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Bale Tie

Description: Patent for "a new and useful bale tie" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: May 14, 1900
Creator: Walker, Millard Fillmore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truss.

Description: Patent for a truss with new improvements that provide more comfortability and ease to the wearer.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Fillip, Adolf A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Liniment

Description: Patent for "improvements in that class of topical remedies which are compounded for the purpose of relieving rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, toothache, sprains, swellings, bruises, sores, and similar afflictions. . .To these I add cotton-seed oil in sufficient quantity to make one quart of the medicine, the root and bark of the trumpet flower and the root of the pokeberry being boiled in the latter and the ammonia and turpentine being added on the cooling of the mixture" (lines 11-16, 31-37).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Meinen, Diedrich
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement inTables.

Description: Patent for improvement in tables which "consists in the arrangement and combination of parts that will be more fully described hereinafter, whereby the table can be taken apart, packed in a small compass for transportation, and then put together again by an inexperienced hand” (lines 11-17).
Date: November 19, 1878
Creator: Melcher, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Destroyer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "form[s] a trap or destroyer for ants which can be placed around the top of their hole and then filled with some poisonous compound, so that when the ants attempt to crawl over the ring, frame, or collar they will be poisoned by the compound, and thus destroyed" (lines 23-29). By utilizing a drip to distribute the poison to the ring, frame, or collar, the poison is replenished as it evaporates.
Date: February 14, 1882
Creator: Pinter, Francis T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Destroyer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pest trap. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable fire chamber provided with a cover at its top, a pipe which passes through its side to admit a blast of air, a removable bottom, which is supported inside of the bottom of the chamber upon suitable supports, and a removable pipe through which the products of combustion are forced . . . when these parts are destroyed they have only to be replaced by new ones" (lines 14-28).
Date: November 20, 1883
Creator: Melcher, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weeding-Plow.

Description: Patent for a weeding plow designed to remove weds and mellow the ground to assist with growing corn and cotton. It includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Prohaska, Melichar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Exterminator.

Description: Patent for a red ant exterminator that works by "withdrawing the air from an ant-nest and substituting therefor a fluid or gas which may be ignited and thereby destroy the lives of the insects." (Lines 18-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1897
Creator: Schindler, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truck-Lifter.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in truck lifters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Donaldson, William John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Air-Brake.

Description: Patent for an air braking system that can be used on bicycles, tricycles or other vehicles. Illustration included.
Date: September 11, 1900
Creator: Donaldson, William John, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Catcher

Description: Patent for an insect catcher. This device is for catching cotton boll weevils. Illustration included.
Date: October 3, 1905
Creator: Krenek, Edward Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Vehicle-Wheels.

Description: Patent for an "invention to provide a vehicle-wheel that is capable of being expanded so as to fit the tire". Patent for an invention to facilitate removing and replacing wagon or buggy tires.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Racer, Martin J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Suspender-Buttons

Description: Patent for an improved suspender button with a description and illustrations attached.
Date: August 19, 1879
Creator: Racer, Martin J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvment in Spray-Nozzles

Description: Patent for an improvement on spray nozzles for use with force pumps. These force pumps are used for spraying insecticide on cotton to protect the crop from cotton-worms and other insects.
Date: September 2, 1879
Creator: Yeager, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sprinklers.

Description: Patent for an improved sprinkler.
Date: January 18, 1876
Creator: Melcher, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Painter's Scaffold-chairs.

Description: Patent for use of house-painters and others an improved scaffold-chair that may be elevated and lowered at pleasure by the person sitting on the scaffold.
Date: May 16, 1876
Creator: Crockett, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Machines for Gumming Saws

Description: Patent for improvement in dressing and gumming saws, specifically saws used in a mill either circular or vertical. Patent includes labeled figure drawings and text descriptions.
Date: November 8, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps.

Description: Patent for a reusable scaffold clamp for assembling builders' scaffolds, eliminating the need for nails or bolts.
Date: April 24, 1874
Creator: Crockett, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Frames for Cultivators, Scrapers, & c.

Description: Patent for “a new and useful improvement in Combined, Cultivator, Scraper, and Dumping-Cart” (lines 4-7) including illustration.
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Rabb, John Wesley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seeding-Machines

Description: Patent for a seed-planting machine with adjustable mechanisms that allows the user to customize the seeding machine for a specific project.
Date: June 2, 1874
Creator: Lee, Abram & Sinks, Edward Randolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Insect-Exterminators.

Description: Patent for an improved insect exterminator design with modifications especially suitable for cotton fields, includes illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1879
Creator: Walker, John Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvement in cultivators by making all the beams that had blades attached to them adjustable by a lever. A roller is designed for covering the seed and smoothing over the ground after the seeds are discharged by a slider which is operated by a crank-shaft near the end of the machine. A detachable revolving stalk-cutter can be used for cutting stalks on the ground by means of a suitable connector at the rear end of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date: September 7, 1869
Creator: Baker, Job McNamee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trap

Description: Patent for an improvement on traps. This trap is primarily insect and pest control, meant for ants and flies.
Date: October 17, 1919
Creator: Miller, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improved Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine for washing and wringing clothes, which can be used with a furnace for heating the water but has legs for support when being used separately from a furnace. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 13, 1870
Creator: Moore, Alfred L. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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