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Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in wire-stretchers. The "invention has relation to improvements in wire-stretchers, and especially to that class of wire-stretchers employed in wire-fence building or repairing" line 10).
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Dunlap, Sam H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in wrenches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Rollins, Edgar C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for improvements in wire stretchers: "provide a wire stretcher of simple, durable, and economic construction, capable of being applied to a wire and supported upon s post or maintained in working position between posts or uprights" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Brannon, Walter Zebulin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vine-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a vine cutter that is meant "to simplify the construction of devices of this character by means of an integral formation of the cutter" (lines 8-10). It can be "adapted to be applied to a plow standard or foot consisting of a pair of cutting knives or shares integrally connected by a front cross-piece with a single central opening therein for the passage therethrough of a single securing bolt, the knives being rearwardly divergent and obliquely arranged at a downward angle, the lower… more
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Wheeler, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Water-Drawers.

Description: Patent for an improved water drawer, includes instructions and illustration.
Date: June 11, 1878
Creator: McC. Mathes, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide

Description: Patent for a compound for destroying weevils, rats and mice.
Date: July 11, 1882
Creator: Wheeler, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences.

Description: Patent for "improvement in machines for building and rerolling wire fences" (lines 4-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Edge, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Magazine-Projectile

Description: Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel-Fender

Description: Patent for fenders for truck wheels using hoods and reinforcing bands, including illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Leach, Felix
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Key-Ring Holder.

Description: Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Kropp, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locking Device for Forms

Description: Patent for a locking device for forms that will not crush the edges of circular forms.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Irvin, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide

Description: Patent for a recipe for insecticide for the Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Newell, Wilmon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Vises

Description: Patent for new construction for vises that will "enable the vise to be set and secutured in any desired position and thus hold the work in a position convenient to the operator" (lines 8-10).
Date: November 4, 1879
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets

Description: Patent for improved toilet cabinets in order to better arrange "cabinets for containing sewing, writing, and shaving materials and various other articles" (lines 8-10). Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1879
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1875
Creator: Smothers, Thomas T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fence-Post Sockets.

Description: Patent for improvement in fencing where posts are held more securely with galvanized plates, sockets, and wires.
Date: September 9, 1873
Creator: Durant, George W. & Durant, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fifth-Wheels for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for improvements made to fifth-wheels for vehicles, including illustrations.
Date: April 29, 1879
Creator: Findley, James W. & Bowles, Talbot M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvement in cultivators by using adjustable screw-rods from the ends of short laterally-vibrating levers to suspend the cultivator-beams in the front; the levers are arranged to be operated by an attendant’s feet. Illustration is included.
Date: September 28, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "a gang-plow, which is so arranged that the beams can be adjusted sideways and up and down at will, and can be permanently secured in any desired position in either movement." (Lines 17-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 30, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for improvement in plows: "The invention consists in so attaching a revolving disk, cutter, or colter to the beam of the plow that it will rotate on its own axis, and vibrate laterally, to accommodate itself to the line of draft or direction of the beam of the plow; also, in the means used by which the revolving cutter or colter is attached to the beam of the plow, and having the means of swiveling or turning in the beam to accommodate itself to the line of draft of the plow" (lines 22-3… more
Date: December 28, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knockdown Show-Case.

Description: Patent for a showcase that may be easily taken apart for transportation or storage. It is also easy to replace broken panes of glass, and the parts "mutually brace and support each other" (lines 20-21).
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Mistrot, Felix E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Staple-Puller and Wire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for a simple, reliable, and efficient staple-puller and wire-tightener or twister. The operator can easily transfer between pulling staples and tightening wires.
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Wooten, Theophilus Parker
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk Cutter

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustration included.
Date: October 31, 1905
Creator: Lee, Frank A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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