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Chemise

Description: Patent for improvements in chemises which would relieve wearers “the annoyance of having the garment gather about the limbs while walking which often produces great embarrassment in public places.” (Lines 42-45) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Burt, Emma Ruby
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Detacher.

Description: Patent for a horse-detacher "which can be readily applied to any buggy, and one which will be adapted for quick and easy manipulation to effect detachment of the shafts from the buggy." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Turner, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Sheller.

Description: Patent for improvements in corn-shellers in which it would be easily-operated and consists of “a semi-cylindrical trough having serrations upon the sides and bottom thereof, so that upon pushing the ear back and forth in the trough the corn will be scraped off.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Townsley, Christopher C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Stock-Guard.

Description: Patent for "a guard which will effectually prevent cattle from entering adjoining fields to which ingress is afforded by means of a railroad traversing them and to provide means for preventing the guards being injured by trains passing over the road," (lines 11-16) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Bridges, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for improvements in atmospheric clothes pounders: "Dividing the outer section into compartments so that air in escaping is distributed evenly from all sides of the pounder instead of escaping in a body from one side, whenever the pounder strikes a wad or knot of cloths and is tipped sidewise; it also makes the suction better" (lines 49-55).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Allgaier, George E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretching and Tying Device.

Description: Patent for a "device capable of enabling the wires of a fence after the latter has been erected or during the construction thereof to be readily tightening to the desired tension without necessitating the removal of staples or other devices for fastening the fence-wires to the posts." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Kirby, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for an improved pipe wrench that has "a pair of fixed but reversible jaws, attached to the shank of the wrench on each side thereof, and a movable, hooked jaw pivoted between the heels of the fixed jaws" (lines 15-18).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Smith, Jay & Gage, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an Artesian or oil well drilling apparatus that has a detachable drill-bit in its tubing and has an "improved means whereby an expansion drill bit or blade of any preferred construction can be secured to or detached from the drill tubing without removing the latter from the well" (lines 12-15). The tubing does not accidentally detach, and the tubing can rotate in either direction.
Date: October 2, 1894
Creator: Horton, Stephen A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the main frame and plow or plows, curved plate slotted and perforated . . . and rigidly secured to said frame, a horizontal lever passing through the slot of the same and pivoted to the main frame, a spring-bolt and operating devices, a vertical bar pivotally suspended from said lever, and a carrying-wheel having one of its spindles bearing in the lower end of the bar, together with a depending bar sec… more
Date: September 2, 1890
Creator: Stuart, Isom & Stuart, Bronick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Liquid-Dispensing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new and useful liquid dispensing apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1899
Creator: Haye, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in kitchen cabinets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Lackey, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Propulsion Means.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pneumatic propulsion means, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1899
Creator: Walker, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and useful thill coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1899
Creator: Hauff, Isaac F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Check - Book

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in check-book for " customer's use, such as are employed by banks for free distribution" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition of Matter.

Description: Patent for a compound with waterproof and flame-retardant properties in its use as a roofing paint.
Date: April 2, 1895
Creator: Freeze, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Word-Counter for Type-Writing Machines.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in word counters for type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Moseley, Marion S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stenographer's Note - Book

Description: Patent for a new and useful Stenographer's Blank Book to "provide a connection for the covers whereby they may be automatically secured at the desired relative inclination without fastening the tape, cord, or ribbon forming the connection" (line 20 -24).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame.

Description: Patent for improvements in quilting-frames in which it “can be used either with or without a sewing-machine. Several lines can be quilted without having to roll the quilt. The frame is suspended from above, preferably upon a wire or cord, and so arranged that it may be moved in any direction desired.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators by using “the shearing action between a rotary hoe and a cutter-bar traveling along beside the row” (lines 20-22) to cut off the cotton. Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sad - Iron Attachment For Pressing Seams.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in Sad-Iron Attachments for pressing Seams to "provide a device of this class which is adapted to be connected with an ordinary sad - iron" (line 12 - 14)
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Rice, Margaret Elizabeth
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing - Machine

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in ironing machines for household use to"produce a simple, effective, and inexpensive ironing-machine especially adapted for household or family use" (line 27 - 29).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Walter, George P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness and Saddle.

Description: Patent for a saddle and harness in which "several parts are united in a secure but detachable manner and which possesses certain other advantages" (lines 27-31).
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Vogtsberger, Emil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Wagon-Brake.

Description: Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Elliot, Joseph Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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