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Composition for Killing Grass

Description: Patent for an improved chemical designed to kill grass, weeds and other undesirable plants. It can sprayed or sprinkled on the plants and within twenty minutes the grass or weeds will start to die even within the roots themselvs.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Hulsey, Charley Marion
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Articulating Plate

Description: Patent for "new and useful articulating plate" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: April 11, 1900
Creator: Driskill, T. F.
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Impeller-Pump.

Description: Patent for an impeller pump with separate sections and parts that can be connected together. The line of pipe of can be withdrawn without removing the head, and there are measures to keep the liner in operative position. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
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[News Script: Antiwar, Minisub and Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of final arguments which will be delivered in conspiracy trial of eight antiwar activists. Two Britons trapped on the ocean floor in minisub marine. Also, a gunman shot himself after wounding two detectives.
Date: August 30, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Wire-Tightening Implement.

Description: Patent for a wire-tightening implement meant to tightening wires in fences by making loops or twists in the wires. It has two handles forming jaws around a fulcrum, the jaws have flat faces with parallel grooves, and the jaws coming together at their ends. The grooves in the jaws form different sized loops.
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: West, James M.
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Tie-Handling Apparatus

Description: Patent for a mechanism mounted on a hand car that will remove old rail ties and install new ones. This mechanism allows for the rails to remain undisturbed and the space underneath to be cleared for the new tie installation.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis
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Track Switch

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Track-Switches" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: South, John T.
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Hoisting Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements in hoisting apparatus by “employing two cables and two sheaves that one cable and one sheave operate to elevate the weight or object in an approximately-vertical plane, so as to avoid contact with any side obstruction, while the secondary cable can subsequently be slackened sufficiently to permit the traveling sheave of the hoisting-cable to run off in a lateral direction and carry with it the sheave of the slackened secondary cable, for the purpose of transferring the o… more
Date: March 22, 1892
Creator: Davis, Benjamin F.
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Hoisting-Machine

Description: Patent for a new Hoisting-Machine. The Hoisting Machine has improved arrangement of parts that control the device's braking drum. Improving the Hoisting Machine construction is useful for reducing wear on the machine.
Date: May 21, 1912
Creator: Johnston, Horace
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Saw Attachment.

Description: Patent for a handsaw attachment that gauges the depth to which one wishes to cut. It is a bar with an extended foot and clamping devices for attaching the device to the top and handle of the saw.
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Gowdan, Richard H.
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Ship-Protector.

Description: Patent for an improved protection device which may be attached to the bow of a ship.
Date: February 10, 1914
Creator: Wood, Shirley Hay
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Rotary-Drill Head.

Description: Patent for a drill apparatus that improves the head gears and driving mechanisms that makes for an efficient driving of the apparatus and allows for free vertical movement.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
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Resilient Wheel.

Description: Patent for improvements in resilient wheels. "This invention relates to a new and useful resilient vehicle wheel embodying flat arcuate springs by means of which the tread or shoe of the wheel is resiliently mounted with relation to the hub."(lines 8-12)
Date: January 15, 1918
Creator: Roberts, Samuel A.
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Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire.

Description: Patent for a tool that tightens wires and takes up slack on wire fences. It also splices and joins wires together. The invention has "a novel construction whereby a loop is formed in the strand of wire which is to be tightened and the parts of such wire adjacent to the loop and brought into parallelism so that they may be intertwisted accurately and neatly" (lines 20-25). It also forms loops of different sizes in the wire.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G. & Embrey, Leonard B.
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Well Bucket

Description: Patent for Improvements in well buckets. The bucket has an inlet valve at the bottom and an air escape valve at the top that permits air to escape freely while preventing the entrance of dirt and extraneous matter to the interior of the bucket.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Reese, Samuel L.
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Guide for Drive-Chains.

Description: Patent for a mechanism designed to prevent a guide chain from being displaced from the wheel(s) of its parent machine.
Date: May 17, 1921
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
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Chimney-Cowl.

Description: Patent for improvements in chimney-cowls by providing a “self-operating smoke-conductor especially adapted for use in all windy climates, to be placed over the discharge-opening of the flues.” (Lines 10-13) So that a “smoke-conductor can be automatically reversed or turned by the wind in any and all directions” (15-18) to carry the smoke away. Illustration is included.
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Gardner, Perris W.
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Axle Lubricator

Description: Patent for an axle lubricator, designed to allow lubricating axles without removal of wheels.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Gowan, Richard H.
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