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Insect Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a box to be placed over the mouth of an anthill, whereupon one expects the ants to enter a hole, climb an incline, and slip down a pair of glass pieces that lower the ants into an inescapable chamber. This design is cheaper and easier to make than previous ant traps.

Date: May 24, 1881

Creator: Blackwood, Curtis

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "facilitate[s] the building of wire fences; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transporting bed or wagon, its spindles for the spools of wire, and its transverse windlass-rollers and their ratchets and pawls" (lines 16-21).

Date: August 2, 1881

Creator: Morter, John Letcher

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "is to obviate the . . . great difficulty . . . experienced in the construction of wheels in putting the axle-box in the hub and getting it true. . . . and [to] improve and strengthen the construction of wheels, and especially the manner of securing the spokes in the hubs" (lines 9-17).

Date: October 15, 1889

Creator: Holland, William Johnson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Store Counter.

Patent for a new and improved store counter. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontal slideways in the lower portion of the counter extending from front to rear, the rectangular slide-frames working therein, and the angular boxes pivoted by their lower and middle portions to the slide-frames and reversible therein by a rocking movement" (lines 17-24).

Date: February 21, 1882

Creator: Conrad, William Jenkens

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Store Shelving.

Patent for new and improved store shelving. This design utilizes a hinge whereby the shelving can collapse onto a flat surface, which is otherwise available as storage itself. This design also utilizes wheeled legs for easy transportation and zinc plating so as to partially fire-proof the shelving.

Date: February 27, 1883

Creator: Harris, Thomas A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists "[i]n a stalk-cutter, the combination of the frame, having the central longitudinal parallel bars, slotted laterally and having the space between them, the sliding block, pivoted slotted knives, pivoted arms, and recessed side sills, and the pivoted lever and rack" (lines 77-83).

Date: July 17, 1883

Creator: Duncan, Garnett & Evens, John Richard

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam Boiler Cleaner.

Patent for a new and improved steam-boiler cleaner. This design "has relation to means for cleaning the mud or foam, or both, from steam-boilers; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices" (lines 16-19).

Date: February 12, 1884

Creator: Foster, James Harvey.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutters" (lines 5-7). It includes a description and an illustration. The construction of this stalk cutter is "adapted to be driven across the field in the direction of the rows of corn, and the knives may be adjusted to operate on rows of different widths or at different depths, so as to leave only a small stubble in passing over the field" (lines 73-78).

Date: May 20, 1884

Creator: Brown, Azariah R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved thill-coupling. This design is "compris[ed of] perforated checks . . . a coupling-bolt, a locking-lever hinged to said bolt, said lever being provided with knob and notch, a cover -plate having groove and catch, and a spring-pin adapted to hold the lever and cover in engagement" (lines 81-87).

Date: July 19, 1887

Creator: Owens, Israel P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor.

Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "relates to improvements in motors in which a weight supported on a lever operates in conjunction with a train of gearing; and the object of my improvement is the production of a power for operating sewing-machines, churns, and other machinery" (lines 7-12).

Date: February 17, 1885

Creator: Viean, John A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sun-Shade Holder.

Patent for a sun shade holder that can be clamped or attached to vehicles or other items.

Date: December 7, 1880

Creator: Smith, Amroy B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay Knife.

Patent for a new and improved hay knife. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the forked frame, the lever pivoted thereto, slotted at one end and carrying at the other end a cutting-blade working through bearings in the fork, the crank pivoted to the frame and engaging the slot of the lever, and the pressure-head or cross-bar connected to the outer end of the frame" (lines 18-26).

Date: May 29, 1883

Creator: Moss, John C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay Pitching and Stacking Machine.

Patent for improvement to hay pitching and stacking machines "to provide a device for pitching and stacking hay, the parts of which can be easily and quickly taken apart or adjusted, and which may be employed in making stacks of hay or straw" (lines 18-22).

Date: February 1, 1887

Creator: Donald, Frank

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the posts, the latch-bar pivoted to the main rail by inclined braces and operated by a rock-shaft and push-arms inclined in a direction opposite to that of the inclined braces, weight-box, and cranks for operating the rock-shaft to open and close the gate" (lines 19-25).

Date: October 25, 1881

Creator: Smith, Robert B. & Curry, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Suspension-Bridge

Patent for a suspension bridge which functions are to "transmit a given pressure equally in either direction therefrom to the piers or abutments; second, to balance a given pressure irrespective of its location; third, to provide an elastic yielding road-bed or flooring which will transmit the pressure of an incumbent weight or strain; fourth, to increase the length or span over an existing conditions; fifth, to dispense with piers, except on the shore margins; sixth, to facilitate the construc… more

Date: December 18, 1888

Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring Seat for Vehicles.

Patent for a new and improved spring seat for vehicles. This design calls for, "[a]s a means of attaching seats to vehicles, two frames, one connected to the body, the other to the seat, the upper bar of one and the lower bar of the other being connected by draw spiral springs, and the side bars of one sliding in loops upon side bars of the other" (lines 47-53).

Date: December 21, 1880

Creator: Smith, Amroy B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Plow, Harrow, and Cultivator.

Patent for improvement in the construction of combined plows, harrows, and cultivators.

Date: May 2, 1882

Creator: Moss, John Carlton

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence Post.

Patent for a new and improved fence post. This design is for a "fence-post molded of a cement and sand or gravel, with a transverse vertical slot . . . a vertical opening in its top communicating with the vertical slot [designed] for the wire fastening . . . openings [found] in its sides or edges for the wires [as well as] a flange" (lines 51-56).

Date: October 10, 1882

Creator: McGee, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the bevel-end lap-joint top rails connected to and supported by the posts, the pendent panels consisting of series of horizontal rails interwoven in wire slings connected to the top rails, and links connecting the lower parts of the panels and the intermediate posts" (lines 20-27).

Date: May 8, 1883

Creator: Sevier, Moses Nimrod

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flour Sieve.

Patent for a new and improved flour sieve. This design has an "upwardly-flaring outer wall . . . and the inner more flattened conical guide-wall, provided with the wire-cloth stretched across its top and about its upper edge, said guide-wall being sprung into or secured to the crease of the outer wall, the latter extending downward to the level of the discharge" (lines 19-27). This results in "more accurately directed . . . deposit than if the opening were as large as that of the outer wall" (l… more

Date: August 29, 1882

Creator: Lowe, Joseph Alfred

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heating Railway-Cars

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of car heaters for locomotives.

Date: May 29, 1888

Creator: Townley, Carter Shepherd

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post Office Case.

Patent for a new and improved carrying case for mail. This design calls for a metal cylinder with twenty-six compartments (one for each English letter) around a central compartment. The compartments may be rotated to gain access to any of them via hinged doors at the top of the case.

Date: November 2, 1880

Creator: Crowder, John R. & Haile, James Thomas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Provision Safe.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "provide[s] a household safe that will prevent rats and mice from gaining access thereto, and at the same time allow a ready handling of the articles contained in it; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same," utilizing jointed covers, spring-locks, metallic bottoms, caster-rollers, and a clasp (lines 11-15).

Date: May 23, 1882

Creator: Sykes, Robert R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Flour and Meal Bin.

Patent for a new and improved bin for flour and meal. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the casing having compartments provided with contracted curved bottoms, the spouts in said bottoms, the spirally-grooved shafts in said spouts, the chambers the bottoms of which are hinged to the casing and provided with the sieves, and the stirrers on the ends of the shafts and within the hinged chambers" (lines 81-89).

Date: March 15, 1887

Creator: Cox, Thomas Jefferson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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