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Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for "a plow which will effect a clean severance of the sod on the land side when operating in heavy, tenacious soil, and which will prevent the accumulation of rubbish against the edge of the mold-board or standard." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Wood, John W.
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Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the design of corn and cotton cultivators, including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
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Jar and Can Lifter

Description: Patent for Jar and Can lifter designed to assist in transporting a can or jar. It is made from wire and acts as a removable handle.
Date: January 24, 1920
Creator: Hilley, Seaborn A.
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Improvement in Motors.

Description: Patent for power-operated motors used "for operating churns" (lines 13-14), with the option of using spring-power, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: February 19, 1878
Creator: Cummings, James K.
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Scaffold-Bracket

Description: Patent for a support for scaffolds or ladders on shingled roofs. Illustrations included.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Wilkerson, Thurston A.
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Safety Step for Freight Cars

Description: Patent for a safety step for freight rail cars. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1911
Creator: Neale, Ancel C.
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Rein-Holder For Cultivators

Description: Patent for a rein-holder for field cultivation.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Stockton, James Silas
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Coat Rack

Description: Patent for a coat rack. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Gragg, Joe Lee
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Water Tank and Filter.

Description: Patent for water tank and filter that is cost effective for filtering rainwater or hydrant water. The water tank and filter are designed so that the filter can be removed or moved easily around the tank.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Wilkerson, Charles J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Two-Horse Equalizers.

Description: Patent for an adjustable device that redistributes weight so that two animals of unequal strength can perform their equal share of work. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1870
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
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Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for improving the washing machine by being operated by a spring-motor.
Date: September 11, 1877
Creator: Cummings, James K.
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Steam-Radiator.

Description: Patent for a steam radiator for heating the cab of a locomotive.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: McBurney, Samuel L.
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Bagging-Cutter

Description: Patent for a Bagging-Cutter in order to cut lengths of bagging in an efficient manner. An innovation this provides is in shaping the bags into a roll or rope-shape before being cut, which negates the use of a knife to cut a longer width. This improves ease of handling roles of bagging and requires a shorter fixed-place knife.
Date: August 9, 1921
Creator: Lively, Louis P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Description: Patent for a new and useful seed-planter for corns and cottons, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roof-Climber.

Description: Patent for a roof climber for use by workers on roofs that allows them to stand supported by it or sit on it and have their weight equally distributed
Date: November 8, 1910
Creator: Wilkerson, Thurston A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rein-Holders.

Description: Patent for "improvement in a class of rein-holding devices consisting each of a pivoted, vertically-swinging cam or locking-jaw and a frame...for attachment to the dashboard of a carriage or other vehicle." (lines 7-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1874
Creator: Royse, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Addressing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
Date: December 17, 1878
Creator: Piner, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Stalk and Cane-Puller.

Description: Patent for improvement in stalk puller by using “two pointed teeth or prongs peculiarly constructed, and secured to a suitable handle to which an adjustable fulcrum is connected, in order to allow the implement to be manipulated by persons of different statures and strength.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration is included.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Marker Attachment for Plows.

Description: Patent for an “improved device to be used upon plows, and the objects are to provide means whereby the succeeding row to be plowed may be marked, thereby giving a uniform plowing to the field; furthermore, to provide for an adjustment of the marker, whereby the distance between the rows may be adjusted.” (Lines 8-15) Includes illustration.
Date: August 11, 1891
Creator: Marley, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Picker and Cleaner.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton-picker and cleaner by using rotary breakers combined with fixed breakers to break the branches and outer coverings of the cotton in the bolls. The cotton then passes through an “inclined-way” where the rotary breakers are spirally-arranged on a concentric cylinder to carry the cotton out of the cleaner. (Lines 69-75) Illustration is included.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for washing machine. Objective is to make the machine inexpensive and capable of washing clothes with rapid cycles without any harm to the fabric.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Sparkman, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1880
Creator: Lee, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design consists in "the combination, with an essentially T-shaped body having the members of the head inclined in direction of the straight member and provided with a series of teeth, of a lever pivoted to the straight member of the body contiguous to the head and clamping-jaws pivoted upon the said lever" (lines 32-39).
Date: February 19, 1889
Creator: Hughes, George Roland
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Land Grader and Ditcher

Description: Patent for a land grader and ditcher that is durable and easy to use to ditch a large area and the scraping blade can be easily removed for cleaning, repairs or other reasons.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Reed, Allen T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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