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Improvements in Corn-Shellers.

Description: Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Creekmore, Hiram C.
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Improvement in corn-planters.

Description: Patent for an "improvement upon the planter described in Patent No. 8,408" (paragraph 3). The movement of a horse's shoulders causes vibrations that power a cropper-slide. Includes illustration.
Date: August 1, 1876
Creator: Meeks, Nathan H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Photograph-Holder.

Description: Patent for a photograph holder made from one piece of wire twisted into hooks for the edge of the photo to be put into, with a bar to support the back of the photo in an upright position.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Stevens, William Herbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve.

Description: Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "[t]he improved valve comprising the casing, having a horizontal passage reduced at its central point . . . and a vertical bore intersecting said reduced portion above the point of intersection to its lower end and being screw-threaded its entire length, a stem having a tapered lower portion, the entire stem being screw-threaded to engage the threads in the bore, and a plug removably inserted in the lower end of the bore" (lines 1-11). more
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Forniraseo, Domenico
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Packer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-packer. This design consists "[i]n a press, the combination of a press-operating shaft having a wheel upon its outer end provided with parallel concentric flanges upon its face, a shaft having connection to the driving-power, and having a friction-pulley upon its inner end" (lines 99-104). It further consists in "a bearing for the inner end of the shaft having two longitudinal slots sliding upon bolts, a lever having its end pivoted to the sliding bearing fo… more
Date: August 31, 1886
Creator: Dulany, John Thornton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mailless Horseshoe.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in horseshoes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Hewitt, John Henry
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Fish-Grapple

Description: Patent for a fish-grapple device with parts "embodying prongs or hooks which will engage the fish and prevent its escape" (lines 16-17).
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Batla, Thomas, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Can Opener

Description: Patent for can-opener which uses a fulcrum point that pierces the center of the can's lid and a circular blade to cut an opening around the circumference.
Date: August 19, 1902
Creator: Pierce, Jesse Washington
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Tire-Casing-Repair Tool.

Description: Patent for improvements in the tools for repairing blow outs or punctures in parts of tire casings or shoes. Illustration is provided.
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Tingle, Claude
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Baling Press

Description: Patent for Baling Press
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Jones, Isaac V.
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Powder-Dividing Machine

Description: Patent for a machine used primarily by pharmacists to divide medicinal powders. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Brown, Patrick H.
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Tongue-Bar-Supporting Clamp.

Description: Patent for a clamp that holds the hammers in a piano. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swing.

Description: Patent for an improved and inexpensive swing that is foot-operated. The swing is built into a frame, and connects to the frame on two points on each end of the swing.
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Brydson, John J. & Greathouse, John A.
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Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for "an automatic clothes washer and soaper whereby the clothes are soaped and cleansed by one and the same operation." (Lines 18-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Rylander, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.
Date: August 13, 1895
Creator: Hough, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental Drill Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dental-drill attachment. This design consists in "the combination, with the upper pulley and the supporting pully-frame of a drill, of a rod having hinged to its upper end the clip, having the set-screw, and having at its lower end the frame, having the wheel and the side-spools journaled within it" (lines 25-31).
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler & Stansell, Jesse Paine
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bed or Douche Pan.

Description: Patent for improvements in bed or douche pans, in which it will not spill easily and is easy to clean. Illustration is included.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Williams, Bettie C. & Scott, Arthur C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Triple Valve.

Description: Patent for a triple valve for train air brake systems, which is easier to operate and safer than other air brake systems,
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Dillander, John
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Land Bedder And Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful land bedder and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Parker, Middleton N.
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Combined Buckle and Trace or Breeching Loop

Description: Patent for a "device whereby, in a harness, the back-band and belly-band may readily be connected to a trace-buckle, or a breeching-loop or 'trace-square'" (lines 10-13) without sewing the buckle into other harness pieces.
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Kay, William V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garment-Supporter.

Description: Patent for a new garment-supporter, designed "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to support the hose and lower garments from the shoulders and capable of permitting perfect freedom of movement of every part of the body without chafing the same" (lines 12-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: August 8, 1905
Creator: Duckworth, Mary Eliza
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Engine-Valve.

Description: Patent for an engine valve for air brake systems on trains, which governs the pressure of air released and keeps it steady.
Date: August 9, 1910
Creator: Dillander, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter

Description: Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, and inexpensive, which may be readily converted from a corn into a cotton planter, and vice versa, which may be easily and effectively adjusted so as to plant the corn in hills at any desired distance apart, and which shall be in every respect convenient and efficient" (lines 10-17).
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for an improved turning plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1897
Creator: Sevier, Samuel G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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