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Water-Elevating Device.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and durable water-elevating device meant to be used in collecting water from wells, cisterns, &c., and can be used in domestic and commercial settings. "Power may be increased [in the invention] to enable an operator to raise large quantities of water with facility" (lines 13-15).

Date: April 30, 1895

Creator: Taylor, James B.

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Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meats and Vegetables

Patent for "improvement in apparatus" for the use of "preserving meats, vegetables, fruits &c." (lines 5, 16-17) including construction specifications and illustrations.

Date: January 30, 1872

Creator: Maxwell, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Patent for "a gang-plow, which is so arranged that the beams can be adjusted sideways and up and down at will, and can be permanently secured in any desired position in either movement." (Lines 17-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 30, 1869

Creator: Hall, Thomas J.

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Process of and Apparatus for Separating and Grading Seeds.

Patent for an agricultural apparatus that separates and grades seed (such as grains) as well as accelerates the seed pressurizing process. The apparatus assists and accelerates the cultivation process.

Date: March 30, 1915

Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.

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Mail-Handling Apparatus

Patent for an improved mail handling apparatus for use in trains that has an automatic mechanism to bridge the auxiliary car and the mail car when the car reaching the end of its track, including illustrations.

Date: November 30, 1915

Creator: Kerns, George E.

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Pump.

Patent for a "pump for effectively pumping oil or quicksand from wells troubled with quicksand." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 30, 1897

Creator: Wintz, James Philip

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for "an improved fastening or tie for cotton-bales, &c.; and it consists of two angular plates, secured at the rear part to one end of the band generally used in baling cotton, &c., and the front part thereof being provided with V-shaped jaws, which engage with angular slots in the opposite end of the band." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 30, 1877

Creator: Hanson, Asbury J.

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Improvement in Insect-Destroying Attachments for Cultivators.

Patent for "a fan or blower conjoined with a box containing any of the various powdered poisons used for destroying vermin which infest growing plants, as cotton, potatoes, &c., operated by a pulley and band, running from the axle of the blower to a wheel on the supporting-axle of the cultivator, seeder, or other machine to which the apparatus may be attached." (Lines 19-27) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 30, 1873

Creator: Hurd, Charles T.

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Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Worms in the Cotton-Plant.

Patent for a method of "destruction of the cotton-worm, and this object is accomplished by sprinkling the plants on which the worm feeds with a solution of arsenic in water." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions.

Date: June 30, 1874

Creator: Mitchell, Thomas W.

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Improvement in Hame-Fastenings.

Patent for improvements in economical and durable hame-fastening.

Date: July 30, 1878

Creator: Flatau, Louis S.

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Improvement in Churn-Motors

Patent for an improvement in churn-motors, which would allow for the motor to run faster or slower as needed, with illustration.

Date: July 30, 1878

Creator: Alexander, Julius A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Horse-Powers

Patent for improvement in horse-powers through gravity and tread-power of a farm animal, for use as a power source for farm equipment, with illustration.

Date: August 30, 1878

Creator: Blain, John Harvey

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Improvement in Combined Land-Roller and Harrow.

Patent for an improved version of a combined land-roller and harrow that allows for easier cleaning of its parts and adjustment of its rollers.

Date: September 30, 1879

Creator: Smith, William R.

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Improvement in Portable Steam-Engines.

Patent for an improved design related to reversible steam-engines meant to economize the space required by the engine and to provide a firm foundation that will allow it to be portable.

Date: December 30, 1879

Creator: Kriebel, Hosea K.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for a variety of cotton-bale ties that has has a series of notches and pins that lock together when the ends are brought together.

Date: December 30, 1879

Creator: Singer, Edgar C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hat-Ventilators.

Patent for improvement in mode of ventilating hats, bonnets, and or caps by “providing the inside of the head-coverings, at the point of contact with the head, with a liuing or an elastic spiral formed into a cushion, through which the air can freely circulate around the whole head.” (Lines 28-32) Illustration is included.

Date: March 30, 1869

Creator: Stremme, Conrad C.

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Steam-Generator

Patent for a steam generator for use with hydrocarbon burners.

Date: April 30, 1912

Creator: Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.

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Steam Feed

Patent for a steam feed. This invention is designed "for sawmill carriages characterized by a steam cylinder, and a piston operating in the cylinder and having its rod connected to the sawmill carriage" (line 9-12). Illustration included.

Date: May 30, 1911

Creator: Black, Lee Jackson

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Stalk-Chopper

Patent for a stalk chopper that chops weeds, vines, and stalks into smaller pieces or kills them in order for the ground beneath to be readily cultivated.

Date: September 30, 1902

Creator: Adamson, William Levi

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Hotel-Register And Advertising-Card Cabinet.

Patent for a new and useful hotel register and advertising card cabinet, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 30, 1900

Creator: Duncan, Selden

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Steam Engine

Patent for improvements in steam engine, particularly the cylinder.

Date: June 30, 1885

Creator: Pinkham, Delmar D.

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Steam Engine

Patent for an "new and improved steam-engine in which a dead center position is obviated and the pressure of the live steam is completely and very advantageously utilized" (line 7-11)

Date: August 30, 1887

Creator: Rush, Peter S.

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Store-Awning.

Patent for a new awning design for shops that is easily raised and lowered, including illustrations.

Date: August 30, 1887

Creator: Persohn, John William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Patent for a thill-coupling that has a clip-eye, pivot-bolt, and an open-slotted thill-iron that has flat and extended jaws with a hole. The jaws are lined up with the thill-iron, meant to secure a railroad spike into place. The invention also has a flat bar-spring attached to the thill-iron.

Date: July 30, 1895

Creator: Dibrell, Anthony

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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