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Windmill

Description: Patent for windmill for utilizing wind or water power (lines 9-10).
Date: June 12, 1883
Creator: Sickles, William C.
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Weather and Fire Strip for Box Car Doors.

Description: Patent for a new and improved weather and fire strip for box car doors. This design "relates to an improved device for closing the space between the rear edge of the doors of box-cars and the side of the car, so as to prevent sparks or water from entering through the space and damaging the goods in the car" (lines 9-14).
Date: June 12, 1883
Creator: Nichols, George B.
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Trunk-Strap Fastener.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple trunk strap fastener meant to "insure a strong tightening of the same without resorting to the old laborious method of buckling the strap about the baggage, while at the same time the invention also contemplates the employment of a specific arrangement of the strap about the article being bound therewith, in combination with the fastener proper whereby a stronger and more efficient strapping is effected" (lines 16-25).
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Webb, William James
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Lock-Hinge.

Description: Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
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Valve

Description: Patent for an automatic valve for use upon hydraulic or suction dredges to prevent sore material such as clay, sand and mud from preventing the efficient use of the dredge sure to the closing of heavy material in the mouth of the dredge. The valve is intended to supply water to flush out the mouth of the dredge.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Miller, Henry L.
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Vehicle Running-Gear.

Description: Patent for vehicle running-gear, catered toward machinery that has fifth-wheel reach beams. Designed for smoother vehicle functioning.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Singler, Frank J.
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Lifting-Jack, Clamp, and Wire-Stretcher

Description: Patent for a device that combines three tools - a lifting-jack, a clamp, and a wire-stretcher all in one. It does so without sacrificing the functionality of any part.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: White, Andrew J.
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Train Signaling System

Description: Patent for trains that use an alarm system that alerts the engineer if there is an issue with the automatic air-brakes in any of the train cars. This alarm system allows for users in any car to alert the engineer and does not diminish the effectiveness of the air brake system.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Gerard, Joseph
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Station-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a station-indicator for trolley cars meant to "produce an automatic apparatus of this kind which is worked by the movement of the car and in which a map is employed, which is moved in such a way that the various points at which the car stops will always be correctly indicated" (lines 13-18).
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Baker, Artemas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tortilla-Making Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine for making tortillas "easily, conveniently and rapidly" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Gutiérrez, Refugio
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Tool for Removing Floors, Siding, Scaffolds, etc.

Description: Patent for a tool that is used to remove floors, siding, scaffolds, etc. The device is designed to save material and labor. Illustrations included.
Date: June 12, 1912
Creator: Hunt, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pressed Metal Wheel

Description: Patent for improvements to pressed metal wheels. This improvement is directed at the assembly and securing of hub members attached to the wheel.
Date: June 12, 1916
Creator: Simmons, O.G.
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Harness Rack

Description: Patent for harness-rack improvements combining harness suspending means and rein holder.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Weddle, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow with a convex moldboard and a landside, or shoe, which in combination acts as a turning plow and subsoiler.
Date: June 12, 1883
Creator: Kennedy, George Finlay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Furnace

Description: Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Bone, David R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pistol-Holster.

Description: Patent for a pistol holster that allows the weapon to be more easily drawn, including illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Shelton, Walter H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Felly for Wheels.

Description: Patent for a felly for wheels designed to be used for a heavy wagon or cultivators. It consists of malleable iron with the inside edge being smaller than the outside, an indentation in the center going around the outside surface, and conical spoke sockets.
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Mosely, Jeremiah Thomas
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Door Fastener

Description: Patent is for door locking device for fasteners that can be carried around in a pocket. It is an improvement on models in circulation.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Price, John
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Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a cultivator, by William J. Gillentine. It provides a means to adjust cultivator shovel-gangs relative to each other. Includes a lever-and-ratchet mechanism.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Gillentine, Willliam A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Control

Description: Patent for a window sash control system. This mechanism allows the user to open a hard to reach window, such as one at the top of a stairwell, remotely via a series of ropes and pulleys.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Coogle, John David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-head, of an L-shaped lever pivoted in the same and provided at its angle with a lug, which L-shaped lever has a coupling-pin suspended from the end of the long arm, and has its short arm passed into an aperture in the inner end of a bar sliding in the bottom of the draw-head, whereby when the lug is depressed the coupling-pin will be raised and the bar in the draw-head will push the l… more
Date: June 12, 1883
Creator: Appell, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplers, the object being to provide a coupler with a coupling-pin of improved construction, and to combine said pin with effective and durable devices for raising and lowering it. The invention consists in the combinations of parts" (lines 9-15).
Date: June 12, 1883
Creator: Cage, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a new cotton chopper with improvements that have the ability to raise or lower the height of the blades and keep them nearly horizontal to the ground, including illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1900
Creator: Smith, Gilbert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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