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Wire Stretching and Reeling Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in wire-stretchers for use in building wire fences, and also adapted to take up the wire and reel the same when it is desired to take a fence down" (lines 12-16). It consists, "with the main frame, of the inclined and slotted standards secured thereto, the boxes arranged on said standards, the pivoted pawl carried by the boxes, and a reel-shaft carrying a pinion and arranged in the slots of the standards and supp… more
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Claunch, Martin B.
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Line Type Casting Machine.

Description: Patent for a linotype machine with improvements to the float, the ejector, and slugs magazine.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Wilmans, Lloyd I.
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.
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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.
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Improvement in Sheet-Metal Hames

Description: Patent for improvement in hames by constructing them of sheet metal in order to prevent flatenning and wear on the hame. Explains how sheet metal hames are also flexibile in many attributes and because of this they are beneficial in many ways. Illustrations provided.
Date: November 4, 1879
Creator: Brown, John S.
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Whiffletree

Description: Patent for a whiffletree, a type of doubletree, which is part of a horse's harness.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Stansell, William H.
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Improvement in Honey-Boxes for Bee-Hives

Description: Patent for the new and improved construction of bee-hives. Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1879
Creator: Connolly, Charles H.
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Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils

Description: Patent for a process for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils that converts these fluids into more buoyant products with lower specific gravities and boiling points. This process seeks to meet demand for engine fuels, gasoline, and oils, and augment the diminishing supply of these natural products.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Adams, Joseph H.
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Stamp and Coin Envelop.

Description: Patent for stamp and coin envelope that has "a separate pocket for receiving coin, postage stamps or sundry articles to be transmitted through the mail in such a manner as to be kept separate from the contents of the envelop and also to insure safe delivery" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Zivley, Dennis C.
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Oil-Burning Attachment For Stoves or Furnaces

Description: Patent for "an attachment for wood and coal stoves and furnaces by which hydrocarbon oils can be burned in connection with a wood or coal fire in a very effective and economical manner, the attachment being also capable of being used alone for heating and cooking..."
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Cordray, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pencil-Sharpener.

Description: Patent for a pencil sharpener that sharpens pencils quickly and efficiently. This invention catches the resulting shavings and dust, and has a compact design to fit in a pocket.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Wolf, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Tie

Description: Patent for a new design of railroad-ties meant "for clamping together the two members of the tie and for adjusting them relatively to each other so as to adapt them to clamp rails of different widths" (lines 13-16), with illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Grant, James K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Matrix Molding Device.

Description: Patent for improvements on matrix molding devices, "to provide simple devices or improvements in matrices of standard size and adaptation for use in linotype and other line casting machines for preparing the operating edges of printers' slugs for holding cross-rules" (lines 10-15), including illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1918
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E. & Evans, S. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ditching Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ditching-machine. This design "consist[s] of the standards, block, handles, braces and round ears, axle and wheel having cogs, scoop provided with points, chute and side plates, elevator shaft, its upper end resting on the round band, elongated cups, rollers, and cog-wheels, shaft, inclined chute, [another] cog-wheel, arms, band, and rollers" (lines 87-95).
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Witt, William Carroll, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dog Attachment for Logging-Cars, &c.

Description: Patent for a new dog attachment "for logging cars, sleds, and wagons, &c., [...] which will securely retain logs on a car, sled, or wagon and also readily release the same for unloading when required" (lines 9-13), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Hudgens, George Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Doll Novelty.

Description: Patent for a new device, which is a rounded, weighted base placed in a doll that allows the doll to raise itself when turned over on any side without external assistance by lowering the doll's center of gravity. Descriptions of materials used and illustrations are included..
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Flint, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Educational Device.

Description: Patent for "improvements in combined desk and blackboard devices arranged in convenient shape for opening and closing and reversing in position" (lines 8-11); including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Packer.

Description: Patent for an automatic cotton packer that provides a new method to packing cotton. This mechanism can be controlled automatically or by hand. As the cotton leaves the gin, it is packed automatically.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Kinne, Tempel Leeroy
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Agricultural Implement.

Description: Patent for an agricultural implement related to ground treating. The implement introduces a novel mounting for a colter that will keep it in line with the draft beam, as well as aids in holding the soil-turning elements in place.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Vanderwater, Daniel B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for baling-press which is to "provide a rotary sweep,..., which is connected in a novel manner to the compressing-plunger, whereby said plunger is operated twice to each revolution of the sweep" (lines 12-16). Illustrations included.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Fitz Water, Marshall V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saddle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "consists in a rubber or other elastic seat having a thick central portion with tapering thin edges and a leather covering for the same" (lines 9-11).
Date: November 4, 1884
Creator: Adams, James E. & Shero, Philip
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Balance.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a window-frame provided with the pulleys . . . sash provided with the grooves, and [the other] pulleys working in said grooves, and cord having one end attached to the upper part of the frame . . . passing thence under [the latter] pulleys in the upper sash, thence over [the second] pulley" (lines lines 81-87).
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Cayce, Henry P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horseshoeing-Rack.

Description: Patent for improvements to a frame in which a horse can be held into a convenient position for elevating the hoof to apply a horse shoe. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Huffman, Polly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Disk Plow.

Description: Patent for a disk plow modification, which allows the disk to be self-sharpening and automatically release accumulated garbage.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Hoffman, George L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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