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Muzzle-Yolk.

Patent for a cattle-yolk that stops the animals from jumping or breaking through fences. The yolk "will bind upon him, thus effectually stopping the animal from any further effort" (lines 12-15) if it tries to jump or break through a fence.

Date: March 10, 1896

Creator: Courtney, Thomas Lafayette

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse Collar.

Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "is to supply a cheap, durable, easy fitting and self adjusting or flexible horse-collar for farm and other use, and which shall readily adapt itself to the form of the animal, and thereby obviate those abrasions which are so common with the use of a rigid and unyielding collar. To these and other ends [the] collar is made for the most part of what is known as "moss-yarn," with its strands or fibers arranged and the body of the collar subj… more

Date: June 15, 1886

Creator: Bailey, William Luther; Knight, Leonard Thaddeus & Knight, Lenis Douglas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Patent for the invention for new and useful improvements on the thill-coupling along with illustrations and instructions.

Date: December 27, 1892

Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grate-Bar.

Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.

Date: October 13, 1896

Creator: Fuller, James T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grass Destroyer

Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).

Date: March 2, 1920

Creator: Coker, Alvin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reflector Attachment for Lamps.

Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design's object "is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device for attaching and detaching a reflector to the bottom of the chimney of an ordinary coal-oil or other hand-lamp" (lines 13-17).

Date: December 9, 1884

Creator: Hayes, Elbert N. & Kimball, Walter J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Planter

Patent for a seed planter so that the distances between seeds can be changed from equidistant to a continuous row and vice versa and so that it can be adapted to sew both seeds and grains.

Date: December 25, 1888

Creator: Leamon, John B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Construction

Patent for sash construction with grooves no need for putty or points.

Date: June 19, 1900

Creator: Holland, Willie Washington

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swingletree

Patent for a swingletree. Illustrations included.

Date: December 20, 1904

Creator: Brazell, David H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Separating Machine

Patent for separation of the foreign materials from the seed meats by means of an air blast directed against the materials as they fall by gravity from an inclined shaker or agitator, the lighter foreign matter being thereby separated from the heavier seed meats which continue their decent so a suitable conveyer of recptacle

Date: September 11, 1917

Creator: Buckley, Andrew Jackson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riveting Machine.

Patent for a new and improved riveting-machine. This design consists "of the upright frame having the cross-head in the upper front part thereof, the vertical driving rods . . . adapted to move in said cross-head, the upright with perforated top and spring-actuated sleeve attached to the frame below the rod, the separable rivet-holder attached to said rod by the arms, the frame, and the sleeve . . . the upright with solid top attached to the frame below the rod, and means, as pivoted levers . .… more

Date: April 1, 1890

Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riveting Machine.

Patent for a new and improved riveting machine. This design "consist[s], essentially, of an upright-frame having a vertically-movable driving-rod therein, a vertically-separable set loosely mounted upon the lower end of the driving rod, and a stationary upright removably mounted in the frame beneath the driving-rod and set, [and] said upright having a spring-actuated sleeve extending above the upper end thereof" (lines 66-74).

Date: August 5, 1890

Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riveting-Machine.

Patent for improvements in "which rivets may be rapidly set in the material to be riveted, the rivet being driven and headed at the same operatio and without first punching holes in the material to be riveted." (Lines 15-19) Illustration is included.

Date: June 30, 1891

Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Foot for Plow-Stocks.

Patent for improvements in plows by using the combination of “two forwardly-curved bars which clamped to a plow-beam, and the heel having its forward end rigidly secured between the lower ends of the bars and its rear portion bent upwardly and forwardly and secured between the bars.” (Lines 94-100) Illustration is included.

Date: April 28, 1891

Creator: Brown, William B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fish-Trap.

Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.

Date: March 26, 1889

Creator: Green, John E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for improvements in fertilizer distributers by using a combination of a hopper, a detachable drill-chute, two shafts with fingers inside the hopper, and an inclined spring-held and adjustable apron attached at the rear end of the hopper. This adjustable apron allows the shafts to operate effectively and efficiently. Illustration is included.

Date: August 4, 1891

Creator: Barron, John Davis

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence-Stay.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive fence-stay that "may be readily applied in a secure manner to horizontal fence-wires" (lines 12-13). The posts are sheets of metal, and metal T-shaped tongues hold the wires in place.

Date: July 21, 1896

Creator: Munger, Ennis

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fishing Signaling Apparatus.

Patent for a signal that is put on a fishing pole that helps see if a fisher has a bite at night.

Date: August 14, 1916

Creator: Evans, Lyda D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ratchet-Clutch

Patent for a clutch design that enables the use of a single clutch in agricultural machine engines.

Date: May 18, 1915

Creator: Smith, John H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Patent for railroad joint designed to reduce the shifting of the rails while being easy to construct.

Date: July 10, 1917

Creator: Autry, Lemual Arlanda

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Device for Railways.

Patent for a safety device for railways that stops trains if they enter a danger zone, which indicates that the train is to close to another train.

Date: October 3, 1911

Creator: Mitchell, Charles B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Game Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved ring for games. This design is "part of a game apparatus, a ring of wood of a form adapted to be rolled over a flat surface, having a ring of metal cast in a groove cut in its inner surface" (lines 57-60).

Date: July 15, 1884

Creator: Fisher, Charles A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.

Date: July 12, 1904

Creator: Wilhitte, Lemuel Manuel

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Watchmakers' Lathes.

Patent for the improvement of watchmakers' lathes by way of an adjustable bed.

Date: March 13, 1876

Creator: Williams, Daniel M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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