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Lawn Mower.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lawn-mower. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bifurcated frame, a driving-wheel supported therein, gears secured to opposite sides of said wheel, inclined pitmen-driving shafts carrying at their inner ends pinions to engage said gears, guide-plates supported by the lower and forward end of the frame, cutters provided with slots and supported between said guide-plates, pitmen connecting the cutters and shafts, and adjusting-screws applied to said plate… more
Date: September 18, 1888
Creator: Grothaus, Frederick E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Tire

Description: Patent for a bolt-free spring connection between a vehicle tires inner and outer rims, allowing for an air cushion between rims and improving overall performance of vehicle tires.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Horne, Henry M. & Buford, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements for Apparatus for Sealing Pipe-Joints

Description: Patent for apparatus for sealing pipe-joints. Improvements and unique changes are explained in the text of the patent submission, accompanied by diagrams of the patent.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Woodward, Edwin C
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sulky-Plows.

Description: Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Payne, Joseph M.
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Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.

Description: Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: De Force, Samuel A.
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Improvement in Faucets.

Description: Patent for "an improved faucet, which shall be so constructed that it will not be liable to be injured by being screwed into and out of the cask, which will not be liable to leak, which will have the button of the valve-stem protected from accidental injury, and shall be simple in construction and easily operated." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Lempert, William S.
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Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.

Description: Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Perry, Elton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Saddle-Trees.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Still, Henry C. & Still, Joseph R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fish and Animal Traps

Description: Patent for an improvement in the design of traps intended for catching fish or animals. Includes illustration.
Date: September 18, 1872
Creator: Hartcourt, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.

Description: Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Hodges, John C., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Awning and Shutter.

Description: Patent for a "combined fire and burglar proof shutter and awning" (line 5-6).
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Hoyt, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Inspirator Valve For Intake Manifolds

Description: Patent for inspirator valve for to accelerate the air intake to the intake manifold as suction is increased.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Brasier, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for improvement in nuts-locks whereby a nut is coupled to a bolt by a washer with a pivoted tooth.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Sealing Pipe-Joints.

Description: Patent for an improved method of sealing sewer or soil pipe joints, including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Woodward, Edwin C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for an improvement in pumps.
Date: September 18, 1888
Creator: Vanmeter, James Wright
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in plows, and it has for its object to provide a plow in which the share is removable therefrom in a convenient and expeditious manner, and is connected with the shank of the beam and with the wing or other support, by a locking connection not involving the use of bolts." (Lines 7-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Kelley, Thomas Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Press Mat.

Description: Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design consists in "having its body portion composed of card-board cut to the size of the press-box, the adjacent faces being covered with sheet metal, which is pressed or stamped into the paper body to give the required cavity, which is bounded by raised margins and transverse ribs struck up from the metal, and supported by paper strips interposed between the layers of card-board, the two leaves of the mat having a leather backing and being hin… more
Date: September 18, 1883
Creator: Osborn, Adelbert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Gage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow gauge. This design "may be adjusted as desired without loosening the connection of the share with the plow-stock, and that when it is desired to shift or change the stock, it may be readily done by running off [a] nut and swinging the bar and shoe forward on the hinge and entirely free from the bolt connections of the plowshare" (lines 73-80).
Date: September 18, 1883
Creator: Holt, Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for a refrigerator that cools dairy and other food products by evaporating water. The cooler is a chest with water in it and containers with absorbent material around the bottom of the containers that sits in the water. The outer chest is metal, and a container sits underneath to catch drips.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Greene, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Double-Acting Pump

Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in double-acting pumps for those "deep-well double-acting pumps in which as single cylinder and piston are used" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Stuckes, John M. & Smith, Earnest K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dirigible Automobile-Headlight.

Description: Patent for a simple, sturdy mounting for automobile headlights that connects them to the steering gear. It enables the headlights to turn in the same direction as the front wheels of the vehicle, thus continually lighting the direction of travel, even when turning.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Taylor, Martin L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dirigible Automobile-Headlight

Description: Patent for a dirigible automobile headlight which turns with the front wheels of the vehicle in order to illuminate the path in the direction the vehicle is about to travel, including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Sears, Johnie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative posit… more
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Watkins, William D. & Pruit, Trose P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Valve for Steam-Engines.

Description: Patent for a rotary valve for steam-engines that has a simplified valve and less pressure on the valve. It has a rocking valve that is "operating within a steam chest independent of the cylinder and connected therewith by pipes entering through the cylinder ends, a cam movement being provided for rocking the valve" (lines 21-25).
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Lester, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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