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Design for Tack or Nail.

Description: Design patent for a tack or nail that is both useful and ornamental.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Bogar, Fred A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for the operating gear in planters. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1897
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.

Description: Patent for a mechanism to sharpen the blades of a gin saw. Includes illustrations of the device.
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Beavers, John M.
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

Tire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for a tire tightener that allows anyone, not just a mechanic to expand and contract the felly depending on the weather.
Date: March 23, 1897
Creator: Dobrowolski, William & Wise, Harry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Sealing Newspapers, &c.

Description: Patent for a machine to seal "the open edges of folded newspapers or other periodicals at the place of publication to prevent their return for redemption by the publishers when the seal is broken." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1897
Creator: Sundstrom, Herman T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window-blind and awning

Description: Patent for a pair of swinging window blinds.
Date: June 18, 1897
Creator: Gluck, Solomon & Keach, George D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Car-Step.

Description: Patent for "a supplemental folding step which may be lowered into position for use when passengers are boarding or leaving a [railway] car and which may be folded back out of the way when the train is about to leave the station." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1897
Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for "washing-machines which combine in one structure means for heating the suds-water and maintaining the same at the required temperature, a suds-box having chambered or hollow bottom and sides to secure a circulation of the suds-water independently of the agitation resulting from turning the drum or clothes-receptacle upon its axis, and a drum removably journaled in the suds-box and comprising longitudinal slats or bars having bent edge portions for scooping up the suds-water and direc… more
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Roach, Henry B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple mold with few parts and can separate easily. It is designed specifically to make semicircles and rectangular shapes, of concrete or earthenware. The mold also can be held together simply and inexpensively.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Parker, William Sink
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive Driving-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a perfectly balanced wheel for locomotives. It is meant to "materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotive due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel" (lines 15-18).
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Davis, Philip Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone-Transmitter.

Description: Patent for a granulated-electrode phone transmitter that is designed to be simple and "constructed so that the granulated-electrode cannot become displaced from the cell" (lines 10-12).
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Alexander, Horace C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton-chopper meant to be the most simply constructed. The hoes are attached to a rotating cylinder in the center of the frame, and the hoes rotating is what chops the cotton.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Hopkins, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn - Motor.

Description: Patent for a new and useful Churn-Motor to "provide a simple and efficient from a wind-motor adapted for use in connection with churns, the wind-wheel blades being so constructed as to adapt them to expose the necessary surface for efficient operation under the conditions" (line 9- 14).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Staples, John & Spake, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for "driving wheels for locomotives; and it has for its object to provide an approximately perfect balanced driving-wheel and thereby materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotion due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel the reciprocating and revolving parts thereof." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Davis, Philip Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Curling Iron Holder

Description: Patent for a design for a curling-iron holder.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Campbell, Orton G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for Railroad Spike.

Description: Design patent for a barbed railroad spike.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: Banks, Henry N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for a device that operates as a hatchet and as a wire-twisting device, so that "slack may be taken up in fence-wires as fast as it occurs" (lines 11-12). The wire-tightener is two triangles stick out from the side of the hatchet, where the operator can pinch the wire.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Keck, Edgar A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a railway cattle-guard that is simple, inexpensive, and efficient. It prevents the cattle "from traversing a railway-track in order to pass form one field or inclosure to another" (line 12-14). It has spurred rollers, and has a unique way of mounting rollers or rotary ties, in that they do not block the track.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Nevill, William Birt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Eyelet-Hole Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for "a simple and perfect eyelet apparatus which can be attached to any sewing-machine" (lines 14-15).
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Reutermann, Heinrich Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Nut Cracker.

Description: Patent for a Nut-Cracker.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Collins, Corties
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for Sugar Cane Hook.

Description: Patent for a sugar cane hook that provides a pair of outwardly-branching and downwardly and inwardly curved hooks.
Date: July 27, 1897
Creator: Beall, George Ashcom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for Colter Brace

Description: Design patent for colter-brace for plows.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: Darby, Robert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Bouquet Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and original bouquet-holder made of ductile wiring.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Postert, Alwina D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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