Description:
Patent for an improved soldering-tool by having a reservoir for gasoline or other light hydrocarbon, a burner-tube, and a valve for regulating the combustion of the gasoline and heating the tool continuously and uniformly, without a furnace. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Barber, Edwin L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for a new insecticide distributer using a bellows, a rotary fan, and a tube connecting the bellows to an insecticide reservoir; when pressure is applied to the bellows, the insecticide would pass through the reservoir to a flexible pipe that would distribute the insecticide to any direction without the operator breathing it.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Preston, Leonidas A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for improvements in thill-couplings by using a combination of forward extension arms, having each near its forward end, circular shoulders, adapted to engage the ends of the shaft-iron; the spring-catch for holding the lever arm in locking position and, for retracting arm when the catch is released. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Bryan, William L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for sad iron heaters: "a device for heating sad irons, and it has for its object to provide a heater adapted to receive a plurality of irons" (lines 8-11).
Date:
April 17, 1894
Creator:
Lee, William R.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for an improvement in a churn-dasher by constructing the head of a dasher with a series of spirally-slanting blades, the front and rear edges are curved inward forming vertical openings with lancet-shaped ends. So that it would meet with less resistance when churning with the upward stroke.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Sterling, Isaac F.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for an improvement in vehicle-seats, intended especially for uses in wagon-seats, by constructing a supporting frame consist of two shafts, each having two cranks with two springs connected with the wrists of the cranks. The seat is supported upon these springs which are secured to the underside of the seat-board by employing two blocks that are safely attached beneath the seat. The movements of the springs preserve the horizontal position of the seat even when weight is unequally disp…
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Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Johnson, James M.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for an improved railroad rail that is "composed of track or running rails proper and supplementary rails bolted to the track rails and having a laterally-projecting top portion which serves as a wheel guard or lateral brace for the track rails" (lines 14-19).
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Keenan, Michael J.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for a sewer trap that prevents "the grease and other extraneous matter from sinks, and other fixtures in the house to effect a logment in the sewer, to the consequent obstruction and clogging up of the same" (lines 16-20). This makes sewers healthier and require less maintenance.
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Heffron, Isaac
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for a cultivator attachment which is designed to be "a guard to protect the young growing crop from being covered by dirt when it is being cultivated." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1894
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson; Griffin, Richard Frankling & Speer, Henry Alson
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for improvements in hand-stamps which “comprised a polygonal block or disk having some of its edges provided with rubber type-strips securely fastened thereto, its other edges cut away to form shoulders, spring-metal guides or holders secured the cut-away portions, and type-strips removably secured in the guides or holders,” (lines 75-82); includes illustration.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Fox, James T.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for improvements in window-curtain holders,in which the curtain holder has a upper and a lower socket, “with the lower socket having a central opening and mounted on a base-plate, of the upper socket having a side opening and mounted on a base-plate, and the U-shaped clasp pivoted at its lower end in the lower socket and having its upper end laterally bent and designed for insertion in the side opening of the upper socket” (lines 84-92). The curtains would be retained and giving them th…
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Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
West, Eugene B. & Finney, William D.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for a device used for cooling milk or butter by means of evaporation so that there is a constant circulation of cool air around the milk or butter.
Date:
January 17, 1893
Creator:
Wilder, Joseph L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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