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Envelop

Description: Patent for envelopes, particularly for inter-office use, in which an envelope would have an improved means for indicating the designation of the envelope to any series of persons or locations. Additionally, the envelope is provided a series of spaces with a separatable or removable indicator adapted to be located in any said spaces to indicate the destination of the envelope.
Date: October 20, 1919
Creator: Crate, James S.
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Elevator.

Description: Patent for an elevator used to lift pipe and other similar objects, the invention is designed to help drilling operations for oil wells.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Steen, Buford J.
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Fence or Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence or gate. This design consists in "[a] fence or gate composed entirely of pipes interchangeably connected together by couplings, and consisting of the long tubular pickets and the intermediate short tubular pickets, each long tubular picket being formed by two short tubular pickets connected by an intermediate coupling in the form of a Greek cross, a similar coupling at the top of each long and short tubular picket, and the T-shaped couplings at their bottoms,… more
Date: January 20, 1891
Creator: Friday, Henry
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Exhaust-Steam Condenser.

Description: Patent for an exhaust-steam condenser meant for steam-engines in places where water needs to be conserved. It also "prevents the use of water for cooling the surfaces of the condenser" (lines 14-16).
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A. & Goeth, Adolf C.
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Fireplace.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in fireplaces, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: May, John E.
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Fertilizer-Distributer.

Description: Patent for a fertilizer-distributer with "means for agitating and loosening up the fertilizing material and delivering the same through a series of discharge-openings, such series extending transversely of the path of movement of the machine across the field and controlled by individual and independently-operable feed slides or gates, whereby the machine may be used for simultaneously fertilizing adjoined furrows or as a broadcast fertilizer-distributer" (Lines 12-21).
Date: May 20, 1902
Creator: Mize, William P.
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Floor Surfacer, Cleaner, and Polisher

Description: Patent for a mechanism designed for surfacing, cleaning, and polishing wooden flooring. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Warner, William E.
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Bedstead.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design "consists in the provision of adjustable hangers for mattress-supports" (lines 12-13). To this end, it consists, "with the side and end rails having vertical mortises or grooves, the cap-plates covering the upper ends of the grooves or mortises and having threaded apertures, and a mattress-support, of the hangers respectively comprising the vertical shank or body seated in the grooves or mortises of the rails, and the horizontal branch extendi… more
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Currey, George Henry
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Bicycle.

Description: Patent for a bicycle that is safer than other bicycles. It has compensating gearing so that "the variations in leverage in the various positions assumed by the pedal crank are equalized" (lines 12-13).
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Lillibridge, Freeman
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Canal or Ditch Digging Machine.

Description: Patent for a canal or ditch digging machine that has a carriage and a mechanism that draws the carriage across the ground, and a boring-tool beneath the carriage. The boring-tool can bore at an adjustable angle.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Hoefs, Otto
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Box for Washing Material for Concrete.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in boxes for washing aggregate or rough material for making concrete" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the laterally and vertically movable draw-head having the hook at its outer end, the keeper depending from the lower side of the car, and in which the draw-head is confined, the spring connected to one side of the draw-head and bearing thereon, and the arm pivoted in a slot in the draw-head, and having the head projecting in rear of the lip or shoulder of the hook, and the lever fulcrum… more
Date: July 20, 1886
Creator: Gorny, Jacob
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Bell Collar.

Description: Patent for a new and improved collar. This design "consists in the combination of a flat metallic band, which passes over the top of the neck, two metallic blocks, which extend down opposite sides of the neck and are provided with locks, two perforated slides, which are connected together at their lower ends by a metallic loop . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a bell-collar for animals, and which is not only adjustable in size, so as to be adapted to necks of different sizes, bu… more
Date: September 20, 1887
Creator: Marshburn, Joseph J.
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Boiler Feeder Regulator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved regulator for boiler feeders. This design "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and operation whereby a superior machine is produced for the purpose of regulating and supplying boilers with water, keeping the water at a uniform height, preventing explosions from low water, and automatically removing sediment, impurities, and foam as fast as it accumulates" (lines 14-22).
Date: March 20, 1888
Creator: Riedel, Gustav Adolph
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Brace for Bedsteads.

Description: Patent for a new and improved brace for bedsteads. This design has for its object "to provide an attachment for bedsteads whereby the side rails are prevented from springing outward or expanding from any cause, and thus allowing the slats to fall through" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 20, 1888
Creator: Holmes, James C.
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Boiler Stay Bolt

Description: Patent for a boiler stay bolt. Illustration included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Peters, Joseph & Coleman, John
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Bed Attachment.

Description: Patent for new bed design for invalids, containing a bedpan attached in the center of the bed. The bedpan is connected to a pipe, allowing the waste to be flushed away, just like any other toilet.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Smith, Nan Elma
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Building Block Machine

Description: Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to form blocks out of plastic material into artificial stone, as well as molding concrete blocks. Illustrations included.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Latimer, Samuel A.
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Buggy Wrench

Description: Patent for a buggy wrench. Illustration included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Ware, Richard M.
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Building-Block Construction.

Description: Patent for concrete blocks used for construction, including illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Gray, Frank
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Automatic Signal-Actuating Mechanism for Railways

Description: Patent for an improved signal actuating mechanisms for railways. When the train cars reach an operating mechanism, a flag will be raised where pedestrians or cars cross, and cause a signal to be repeated until the train passes.
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Bashara, Samuel Farris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Trough-Valve.

Description: Patent for improvements in animal watering troughs that has an automatic float control valve in connection with the trough.
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Striegler, Fritz
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Boiler-Feed Regulator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful boiler feed regulator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Mitchell, Charles Bradley
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Car-Door Fastening.

Description: Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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