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Headlight.

Description: Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1902
Creator: Stanton, James Robertson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window Shade Guide.

Description: Patent for window shade roller guides. This invention ensured a smooth and successful unrolling of the window shade, allowing the shade to be guided by a two-part attachment on the sides of the window shade spool. The inventor claimed that the use of this apparatus could preserve the integrity of the roller by minimizing damage during operation.
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Orr, James E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Windmills.

Description: Patent for a "self-regulating windmill, so arranged that it will automatically exclude the wind from the wheel during storms and irregular or sudden squalls of wind, while it will equally enlarge the opening through which the wind is admitted to the wheel, whenever the power of the wind is reduced." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Davie, John P. & Morgan, Asa
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Improvement in Windmills.

Description: Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Dewees, Thomas
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Valve Remover.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in combination tools...adapted for use with internal combustion engines...mechanism is provided for assisting in valve removing." [lines 8-14]
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Ingram, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weed-Killing Train.

Description: Patent for a train car that kills weeds on the tracks with illustrations included.
Date: December 2, 1913
Creator: Orton, Ingomar François
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools.

Description: Patent for "an improved rotary hand-tool for dressing stone" (lines 7-8) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Gilmore, Louis C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Capping Device.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in a well capping device." [lines 9-10]
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Thrift, Homer C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Adjustable Hats.

Description: Patent for a mechanism improving the ability to adjust the shape of a hat to fit different sized heads. The patent is for an "adjustable attachment for enlarging and contracting" the hat's design.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Cassiano, Ygnacio I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Agricultural Implements.

Description: Patent for improvements to a corn and cotton-seed planter with instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Neal, Nathan P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
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Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for "an improved fastening for the ends of bale-bands, whether the latter be constructed of sheet metal or wire." (lines 18-21) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Camp, Ira M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanism for Handling Lint Cotton.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mechanism for handling lint-cotton. This design "has for its object to avoid the accumulation of dust and light particles of fiber in the atmosphere of the gin-house, to greatly reduce the dangers of destructive conflagrations in ginning establishments, to avoid the repeated handling of the cotton between the gins and the press, and to secure a more perfect separation from the cotton of dust and other foreign substances" (lines 8-16).
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
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Track Walker's Tool.

Description: Patent for a new and improved track-walker's tool. This design "consist[s] of a sectional handle or body having a claw-bar and spiking-maul at one end and a wrench at the opposite end, the said wrench being provided with a stud upon one face, the distance between the outer face of said stud and the outer surface of the maul when the sections are joined together and the maul faces the stud being such as to correspond to the standard distance between rails" (lines 14-23).
Date: December 2, 1890
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
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Tire Tool

Description: Patent for improvements in tire tools by Mr. Preston G. Taylor. These improvements relate to "expanding demountable tire-carrying rims of split tires," the object of which is the provision of a tool by which the rim, "can easily be contracted for removal from the tire," and "expanded to its proper position after the tire has been put back on the rim" (lines 8-15).
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Taylor, Preston G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Circulating Gage.

Description: Patent for an "oil circulating gage particularly designed for use in connection with the oiling system of the well known 'Ford' automobile."
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Cope, Thomas N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

System of Road Drainage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved system of road drainage. This design is "especially . . . for use on dirt and other roads, and adapted to quickly dry the road after a heavy rainfall without disturbing the road-bed. The invention consists of a drain arranged longitudinally under the road-bed and provided with outlet-pipes placed suitable distances apart, and each adapted to be closed at its outer end, and branch air-pipes also extending from the said drain and adapted to be connected with an air-p… more
Date: December 2, 1890
Creator: Mitchell, Alexander
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Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.

Description: Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: De Force, Samuel A. & McConnell, William V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Gate.

Description: Patent for improvements to "cattle-guard gate for railroads in particulars of construction (lines 8-10). Includes illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1890
Creator: Grisham, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Non-Freezing Water-Supply System.

Description: Patent for a new water-supply draining apparatus to prevent pipes from freezing in cold weather, including illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1913
Creator: Hardy, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pipe wrench. This design consists "[i]n a pipe-wrench, the bar or lever having a lower curved and serrated end, in combination with the pivoted arm having reversely-hooked ends, one of said curved ends having a greater curvature than the other said hooked end" (lines 59-64).
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Morrison, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton or Other Press.

Description: Patent for "that class of cotton-presses in which duplex bale or press boxes arranged to swing upon centers are adapted to be brought in line with a stationary platen and a movable follower" (lines 7-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shock Absorber

Description: Patent for the improvement of shock absorbers through the introduction of more flexible material into the air container.
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Crawford, Edward M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Molding Device

Description: Patent for the improvement of multi-pieced molds through the introduction of a gate and tube that allows for rapid coring of a mold.
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Hawkins, Alda F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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