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Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, John Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for an adjustable wire stretcher.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Tompkins, Walter L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch

Description: Patent is for electric switch that minimizes other phone interference and limits each call to a single caller on the line. Two lines can be connected to the switch.
Date: December 4, 1917
Creator: Teare, J. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design is "for stretching and repairing wire, the combination of a main bar having a longitudinal slot, and having an upwardly-facing shoulder provided with a groove, a guide-block in the lower end of the slot, a shaft journaled in the sides of the slot and having a pinion within the slot and a ratchet handle at its outer end for revolving it, a spring pawl engaging the pinion, a cam-lever pivoted upon the upper end of the main bar and engaging… more
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: La Bauve, Odelon Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Fence Tightener.

Description: Patent for certain improvement in a wire-fence tightening device.
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: Gililland, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wave-Motor

Description: Patent for a wave motor for vehicles that travel on water. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Stribling, Samuel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill Attachment

Description: Patent for a windmill attachment that allows the windmill to be operated either by wind or hand power without needing to disconnect the sucker rod from the windmill.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Kay, Henry P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weather-Strip.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved weather strip that "will be operated by the opening and closing of the door, and which will not interfere with carpets, and which will when the door is closed effectually exclude wind, rain, dust and the like" (lines 12-16).
Date: July 4, 1893
Creator: Bradford, McDuffee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Power.

Description: Patent for a water-power. It consists of a dam built halfway across a stream, a power-house with its upper end closed and inclined towards the upstream, gated inlet openings on the side of the power-house, gates that control the inlet openings, and a water-wheel on the stream side of the power-house.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Vernon, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Drier

Description: Patent for "means adapted to superheat steam and supply it to a drying-chamber, substantially" (lines 28-30).
Date: February 4, 1890
Creator: Hooton, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Machine.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient well-drilling machine that is meant for drilling Artesian and other wells. This invention is a "mechanism for reciprocating and turning the tool during the drilling operation, and to provide for the lowering of the drill as the latter advances to the work and for the withdrawal of the same from the well when required for any desired purpose" (lines 8-15). It is also designed to remove water, mud, slush, etc. from the well while drilling.
Date: February 4, 1896
Creator: Catlin, Eli
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Walking Seed-Planter.

Description: Patent for a walking seed-planter. It has a frame, a supporting-wheel between two beams of the frame, a seed-slide with forwardly-projecting arms and blocks that are engaged by cams, a hopper that overlies the seed-slide, springs attached to the hopper and the seed-slide that return the slide to its usual position, a pin that limits the seed-slide's movement, shovels on the frame, a seed-spout, a bolt that holds the frame together, and brace-rods.
Date: February 4, 1896
Creator: White, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Index for Books.

Description: Patent for "... improvements in indexes for books which receive the freight tariffs or schedules of railroads and the agreements between one road and others a to division of freight charges where the traffic is handled by more than one" (lines 11-16 ) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Kerr, Warren Dunlop
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Box

Description: Patent for "a mail-box adapted to be placed at or on the house of the person receiving the mail, so as to facilitate a house-to-house delivery" (lines 8-11).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Myer, Clayton Pittinger
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a type cabinet for storing dating type.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Chapman, Mercer E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Key.

Description: Patent for a key, which can be produced in quantity but without any of them being able to open the same door.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie

Description: Patent for improvements in metallic railway-ties. Invention designed to allow for cheap production of a adequate tie that can secure a road-bed.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Thweatt, Robert Whitley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Invalid bed

Description: Patent for an invalid bed. Illustrations included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Prichard, Henry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ink-Well

Description: Patent for an air and dust proof ink well for pens. Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Banning, Frederick D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Exterminator

Description: Patent for removing boll weevils from cotton plants. The device brushes the weevils into the furrows where they are crushed. Illustration included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Scott, Earl Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Destroyer

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Moore, Isham S. & Pace, Azie E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee Pad for Cotton Pickers &c

Description: Patent for a knee pad for cotton pickers with a pneumatic cushion.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Herron, William Patrick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Latch Mechanism for Spittoon-Covers.

Description: Patent for an improved latch mechanism for sliding covers on spittoons.
Date: July 4, 1917
Creator: Lovece, Nicola
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve Setting Machine

Description: Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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