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Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for an attachment that can be connected to a sewing machine to facilitate quilting.
Date: March 24, 1914
Creator: Click, Washington B.
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Wire Stretcher

Description: Patent for a device that stretches wire, specifically for fence construction.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Cox, Caine Lafayette
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Insecticide Composition.

Description: Patent for an insecticide to kill red ants and "other noxious insects" (line 9).
Date: March 24, 1885
Creator: Howard, Frank M.
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Water or Oil Screen.

Description: Patent for a water or oil well screen to keep mud and other debris out of the barrel of the well.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Childress, Authey Eli
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Weight Motor

Description: Patent for a weight motor. This invention is meant for the use of driving fans to circulate rooms. This "invention refers to the winding mechanism wherein a drum on which the cord is wound and the first gear wheel are independently rotatable in one direction on the winding shaft, the latter having keyed thereon two ratchet wheels which engage respectively, pawls on the drum and on the gear wheel" (line 13-20). Illustration included.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Rackley, John Clavin
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Magazine Rifle

Description: Patent for a magazine rifle. This invention consists of a combined breech block and cartridge carrier. Illustrations included.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Catron, John J.
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Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer consisting of a steam-generator used with "removable drawers forming the fire-box and ash-pan of the generator, a safety-valve connected with the steam-boiler, and a novel form and construction of flexible discharge-tube, the same being provided with a cut-off device and with a socket-piece adapted to receive a handle by means of which the discharge end of the flexible tube may be elevated and conducted to any desired point" (lines 12-21).
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Maddux, Richard Calvin
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Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a lifting jack for car trucks.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Berge, Emil Herman Zum
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Lineman's Portable Telegraph and Telephone Pole Seat.

Description: Patent for a seat for linemen when stringing telegraph or telephone poles, which has clamps that go around the pole.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Troell, Charles T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insertible Saw-Tooth.

Description: Patent for an insertible saw tooth, which does not require the use of a separate holder.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Askins, William H.
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Insecticide.

Description: Patent for an insecticide for boll weevils, which is made of oil of sassafras, chalk, water, and sulfate of magnesia.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Taylor, Henry C.
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Ventilating Chimney.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ventilating chimney. This design consists in "the combination, with the smoke-flue, of the ventilating-flue, the thimble provided with outwardly-projecting lugs and inwardly-projecting apertured lugs, the plate provided with a central aperture and with a flange having notches, and the screws passed through the plate into the apertured lugs" (lines 16-23).
Date: March 24, 1885
Creator: Atkin, Samuel T.
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Tram Car

Description: Patent for a tram car. Illustration included.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Schimff, Jacob John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trap-Gun.

Description: Patent for a trap gun, which is placed in a trap and fires when bait is disturbed which will only go off when the bait is tampered with and can turn to follow an animals movements in the trap.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Lovelace, Charles D.
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Marine Propulsion

Description: Patent for a new propelling device attached to a marine vessel, including illustrations.
Date: March 24, 1914
Creator: Beeson, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Suit-Box.

Description: Patent for a pasteboard box with flexible binding that can be used for carrying suits.
Date: March 24, 1914
Creator: Moses, Jacob B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Subsoiler.

Description: Patent for improvements to subsoilers "to provide a subsoiler which has a plurality of pivoted points which will merely loosen the under soil so that same may retain a large amount of moisture, and will not turn the under soil over" (lines 10-15).
Date: March 24, 1914
Creator: Aydlott, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tobacco Substitute.

Description: Patent for an improvement in tobacco substitutes, by using a combination of ingredients that “will completely destroy all desire for tobacco and thus enables them to discontinue its use without any of the inconvenience or suffering,” (lines 18-21) ingredients of the compound are included. No illustration.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Miller, Levi, H.
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Projectile.

Description: Patent for improvements in projectiles is to positively insure the explosion of the projectile at any desired point and the action is more reliable than is the case with time-fuses, where exact results cannot be insured, or with impact-projectiles, which explode when they come into contact with the armor. (Page 2, lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Densler, Nat
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Spark-Arrester for Smoke-Pipes.

Description: Patent for improvements in spark-arresters for smoke-pipes by using a “combination of a bent smoke-pipe having one complete turn downward, a cinder-piper opening into the lowest portion of said turn, and a coarse wire screen titled backward and overhanging said turn, a receptacle having a slanting bottom hinged at the upper end and secured at the lower end by means of a chin passing over a suitable roller and leading to the rear of the boiler,” (p. 2, lines 20-28) illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Hale, William B. & Duringer, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plotter.

Description: Patent for an improvement in "surveying-instruments, and has for its object to produce a simple device whereby certain information can be obtained without the necessity of auxiliary calculations,” (lines 12-15) includes illustration.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Smith, Valentine Hartgroves
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stone-Drilling Machine.

Description: Patent for a stone drilling tool, which has water automatically flowing through it.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Weiss, Adolf
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Tank.

Description: Patent for a new and improved oil tank. This design "relates to improvements in oil-tanks, and has for its object to prevent the waste of oil when emptying the can or vessel in which it is received from the factory, and to avoid the odor arising from the oil, and also to prevent evaporation after the oil has been introduced into the tank" (lines 9-15).
Date: March 24, 1885
Creator: Fisher, Charles A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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