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Wire Weaving Device.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in Portable wire-weaving device.
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Murrah, Louis T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Tire

Description: Patent for a tire wheel that is resistant to shocks and vibrations when traveling over roads. This tire is more durable and is more resilient, leading to less break-downs on the road.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Leaf-Turner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved leaf turner which allows the piano player to turn the pages of their sheet music without taking their hands off the keyboard. This leaf turner is "noiseless and efficient in operation and...will respond instantly to the actuating impulse" (lines 21-23). It is not expensive to make, and securely holds music and releases it without effort.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Holcom, Jarret C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon Tongue Support

Description: Patent for improvements to wagon tongue supports. "Spring supporting device which can be quickly and easily moved into position to support the tongue or move out of position to permit the tongue to be lowered to the ground." (15-19)
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Cole, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Turbine Water-Wheels.

Description: Patent for a new turbine water wheel, which is said to alleviate past problems with older model turbines. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1870
Creator: Chadwick, H. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Wind-Wheels.

Description: Patent for an "invention [consisting] in the construction and arrangement of a dome which surrounds a wind-wheel" (line 14-16) including instruction and illustrations. Constitutes an improvement to then existing windmills.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Stephens, Lawrence E.
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Improvement in Tonic Remedies.

Description: Patent for a medicinal compound consisting of sulphate quinine, diluted sulphuric acid, purified chinoidine, sulphate iron, sulphate magnesia, peppermint oil, and saturated quassia-water. Includes instructions.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Rucker, Benjamin Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Umbrella-Supporters.

Description: Patent for "a simple and convenient device for supporting and carrying a parasol or umbrella in such a way as to leave the hands free, and which will enable the parasol or umbrella to be tilted or inclined forward or back, or to either side, as may be required" (lines 8-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Arnold, Eliza M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Motor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "provide[s] an apparatus by means of which a series of weights or balls may be successively and continuously elevated to any given height, to be subsequently employed to operate any suitable machinery by gravitation" (lines 15-20).
Date: January 11, 1881
Creator: Conner, Laurance H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk - Cutter.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in stalk-cutters to "provide a simple, light, and durable machine by means of which three rows of stalks may be cut in one passage of the machine across the field" (line 13-16).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Acre, William Floyd & Wafford, William Penn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tobacco-Pipe.

Description: Patent for improvements in tobacco-pipes by providing “an improved construction of pipe having means for filtering the smoke, and means whereby the nicotine and tar from the tobacco will be absorbed and prevented from entering the stem of the pipe.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Attachment.

Description: Patent for a plow attachment by using a socket adapted to be clamped in position upon the beam (line 15). “Plow equipped with the attachment may be used at a straddle-row cultivator, or a middle furrow cultivator, and that the teeth may be so arranged as to cast the soil toward or away from the plants, as occasion may require” (lines 35-40). Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Farrington, Johnathan William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nailing - Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in nailing-machines. This design is "adapted to automatically distribute and feed the nails to a predetermined point" (line 10-12).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Brady, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tie-Buckle.

Description: Patent for the improvement of tie buckles, specifically for bales of cotton at cotton gins. The paten includes an illustration of the tie buckle, explanations on how to easily use it, and why it is useful for cotton farming.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Wallace, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling

Description: Patent for a coupler adapted to be employed for operatively uniting the fluid pressure pipes of a pair of railway vehicles, when the vehicles are coupled up. The invention aims to improve the construction of the main pipe through the instrumentality of which the coupling operation is immediately effected, and to provide a means whereby the pipe is mounted in such a way as to have the necessary movemtns.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Cobb, John Ollen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame.

Description: Patent for improvements in quilting frames by improving the form of clamp for fastening the ends and sides of the frame together, and screw combines with the clamp which is adapted to receive the terminals of the supporting elements. (Lines 21-25) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Mahoney, Philip D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for a useful oil-burner by providing an “improved nozzle structure, and with improved means for regulating the flow therefrom.” (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Duke, Holmes
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oscillating Cradle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved oscillating cradle. This design utilizes a hand-crank and gears to gently rock the wooden cradle back and forth. Also connected to the crank is a wooden rod at the bottom which gently strikes a xylophone underneath.
Date: January 11, 1881
Creator: Brown, Fred Harvey
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Game - Carrier.

Description: Patent for a new and useful instrument and device to "provide hunters and fishermen with a light, cheap, clean, convenient, and secure means of carrying their game and fish" (line 18 -20).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Parker, McCluer H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Game.

Description: Patent for a board game based on finance. The board game uses numbered discs that players own multiple quantities of that indicate their positions on the board.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Sterling, Don L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse Detacher

Description: Patent for a new and useful horse-detaching device. This design is to "provide an exceedingly cheap and simple device wich can be applied to all classes of vehicles" (line 8 - 10).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Ponton, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Edge Heel And Shank Setter.

Description: Patent for device setting heels and shanks for shoe manufacturing. It is an edged electric device with a rotary wheel.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Lutes, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Egg Beater

Description: Patent for an egg beater. Illustration included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Nichols, Charles A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Forming Device for Furnaces

Description: Patent for draft forming device for furnaces that uses steam to pass currents of air through furnaces
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Milner, J. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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