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Lamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved oil lamp. This design "relates to improvements in lamps in which the reservoir is beveled, adapting it for use in conjunction with a conical corrugated reflector; and the object of [the] improvement is to produce a lamp that will afford more and better light with a given amount of oil" (lines 7-13).
Date: July 24, 1883
Creator: Newman, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Curtain Fixture.

Description: Patent for a new and improved curtain fixture. This design "consist[s] of the brackets secured to the window-frame, and a frame consisting of a single continuous integral U-shaped bar having its arms bent outward from its shoulders . . . and having the end of one of its arms pivoted to the adjacent bracket and the end of the other arm bent laterally and journaled in the other bracket, the curtain-roller being journaled in and extending between the arms" (lines 60-69).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Bomar, Mattie A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in the combination, with the slotted hopper-bottom, of the hinged and curved cut-offs and their spring, whereby the escape of seed will be prevented, except as forced out by the prongs of the feed-wheel" (lines 19-23).
Date: January 24, 1882
Creator: Byers, Anthony Walter & Dorser, James Carrol
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Suspension-Bridge

Description: Patent for a more easily constructible "bridge the pillar or roadway of which is adjustable to different heights, and to meet certain contingencies and while adjustable as a whole is also adjustable at any point whatsoever, whereby the roadway may be maintained level regardless of the yielding of certain portions of the structure" (lines 11-17).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Greer, William Henry Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Button Attaching Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved button-attaching machine. This design consists in "the combination, with the plunger, of . . . the die having a central projection to enter the concavity of a button and parallel oblique curved recesses in said projection . . . [and] a peripheral flange" (lines 84-99).
Date: January 24, 1888
Creator: Tone, Harrison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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