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Parcel-Delivery Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements in mail and parcel delivery apparatus: "is designed particularly for use at suburban residences, or where the distance from the house to the street is considerable" (lines 11-14).
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Gieseke, Otto
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-lock.

Description: Patent for improvements in the means for securing nuts on their bolts. The invention is "especially adapted for use on railway-rails in which the locking devices are subjected to severe and continual jarring" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1892
Creator: Terry, David Crockett
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Support for Electric Lights.

Description: Patent for "supporting devices for electric-arc lamps, the object being to provide a device which will automatically release itself when the lamp is to be lowered and which then the lamp is raised to the point of suspension will automatically catch and hold the lamp in suspended position." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1892
Creator: Walsh, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stem for Tobacco-Pipes or Cigar-Holders.

Description: Patent for a stem for tobacco-pipes and cigar-holders designed to prevent nicotine from being inhaled. "The object in view is to provide a stem consisting of detachable members to facilitate cleansing when foul" (lines 11-14). The pipe is a serpentine shape and contains cotton filters in its crooks.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Sjolander, Eric O.
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Pocket Hair Brush.

Description: Patent for useful improvements on the pocket hairbrush in which the bristles are movably mounted in a supporting frame in order to make the brush more compact.
Date: October 29, 1918
Creator: Walbach, James de B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plant-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Martin, Silas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insulator.

Description: Patent for a train track insulator, which acts as a fastener between adjourning portions of track.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Collier, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Well Drill

Description: Patent for an Oil-Well Drill with the "...object of the invention being to provide means to prevent the drill from becoming unscrewed from the drill rod and dropping into the bottom of the well" (lines 12-16).
Date: December 29, 1916
Creator: Parker, Roy B. & Spurlock, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Plows.

Description: Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
Date: July 29, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
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Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for an improvement to cotton presses, including an illustration.
Date: July 29, 1879
Creator: Lively, Mark C.
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Plow

Description: Patent for a plow. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Foltin, Frank
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Plow

Description: Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Cadenhead, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heating Railway-Cars

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction and design of car heaters for locomotives.
Date: May 29, 1888
Creator: Townley, Carter Shepherd
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whiffletree.

Description: Patent for an all-metal one-piece whiffletree of "strength, economy, durability, and lightness" (lines 21-22) with solid metal ends that interlock with trace-hooks and prevent "the trace-coupling from becoming accidentally disconnected" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hanging Millstones.

Description: Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
Date: May 29, 1860
Creator: Dance, G. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Handle-Securing Device.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mechanism for simply and easily "securing handles on hoes, mattocks, picks, and other implements of the kind in which the handle has an enlarged end where it passes through and sets in the eye of the tool" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Harvey, Harry W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grip Hook For Log Loaders

Description: Patent for a grip hook for log loaders. This inventions relates to grip hooks used for log gripping. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Martin, Daniel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gripper Creaser For Printing Presses

Description: Patent for a gripper creaser for printing presses. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Morrison, John R. & Morrison, L. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Saddle.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in harness saddles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1898
Creator: Clark, Michael G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hanger For Draw Heads

Description: Patent for a hanger for draw heads. This invention is designed to support draw-heads in use with street-railways cars. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Savage, Harley G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paper-Weight.

Description: Patent for a desktop paper weight that not only sits atop paper, but also serves as a calendar, memorandum pad, and a container for small office articles.
Date: October 29, 1901
Creator: Huston, Sidney H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pecan-Cracker.

Description: Patent for a nut cracker designed especially with pecans in mind. It crushes the pecan shell without damaging the kernel inside.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Black, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Right-of-Way-Mowing Device

Description: Patent for an improved mowing device for the removal of weeds and grass, specifically from railways.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: McAllister, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rack and Spool for Holding Rope Coils.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rack for spools of rope. This design "consists in a particular construction of frame adapted for supporting spools of different lengths, as well as an improved construction of spool for expanding and holding the coil of rope in the center of the reel while being used, and improved hangers for the wheels, whereby the latter may be arranged within the frame to accommodate the different sizes of coils now manufactured" (lines 14-23).
Date: March 29, 1881
Creator: Le Roy, Charles Jerome
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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