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Insect Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a box to be placed over the mouth of an anthill, whereupon one expects the ants to enter a hole, climb an incline, and slip down a pair of glass pieces that lower the ants into an inescapable chamber. This design is cheaper and easier to make than previous ant traps.

Date: May 24, 1881

Creator: Blackwood, Curtis

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "facilitate[s] the building of wire fences; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transporting bed or wagon, its spindles for the spools of wire, and its transverse windlass-rollers and their ratchets and pawls" (lines 16-21).

Date: August 2, 1881

Creator: Morter, John Letcher

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "is to obviate the . . . great difficulty . . . experienced in the construction of wheels in putting the axle-box in the hub and getting it true. . . . and [to] improve and strengthen the construction of wheels, and especially the manner of securing the spokes in the hubs" (lines 9-17).

Date: October 15, 1889

Creator: Holland, William Johnson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Store Counter.

Patent for a new and improved store counter. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontal slideways in the lower portion of the counter extending from front to rear, the rectangular slide-frames working therein, and the angular boxes pivoted by their lower and middle portions to the slide-frames and reversible therein by a rocking movement" (lines 17-24).

Date: February 21, 1882

Creator: Conrad, William Jenkens

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Store Shelving.

Patent for new and improved store shelving. This design utilizes a hinge whereby the shelving can collapse onto a flat surface, which is otherwise available as storage itself. This design also utilizes wheeled legs for easy transportation and zinc plating so as to partially fire-proof the shelving.

Date: February 27, 1883

Creator: Harris, Thomas A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists "[i]n a stalk-cutter, the combination of the frame, having the central longitudinal parallel bars, slotted laterally and having the space between them, the sliding block, pivoted slotted knives, pivoted arms, and recessed side sills, and the pivoted lever and rack" (lines 77-83).

Date: July 17, 1883

Creator: Duncan, Garnett & Evens, John Richard

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam Boiler Cleaner.

Patent for a new and improved steam-boiler cleaner. This design "has relation to means for cleaning the mud or foam, or both, from steam-boilers; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices" (lines 16-19).

Date: February 12, 1884

Creator: Foster, James Harvey.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutters" (lines 5-7). It includes a description and an illustration. The construction of this stalk cutter is "adapted to be driven across the field in the direction of the rows of corn, and the knives may be adjusted to operate on rows of different widths or at different depths, so as to leave only a small stubble in passing over the field" (lines 73-78).

Date: May 20, 1884

Creator: Brown, Azariah R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved thill-coupling. This design is "compris[ed of] perforated checks . . . a coupling-bolt, a locking-lever hinged to said bolt, said lever being provided with knob and notch, a cover -plate having groove and catch, and a spring-pin adapted to hold the lever and cover in engagement" (lines 81-87).

Date: July 19, 1887

Creator: Owens, Israel P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor.

Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "relates to improvements in motors in which a weight supported on a lever operates in conjunction with a train of gearing; and the object of my improvement is the production of a power for operating sewing-machines, churns, and other machinery" (lines 7-12).

Date: February 17, 1885

Creator: Viean, John A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sun-Shade Holder.

Patent for a sun shade holder that can be clamped or attached to vehicles or other items.

Date: December 7, 1880

Creator: Smith, Amroy B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heating Railway-Cars

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of car heaters for locomotives.

Date: May 29, 1888

Creator: Townley, Carter Shepherd

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post Office Case.

Patent for a new and improved carrying case for mail. This design calls for a metal cylinder with twenty-six compartments (one for each English letter) around a central compartment. The compartments may be rotated to gain access to any of them via hinged doors at the top of the case.

Date: November 2, 1880

Creator: Crowder, John R. & Haile, James Thomas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Provision Safe.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "provide[s] a household safe that will prevent rats and mice from gaining access thereto, and at the same time allow a ready handling of the articles contained in it; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same," utilizing jointed covers, spring-locks, metallic bottoms, caster-rollers, and a clasp (lines 11-15).

Date: May 23, 1882

Creator: Sykes, Robert R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Flour and Meal Bin.

Patent for a new and improved bin for flour and meal. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the casing having compartments provided with contracted curved bottoms, the spouts in said bottoms, the spirally-grooved shafts in said spouts, the chambers the bottoms of which are hinged to the casing and provided with the sieves, and the stirrers on the ends of the shafts and within the hinged chambers" (lines 81-89).

Date: March 15, 1887

Creator: Cox, Thomas Jefferson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Needle Beam for Bridges.

Patent for a new and improved needle-beam for bridges. This design "relates to needle-beams for bridges; and its objects are, first, to provide them with appliances whereby to maintain wire cables in proper position and conduct them between the termini of the bridge; second, to provide for interweaving the strands of the cable during the progress of the construction; third, to adapt the parts to coact so that they will maintain the cables permanently in their pristine condition; fourth, to prov… more

Date: April 2, 1889

Creator: Rudyon, Edwin Elijah

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Permutation Lock.

Patent for a new and improved combination lock. This design consists of "[a] door having at its edges the sockets formed by ribs and mouths in combination with permutation-disks, seated in said sockets and handles" (lines 5-8).

Date: June 28, 1881

Creator: Sevier, Moses Nimrod

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Permutation Lock.

Patent for a new and improved combination lock. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the slotted bolt, follower, and follower-shaft, the elongated bolt-stop pivoted in the slot of the bolt, the radially-slotted disks having concentric stems on the follower-shaft, and the lettered or figured and graduated stem-caps engaging the respective stems by means of circular series of teeth" (lines 20-27).

Date: December 12, 1882

Creator: Saxon, James W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Permutation Lock.

Patent for a new and improved combination lock. This design's operation "is as follows: Being unlocked, the bolt is in the retracted position . . . [t]he door can then be operated in the usual manner, being held, when closed, by the ordinary spring-bolt. . . . When the door is closed, in order to lock it, the graduated knob is turned, operating the toothed disk and the first or governing ring, which will . . . throw out the end of the locking-bolt. By turning the handle, all the rings of the s… more

Date: April 17, 1883

Creator: Sarlls, Rutus & Holland, Virgil C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Permutation Lock.

Patent for a new and improved combination lock. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the elongated case, its longitudinally slotted and notched partitions, the boltway over the partitions, reciprocating notched and perforated slides, and adjustable pins or studs engaging the perforations and projecting into the slots of the partitions, the rack-slide, drop-bolt, and graduated knob carrying the pinion" (lines 20-28).

Date: April 24, 1883

Creator: Sarlls, Rutus & Holland, Virgil C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Plows and Cultivators" (lines 5-6), with illustrations.

Date: April 3, 1883

Creator: Nutting, James H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling Box.

Patent for a new and improved baling box. This design consists "[i]n a baling-box, the bottom board having cleats and end board and fixed standards that reach above the end board in combination with the hinged side boards and end board hinged to [another] board, [those] boards being provided with cleats that reach beyond the edges of the boards to receive the loops" (lines 87-94).

Date: September 23, 1884

Creator: Bulkeley, Oliver

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Elevator.

Patent for a new and improved cotton elevator. This design "facilitate[s] the delivery of cotton to the gin, and at the same time . . . removes from the cotton the gravel and other foreign substances that may be in it, thereby preventing injury to the gin and causing it to deliver the cotton in a cleaner and better condition" (lines 7-13).

Date: June 14, 1881

Creator: Newton, William Frederick

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Cultivating Machine

Patent to "provide an implement which, in passing once over the row of cotton, will chop, scrape, and cultivate said row" (lines 10-13).

Date: October 15, 1889

Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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