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Wooden Bridge

Patent for a wooden bridge with a focus on increased durability of the structure and effective drainage for moisture from the timbers and for the free circulation of air between, around, or through the structure.

Date: October 6, 1891

Creator: Ferguson, Benjamin F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Dressing Surfaces of Pavements.

Patent for improvements in machines for dressing surfaces of wooden or block pavements that may be operated by a traction-engine of known construction, including illustrations.

Date: November 3, 1891

Creator: Love, Robert Hamilton

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vault Cash-Indicator.

Patent for a vault cash-indicator meant to "provide a new and improved indicator, designed for indicating an amount of money, commercial articles, &c.; for instance, indicating the amount of money contained in a safe or vault" (lines 7-11).

Date: April 23, 1895

Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel-Tire.

Patent for "a very cheap and simple tire which may be conveniently applied to any ordinary wheel, but which is especially applicable to wagon wheels, which when applied to the wheel has a perfectly smooth surface, and which has mechanism operated by the simple turning of a nut and adapted to tighten the tire to any desired extent." (Lines 9-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 21, 1895

Creator: Smith, Samuel A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for an improved and practical stalk cutter that cuts corn or cotton stalks at their roots "while the machine is drawn along a row of the standing stalks, and simultaneously reduce[s] the latter to small pieces which can be plowed under the soil and serve as a fertilizer, the complete reduction of the stalks to fine fragments adapting them for quick decomposition and prevent them from becoming and obstruction to a plow or harrow used to till the soil" (lines 12-20).

Date: December 12, 1893

Creator: Herring, James H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Umbrella-Stand.

Patent for an umbrella-stand. It is meant to display umbrellas, parasols, walking-canes, etc. The frame is made from tubing secured by wire, a channeled plate along the sides of the frame, and the base is adapted to support umbrella tips.

Date: November 26, 1895

Creator: Perry, Thomas C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate Latch

Patent for a new and useful improvements in gate latches.

Date: December 7, 1897

Creator: Turley, John Breckinridge

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hand-Car.

Patent for "a hand-car with an auxiliary spring-actuated mechanism which can be used with or without the lever mechanism to propel at a rapid rate of speed." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 15, 1897

Creator: Rousey, William N.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press.

Patent for "a novel form of baling-press which will be readily transportable and owing to its peculiar construction can be manipulated by hand, a still further object being to provide such an improved baling-press that the wire ties can be wrapped around the bale after its formation easily and quickly and the bale can be readily removed from the press after it has been wired." (Lines 16-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 27, 1897

Creator: Hawk, Nathaniel H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grain-Door For Freight-Cars.

Patent for a new and improved grain door for freight cars, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 19, 1899

Creator: Morten, Edward W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grain-Scale.

Patent for “improvements in grain-scales, especially adapted for location at the rear end of a trashing-machine and for receiving therefrom the thrashed grain, weighing and subsequently bagging the same in predetermined quantities” (lines 7-12), includes illustration.

Date: March 17, 1891

Creator: Butts, Alexander W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-Escape.

Patent for a simple and reliable folding ladder that is meant to assist someone in escaping a fire. It folds compactly and conveniently, and is adjustable. It sits away from the wall and another ladder can be attached to it when it is in use.

Date: June 13, 1893

Creator: Dobbs, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Car-Step.

Patent for "a supplemental folding step which may be lowered into position for use when passengers are boarding or leaving a [railway] car and which may be folded back out of the way when the train is about to leave the station." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 3, 1897

Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Extension-Step.

Patent for improvements in extension-steps which attach to vehicles and "do away with the boxes used to assist in getting up to the first or lower step" (lines 10-12). When not in use, the steps can be swiveled up. They are raised, lowered, and locked into position with a mechanism operated using a handle.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hand-Support for Writers.

Patent for "a support especially adapted for the use of those learning to write, and by which the hand may be accustomed to the proper position for writing from the beginning of the study." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 4, 1896

Creator: Yarbrough, William L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Buckle.

Patent for a new and useful harness buckle, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 6, 1899

Creator: Comer, Little Berry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for an improvement in plows by using a series of spring-tines that are secured above the mold-board, when in operation these independently-moving tines “serve to jar and break the clods, thus not only pulverizing the clods to a certain degree but also insuring the freeing of the tines of all dirt” (lines 90-93), including illustration.

Date: March 3, 1891

Creator: Ball, Alfred Fine

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow-Scraper.

Patent for an adjustable plow-scraper that attaches to the plow and scrapes soil from the moldboard.

Date: July 7, 1896

Creator: Jackson, Robert Litel

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: August 9, 1898

Creator: Otenhouse, Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Plows.

Patent for an attachment for plows, which "may be utilized as a cutter or the plow converted into a double-shovel plow," (lines 18-19) with instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 22, 1891

Creator: Williams, George M. D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shade and Curtain Fixture

Patent for invention of new and useful Shade and Curtain Fixture of which a complete, clear and exact description is provide. The invention provides a simple practical, and efficient device which will afford adjustable support for a window shade and for a current -pole, whereby the curtain and shade may be together lowered and permit the free entrance of light above these screens or the admission of air through a lowered upper sash (5-14).

Date: November 8, 1892

Creator: Herring, James H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Moldboard.

Patent for "a moldboard adapted to any plow constructed of a series of spring-loops, sundry of which are movable at the top and sundry others having movement at the bottom of the board, the moveable loops being kept in motion by the earth passing over the board, whereby portions of the board are rendered vibratory and the earth is effectually prevented from clinging thereto" (lines 8-17).

Date: September 22, 1896

Creator: Smith, Samuel A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Moldboard

Patent for a new and useful improvement in moldboards.

Date: December 21, 1897

Creator: Smith, Samuel A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Plowshare.

Design patent for a plowshare with a substantially triangular plowshare or moldboard.

Date: September 5, 1899

Creator: Kegans, John Hamelton

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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