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Wrench and Cutter.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and economic wrench and cutter that is easily used to turn nuts, pipes, or to cut pipes. The wrench does not need to be removed while cutting.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Fletcher, Theodore
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Wrench.

Description: Patent for an improved wrench that has two movable jaws and can separate about the length of the handle. The wrench's "head or nut for operating the upper jaw is swiveled and forms a part of the handle" (lines 14-15). The wrench can be converted into a pipe-wrench.
Date: May 9, 1893
Creator: King, Will Henry Thomas
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, strong, and simple wire stretcher that can be used quickly to stretch and secure wires. It also connects wires of different heights, and stretches wires to different tensions.
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Gillis, John H.
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Hydraulic Dredging-Machine.

Description: Patent for "an improved device for the excavation of material from the bottoms and sides of channels or other water ways; and has for its object to provide a novel machine of the type indicated, which will afford means to rapidly loosen earth or gravel below the surface of a water course, mix it with water, and subsequently transfer and discharge the débris upon the shore of the stream or within a floating receptacle, as may be desired" (lines 8-18).
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Robbins, John M.
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive nut lock that can be easily used and removed. It lengthens the life of the bolt. The invention is "a bolt with a longitudinal groove or slot in which fits a tongue or lug on a washer which is provided with a notch or notches into which may be forced a portion or portions of a washer made of bendable material, opposite portions of which are designed to be forced into notches in the faces of the nut and thus the nut and both washers are bound or hel… more
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Woods, John B.
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut-lock that is meant to be screwed onto a bolt, threaded shaft, axle spindle, or other similar screws. The nut has an improved construction and a lock that consists of a tiny pin that must be pulled out before the nut can be unscrewed.
Date: September 19, 1893
Creator: Stewart, William Mills
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Stump-Puller.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective stump puller that pulls stumps entirely from the ground using a large amount of force. The machine uses a series of pulleys, hooks, levers, and cranks.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Rupe, Salathiel C.
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive nut lock that securely locks a nut onto a threaded bolt and can be easily unlocked. It also is simply constructed. It consists of a plank-like spring tongue that fits over the bolt and under the nut.
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Taini, John
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Hoisting Device.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive device that is meant to hoist, lift, or extract stumps, stones, or other heavy objects. It also stretches wire and can act as a vehicle jack.
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: Hagelstein, Henry
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Side Rail for Suspension-Bridges.

Description: Patent for a side rail for suspension bridges that is meant "to provide an improved side railing constituting a truss, which will be light, durable, and of structural simplicity" (lines 20-23).
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
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Flooring or Ceiling Jack.

Description: Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Holiman, William Moses
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Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for an improved pipe wrench that has "a pair of fixed but reversible jaws, attached to the shank of the wrench on each side thereof, and a movable, hooked jaw pivoted between the heels of the fixed jaws" (lines 15-18).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Smith, Jay & Gage, Charles H.
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Dredging Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improved dredging apparatus "and it consists in combining with the well known bucket chain form of excavator a suction pipe provided with a hopper and a crushing or breaking device so that the material being deposited in the hopper by the continuously moving buckets will be carried under the action of gravity to the breaking or crushing device and thence through a suction pipe and pump and delivery pipe to the place of deposit" (lines 9-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Douglas, William M.
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Saw-Templet.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and effective saw template that easily checks and marks saws "to correct faults in the saw blade by means of the usual hammering process" (lines 11-13). The invention "consists of a stock or holder, a flexible band held adjustably therein, and means for adjusting the band to the desired curve" (lines 14-17).
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Spooner, Benjamin F.
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Digging-Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, effective, and durable excavator meant to remove sand-bars. It consists of a hollow drum that is drug across the sandbar, and it picks up sand with shovels on the drum.
Date: November 21, 1893
Creator: Bentinck, Eliza J. & Renner, Julia A.
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Construction of Railroads.

Description: Patent for an improved railroad construction that consists of "an all metallic railroad which will not be very expensive, will be so strong that an accident is practically impossible, and which may be very rapidly laid" (lines 11-14).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
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