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Railway-Switch.

Description: Patent for an improvement to railway switches, by creating an automatic switch that changes the direction of a track from object while object is moving on track.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: James, Samuel
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Liquid Dispensing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for liquid dispensing apparatus to dispense and simultaneously measure liquid.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Reid, Elton F.
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Water-Purifier for Ice-Machines.

Description: Patent for a water purifier for ice machines that removes oil residue from the condensing process.
Date: January 31, 1911
Creator: Schrade, John Jacob
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Water-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a water-wheel. The object of this invention is to provide a water-wheel in which the energy of the water shall act upon a series of peripheral buckets on a principle of hydraulic pressure in contradistinction to that of mere impact and momentum.
Date: January 26, 1892
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Ironing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and useful ironing-machine. "Invention is to improve the construction of ironing-machines and to provide a simple, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive one, designed for use both in laundries and elsewhere and capable of advantageously operating on all kinds of garment" (line 10-15).
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Dunn, William H. & McCurdy, Delo
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Vending Machine

Description: Patent for a coin operated vending machine for small packaged goods.
Date: January 6, 1903
Creator: Connor, Frank, C.
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Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.

Description: Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).
Date: January 9, 1894
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Memorandum Clip Board.

Description: Patent for an improved clipboard, which provides different clasps to support checks and other sized items at specific points.
Date: January 7, 1902
Creator: Dickey, Robert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Cotton-Handling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a pneumatic cotton-handling apparatus in which it can “unloading cotton simultaneously from two wagons and for conveying the cotton from one wagon to a storage place and from the other wagon to feeding devices for supplying a battery of gins.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date: January 3, 1905
Creator: Lumpkin, Robert B.
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Mechanical Starter

Description: Patent for "improvements in mechanical starters for internal combustion engines" (lines 10-11). It is designed for the use in automobiles, trucks, and similar vehicles.
Date: January 3, 1918
Creator: Johnson, William S.
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Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling

Description: Patent for a coupler adapted to be employed for operatively uniting the fluid pressure pipes of a pair of railway vehicles, when the vehicles are coupled up. The invention aims to improve the construction of the main pipe through the instrumentality of which the coupling operation is immediately effected, and to provide a means whereby the pipe is mounted in such a way as to have the necessary movemtns.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Cobb, John Ollen
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Steering Gear Stabilizer

Description: Patent for a steering gear stabilizer for car steering wheels. Intent of gear is to keep steering wheel from getting out of the driver's hands when going over rough terrain.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: Hornburg, Charles A
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Railroad Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railroad-tie. This design "has for its object the provision of means for broadening the gage of a road at curves thereof and the production of a metallic tie that is extremely simple in construction and by means of which a rail can be readily removed or secured in place and a firm elastic bearing obtained thereof" (lines 19-25).
Date: January 7, 1890
Creator: Bagby, William Henry
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Mattress Stuffing Machine

Description: Patent for a device to stuff a mattress, comprising a combination of ropes, pulleys and gears.
Date: January 10, 1888
Creator: Stephenson, E. N.
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Massage Device.

Description: Patent for an adjustable massage device that may be used as an attachment to a shaving brush or as a separate shaving tool. The device includes a rubber head that is moved over the face to “soften the beard” (line 83) for shaving and discourage discomfort and irritation.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Luzzi, August F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Elevator.

Description: Patent for improvement in cotton-elevators by providing means for the air-conduit and the cotton-conduit to communicate with the body of the elevator; and means for the air-conduit to communicate directly to the cotton conduit in order to effectively and uniformly distribute the cotton when fed to the gins. Thus preventing the cotton from being fed unevenly, which would clog and otherwise retard the action of the gins. (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: January 9, 1900
Creator: Williams, George W.
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Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for a cotton-press that makes "tightly wound bales from the cotton bats formed upon the condenser, and fed into the press" (lines 13-15).
Date: January 22, 1895
Creator: Banister, Charles
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Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for a cotton-press that does not allow the cotton to rebound after the plunger compresses it because of teeth in the box. When the operator wishes to remove the cotton, the teeth automatically disengage in order for the cotton to be removed easily.
Date: January 22, 1895
Creator: Banister, Charles & Hollingsworth, Joseph
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements to Cotton-Choppers. The invention relates to the agricultural implements and more particularly to machines for thinning rows of cotton, whereby to prevent crowding of the plants and insuring a stocky growth which will under favorable condition produce a good crop.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Ogden, James D.
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Seed Cotton Elevator

Description: Patent for a gin-feeder cotton elevator. This grain elevator features a cotton trunk that helps to sort the grain.
Date: January 17, 1900
Creator: Harris, George
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Cable Clip or Hanger

Description: Patent for invention of improvements of cable clips or hangers.
Date: January 2, 1912
Creator: Davidson, Charles G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hair-Clipper

Description: Patent for hair clippers in which the power-driven device will move positively in action comprises a few numbers of parts and is easy to operate.
Date: January 14, 1920
Creator: Jones, Sidney P. & Wallace, David P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer.

Description: Patent for an ice-cream freezer which can also be used as a churn, with an improved drum that revolves and its lower half sitting in ice or hot or cold water. It has a central shaft and flat heads on the ends of the drum so it can rotate.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Harton, Thomas Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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