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Wind-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a wind-wheel that "needs no guiding vane or tail, but shall turn in the same direction at all times regardless of the direction of the wind" (lines 8-11). It is a horizontal wind wheel that rotates on a vertical axis. The blades automatically opens on one side and close on the opposite side.
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Walker, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Educational Appliance.

Description: Patent for an educational appliance that is meant to be used for teaching math mechanics and physics. It easily demonstrates principles of mechanics and physics that involve quantities.
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Macfarlane, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame.

Description: Patent for a hame that has an improved fastening device that easily secures trace chains or tugs to the harness. It is easily adjustable.
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Anderson, Anders Peder
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clock-Winding Mechanism.

Description: Patent for "an improved mechanism for the periodical automatic winding of clocks by water power, and has for its object to provide an apparatus that will be adapted to utilize the power afforded by the gravity of water discharged at regular intervals from a tank, which is in an elevated position and is supplied with water by rain fall or other means" (lines 8-16).
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Everhart, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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