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Bottle Stopper

Description: Patent for a bottle stopper. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1904
Creator: Hogan, Thomas
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Bale-Band Buckle

Description: Patent for buckles used to hold bands of bales. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Patterson, James S. & Smith, Dallas E.
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Planter

Description: Patent for a single row planter for corn or cotton. The planter is to be used in virgin soil with out any soil preparation.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
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Combined Lister Plow and Planter.

Description: Patent for a combined Lister plow and planter that both breaks the ground and plants seed. Appears to be a type of early tractor.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
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Apparatus for Killing Rodents

Description: Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Palmer, Austin D.
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Wire-Rope Fastener

Description: Patent for improvements in design for wire rope fasteners, includes Illustrations.
Date: January 31, 1893
Creator: Widmer, Louis John
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Combined Hook and Hammer.

Description: Patent for a combined hook and hammer meant to "combine in its structure the ordinary hook for engaging with the article to be moved, and a handle adapted, when desired, to be used as a hammer, thus dispensing with the necessity for a separate implement of this character, and, second, to combine with the said hook and handle improved means for preventing the accidental contact of the hand of the operator with the article to be handled" (lines 17-26).
Date: July 2, 1895
Creator: Tillett, Henry Augustus; Tarpley, Thomas Dee & Moore, Robert Jones
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Churn

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn and cooler which allows for easier removal of the cooling liquid and includes illustrations and description.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Sibley, William P. & Williamson, Riley B.
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Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for improvement on clothing pin by using a single wire.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Neal, William C.
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Word Counting Device for Type-Writers

Description: Patent for a word counting device to be used with a typewriter. Illustrations included.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Girand, Wilberforce D.
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Window-Sash.

Description: Patent for an improved window sash that is meant to "provide means for securing a sash in its frame whereby it is capable of free movement, and at the same time is dust-proof, wind-proof, rain-proof, and snow-proof" (lines 9-13). The sash does not rattle and cannot be displaced from the outside.
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Roach, George W. & Ralph, Sidney L.
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Wire-Stretching Spool-Carrier.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretching spool-carrier that can be easily mounted to the back of a wagon and can stretch wires to the desired amount of tension. Coils are on the mount on the wagon.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Williams, Thomas P.
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Mail-Bag Catcher.

Description: Patent for an improvement to devices that receive mail bags from moving locomotion.
Date: December 17, 1918
Creator: Ryan, Augustus M.
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Indicator

Description: Patent for a numbering indicator used to mark the status of stored batteries.
Date: May 29, 1919
Creator: Carter, James William, Jr.
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Wire-Fence-Stay Machine.

Description: Patent for wire working machines, specifically for automatically making wire fence stays. This machine can be operated manually and it is portable.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Alverson, Lewis
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Machine-Brake.

Description: Patent for a break that "the device may be brought to a stop either gradually or instantaneously as may be desired. The break is a reciprocative one and comprises a rubber or other elastic or yielding wheel designed to engage the periphery of the fly wheel of the motor and a lug, tooth or analogous provision for engagement with a tooth of a ratchet wheel on the said fly wheel; in operating the break the rubber wheel is first brought into contact with the fly wheel and then by continued movement… more
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Boulte, Adolph
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Kitchen Utensil.

Description: Patent for a kitchen utensil that can be used for washing dishes, scraping cooking vessels, and cleaning ornamental glass and silver.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Adair, Annie E.
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Vehicle Axle

Description: Patent for a vehicle axles. Illustration included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Wagner, Samuel C.
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Ironing-table.

Description: Patent for collapsible ironing tables with illustration.
Date: October 29, 1901
Creator: Williams, James Hanna
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Trap.

Description: Patent for a trap for catching animals alive.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Jones, Rufus A. & Grant, Wilburn C.
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Vermin Exterminator and Process of Preparing the Same

Description: Patent for improve animal exterminator consists of wheat or other grain saturated with a solution of strychnia in water, the grain afterward being coated with a solution.
Date: January 4, 1887
Creator: Donovan, Cornelius A.
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Steam Cooking Stove.

Description: Patent for a new and improved steam stove. This design "is to provide a stove . . . that can be used on a gas-stove base, a lamp-stove, an ordinary cooking-stove, or even over a camp-fire, and which when so used will provide an apartment for baking or warming and another apartment for steaming, the steam being generated within a surrounding boiler and by the heat that has been used to heat the oven" (lines 11-20). It consists in "a casing divided vertically by a transverse boiler-body, chambers… more
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: James, Will S.
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Steam-Condenser.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and compact steam-condenser that is meant to be used in tea factories and similar places where distilled water is needed, and has the minimum amount of back pressure.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Steinbarth, Carl
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Post Hole Auger

Description: Patent for an improved post-hole digger/auger with multiple blades that cut in a spiral pattern and has the blades adjust and lock on the base. The blade shanks form a cage and keeps dirt from clogging the blades.
Date: May 22, 1915
Creator: Hoover, Orville M. & Ardery, Sarah, J.
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