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Printing Attachment for Letter-Boxes.

Description: Patent for a printing attachment for letter-boxes where people can postmark the mail they want to be sent. It fist on any street letter-box. The attachment is a case with stamps for every day of the month and the location of the town, city, or post-office the letter is being collected to, and there is a pocket below where one slips the package or envelope to mark it. An inking-pad is also in the pocket for the stamps, which can be used by pulling a lever.
Date: November 10, 1896
Creator: Hargrove, Bryon Lafayette
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stock-Guard.

Description: Patent for a stock-guard meant for use in railway-tracks. It has many beveled caps, "each having a flange or projection on one side, and adapted to fit over the cross-ties" (lines 46-18). There are also slats, each with a flange on its upper edge, and the slats are arranged between the caps.
Date: November 10, 1896
Creator: Lee, Jacob Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Odorless Dry Outhouse and Refuse-Burner.

Description: Patent for a combined odorless dry outhouse and refuse burner for a cellar or vault in which night-soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time with low expense, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oat-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a type of straw and hay cutter designed especially for cutting sheaf oats that is easily operated, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Laws, John Aderson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Car-Brake.

Description: Patent for improvements in electrically controlled car-brakes with the various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes, signaling from car to car or train to car, lighting trains, and other purposes to which it may be adapted, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for invention that applies the use of electricity to various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes; signaling from car to car, train to car, or vice versa; lighting trains; and other purposes to which it can be adapted, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Spacer.

Description: Patent for a device that efficiently and quickly travels over cotton-drills, spacing the stands uniformly apart and covers up any grass or weeds around the stands, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Totty, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Picker.

Description: Patent for machine for picking cotton that is simple in construction and comparatively inexpensive.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Hyde, Thomas Burke
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a device by which cotton can be easily, quickly and accurately chopped, "leaving cotton stands the distance apart for future cultivation and to insure the most rapid and satisfactory growth," (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Henderson, Neely Trimmier & Smith, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for a gate that relates to a patent (no. 363,964) granted to the inventor, which is a gate opener that operates by pulling a chord connected to a mechanism that swings the gate open and closes upon release. The current patent simplifies the previous invention. The operator pulls a chord which makes the gate swivel on a central point. When the chord is released, the gate swivels back into place.
Date: November 10, 1896
Creator: Philpott, Horatio V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electrical Connection and Signal for Railway-Cars.

Description: Patent for invention that applies the use of electricity to suitable electrically-operated devices throughout a train, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Engine.

Description: Patent for a steam-engine that has "no dead-center" (lines 15-16), and "a volume of one full port will always be exerted on a piston" (lines 18-19). "The full power of the steam will be applied when the crank is on the quarter and there is the greatest leverage in favor of the engine" (lines 21-24). Steam supply is regulated automatically and has a shutoff system in case anything breaks.
Date: November 10, 1896
Creator: Barton, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for improvements in baling-presses, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Rowe, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.

Description: Patent for a compound for use in commercial manufacturing of the product calcium sodic carbid claiming to reduce time and expense of production process.
Date: November 10, 1896
Creator: Eldridge, Hilliary; Clark, Daniel Johnson & Wambaugh, Mahlon W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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