Boyers, Robert L.
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car coupler, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1899
Creator: Smith, Thomas Henry
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Bridge.

Description: Patent for "improvements in bridges of that class which are used for crossing streams or country roads, and for such other purposes as a bridge may be desired" (lines 15-18), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: Mitchell, Joseph
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the crossed levers, the bail extending over the same, the spring secured to and extending between said levers, and the latches carried by said levers" (lines 3-6).
Date: July 23, 1889
Creator: Bonner, Whitmill J.
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Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved combined whip socket and rein holder. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pivoted whip-socket, its serrated eccentric face and bearing-plate, and a spring connected to the socket and bearing-plate, whereby the eccentric face is brought to bear automatically" (lines 20-25).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: Bellah, William Newton
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Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.
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