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Band-Cutter and Feeder

Description: Patent for a band cutter and feeder which cuts the bands that tie bundles of grain and feeds the grain into a threshing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 15, 1908
Creator: Richmond, George E.
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Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes

Description: Patent for "a means whereby with one motion a stamp will be supplied from the'apparatus, moistened, and placed in position upon a letter, wrapper, or parcel adapted to receive it, and wherein a number of stamps may be consecutively placed when and as desired" (lines 10-15).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz
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Apparatus for Making Soap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved soap-making machine. This design "consist[s] of grease and soda tanks, the latter tank having a diaphragm . . . a register-tank, pipes leading from said grease and soda tanks to said register-tank, a pivoted converter, a rotary shaft in said converter and blades, a shaft journaled in uprights attached to said converter and provided with a crank and a bevel wheel, the latter gearing with a bevel-wheel on said rotary shaft in the converter, and removable furnaces for… more
Date: September 20, 1887
Creator: Grant, William A.
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Apparatus for Retailing Shot.

Description: Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Stokes, Micajah
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Amalgamator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up throu… more
Date: September 12, 1882
Creator: Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry
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Aerial Projectile

Description: Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
Date: September 25, 1918
Creator: Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney
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Landing Device for Aeroplanes.

Description: Patent for improvements in landing devices for aeroplanes that can be controlled by the aviator and adjusted with the direction of the plane's movement as it lands.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Martin, Ernest L.
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Vehicle Signal

Description: Patent for a vehicle signal. Intent of signal is to improve visibility of rear vehicle turn signals.
Date: September 7, 1916
Creator: Reynolds, Rohde
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Well-Strainer.

Description: Patent for improvements to well strainers. Plugs with slats are applied throughout the pipe, making the plugs stronger and capable of enduring more strain.
Date: September 28, 1915
Creator: McEvoy, Joseph H.
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Wheel.

Description: Patent for light weight wheels for use in wheelbarrows and trucks, which are capable of handling large, heavy loads and lubricating its own hub bearings.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Heibeck, John
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Well-Strainer.

Description: Patent for a well strainer, which has wire screen that is wound around the form without the use of soldering.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Basye, Edwin J.
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Winding Drum.

Description: Patent for a winding drum that will prevent the overlap of the coils during winding, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 22, 1914
Creator: Voigt, Philip H. & Kuehne, Oscar C.
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Improvment in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvement in digging or cultivation machines primarily adapted to the cultivation of cotton. Includes parts that can be added or removed from the machine, thereby reducing the number of machines needed for farm work. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 10, 1872
Creator: Forsgard, Gustave A.
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Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.

Description: Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 9, 1879
Creator: Richardson, John D.
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Propelling Mechanism For Bicycles.

Description: Patent for propelling mechanism for bicycles that allows any type of bicycle frame to have an improved and inexpensive added high speed mechanism, including illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Meschkat, Wilhelm
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Hydrocarbon-Burner

Description: Patent for a hydrocarbon burner that can burn "heavy substances [such] as fuel for locomotives, stationary boilers, kilns, heating furnaces and the like" (lines 15-17).
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Nicholson, John
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Standing Valve

Description: Patent for a Standing Valve. This standing valve is designed to improve the way the fluids pump through oil and water wells. it also includes an improvement in the way the standing valve is secured to the wells. The new valve can also be easily replaced because of the materials it is composed of.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Adams, Thomas M.
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