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Cotton Chopper

Description: Patent for chopper blade for cotton.
Date: February 6, 1917
Creator: Jones, Martin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence-Machine

Description: Patent for "a machine of this character which will effectively do its work,which will be of great capacity, easy to manipulate, and positive in its desired operation" (lines 11-14).
Date: October 29, 1889
Creator: Channell, Emmet W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism.

Description: Patent for an automatic gun firing mechanism intended to protect gardens, orchards, and fields by scaring off birds and other animals that destroy crops through automatic discharge of a firearm at predetermined intervals.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Steinocher, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Body

Description: Patent for wagon body which fits on many different types of running bodies, including illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Percolator.

Description: Patent for a percolator for coffee or tea that is "reliable and efficient in its operation, readily and easily adjusted to fit the various sizes of pots and also inexpensive in manufacture." (lines 44-47)
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Rose, Isabell M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Desk and Copy-Holder.

Description: Patent for a desk with an attached paper-holder that allows for easier transcription.
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Life-Boat.

Description: Patent for a life-boat that improves on a previous patent (No. 512,591) for a hydraulic propelling device and adapts the jet propulsion means to a life boat. The life-boat is made to have compartments that, when one compartment gets crushed, the others remain afloat. The water goes into the stove or crushed compartment and can be used to propel the boat forward. The boat also has a system of bulkheads on the roof of the boat, each independent of the others and has valved pipes. Independent oil-… more
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Walker, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vegetable-Transplanting Machine.

Description: Patent for Vegetable transplanting machine, it describes about new technique of planting a crops with effective irrigation technique
Date: February 10, 1902
Creator: Carroll, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in machines for sharpening gin-saws. This invention is to "provide an improved machine of the character described wherein the saws may be sharpened without removing them" (line 10-12).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Bradley, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mattress-Stuffing Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved mattress-stuffing machine which is capable of "feeding the stuffing material directly from the bale in super-posed layers, wherein, if desired, the intermediate layers may be of different quality than that of the outside layers or even of entirely different material." (Lines 19-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: White, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Conveyer

Description: Patent for an invention that "relates to a pneumatic conveyer, and is particularly adapted for use in connection with cotton-seed and other material for the purpose of elevating and conveying the material to a room or compartment where it may be deposited and for transferring the contents of one of said compartments to another whenever desired" (lines 10-17). Illustrations are included.
Date: July 6, 1901
Creator: Seifert, John, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switch and Signal System

Description: Patent for a switch and signal system to be used for railroad signaling and to prevent trains on different tracks from colliding. (lines 12-22)
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Adams, Edwin J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fastening Device

Description: Patent for Fastening Device which relates to "improvements in fastening devices and more particularly to latches and cooperating strikes such as used in fastening gates, etc. One object of my invention is to provide a strike for such latching means which is easily and quickly put in place, which is easily adjustable to different heights of the latching member, which is easily and quickly adjustable to different horizontal positions of the latching member, and which is so constructed that it is … more
Date: May 31, 1912
Creator: Torian, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates … more
Date: November 21, 1893
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for a stably constructed and effective rotary engine in which "the full effect of live steam under a full head can be attained at all times on the drive shaft" (lines 12-14).
Date: February 27, 1894
Creator: Walker, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Puzzle

Description: Patent for Puzzle
Date: November 28, 1916
Creator: Trull, Clarence A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Perforating Mechanism for Cylinder Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for a perforating mechanism for cylinder printing-presses that is simple and automatic. It produces "lines of perforations at any required distance apart and of any desired length in paper or cardboard at the time of printing thereon the forms for checks, draft, bills, notes, tickets or other printed or lithographed matter" (lines 12-17).
Date: April 17, 1894
Creator: Kellner, Eugene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner

Description: Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Ship.

Description: Patent for a self-propelled, navigable air ship. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a sprin… more
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Baade, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hood, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for baling cotton.
Date: March 3, 1898
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Curtain and Shade Bracket.

Description: Patent for curtain and shade bracket which is readily secured to the window frame without marring the same and which is provided with adjustable means for attaching the shade and also for attaching the curtain pole, whereby from a single fixture the window shade and curtain may be suspended.
Date: October 2, 1917
Creator: Walker, Charles R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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