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Folding Umbrella

Description: Patent for "a folding umbrella which may be quickly reduced in size, so that it may be conveniently inserted in a valise, satchel, or other receptacle, and also to construct the umbrella in such a manner that it may be held rigidly in either an open or closed position" (lines 9-15)
Date: July 18, 1892
Creator: Seymour, George H.
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Fiber-Cleaning Machine

Description: Patent for a machine for decorticating plants and cleaning the pulp from the fibers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Vaughan, Henry L.
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Automobile Torpedo

Description: Patent for a submarine torpedo which explodes in the hull of a vessels it hits.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Douglas, William M.
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Book Carriage

Description: Patent for book carriage. This invention is designed to cradle open books and registrars. Illustration included.
Date: July 18, 1905
Creator: Marsh, Sidney Augustus & Gifford, George Chester
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Carbureter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
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Churn.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Christie, James B.
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Bag Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bag holder. This design "consists mainly in the combination of certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the diameter of the bag, with certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the height of the bag" (lines 17-22).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Holekamp, Julius
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Automatic Alarm for Stem-Boilers.

Description: Patent for a new and useful automatic alarm for steam boilers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Prencel, Anthony M.
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an improved car coupling that can be operated without going between cars. The coupling facilitates "the coupling of cars having drawheads at the same and different heights by readily guiding the link of one of them into the other" (lines 14-17).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Norcross, George A.
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Automobile Wheel Rim.

Description: Patent for an automobile rim to make the mounting or demounting of a tire easier without any tools.
Date: July 18, 1922
Creator: Nichols, George Thomas
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Counter.

Description: Patent for improvements to store counters that can be easily constructed in whatever form fits the user.
Date: July 18, 1922
Creator: Jones, Laurence E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Molding Machine

Description: Patent for a clay molding machine that has more aprons to create more uniform molds as well as different size belts for varies mold sizes.
Date: July 18, 1922
Creator: Pokorny, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive clothes pounder that has a conical casing, interior concentric partition, and equal draft and suction. The casing is divided into two compartments, but the divider has openings for air and suds.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Ware, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coin-Controlled Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable coin-controlled apparatus that is "designed to indicate by the varying positions occupied by the spheres, the nature of a dream, the apparatus being designed primarily as a dream-revealer" (lines 17-20). The operator pulls a lever which forces the dice inside the glass container to move into holes. The operator reads a key on the outside of the device that indicates what he will dream.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Taylor, James P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Wiring Tool.

Description: Patent for a bale wiring tool that "consists of a shank of proper length and diameter, with wire clamping and cutting mechanism on its lower end, and mechanism on its other end to rotate said tool" (lines 23-27). It also has "two independent clamping and cutting jaws, so that one wire can be clamped in the tool, while the other wire can be drawn tight around the bale and then placed in the tool and clamped and cut off, when the tool can be rotated by a brace or by a rack and pinion...and the wi… more
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Schubert, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a simple cattle guard for railroads "which may be applied conveniently and economically to a cattle gap, and which will prevent cattle from getting their legs caught between the sleepers above the gap, which will also prevent cattle from passing over the gap, and which will frighten the cattle from the track" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
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Closet-Seat.

Description: Patent for a toilet seat that helps support users with rectal diseases.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Ellis, Joseph G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Safety Hook and Buckle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "is especially adapted for use upon the back-bands, whether of leather or canvas, of harnesses, and for receiving and holding the leather trace or trace-chains of the harness; but it may be attached to various other parts of the harness, and used for various other purposes. The buckle part of the device is composed of a suitable frame . . . and a bar formed or provided with points or small tongues for holding the strap or canva… more
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Hake, Francis A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Burning Lime.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Walsh, Patrick A. & Walsh, Edward J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for an improved animal trap that can catch a large variety of animals, including fish, and does not injure the animals. Bait is placed in the trap, and the door on one end is spring-activated. A hinged door on the top is where the operator can take out the animal.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Crockett, William E. & McAdams, Richard E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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