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Hoop Fastening for Buckets, &c.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fastener for barrels and buckets. This design "consists of a metal strap provided with side tongues and having its ends bent around the upper and lower hoops and the side tongues bent around the intermediate hoops. . . . to prevent them from dropping off when the vessel dries and shrinks" (lines 10-17).
Date: February 20, 1883
Creator: Phillips, Hiram B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a railway cattle-guard meant to be used "where the track of a railroad passes between the adjacent ends of fence-sections; and the invention seeks to provide elevated pricking-points in connection with adjacent guides inclining toward such points to direct the legs of the stock to such points so the latter will prick the lags at or above the top of the hoof" (lines 9-16).
Date: December 3, 1895
Creator: Jack, Harvey M.
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Reel for Measuring Bagging, &c.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring machine. This design "consists in the peculiar arrangement of a spool or roller from which the stock is taken, a wheel upon which it is wound from the roller, a cutting board or table, and a measuring-wheel, whereby . . . handling, measuring, and cutting bagging, matting, carpets, and other goods . . . may be effected in a simple and convenient method" (lines 11-19).
Date: December 7, 1880
Creator: Le Roy, Charles Jerome
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Locomotive-Pilot Coupling.

Description: Patent for a locomotive-pilot coupling that can lift or elevate locomotive pilot or draw-bars, a cylinder that can turn in all directions depending on how the bars moves and is collecting to the motor fluid supply, a piston in the cylinder that connects the bar to the cylinder, a swinging jaw, and various other parts.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
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[News Script: Balloon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a launch balloon carrying a 36-inch telescope to survey Mars taking off near Palestine, Texas.
Date: December 12, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Balloon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the National Scientific Balloon Flight station in Palestine, Texas.
Date: December 6, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mars balloon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Mars balloon at Palestine popping before it could lift off.
Date: February 22, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Balloon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the release of an air balloon that scientists created to send up to study the weather in Palestine, Texas.
Date: March 1, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Sash Balance.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design "furnish[es] a spring-tensioned sash-balance by which the top sash may be held in close contact with the top of the window-frame or adjusted at a lowered position without hoisting the bottom sash. [The] invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and arrangement" (lines 9-15).
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Quick, John Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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