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Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.

Description: Patent for improvements on insect destroyers to be used in cotton fields, including illustrations.
Date: October 16, 1877
Creator: Fordtran, Eugene H.
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Joint Means For Rails Or The Like

Description: Patent for joint designed to bolt together rails so as to prevent accidental displacement of the nuts and bolts. Illustration included.
Date: October 16, 1906
Creator: Kline, William Bennet
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a reinforced plow shoe that eliminates frictional wear on the landside bar and reduces wear on the landside plate of the plow.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Alston, William H.
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Track-Raiser.

Description: Patent for an improved track-raiser used during constructing and repairing railways. It is a jack that raises and holds a rail in place.
Date: October 16, 1894
Creator: Steed, Thaddeus Franklin
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Funnel and Gage.

Description: Patent for a funnel and gage with a mechanism used to indicate "when the proper amount of water has been inserted in the battery" (lines 14-15).
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Burkett, Joseph Benjamin
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Gas Generating Apparatus

Description: Patent for a tool designed to generate small volumes of gases.
Date: October 16, 1915
Creator: McFarland, J. W.
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Packing Ring

Description: Patent for improved packing rings for pistons.
Date: October 16, 1915
Creator: Westmoreland, Ernest T.
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Pump

Description: Patent for a pump. Illustrations included.
Date: October 16, 1906
Creator: Ferries, James
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for an object that simplifies the operation of rotary engines and motors.
Date: October 16, 1900
Creator: Baxter, James P.
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Gate

Description: Patent for a gate. Illustration included.
Date: October 16, 1906
Creator: Coursey, Thomas Maxton
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Seed-Planter

Description: Patent for a seed-planter, illustrations included.
Date: October 16, 1900
Creator: Wright, William L. & Hackler, Andrew J.
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Intermittent-Operating Mechanism

Description: Patent for intermittent-operating mechanism. This is to improve upon the automatic regulating means for windmills in regards to supplying water to a tank.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Bittner, Emil R.
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Connecting Member.

Description: Patent for connecting members, "which in one form is particularly adapted for repairing chains or linking chains to each other and which may be modified so as to be used as buckles or for a variety of other purposes." (lines 20-24)
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Wallace, Milton M.
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Transmission Chain or Belt.

Description: Patent for a transmission belt with elastic contact components to allow for a constant pressure exerted on the pulleys, which in turn allows for smoother driving.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Lynn, John
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Railroad Switch

Description: Patent for a railroad switch. "This invention relates to railroad-swtiches and is especially designed with reference to street railways and surburban lines" (9-11). Illustration included.
Date: October 16, 1906
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W. & Tucker, Hugh H.
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Fumigator.

Description: Patent for a fumigator meant to exterminate prairie dogs, mice, rats, Texas red ants, and other pests. It burns fumes, and the container has a hose on the top that forces fumes into the pests' homes. There is an inlet pipe in the base of the container.
Date: October 16, 1894
Creator: Manahan, Thaddeus A.
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Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination of the hopper having the opening in its base, the seed-slide provided with the slot, the strip having the longitudinal adjusting-slot and set-screw, the pivoted vibrating lever, the limiting-bracket, the coiled spring, the pivoted reciprocating bar moving in the bracket and having the beveled rear end, the conveyer-wheel, and the arms standing from the side of the conveyer-wheel and actuating the bar" (lines 21-31).
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Knox, Washington Irvine
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Hollow Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hollow auger. This design "consists in an adjustable hollow auger and an adjustable fore-auger, which are combined together for use with an ordinary brace, and constructed in such a manner that when applied to use the end of the spoke or other article is first beveled by the fore-auger, and the tenon then formed by the hollow auger. The cutters of the fore-auger are formed upon pivoted arms, which are automatically released, and then thrown open by a spring when th… more
Date: October 16, 1883
Creator: Rodman, James A.
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Device for Automatically Exhibiting Business Cards, &c.

Description: Patent for a new and improved display. This design, "for automatically exhibiting business cards and the like, of a panel having an opening therein, uprights having the retaining guides secured on each side of said opening, the angle-irons secured beneath said opening, a longitudinally-inclined bar having a beveled upper edge provided with a recess for extending across said panel, a sliding frame having a spring secured thereto, a hook on said spring, and means for giving said frame a vibratory… more
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Keach, George D.
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Emergency-Door for Safes.

Description: Patent for an emergency door for safes that provides an improved arrangement including a supplemental door which will automatically move to closed position when the main door is opened to its limit.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Puhl, Max O.
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Water-Closet Flush.

Description: Patent for a siphon flushing apparatus for water-closets in which it will regulate the quantity of the water being discharged at each flushing; at the same time it can prevent water leakage. Illustration is included.
Date: October 16, 1900
Creator: Bowman, Jonathan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Binder Attachment for Hay Presses

Description: Patent for automatic binder attachment for hay presses with accompanying illustrations of the patent.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Trigg, John B
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Mechanism for Operating Air-Compressors, &c.

Description: Patent for operating air-compressors, an improvement on the action rather than simply the machinery, accompanied by illustrations on the patent.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Brown, Ira Ellsworth
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Machine.

Description: Patent for a pneumatic device to remove and crush boll weevils and their associated bolls on cotton plants, in the ground around cotton plants, and in the air.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Jones, Henry A. & Harrell, Billington C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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