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Insect-Trap.

Description: Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Cook, Katherine B.
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Rein-Holder.

Description: Patent for improvement in rein-holders that are being used in carriages and wagons by using two horizontal jaws, one with a downwardly-projecting rear end and the other with a downwardly-projecting front end; the first jaw is secured to the side of the wagon and the second jaw is pivoted to the first jaw. This device will "hold the reins when the driver is absent and capable of being tripped by pressure of the driver’s foot" (lines 11-13). Illustration is included.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Watson, Thomas H.
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Pin-Fastener.

Description: Patent for pin fastener that safely allows for buttons, jewelry and other items to attached to clothes and not pierce the wearer.
Date: October 5, 1915
Creator: Towler, Mary E.
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Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for rail joints that will remove the need for bolts to secure the chairs. The joints will also allow the chair to be removed from the rail without using tools.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Ernest, Albert C.
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Safety Car Net

Description: Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Matthews, Harrison C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool.

Description: Patent for a machine that dresses or reduces dental plates uniformly, and can dress dental plates to any thickness. It also can "provide permanently-exposed means for indicating the thickness to which the plate is being reduced" (lines 16-19). It will not puncture or weaken dental plates.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Barnes, Preston B.
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Sweep Stock Attachment for Plows

Description: Patent for an "improved sweep-stock attachment for plows", so that a "sweep or shovel may be attached to a plow and operated at any desired angle." (lines 8-11)
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: Ziecheck, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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