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Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a machine that removes cotton from a "wagon or other vehicle" (line 11), and moving it to a storage facility. It also moves the cotton from the storage facility and into the cotton gin. The cotton is elevated during movement via suction.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Murray, Stephen D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrist-Guide and Foot-Guard for Pianos.

Patent for “…a piano attachment consisting of an adjustable wrist-pin and foot-guard adapted to serve as a means for securing the proper position of the wrist and forearm in practice and also adapted to protect the front panel of the instrument and serve, with children, as a foot-rest. Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims” (lines 8-19).

Date: May 18, 1897

Creator: Norcross, Levi Watson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Patent for "baling-presses of that class wherein motion is communicated to the plunger from a sweep operated by horse or similar power, and the object in view is to improve the construction of the baling-chamber and attachments, and, furthermore, to provide a simple and efficient construction of plunger-operating mechanism" (lines 8-15)

Date: January 5, 1897

Creator: Pearce, William J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock.

Patent for "a lock of novel construction wherein the keyholes at opposite sites of the door are placed out of alignment for preventing children, servants, and curious persons from looking or listening through the keyhole." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 8, 1897

Creator: Oleson, Andrew J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that is "cheap, durable, have as few parts as practicable, and be easily assembled" (lines 13-15). The device uses hoe-carrying shafts and a main-drive shaft, and the hoes elevate and depress to chop the cotton.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Moore, John Neally

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Patent for a refrigerator that cools things "with the minimum expense for refrigerants; also, for affording ready access to the refrigerated substances" (lines 19-21). The cabinet has an outer layer, an inner layer, and a cooling layer. Ice is used to achieve lower temperatures.

Date: January 19, 1897

Creator: Cooley, Joseph H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Game-Board

Patent for a design for a game-board this is both useful and ornamental.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Sneddon, Guy Hoyt

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.

Date: March 23, 1897

Creator: Banister, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Revolving Sand Drag

Patent for a new and useful improvements in revolving sand drags. This design is to "provide a machine of this character by means of which the sand-bars in formed in rivers" (line 12-14)

Date: December 14, 1897

Creator: Murphy, James

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve.

Patent for a float-valve used in water-troughs for cattle and other liquid containers. It closes "when the surface of the water reaches the desired point and [opens] when the surface of the water falls below said point" (lines 14-17).

Date: January 5, 1897

Creator: Halley, Hillary H. & McCulley, Robert I.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Capturing and Destroying Insects.

Patent for a machine that removes insects from cotton plants. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 8, 1897

Creator: Strouhal, Joseph

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Extension-Step.

Patent for improvements in extension-steps which attach to vehicles and "do away with the boxes used to assist in getting up to the first or lower step" (lines 10-12). When not in use, the steps can be swiveled up. They are raised, lowered, and locked into position with a mechanism operated using a handle.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Planter.

Patent for a seed planter which utilizes a dropping-wheel that has pockets. Plungers take in and release a certain number of seeds into the pockets.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Pace, Francis W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fencing - Machine

Patent for a new and useful Wire-Fence Machine, including illustrations and instructions.

Date: October 26, 1897

Creator: Anderson, Henry C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Railway.

Patent for an electric railway that has the electric conductor on or under the ground, in a tube. The tube gets electricity to the trains via contact-pieces embedded in the tube, and it collapses whenever the train wheels go over it. The tube and conductor are kept safe in a u-shaped hanger underground.

Date: January 12, 1897

Creator: Lomb, George W. C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.

Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Bell, Thomas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Index for Books.

Patent for "... improvements in indexes for books which receive the freight tariffs or schedules of railroads and the agreements between one road and others a to division of freight charges where the traffic is handled by more than one" (lines 11-16 ) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Kerr, Warren Dunlop

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knockdown Show-Case.

Patent for a showcase that may be easily taken apart for transportation or storage. It is also easy to replace broken panes of glass, and the parts "mutually brace and support each other" (lines 20-21).

Date: March 2, 1897

Creator: Mistrot, Felix E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Feeding Envelops to Type-Writing Machines.

Patent for "a device for feeding envelops to type-writing machines, the object being to construct a device of the character described which is adapted to be mounted on the carriage of the machine and feed envelops to be addressed continuously and automatically to the platen on said machine." (Lines 26-32) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 15, 1897

Creator: Wash, Benjamin S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Cot or Bedstead.

Patent for "cots and bedsteads wherein the side and end rail parts are permanently connected mediately of their length in a manner to permit of the folding thereof to form a compact bundle for handling when not in use and a strong and firmly-braced structure when set up to support the sacking bottom for the bed." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 7, 1897

Creator: Rimmelin, Edward Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for Rein Holder

Design for a rein holder that has a longitudinally-curved base piece that ends with opposite duplicate substantially U-shaped bends.

Date: October 19, 1897

Creator: Saunders, David R. & Lee, Jacob M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grain-Separator.

Patent for improved grain separators or threshing machines "whereby vibrating straw-racks will be entirely dispensed with and the machine so simplified as to obviate the heavy jars and jerks of most grain-separators or threshing machines, while at the same time providing a construction of machine that will effectually separate the grain from the straw and will also keep the feeding end of the machine entirely free from dust, which is often a serious drawback to the operation of most machines of… more

Date: October 5, 1897

Creator: McCue, John Marshall

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bit-Brace.

Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 29, 1897

Creator: McClellan, Stephen

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling-press meant to bale cotton. In this machine, "the power as applied to the plunger is increased in proportion to the resistance offered by the material being baled and whereby the forward movement of the plunger is automatically checked at the limit of its path and is returned to its initial positioin without effort upon the part of the operator" (lines 10-17).

Date: January 5, 1897

Creator: Anderson, Alva E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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