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Wire-Rope Fastener

Description: Patent for improvements in design for wire rope fasteners, includes Illustrations.
Date: January 31, 1893
Creator: Widmer, Louis John
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Locomotive Ash Pan.

Description: Patent for a new and improved locomotive ash pan. This design "relates to ash-pans for locomotive and other fire-boxes; and it has for its object to provide a simple and improved device of this character in which the contents of the pan may be discharged therefrom by a single operation of a controlling-lever. To this end the invention consists . . . in a sliding frame working in guides, a series of slats forming the entire bottom of the pan pivoted to the frame and carried thereby, a lever for … more
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Johnson, Charles J. W.
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Jack for Turning Fly-Wheels of Engines, &c.

Description: Patent for jacks for turning fly-wheels of engines, pulleys, etc. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Roberts, John S.
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Tool-Holder.

Description: Patent for "a holder for any class of tools, but being especially adapted for hatchets, garden-tools, and tools of like character." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Richardson, John M.
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Milk-Cooler.

Description: Patent for a new and useful milk cooler, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Stephens, James E.
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Mechanical Attachment for Pianos and Organs

Description: Patent for a "mechanical attachment for pianos and organs whereby and musical composition executed upon the instrument shall be automatically recorded upon a travelling strip or band or, if preferred, on the cylindrical surface of a revolving drum" (lines 10-15).
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Harriman, John Emery, Jr.
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Trace Carrier.

Description: Patent for improvements to a harness back band buckle and chain carrier, so that "strain is taken off from the center of the buckle, where the ordinary buckles often break" (lines 71-73), including illustrations.
Date: January 31, 1893
Creator: Nichols, Edward A.
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and adjustable plow that has an improved sweep stock. The plow has an "implement for holding sweeps, half shovels, bull tongues, &c., all of which are needed in the proper cultivation of corn, cotton and the like; and a further object of the invention is to do so construct a sweep stock as to prevent it from choking by weeds" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Symmank, Herman & Matthijez, Ernst
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Printing-Press.

Description: Patent for a printing, ruling, and cutting press of a simple and durable construction. The printing press can print both sides of a sheet of paper and has adjustable guards so that the operator can print any size paper. The machine also provides a "means for regulating the feed of the machine for adapting it to print short or long sections or a newspaper as well as a small tract" (lines 20-22). The machine has two plates opposite each other, the weight of one counterbalances the other so doubl… more
Date: March 31, 1896
Creator: Hallenbeck, Matthew L. W.
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Tire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for improvements in tire tighteners by using wedges with longitudinal ridges, longitudinal tapering ridges or webs, together “with a wheel-rim, clamps arranged in pairs upon each side of the felly-joint, the clamps consisting of plates have a fluted or corrugated inner surface …., the extension of the registering plates being connected by transverse bolts.” (lines 37-45) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Reeves, Alexander Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stump-Puller.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective stump puller that pulls stumps entirely from the ground using a large amount of force. The machine uses a series of pulleys, hooks, levers, and cranks.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Rupe, Salathiel C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Suspended Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for a suspended rail-joint that improves on the anglebar railjoint. The improved design has the minimum amount of bolts, does not use railbolts, has a newly designed fastener, allowance for the rails to expand and contract, and adjustable guards against creeping.
Date: July 31, 1894
Creator: Lang, Otto H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for nut locks that "as for its object to provide simple means for locking the nut against accidental displacement, at the same time allowing it to be removed by the proper application of force, and, furthermore, to permit the permanent locking of the nut at a pre-determined point." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Millen, George
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Ward, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Piano Guard and Rest.

Description: Patent for "an attachment for pianos designed for use as a guard to protect the instrument from injury to the front of the keyboard when being moved through narrow passage-ways, and as a rest for the feet of performers unable to reach the floor to prevent contact and consequent defacing of the lower panels." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: Norcross, Levi Watson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Track Lifter.

Description: Patent for improvement in railroad-track lifters by using “the combination of a base, a upright, a lever and two pawls engaging notches of the upright” (lines 97-99) and “hand mechanism for operating the pawls,” (lines 1-2, p. 2) for easily raising sections of railway-track. Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Brown, Hiram David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a planter in which "the seed-dropping mechanism is adjustable to suit the nature of the seed to be planted and to drop the same closer together or farther apart, as desired." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Rausheck, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plumb-Level.

Description: Patent for a new and useful level of " that class embodying a pivoted index-finger operating in conjunction with a graduated dial" (line 7 10).
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Jordan, John J. & Wallace, Olifford L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Preheating Means for Vapor-Burners

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in generators for vapor-burners" (line 6-7), including instructions and illustration.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Wilson, William W. & Wilson, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Return-Envelop.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in return envelops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Carter, Jessee M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Jewel-Setting.

Description: Patent for a new and useful jewel setting, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Wandry, Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drawer.

Description: Patent for "drawers, and the object of the same is to provide an improved attachment, whereby the ends of the drawer must move in unison and thus avoid wedging of the drawer, which often occurs when it is moved inward and outward, and a further object is to provide a tension mechanism for the said-drawer controlling device, whereby when the drawer is unlocked there will be sufficient tension upon the same to force it open, and further when the drawer is pulled outward too far the said tension d… more
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: Matthews, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Compress.

Description: Patent for a new and useful cotton compress, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Brady, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin Attachment.

Description: Patent for a cotton gin attachment that cleans and separates the lint before it reaches the machines condenser.
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Scott, Eugene C. & Kelly, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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