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Window-Shade-Operating Device

Description: Patent for a window-shade-operating device that "revolv[es] the shade roller and [retains] the roller in position whereby the shade is held at the desired point" (lines 14-17).
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: Minnis, Henry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Liniment

Description: Patent for "improvements in that class of topical remedies which are compounded for the purpose of relieving rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, toothache, sprains, swellings, bruises, sores, and similar afflictions. . .To these I add cotton-seed oil in sufficient quantity to make one quart of the medicine, the root and bark of the trumpet flower and the root of the pokeberry being boiled in the latter and the ammonia and turpentine being added on the cooling of the mixture" (lines 11-16, 31-37).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Meinen, Diedrich
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Vehicle Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design is "to improve the felly-expanding devices, to provide a strong, durable, and efficient metallic connection between the spoke and felly, to provide novel means whereby the expanding movement of the felly is amplified by a partial rotation of a screw, and to otherwise improve vehicle-wheels" (lines 13-20).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Ashford James A.
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Vehicle.

Description: Patent for a wheel-vehicle structure used on farm, road, country or the city, including illustrations. Vehicle with pivot axles that eliminate the jerking and shaking caused by common vehicles.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Drew, James W.
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Valve For Internal-Combustion Engines.

Description: Patent for improvements on the piston sleeve valves of internal combustion engines which will supply power to the crank shaft. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Morris, Otho A.
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Wire-Working Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in Wire-Working Machines that forms hangers for "coats, trousers, and other clothing" (lines 11-12). Provides a more inexpensive, faster, and more accurate machine that uses less power, includes illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: Shelton, John F.
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Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.

Description: Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1879
Creator: Reager, Francis M.
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Washboiler

Description: Patent for an improved wash boiler that contains a false bottom and ejectors to more efficiently clean the wash boiler, and to better control the passage of water.
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: McFarland, James W.
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Mechanical Movement.

Description: Patent for improved manner of rotary movement on various machines. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Gibson, Levi D.
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Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter and cultivator with illustrations. The invention furnishes a combined planter and cultivator constructed in such a way that "the seed dropping appliances can be readily detached and the machine adjusted for use as a cultivator." (lines 18-20)
Date: December 16, 1879
Creator: Tanner, James Henry
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Stalk-Cutting Attachment for Plows

Description: Patent for Stalk-Cutting attachment for Plows. Device is connected to machine to cut or chop stalks ahead of plow
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Sumrall, Navada W. & Bigham, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Delivery Apparatus

Description: Patent for improvements to mail delivery through sorting and distribution to different destinations with illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: Cobb, Albert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heel-Sweep.

Description: Patent for a "heel sweep for a plow. The invention aims to provide a sweep which will possess great strength..."
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: Kelly, George Dudley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for oil-burner that is used by being connected to a steam-boiler. It is simply constructed to produce a very high degree of heat with a comparatively small amount of hydrocarbon oil.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Jenkins, Wellington S.
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Pneumatic Tire.

Description: Patent for pneumatic tire that is not susceptible to puncture, rim cut or blow out, including illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Luck, John J.
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Poison Distributor for Growing Plants

Description: Patent for a device that can be easily attached to a cultivator and delivers poison to both the roots and the top of a plant, protecting the plant from pests and disease, with illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Zedlitz, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Elastic-Tube-Splicing Device

Description: Patent for improvements in elastic tube splicing devices. Primary object being the provision of a novel form of device especially adapted for connecting the free ends of tubes, such as the inner tubes of automobile tires.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to produce . . . cultivators [that] can be adjusted laterally in relation to each other and turned at any desirable angle, and in which the frame and the beam can be made to stand at any desired angle to each other" (lines 17-23). It consists in "a semicircular frame, two vertical plates secured to the ends of the said frame and having their upper edges serrated, blocks placed between the plates, the plates, bolts for clamping them to op… more
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Ford, John Owen
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Cultivator Attachment

Description: Patent for adding spring teeth with adjustable parallel bar attachments to agricultural cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Ledbetter, William
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for an improvement in rotary engines, specifically in engines where the piston is operated by direct and expansive force of steam.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Carothers, Samuel Eugene
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Shirt Bosom.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shirt bosom. This design "is to provide an improved 'dickey' adapted to be worn either with or without an ordinary shirt" (lines 9-11). It consists in a "dickey, the same comprising a bosom divided down its center, a box-plait at the inner edge of each section of the divided bosom, said plaits registering with each other and the two faces of the bosom being finished alike, cross-straps at the lower ends of the sections, a tab depending from each strap, a flap betwe… more
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Mistrot, Felix E.
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Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Description: Patent for "an apparatus for exterminating cotton-worms by ejecting liquid poison upon the cotton-plants" (lines 6-8). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1873
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
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Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Description: Patent for a wheeled vehicular device to destroy cotton worms that can be connected to a horse or a wagon. It carries a poisonous cotton-worm destroying agent and disburse this substance on crops or foliage to deter worms.
Date: December 16, 1873
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
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Dirigible Headlight

Description: Patent for new design for dirigible headlights by Mr. Hall B. Simpson and Mr. Dewitt Hood, designed with the intention of providing "novel and improved means whereby the headlights are supported by the automobile or other vehicle for turning movement about vertical axes," alongside various innovative applications (lines 23-27).
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: Simpson, Hall B. & Hood, Dewitt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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