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Harness Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved harness buckle. This design calls for a central cross-bar, upon which the frame rests, with fold-able arms that form a loop beneath the side-bars with the assistance of metal pins (lines 57-62). This design eliminates the need for stitching the strap being buckled.

Date: March 15, 1881

Creator: Garrett, Charles William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improvement of plows; and it consists of a combination of two plows, which are attached to separate beams of their own, and which run upon opposite side of the growing plants for the purpose of cutting away weeds and dirt from around them, with two culitivators or shovels, which run immediately in the rear of said plows, and which clutivators are attached to beams of their own and serve to throw the dirt back toward the plants, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

Date: April 4, 1881

Creator: Carter, Charles Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in combing with the plow a furrow-cutter for the purpose of cutting or dividing the furrow-slice and pulverizing it to a greater or less extent, like a harrow" (lines 13-16).

Date: July 12, 1881

Creator: Pinter, Francis T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Picket Fence

Patent for a type of picket fence that uses short timber

Date: February 15, 1881

Creator: McGinty, Robert H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Rail and Chair.

Patent for a new and improved railway rail and chair combination. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the reversible rail and chair-plates . . . so as to leave an open crescent-shaped space below the middle part of the rail and above the inwardly projecting lips" (lines 94-98).

Date: August 2, 1881

Creator: Brown, Frederick H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rack and Spool for Holding Rope Coils.

Patent for a new and improved rack for spools of rope. This design "consists in a particular construction of frame adapted for supporting spools of different lengths, as well as an improved construction of spool for expanding and holding the coil of rope in the center of the reel while being used, and improved hangers for the wheels, whereby the latter may be arranged within the frame to accommodate the different sizes of coils now manufactured" (lines 14-23).

Date: March 29, 1881

Creator: Le Roy, Charles Jerome

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pulverizing Attachment for Plows

Patent for improvements in pulverizing attachments for plows used for furrow-slices as they are turned by plows.

Date: September 13, 1881

Creator: Maddux, Tapley, B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mosquito Netting Frame.

Patent for a new and improved mosquito netting frame. This design "consists of a mosquito-netting frame formed of two longitudinal rods removably fastened to uprights attached to the bedposts, and held by cords or wires passing from the outer ends of each of said longitudinal rods to the top of each upright. A transverse rod or bar is removably attached to the outer ends of said longitudinal bars or rods. . . . [The design] is simple in construction, light, durable, and convenient" (lines 9-18). more

Date: March 8, 1881

Creator: Bailey, Alfred H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motive Power.

Patent for a new and improved motive power. This design "consists of an inclined wheel applied to a center shaft that turns in fixed bottom bearings and adjustable top bearings and transmits the power by a crown-wheel and gear-wheels and shafts in one or both directions" (lines 19-23).

Date: June 14, 1881

Creator: Gibson, Obadiah William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oscillating Cradle.

Patent for a new and improved oscillating cradle. This design utilizes a hand-crank and gears to gently rock the wooden cradle back and forth. Also connected to the crank is a wooden rod at the bottom which gently strikes a xylophone underneath.

Date: January 11, 1881

Creator: Brown, Fred Harvey

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Permutation Lock.

Patent for a new and improved combination lock. This design consists of "[a] door having at its edges the sockets formed by ribs and mouths in combination with permutation-disks, seated in said sockets and handles" (lines 5-8).

Date: June 28, 1881

Creator: Sevier, Moses Nimrod

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Game Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved game. This design "relates to that class of game apparatus in which tilting levers or arms located at the end of an alley or board and bearing numerals designating their value in the game are designed to be struck by balls, so as to displace or change the position of said levers. The invention consists in the construction and combination of the parts forming the apparatus" (lines 14-22).

Date: April 19, 1881

Creator: Pittman, William D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Game Board.

Patent for a new and improved bowling alley. This design calls for depressed gutters running along either side of the elevated alley, with cushions running along the lengths of the other sides of the gutters.

Date: June 28, 1881

Creator: Henry, Marcus Linsay

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drawer of Furniture, Store Fixture, &c.

Patent for a new and improved chest of drawers. This design "consists, first, in a drawer applied upon side cleats or ledges, grooved longitudinally with the movement of the drawer, and having balls placed in such grooves in such a manner that they are kept separated and are free to roll or move longitudinally, and that they serve as bearings for the drawer, while they keep it from frictional contact with the cleats . . . second, in a novel mode of construction of cleats" (para. 1).

Date: June 7, 1881

Creator: Johnson, William H. & Whomes, Joseph

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Earth Auger.

Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design "relates to machines for boring post-holes, &c.; and it consists especially in certain improvements in the frame and operating mechanism" (lines 21-24).

Date: December 13, 1881

Creator: Blake, Llewellyn A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "consists in the means by which the plow or cultivator standards may be adjusted to regulate the depth of the cultivators or plows" (lines 6-9).

Date: January 4, 1881

Creator: Niederauer, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "for cultivating stubble, sugar-cane, cotton, corn, and other plants planted in rows or drills, which will remove the soil from the sides of the rows without injuring the roots, and will throw soil around the plants, and which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use" (lines 15-21).

Date: May 10, 1881

Creator: Brenner, August William & Fraser, James

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Curtain Fixture.

Patent for a new and improved curtain fixture. This design calls for a rubber roller in which a curtain can withdraw and from which a curtain can emerge. The roller has holes for screwing and mounting.

Date: May 24, 1881

Creator: Nix, Manning L. & McClelland, Stephen

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "first, to provide for use in such implements a sectional axle which shall be capable of being so manipulated as to cause the wheels to be placed at a greater or less distance from each other; second, to provide the necessary mechanism and suitable combinations thereof for moving the parts of the axle and the wheels into their desired positions" (lines 20-27). This enables the cultivator to adapt to different spacings of crops, marking an… more

Date: June 21, 1881

Creator: Connor, Laurance H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Stalk Puller.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk puller. This design utilizes "[a] pulling-wheel having radial jaws that are opened and closed by cam devices" when "[i]t is driven astride the [cotton] row, and will be found to operate rapidly and with absolute certainty. It is simple, durable, and may be constructed at a very small expense" (lines 79-84).

Date: March 15, 1881

Creator: Wilson, John C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "consists in the combination of a front pair of scraping-wings attached to a central furrow-opener, a revolving biconical wheel for pressing open the furrow and operating a toothed or spiked seed stirring and distributing shaft, and a rear covering-roller having a concave periphery" (lines 18-24).

Date: April 5, 1881

Creator: Crow, John Alexander

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Planter.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-planters.

Date: April 5, 1881

Creator: McFall, Mark M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design is for "a cotton-planter, the vibrating agitator having radial flanges and lateral flanges upon its bow, and clamped to the under side of [a] rocking shaft by means of cuffs and [a] clamp-screw, in combination with [a] hopper having [a] removable adjustable bottom" (lines 62-67).

Date: May 10, 1881

Creator: Walton, Jacob Gipson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Sprinkler.

Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists "[i]n a cotton or other plant sprinkler, the reservoir or tank mounted upon a suitable carriage or truck, and having connected thereto a pump, in combination with the grooved pulley, rigidly secured to the wheel of the carriage or truck, belt or chain, pulley, clutch, and crank, connected by suitable levers or arms to the piston-rod . . . with the pipes, provided with roseheads, of the arm or carrier, formed in sections and connected… more

Date: May 17, 1881

Creator: Wolfram, John Arnold

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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