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Trolley-Wire Crossing.

Description: Patent for "means of which trolley-wires may be made to cross each other without contact and at the same time admit of the passage of trolley-wheels over each of the cross-lines." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Handshy, Henry Milton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tie-Plate Machine.

Description: Patent for "a machine for properly positioning and securing metal plates to the cross-ties in the construction of railways, and which will obviate the coupling, buckling, or warping of the said plates when applying them to the wooden ties." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Greenshield, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Musical Hoop.

Description: Patent for "a musical hoop or wheel which is intended to interest and amuse children." (Lines 12-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1896
Creator: Milledge, John Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whiffletree.

Description: Patent for a whiffletree for doubletrees and singletrees that is made of metal in its entirety. It consists of metal bars with end recesses, a middle brace, end caps with heads, hooks, a cross-bar or pivot, and rivets.
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Furnace.

Description: Patent for an improved furnace that can be "located at the side of the kiln or drying-house, which furnace shall be so constructed as to be simple, durable, and inexpensive, and the parts of which may be readily put together or separated, as may be desired" (lines 10-15).
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Johnson, John H. & Moran, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Derrick.

Description: Patent for improvements to derricks which make them portable and easily manipulated. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Hurd, George Murray
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Joint.

Description: Patent for a railway-joint in which "the chairs at the sides of the rails have a dovetail connection with a connecting block or tie extending through the webs of the rails" (lines 9-12). The invention has an improved construction, can be adjusted, and can be laterally removed from the rails.
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Brown, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Spike.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad spikes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Dodson, Roy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railway cattle guard, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Mathis, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Overcoat.

Description: Patent for an overcoat that is "so constructed as to keep dry the legs of the wearer; which is adapted to shed water from horsemen; and which is of the usual external appearance and will not impede or interfere with the locomotion of the wearer" (lines 9-24).
Date: May 8, 1894
Creator: Gassaway, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gage for Bias-Cutters.

Description: Patent for a gauge for bias-cutters that produces "a pair of shears or scissors and provide the same with such additions as will adapt them to accurately cut to a predetermined width bias strips of any fabric" (lines 10-14).
Date: May 8, 1894
Creator: Steen, Nevada
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and useful gas machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Ratisseau, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Muehr, Frank & Frerich, Joseph B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Detacher.

Description: Patent for improvements in horse-detachers by engaging “straps or chains spring-actuated bolts to the free ends of the pivoted levers; and on the opposite ends of said levers hooks are attached for securing trace or tug straps.” (Lines 21-25) Illustration is included.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Napier, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dividers or Compasses.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dividers or compasses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Benes, Francis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Disk-Plow Attachment.

Description: Patent for
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Lovett, John I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for an "apparatus adapted for continuously compressing and baling cotton in juxtaposition to the ginning machinery, by conducting cotton from the condenser to compressing rolls operating to progressively compress the fluffy mass into a compact bat or sheet which is laid in folds or laps and subsequently moved or transferred to a suitable baling press and subjected to final pressure to expel the air from between the folds or laps and enable the bale or package to be tied while under press… more
Date: January 8, 1895
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Picker Finger.

Description: Patent that improves on existing design of cotton-picking spindles by using an elastic material instead of bristles. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Canuteson, Ole
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Cleaning Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a cotton-cleaning apparatus made up of "a stationary foraminous case or drum having an inlet-opening in the upper side of its small end, a rotary shaft extending centrally through the case or drum and having a plurality of spirally-arranged at the large end of the foraminous case and having a discharge-pipe for conveying the cotton to the point where it is to be deposited or discharged - as, for instance, into gins or gin-feeders" (lines 9-19). The cotton goes in one end, the cotton … more
Date: October 8, 1895
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seat - Action Flushing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in seat-action flushing apparatus. This design is to "provide a cistern into which the water is admitted only when the seat is occupied" (line 14-17).
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Ackley, George D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rotary engine to "utilize the motive agent to the fullest advantage" (line 11 - 12).
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Hays, James Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Fastening.

Description: Patent for improvements in shoe-fastenings by using a “pivoted clasp-lever which has a tail-piece acted upon by a leaf-spring for holding the lever in its closed or open position.” (Lines 11-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Dessoir, Julius
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seeding-Machine

Description: Patent for improvements to the hoe of the seeding machine "and attendant parts, and particularly to the means for guiding and adjusting the hoe and for guiding and adjusting the following-wheel" (lines 17-19).
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Kirkpatrick, George W. & Ralston, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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