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Windmill.

Description: Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Campbell, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a simple, strong, and inexpensive lifting-jack used in railroads, mills, and similar things that is "capable of manipulation by a single operator and adapted to elevate loads to various heights according to the size of the structure and support the same at the desired elevation" (lines 12-16).
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Foix, Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock for Firearms

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in locks for firearms. This invention is to "provide a simple and effective lock mechanism for a firearm" (line 15-17).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Oritciiett, James Clyde
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Twine-Holder.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvement in twine holders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 26, 1899
Creator: Andrews, Otis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Elevator

Description: Patent for "an apparatus for use in connection with a well, whereby the well-bucket will be automatically elevated and emptied into a trough by the weight of the cattle that may come to the well to drink, the apparatus be ing particularly designed for use in the Western countries, where large numbers of cattle come to each well in herds" (lines 16-23).
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Campbell, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Elevator.

Description: Patent for a water-elevator that elevates huge amounts of water for ranches and irrigating. The elevator "can be easily operated by the direct pull of a single animal, which passes and repasses the well during the operation of raising and lowering the well bucket, and by this means contemplates dispersing with the necessity of winding drums or windlasses and horse powers, which are usually employed in connection with water elevators" (lines 16-23).
Date: February 13, 1894
Creator: Campbell, George William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Means for Opening or Closing Elevator-Doors.

Description: Patent for a device which is mounted upon the traveling car and automatically opens and closes elevator doors. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1897
Creator: Bell, Chester L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Throttle-Lever.

Description: Patent for a new and improved throttle lever, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1899
Creator: Canady, Lorin Winfield
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Multiple Gearing

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in multiple gearing. This invention "relates to improvements in a multiple gearing for bicycles, vehicles, locomotive-engines, traction devices" (line 11-13).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Cary, Lewis C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Treating Speiss.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved process for treating speiss to obtain the valuable metals contained therein" (lines 8-10).
Date: November 15, 1892
Creator: Flury, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for an improved, useful, durable, and simple pump that is powered by cattle as they walk into an enclosure. It consists of a water receiving chamber with inlet openings on one end, supporting rods, a hollow pump piston with a spout, a valve on the bottom of the pump piston, a walking beam, a bridge, hinges, angle-irons, and a counterbalances weight.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Clayton, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Treating Slag and Furnace Therefor.

Description: Patent for a process of treating slag and furnace therefore. It has an improved method for separates melted metals produced during smelting and extracting the precious metals from slag. The richer matte and base-bullion run off separately and into separate taps.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: van Cleve, Charles M. & Rhodes, Robert D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for the improvement on plows so that the operator can "readily adjust the moldboard or shovel into any desired inclination" (lines 14-15). The clamp is also adjustable.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Baker, Jessie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the bolt, the nut having a dovetailed groove across its face, of uniform width throughout its length, and a recess at one side of said groove, and a key having tapered sides and sliding into the dovetailed groove from one side of the nut, said key having a pointed end to engage the bolt and also provided with a projecting part to be bent over into engagement with the recess in the nut" (lines 69-78).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Robinson, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame-Strap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved strap to be used as a hame strap or other tightening strap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Quincey, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fastening Device for Fence-Runners.

Description: Patent for a fastening-device for fence-runners that is a staple and tie-wire in one. The device will not be drawn or displaced regardless of its placement in relationship to the runner.
Date: October 20, 1896
Creator: Logan, Paul H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fishing Tackle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fishing tackle. This design is "to provide a snaring device which will, so far as possible, insure a capture; to so arrange the hooks as to prevent a loss of bait, and to provide a device capable of ensnaring as many fish as may at the time of lifting the snare by nibbling at the bait. . . . the invention consists in a spacing-ring, preferably formed of lead or other heavy metal and having a central hub and having a series of hooks radiating from the tub and secure… more
Date: January 7, 1890
Creator: Mayer, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Journal-Bearing.

Description: Patent for a journal-bearing that has an open spring ring that contains the journal and antifriciton devices in its center. The spring ring contracts to its minimum circumference when the journal and antifriciton devices are worn out. There is also a bearing-ring seat that allows contractions "without altering the disposition of the load" (lines 61-62).
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Woodworth, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Construction Car.

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Construction Cars..." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1892
Creator: Brown, Carver C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerator Shipping-Box.

Description: Patent for a "new and useful Improvement in Shipping Boxes" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Andrews, Otis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ore-Separator.

Description: Patent for an improved, efficient, simple, and durable ore separator that quickly separates precious metals from sand. The operator puts the unfiltered material in the top of the separator, the material goes down a slide, through a stirrer, and out the other end.
Date: August 15, 1893
Creator: Dilworth, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric-Circuit -Closing Device.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in electric circuit closing devices.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Newman, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dynamometer for Locomotives.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dynamometer for locomotives. This design is "to provide a novel construction in dynamometers for indicating the traction power of locomotives" (lines 9-11). It consists in "a draw-head, a chamber containing a liquid located therein, a piston operating in said chamber, means for connecting said piston with the opposite draw-head, suitable tubing connecting with the said chamber, and a pressure-gage mounted upon or attached to the said tubing and actuated by the said… more
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Innes, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Scale.

Description: Patent for a new and useful scale, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 11, 1899
Creator: Bell, Chester L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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