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Water-Heater.

Patent for a portable water heater "in which a circulation of water may be had, whereby the same may become readily heated for use in a bath tub or other receptacle." (lines 12-15)

Date: November 18, 1913

Creator: Ramsey, Lee

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool.

Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.

Date: April 27, 1897

Creator: Hutchins, John Pearce

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Jack.

Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.

Date: August 29, 1912

Creator: Bouldin, W. Claughton

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Railroad-Switches.

Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.

Date: September 4, 1877

Creator: Harding, John W.

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Composition For Staining Wood.

Patent for a “paint or stain, which, when applied, will harden on the common woods of commerce, render them durable and smooth, and give them the exact appearance of black walnut” (lines 15-18).

Date: May 16, 1882

Creator: Gloger, Anton F., Jr. & Gloger, Joseph P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Destroyer.

Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for distributing liquid poison on cotton and other plants to destroy insect life thereon; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-18).

Date: July 18, 1882

Creator: Binkley, James E.

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Well-Screen.

Patent for improvements in well-screen by providing a symmetrical strainer which having an exceedingly firm and rigid frame; it is constructed as to interpose the least obstruction to the straining operation. (Lines 21-25) Illustration is included.

Date: December 8, 1903

Creator: Karsch, George J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Guiding Mechanism

Patent for "an improved and simplified construction" for vehicle steering axles (line 15), including illustrations.

Date: February 17, 1914

Creator: Brandt, Friedrich Wilhelm

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Umbrella and Sunshade

Patent for an umbrella and sunshade. Illustration included.

Date: March 8, 1904

Creator: Gra, Hernando B.

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Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Guards for Cars" (lines 5-6) intended to pervent derailment of railway cars, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.

Date: February 5, 1878

Creator: Harding, John W. & Towell, Issac

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post Hole Digger.

Patent for a new post hole digger that both facilitates the creation of straight sides to the hole and a mechanism to allow for easy removal of the dirt.

Date: August 17, 1916

Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garden Implement

This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.

Date: November 9, 1912

Creator: Ward, John Swayze

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the seed-hopper and seed-slide, of the stationary catch and elastic spring-catch, both secured to the hopper and arranged to grasp the head of the brush" (lines 60-64).

Date: October 25, 1881

Creator: Brooks, James Madison

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting Jack.

Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.

Date: July 3, 1906

Creator: Tanner, Calvin W. & Tanner, Eugene

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trace Carrier.

Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).

Date: June 3, 1890

Creator: Brooks, George Washington

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, one that may be easily operated, and yet be positive in its engagement with the latch to prevent it from being opened by cattle, &c." (lines 8-14).

Date: December 8, 1885

Creator: Dunn, Henry Frankling.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.

Date: August 18, 1908

Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilator.

Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design is "to provide a ventilator which shall automatically accommodate or turn the collecting-hood thereof to the direction in which the wind is blowing, to collect and conduct fresh pure air into buildings, cars, &c.; to provide means for regulating the distribution of the air to the compartments or different parts of the buildings, &c.; to diminish the friction and wear between the swiveled collecting-hood and its supporting devices whereby sai… more

Date: April 27, 1886

Creator: Sellars, James K.

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Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to the construction of a planter so arranged that by simply shifting the connection between the corn-slide and the crank-arm of an agitator the device may be adjusted to act as a planter of corn or cotton, but a single connecting-rod being employed in connection with a single driving crank-shaft to operate the planter both as a cotton and a corn planter" (lines 8-16).

Date: November 30, 1886

Creator: Walker, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).

Date: August 2, 1881

Creator: Gray, Hiram Balderston

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).

Date: August 9, 1892

Creator: Delany, Charles William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor.

Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists "[i]n a fan motor, the V-shaped frame, the shafts journaled in the upper corners thereof, the ratchet-wheels and spur-wheels secured to said shafts, the spring-actuated pawls pivoted to the frame and engaging the ratchet-wheels, sleeves loose on shafts, and having the spur-wheels fast to said sleeves, the volute springs with their inner ends fast to shafts and their outer ends fast to wheels, the winding-shafts having the pinions engagin… more

Date: February 5, 1889

Creator: Heinsohn, Ernst Theodor & Hoffmann, John

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.

Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and distributor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the cylinder and drum, of a shaft mounted in bearings on the frame and extending through the said cylinder and provided with blades of varying length, a fan located in the drum, a pipe leading tangentially out from said drum, said pipe having openings formed therein, and guides secured on said pipe over said openings, said guides having wire sides" (lines 46-54).

Date: September 10, 1889

Creator: Elliott, James W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design, when used "as a corn-planter the slotted plate upon the inclined portion of the bottom is adjusted to cover the entire slot, and the pitman is attached to the pin projecting from the bar operating the seed slide, and when the machine is to be used as a cotton-planter the pitman is attached to the crank at the side of the seed-box, and the plate in the bottom of the box is adjusted so as to give the slot sufficient width to allow the cotton-see… more

Date: December 28, 1886

Creator: Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Andrew S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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