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Vault Cash-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a vault cash-indicator meant to "provide a new and improved indicator, designed for indicating an amount of money, commercial articles, &c.; for instance, indicating the amount of money contained in a safe or vault" (lines 7-11).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tuning Device for Pianos.

Description: Patent for "a means whereby the strings of a piano may be easily and deliberately tuned, and when tuned they will be held absolutely rigid and unyielding under all circumstances while the pins are set in wood, thus avoiding any possibility of the jarring of the parts." (Lines 36-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Orser, Levi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Instrument for Dividing Angles into Equal Parts.

Description: Patent for an instrument for dividing angles into equal parts and is meant to be used with a beam compass. The "invention consists in a member having a point adapted to be placed at the point of the angle to be divided, and having movable thereon a beam extending horizontally and having at one end a transverse head projecting from each side of the beam and carrying at one end an indicating point and at the other end a marking pencil" (lines 22-29).
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Cornelius, Francis W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing-Table.

Description: Patent for "ironing-tables which are arranged to be capable of folding when not in use and of extending when used." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Mills, Charles Richmond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Brake.

Description: Patent for "a brake which is quickly applicable to any form of wagon and which is attached to the wagon-gear only and has no connection with the body of the wagon, thus allowing the wagon-body to be entirely removed from the bolsters without interfering with the action and operation of the brake mechanism." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1897
Creator: Baker, Owen T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a washing machine with a "revolving drum or clothes-carrier, of a steam-chest" (lines 79-80) surrounding the drum, a removable cover with "perforated steam-pipes" (line 83), which go around the drum.
Date: April 6, 1897
Creator: Stallings, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type-Writing Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements to the type writer "to provide a simple and effective mechanism for automatically operating the type-bars of such a machine under the control of the keys in such manner as to require but light action of said keys." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1897
Creator: Templeton, Allison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truck.

Description: Patent for a new and useful truck, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1899
Creator: Hooper, Johnson M., Sr. & Daniels, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Life-Insurance Table or Chart.

Description: Patent for a new and useful life-insurance table of chart.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Neal, Nathan P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Elevator

Description: Patent for "an apparatus for use in connection with a well, whereby the well-bucket will be automatically elevated and emptied into a trough by the weight of the cattle that may come to the well to drink, the apparatus be ing particularly designed for use in the Western countries, where large numbers of cattle come to each well in herds" (lines 16-23).
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Campbell, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Veterinary Medicine

Description: Patent for "a compound for the eradication of screw-worms in animals, and it has for its object toprovide a simple and inexpensive compound of this character which will quickly and efficiently destroy the worms, and at the same time serve as both an astringent and antiseptic to the wound" (lines 10-16).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Youngkin, John A. & Youngkin, Josiah S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Elevating Device.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and durable water-elevating device meant to be used in collecting water from wells, cisterns, &c., and can be used in domestic and commercial settings. "Power may be increased [in the invention] to enable an operator to raise large quantities of water with facility" (lines 13-15).
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Taylor, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel Scraper.

Description: Patent for a "device adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle to prevent mud from clinging to the wheels, and thereby make the draft lighter on a horse or team, and at the same time prevent mud from being thrown upon the body of a vehicle and the occupants thereof." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Taylor, Mascener
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool.

Description: Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.
Date: April 27, 1897
Creator: Hutchins, John Pearce
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mining Sulfur.

Description: Patent for a method of mining sulfur and other things that have similar melting points that is less expensive and more efficient than previous methods. A machine sprays hot fluid at fissures where the mineral exists, melts it, and carries it away in the stream.
Date: April 27, 1897
Creator: Higgins, Pattillo & Carroll, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam Cooking Stove.

Description: Patent for a new and improved steam stove. This design "is to provide a stove . . . that can be used on a gas-stove base, a lamp-stove, an ordinary cooking-stove, or even over a camp-fire, and which when so used will provide an apartment for baking or warming and another apartment for steaming, the steam being generated within a surrounding boiler and by the heat that has been used to heat the oven" (lines 11-20). It consists in "a casing divided vertically by a transverse boiler-body, chambers… more
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: James, Will S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Condenser.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and compact steam-condenser that is meant to be used in tea factories and similar places where distilled water is needed, and has the minimum amount of back pressure.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Steinbarth, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Compress.

Description: Patent for a simple, strong, durable, and powerful steam-powered compress for cotton bales that compresses them into standard size and density.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Bryant, William hodge
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose or Pipe Coupling.

Description: Patent for a hose or pipe coupling meant to "provide a coupling of great simplicity of construction forming a tight and efficient connection by which the hose can be connected without turning it, without the screwing together of the sections and without a loose washer within one of the couplings which is readily lost and quickly gets out of order" (lines 12-19).
Date: April 16, 1895
Creator: Conley, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trace Carrier.

Description: Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "[a]n improved back-band buckle with hooks, consisting of a body portion formed of a single piece of wrought-wire, the meeting ends of each bent downward, upward, outward, and again downward to form chain-holding hooks or loops, and the tongues pivoted upon the said body portion" (lines 89-95).
Date: April 15, 1890
Creator: Brown, John Stoddart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Milk-Cooler.

Description: Patent for an improvement in milk-coolers “in which water is drawn by capillary attraction from a receptacle placed above the milk-receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the latter, thus cooling the milk by evaporation.” (Lines 8-12) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Banks, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mill-Carriage-Wheel Guard.

Description: Patent for a new mill-carriage-wheel guard "to prevent obstruction falling on the wheels or on the [railroad] track, this guard also carries scrapers in front and in rear and on each side of the wheel, whereby the obstructions are scraped off the track." (Lines 23-28) This guard can be used with a wood-working machine carriages and/or rail.” Illustration is included.
Date: April 28, 1891
Creator: Zimmerman, Joseph W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool for Tightening Wheel Tires.

Description: Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a tubular member having having one end beveled and provided with a transverse hole and provided at its other end with an interiorly-arranged annular shoulder, a set-screw passing through the tubular member and arranged near the shoulder, a nut resting on the tubular member and provided with an extension projecting into the same and bearing on the shoulder and provided with an annular groove receiving the… more
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Hamblen, William Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trace Iron.

Description: Patent for a new and improved trace-iron. This design "is to provide a new and improved trace-iron which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to readily connect with the end of the trace without the employment of rivets and which can be readily attached to or detached from the hame. The invention consists of two leaves pivotally-connected with each other and adapted to fold one on the other, one leaf being provided with a hook passing through an aperture in the other leaf and adap… more
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Dankworth, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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