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Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for an improvement in waching machine design, including illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Millegan, William E.
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Fence Post

Description: Patent for a fence post for use with line wires. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Bury, Thomas J.
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Storm-Cellar

Description: Patent for a storm cellar. Illustrations included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Leddy, Herbert L.
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Harness.

Description: Patent for a new, reinforced harness made of rubber, a metal chain, and leather, including illustrations.
Date: May 7, 1918
Creator: Brecheen, Samuel H.
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Draft Equalizer.

Description: Patent for improvement to draft-equalizers.
Date: April 17, 1900
Creator: Billington, Wesley E.
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Improvement in Sulky-Plows

Description: Patent for sulky plow improvements plow beams, pivot studs, and plow frame.
Date: June 5, 1877
Creator: Fowler, Albert A.
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Reamer-Drill for Well-Boring

Description: Patent for reamer drills for boring wells. The invention relates to the construction and arrangement of the drill. The drill expands as it leaves the casing to form a drill and reamer, which limits the expansion of the forks.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Walker, William M.
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Railroad-Spike.

Description: Patent for a railroad spike, which is securely anchored in the tracks.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Butts, Carl K.
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Attachment for Plows.

Description: 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.
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Improvement in Compound Engines.

Description: Patent for "a series of engines for working the steam over by exhausting it from the first into the second, and so on, for utilizing the pressure lost when steam is exhausted from a single engine into the air..." (lines 7-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1875
Creator: Bell, Jackson W.
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Improvement in Hame Fasteners

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in hame-fasteners. "This fastening can be readily fastened and unfastened without taking off the gloves, and with cold and benumbed fingers, and when fastened will hold the hames securely" (lines 35-38). Including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1877
Creator: Poland, Tunis H.
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Shingle Gage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gauge for the installation of roofing shingles. This design utilizes a set of metal brackets and joined metal bars to guide in the nailing of shingles to the roof. This eliminates the need for marking in advance the target of the nail.
Date: April 5, 1881
Creator: Gay, Edward R.
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Cotton-Gin Building

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton gin buildings granted to Benjamin F. Ferguson to reduce the risk of fire and the cost of ginning cotton.
Date: February 27, 1883
Creator: Ferguson, Benjamin F.
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Improvement in Car-Couplings

Description: Patent for car coupling device that attaches cars automatically when moved together while also detaching if one or more cars come off the tracks.
Date: May 22, 1877
Creator: Dobbs, Charles & Robinson, Samuel L.
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Wagon-Bed-Hoisting Apparatus

Description: Patent for Wagon-Bed-Hoisting Apparatus which "consists in the provision of a rack adapted to be connected to the bed of the wagon" (lines 17-19); including illustration and instructions
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Southern, Wills
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Improvement in Photographic Backgrounds.

Description: Patent for a new way of "holding and manipulating photographers' backgrounds" (line 19) including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1879
Creator: Moberly, Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter that is light but durable that cuts the stalks up small enough that they can be plowed under the field to enrich the soil for the next crop.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Cooper, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-Escape.

Description: 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
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Sash-Cord Guide.

Description: Patent for a window sash guide, which is easily attached to the window jamb.
Date: April 7, 1908
Creator: Martin, John M.
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Binder For Books

Description: Patent describing an invention for a binder to securely hold pages, but allow leaves to be removed, and also lay flat. It includes oppositely-disposed hinged plates with a locking-rod.
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Crowder, Joseph Wade
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel-Tire.

Description: 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.
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Attachment for Wheel-Plows.

Description: Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date: March 11, 1879
Creator: Cummins, John Randolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-ties.

Description: Patent for "an improvement on the patented bale-tie" (lines 15-16) which includes lugs to "lock" the tie (line 22) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 29, 1876
Creator: Horton, Jesse R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Parcel Carrier

Description: Patent for improvements in parcel carrier for automobiles.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Campbell, William L.; Straughan, Augustus E.; Commons, A. J.; Weisman, S. & Winton, E. H.
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