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Wire-Stretcher

Description: Patent for new and useful multi-functional improvements in stretchers, specifically wire stretchers, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Lowe, Elijah J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee-Protector

Description: Patent for a knee protector "adapted to be worn by cotton pickers, miners, and other workmen who are required to walk or labor while resting on the knees. The present invention contemplates the provision of a knee protector of unique construction...the present device while applied to the knee, permitting the wearer to walk conveniently either while standing or kneeling."
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Bassett, Rufus C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretching Device for Fence Posts.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a fence-post, the coupled pulleys mounted thereon and adapted to be simultaneously rotated, independent fence-wires extending in opposite directions and attached to one of the pulleys at points thereon that are arranged close together, and binding-sleeves for preventing the rotation of the pulleys after the wires have been stretched" (lines 14-21).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Priday, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements In Machines for Distributing Compounds for Destroying Cotton-Worms

Description: Patent for improvements on machines to distribute poison for cotton worms in the field. It consists of vibrating,sifting boxes combined with a suspension bar which is secured to the front of a horse saddle so the rider can shake the boxes to distribute poison powder to two rows of crops at a time.
Date: March 16, 1875
Creator: Willie, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Movement.

Description: Patent for a mechanical movement for ratchet feeding mechanisms " in which movement is imparted from a rocking lever to a ratchet wheel through the medium of a plurality of pawls that are so connected to the lever as to operate on the ratchet wheel during movement of the levers in both directions"(lines 10-16).
Date: March 16, 1909
Creator: Oswald, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Bale-Ties.

Description: This patent was crated for an improved way of manufactoring ties to hold packages together that consists of bale, hemp, cotton, rags or substances. It was created to reduce the rising costs or manufacturing products of this caliber.
Date: March 16, 1878
Creator: Davis, Water S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for improvement in combined planter and cultivator by “combining instruments such as hoppers, plow-beans, brace-bars, foot-levers and many others that required for preparing the ground, planting the seed, and cultivating the plants and which may be easily adjusted for the various uses.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date: March 16, 1869
Creator: Switzer, W. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for "an improved stalk cutter and has for its primary object to provide a very simple, durable, and serviceable device of this character which may be advantageously employed for cleaning a field of corn stalks as the same is plowed." (lines 9-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Carnes, Dudley Don
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Silo

Description: Patent for a air-and-liquid tight silo structure that "may be built up readily out of a plurality of relatively small stock units which may be handled easily" (line 11-13).
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Shoupe, Joseph Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door-Check.

Description: Patent for a door check with improvements to device operation and movement control, with illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Kinard, Chester E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post driver

Description: Patent for a portable post driver.
Date: March 16, 1900
Creator: Armstrong, Joseph Milton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-point, of the curved guides or fenders recessed at their rear ends and provided with cutting lower edges, said fenders being detachably connected to the plow-standard" (lines 63-67).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Felder, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trolley-Pole.

Description: Patent for a trolley pole, which attaches easily to the wire and can be placed on it by the operator without him leaving his station on the trolley.
Date: March 16, 1909
Creator: Barr, George T., Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Music-Leaf Turner.

Description: Patent for a device for "Turning Leaves of Sheet-Musics, Music-Books and, other Books" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1880
Creator: Becker, Francis L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stirrup.

Description: Patent for "a stirrup having an improved turntable spring-support which will permit the stirrup to turn readily, so that the foot can assume any desired angle toward or from the horse and so that the stirrup will be yieldingly upheld, whereby certain advantages are attained in mounting, particularly when employed in connection with a wild or unmanageable animal." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1897
Creator: Vann, George G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heater for Gaseous Fluids.

Description: Patent for "an attachment for use in connection with internal combustion engines whereby heavy oil...may be advantageously used as fuel" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Anderau, Joseph Engelbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Rail Joint.

Description: Patent for a specialized railroad joint that has a "novel combination of a T-shaped splice rail" (lines 12-13) in combination with other parts, "connected with downwardly-curved truss-bolts passing through the vertical member of the splice-rail in such matter as to hold all of the parts firmly together..." (lines 19-23).
Date: March 16, 1897
Creator: Trammell, Jefferson D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Fan and Operating Machinery for Same.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fan. This design "is fluted or corrugated . . . its lines of corrugation radiating from a common point. By this peculiar formation [it is] enabled to concentrate the surrounding air during its movement, and direct and carry it in a body back and forth . . . [and a] heavy bead or bar follows the zigzag or corrugated outline of the bottom of the fan, and serves as a weight to keep it tending downward toward a position of rest. . . . The frame carrying the fan is supp… more
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Fastener

Description: Patent for a rail fastener for concrete rail ties. It is a bolt receiver to be placed in concrete rail ties to allow the bolts to be held securely.
Date: March 16, 1911
Creator: Wessel, Frederick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for an oil-burner for stoves, which sends heats the oil using steam and sends it through a pipe into the stove burners.
Date: March 16, 1909
Creator: Pippin, John William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Means for Facilitating the Use of Railway-Schedules.

Description: Patent for "improvements in means for facilitating the use of local, through and joint-route transportation or time schedules of railways or other carriers.” (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Glisson, Amos A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Necktie-Retainer

Description: Patent for necktie retainers that can be slipped into turndown collars while retaining neckties or scarfs against pulling down or moving sidewise, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Yeager, Margaret Sanders
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Boring Drill

Description: Patent for
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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