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Wire-Stretcher

Description: Patent for a wire stretcher for stretching wire to build fences.
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Burdick, John
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Lard-Extracting Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine by which lard, or other substance with a similar consistency, "may be extracted directly from the original shipping vessel, such as a barrel... so that the lard will be expelled though and delivered from a dispensing nozzle" (lines 18-23); including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 30, 1913
Creator: Paolucci, Henry E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type Writing Machine.

Description: Patent for a type writing machine that is small and portable, including illustrations.
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Depuy, Gilbert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type-Writing Machine for the Blind

Description: Patent for "an improvement in machines for the production of writings for the blind, under what is technically termed the point system" (lines 8-11).
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Sthreshley, Lizzie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ink Blotter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ink blotter. This design "is to facilitate the process and shorten the time of the [writer] in blotting of the ink from his [or her] writing. [The design] attain[s] this object by so constructing the blotter that when in use it is always attached to and worn upon the hand holding the pen" (lines 8-13).
Date: December 30, 1884
Creator: Smith, L. Starr
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Indicator for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for a device for vehicles which can signal turns and stops. Designed to be used in place of the driver's hand, this device consists of indicator arms mounted of either side of a vehicle and button controls placed near the driver's seat. Illustrations included.
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Hutchison, William F., Sr.
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Tunneling-Machine.

Description: Patent for a tunneling machine that has the ability to easily change course and utilizes a conical shaped shell to receive loose earth and convey it towards the mouth of the tunnel. The invention also has a rotating head connected to the carrying vehicle meaning that the machine is supported and driven forward against the tunnel as it is cut away.
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Dana, Frank L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill Pipe Attachment

Description: Patent for a windmill pipe attachment that is meant to close the vent opening of a windmill and drain from an opening of the user's choosing.
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Boerner, Fredrick W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Gage.

Description: Patent for a water-gage measuring the height or volume of water in a steam boiler, particularly those "held closed by the weight of the operating handle" (lines 11-12). The device is designed for simple manufacture and easy assembly & disassembly without tools, and features a valve seat that stays in place, illustrations included.
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Leidecker, Helmoth M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Drill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved well-drill. This design consists "[i]n a drill, the cylinder closed at its upper end by a head with a stuffing-box and a tapering opening and provided at its lower end with suitable cutters, in combination with an operating-rod passing through the upper head and a weight, said operating-rod being provided with spring-arms adapted to engage and raise said weight within the cylinder and at the top thereof automatically to release it" (lines 27-35).
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Welke, William Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in the Propulsion of Vessels.

Description: Patent for improvement in vibrating propellers with continued paddle action that can be attached to a line of boats.
Date: December 30, 1873
Creator: Macowitzky, Charles P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Mold-Boards for Plows.

Description: Patent for an improved design for plow mold-boards that involves using holes and a water pump to keep the mold-board clear of earth.
Date: December 30, 1879
Creator: Fields, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Attachments for Cultivators.

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Portable Steam-Engines.

Description: 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.

Description: 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

Mechanism for Sharpening Teeth of Cotton-Gin Saws

Description: Patent for a sharpener for cotton gin saws granted to Robert S. Munger. This patent improves upon an earlier patent received by Munger in 1882.
Date: December 30, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trace Carrier.

Description: Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "consist[s] of a rectangular frame, a central integral transverse bar provided at its upper and lower edges with pairs of spaced-apart superficial ribs having central aligning bores, a spring-pressed bolt mounted in one of said ribs, adapted at its inner end to take into the opposite rib and provided at its outer end with a knob or head, a pintle mounted in the lower pair of ribs, a tongue pivoted upon the pintle, said tongue having its u… more
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Harbour, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tongs.

Description: Patent for new and improved tongs. This design "is especially adapted for the recovery of tools, broken sections, stones, or débris from artesian-well borings" (lines 54-57). It consists "of a solid or tubular shank provided with spring-metal tines, a ring to slide thereon, and a hollow weight sliding on the tube adapted to drive the ring down upon the tines" (lines 12-16).
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Welke, William Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump

Description: Patent for a new form of pump developed by Granville A. Humason. This pump is an improvement of prior models, intended to be "adaptable for many different uses, but which will be simple and durable in structure" (lines 14-18).
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Humason, Granville A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stencil-Brush

Description: Patent for a self-inking stencil-brush
Date: December 30, 1880
Creator: Lotherington, Thomas Turner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Rack.

Description: Patent for a harness rack that is for holding and exhibiting a set of harness in a store or other place where harness are made or sold. The harness rack when in use serves to hold a set of harness so that all parts are in correct relative position so that it can be inspected, including illustration.
Date: December 30, 1913
Creator: Dyer, Simpson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reamer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved reamer. This design "relates to reamers for use in boring artesian wells and other similar purposes; and it consists, essentially, of a hollow cylindrical body adapted to be attached to a suitable driving-head and provided with peripheral expansion-cutters operated by an internal plunger" (lines 11-17).
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Welke, William Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Gate.

Description: Patent for "improvement in gates and has particular reference to a railway gate employed as a cattle guard" (lines 12-14)
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Norman, Cornelius A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Photographic-Printing Machine.

Description: Patent for photographic printing machine with improvements specifically for souvenir photo cards.
Date: December 30, 1913
Creator: Higginbotham, Judson L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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