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Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for "improvement in machines for destroying bugs and worms that infest cotton and other plants" (lines 8-10), including instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 31, 1888

Creator: Webb, Thomas H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weather Strip.

Patent for a new and improved weather strip. This design "is to provide a new and improved weather-strip, which is raised into a groove in the bottom of the door when the door is open, but is pressed down upon the sill when the door is closed. The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-13).

Date: July 31, 1883

Creator: McCurdy, Thomas B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design utilizes a roller shaft, hand crank, ratchet wheel, and pawl to stretch wires to any desired tautness.

Date: October 31, 1882

Creator: Milby, Robert

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weighing Attachment for Wagons

Patent for improvements in the weighing attachments for wagons so that "the wagon body with its contents may be weighed without removing it from the holsters; and it has for its object to provide a device which shall be simple in construction, accurate, and easily operated" (lines 10-14).

Date: December 31, 1889

Creator: Gragg, Zachry Taylor

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Patent for a new and improved pump. This design utilizes a new combination and arrangement of cylinders, pistons, pipes, chambers, valves, screws, levers, and air and water vessels to pump water more effectively.

Date: May 31, 1881

Creator: Maney, Henry, Sr.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Can.

Patent for a new and improved oil can. This design utilizes a handle with a hollow tube leading into the oil chamber, so when the removable cap is unscrewed from the handle, air flows into the chamber, which allows the oil to flow. This eliminates the need for a spring-bottom as with other oil cans, for the flow of oil can be stopped by sealing the tube.

Date: January 31, 1882

Creator: Wilson, Charles Bennett

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "consists of a slide or continuous collar or ring, made of lead or other soft or compressible metal or material, having a hole so that it will fit or pass over the end of an ordinary bolt, and adapted to be pressed into the threads of the bolt and against the face of an ordinary nut by a suitable die" (lines 16-23).

Date: August 31, 1886

Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design has, "[i]n combination with a bolt having a cylindrical stem and a head beveled on its inner face, a nut tapped to receive the threaded end of the bolt and prevented from turning" (lines 73-77).

Date: January 31, 1888

Creator: Anderson, Lee

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator and Planter Combined.

Patent for a new and improved planter and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame and the axle journaled in boxes on said frame and in bearings on the tongue, of the tongue journaled on the axle, the cross-bar connecting the side bar of the frame and passed through the tongue, and the screw-threaded rod passed through the side bars of the frame and through the rear end of the tongue and provided with adjusting-nut" (lines 53-61).

Date: December 31, 1889

Creator: Green, William R. & Green, James A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Running Gear for Vehicles.

Patent for a new and improved running gear for vehicles. This design "has for its object . . . to dispense with the reach or pole, and while doing this to provide for or avoid interference with the normal action of the springs, and to render it applicable to vehicles already in use. To these ends [the] invention consists in the employment of braces adapted to be connected to and permit the springs to have the required movement, and also of additional braces arranged between the body support or … more

Date: October 31, 1882

Creator: Roberts, John William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Planter and Fertilizer-Distributor

Patent for "a machine of this class which may be used interchangeably for planting different kinds of seeds-such as corn, peas, cotton, or other seeds-or fertilizing material, and which shall be simple in construction, durable, and easily manipulated" (lines 10-15).

Date: December 31, 1889

Creator: Gallaway, John Tyler

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Revolving Plow.

Patent for a new and improved revolving plow. This design calls for a cylinder with blades attached radially for "cutting up, breaking, and turning over the soil or turf, in which the cutter blades are freed automatically" (lines 7-10). This plow cuts up, breaks, and turns over earth faster than previous designs.

Date: October 31, 1882

Creator: Hurd, Judson B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metallic Post for Wire Fences.

Patent for a new and improved post for wire fences. This design "is to produce a metallic fence-post which can be quickly and easily placed in position, and which, when in position, shall have a biting or clamping action on the wires, and thus hold them from slipping" (lines 13-18).

Date: March 31, 1885

Creator: Cox, Thomas Jefferson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for "a machine for planting corn or cotton, that may be attached to almost any kind of plow, simple in construction, easily repaired by an ordinary blacksmith, and capable of use in a satisfactory manner for planing where stumps and rocks would interfere with the operation of machines of ordinary construction" (lines 9-15).

Date: August 31, 1880

Creator: Krüger, Theodore Charles Herman

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton cutter. This design consists in "the combination [of] the two-part shaft having bearings in the frame and supported on the wheels of [a] removable wheel, secured upon the end of [a] portion and having the spokes and cups at the ends thereof, arranged to operate between the adjustable plows" (lines 62-68).

Date: May 31, 1881

Creator: Smith, Joseph F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press

Patent for "a simple and effective machine of the character described, which shall possess advantages in point of durability, cheapness of manufacture, and general efficiency" (lines 18-21).

Date: July 31, 1888

Creator: Bigham, Joshua R. & Bigham, Ambrose W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Patent for an automatically opening and closing gate including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 31, 1887

Creator: Philpott, Horatio V.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice Machine.

Patent for a new and improved ice machine. This design consists in "[a]n oil-trap for compression ice-machines, consisting of cylinders provided with inclined diaphragms, and having extensions provided with water-chambers and pipes extending down through the same" (lines 96-100). Said pipes are "to communicate with the cylinders, one of said pipes communicating with the extension of one of the cylinders and the other pipe leading from the ammonia-pump, said cylinders having a suitable arrangeme… more

Date: August 31, 1886

Creator: Diener, Frederic

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee Pot.

Patent for improvements to coffee pot design including a bagged apparatus to hold grounds that are then steamed through a jet venting apparatus to brew the drink with accompanying illustrations.

Date: December 31, 1889

Creator: Stidham, James Simeon

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Register for Barber's Chairs.

Patent for a new and improved barber's chair. This design relates to certain improvements in registering devices for barber-chairs, and has for its object to provide means whereby a correct tally can be kept of the persons shaved and the number of hair-cuts which have been performed during the day, week, or month. . . . [The] invention is only applicable to the style of barber-chairs that have a tilting motion backward and forward, for the purpose of more conveniently placing the person when be… more

Date: July 31, 1883

Creator: Lane, Fernando G.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

File Case.

Patent for a new and improved file case. This design "[t]he combination, with a case, of the pockets constructed in a series of a single piece of material having partitions formed by long folds connected at the bottom by short folds . . . [and t]he combination, with the folded pockets, of the file case having its sides constructed to overlap a part of the ends of the pockets, and an elastic follower with thumb-pieces arranged to bind with the sides of the case by straightening" (lines 9-24).

Date: July 31, 1888

Creator: Altfather, William F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Lamp Shelf for Pianos.

Patent for a new and improved lamp shelf for pianos. This design "consists in an arm pivoted to the back of a music-rack and carrying a lamp-shelf, the arm being arranged to swing outward into a horizontal position, and the shelf being connected with the end of the arm by a pivotal connection, which permits of turning it outward and downward into a horizontal position in front of the plane of the music-rack" (lines 22-30).

Date: August 31, 1886

Creator: Prause, Reinhard

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flexible Hoe and Cotton-Chopper

Patent for "provide a means by which the swinging blades are made to cut a uniform depth, and do as shallow hoeing as may be required even in rough ground, and also work very close to small plants; second, to provide such gearing and such connection between the driving-wheel and the oscillating blades that the blades maybe readily shifted from right to left to keep them over the row without having to move or change the course of the driving-wheel at the same time" (lines 14-24).

Date: December 31, 1889

Creator: Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace for Bedsteads, Gates, &c.

Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "the posts having the hooks or eyes, the head-board, foot-board, and rails, also provided with hooks or eyes, the swivel, the wires, each having one end secured to one of the corner hooks or eyes, passed through the eye-bolt and screw-bolt, respectively" (lines 97-102). Said wires are further "given a half-turn on themselves, and their other ends secured to the opposite corner hooks, and the [other] wire having one end … more

Date: May 31, 1887

Creator: Lenix, John M. & Swann, George B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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