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Padded Hat.

Description: Patent for a new and improved padded hat. This design "is to provide a pad which can be quickly applied and when applied will remain in place, and by means of which a hat that is a trifle too large can readily be made to fit. . . . Heretofore persons wearing hats of odd sizes, or after having their hair cut short, have been compelled to place paper, felt, or some other material in between the sweat-band and the body of the hat in order to make the hat fit. These pieces, not being secured, are c… more
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stone-Sawing Machine

Description: Patent for new and unique improvements to stone-sawing machines.
Date: September 10, 1889
Creator: Ferguson, James Crawford
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Surgical Instrument.

Description: Patent for "a tractor device...especially adapted for use in vesico-vaginal fistula operations, but which may advantageously be employed in operating upon other fistulas." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1895
Creator: Hawkes, James Patrick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for "devices for tightening the tires on new wheels, as well as wheels that have been in use, and upon which the tires have become loosened, and the object of the invention is to provide a tightener which will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic, and wherein the tightener may be expeditiously and conveniently applied without altering the shape of the felly and at the same time maintain a true circular shape for the tire." (Lines 7-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Garrett, Robert N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness Saddle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved harness-saddle. This design is "to provide a harness-pad and saddle-tree in which the pads or saddle shall be self-adjustable to the backs of the animals to which they are applied, and this without the employment of inner plates to enable the tree to be used for folded-leather, slip, or stuffed pads, as may be desired" (lines 9-15).
Date: May 18, 1886
Creator: Kay, William V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter

Description: Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, and inexpensive, which may be readily converted from a corn into a cotton planter, and vice versa, which may be easily and effectively adjusted so as to plant the corn in hills at any desired distance apart, and which shall be in every respect convenient and efficient" (lines 10-17).
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for a refrigerator that cools dairy and other food products by evaporating water. The cooler is a chest with water in it and containers with absorbent material around the bottom of the containers that sits in the water. The outer chest is metal, and a container sits underneath to catch drips.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Greene, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes Washing Machine

Description: Patent for improvements to a washing machine.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Perry, Robert J. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Picker

Description: Patent for machines that utilizes a plethora of needles to harvest cotton.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Johnson, Billie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for improving the quilting devices and attachments related to sewing-machines.
Date: October 21, 1890
Creator: Urban, John & King, William Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame.

Description: Patent for a quilting frame "pivotally attached to a suspending-bar, whereby either part may be brought beneath the arm of the sewing-machine without requiring the shifting of the goods to bring a new part into position to be quilted until after the exposed portions of the two parts have been quilted." (Lines 24-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Scoby, William E. & Spoonts, Joseph L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie

Description: Patent for a concrete railroad tie reinforced with steel. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Matejka, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for a railroad tie, which can be used with ordinary rails that improves the fastening and unfastening process and forms a track gage.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Whitaker, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Connection

Description: Patent for a rail connection which provides a smooth connection between rails and "dispenses with the angle bars which the ordinary rail connection requires" (lines 15-17). Illustrations included.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Matějka, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Powder-Dividing Machine

Description: Patent for a machine used primarily by pharmacists to divide medicinal powders. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Brown, Patrick H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint

Description: Patent for a rail joint designed to simplify and improve the construction of railroads. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pin for Engravers' Blocks.

Description: Patent for a pin for engravers' blocks for holding items to be engraved on the block. It has grooves of various widths on the sides to fit different size objects.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Martin, Joseph Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Means for Automatically Closing Electric Circuits

Description: Patent for a means for automatically closing electric circuits, specifically for railway systems. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Keeler, Fayette William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow that has a revolving moldboard and the driving-wheel can be adjusted "relative to both the plowshare and moldboard" (lines 21-22). The moldboard is unique in how it is supported and operated. This patent is similar to a previous patent (no. 549,827) which was also granted to the inventor.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Sevier, Samuel Gillington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Piano Attachment.

Description: Patent for "an attachment for upright pianos designed to produce a harp, mandolin, of cithern tone, and the object in view is to provide an attachment having an improved construction of strikers." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 22, 1896
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerator or Cooler.

Description: Patent for a refrigerator that has an "arrangement of parts whereby the articles to be cooled are protected from moisture while the space in which said articles are arranged is inclosed by a film of moisture, which is designed to cool the inclosed atmosphere by evaporation" (lines 11-16). The covering is absorbent and the shelves inside are perforated.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Burt, Henry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Piano Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and useful piano attachment.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow-Point Mount

Description: Patent for a plow point mount. Illustrations included.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Swindle, Houston H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Photograph-Holder.

Description: Patent for a photograph holder made from one piece of wire twisted into hooks for the edge of the photo to be put into, with a bar to support the back of the photo in an upright position.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Stevens, William Herbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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