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Extension-Table

Description: Patent for "an improvement in center tables, seeking to provide a simple convenient construction of extension-table, Which can be easily extended or contracted, by which the objectionable center leg can be dispensed with, and in which the main or center portion Will be firmly supported at all times" (lines 7-13).
Date: September 9, 1890
Creator: Smith, Lewis G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer

Description: Patent for "an improvement in that class of ice-cream freezers in which the cream is taken up and frozen by contact with a revolving cylinder containing some refrigerant, and is removed therefrom by means of a suitable scraper" (lines 7-12).
Date: January 20, 1891
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Elevator, Cleaner, and Feeder.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton elevators, cleaners, and feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1898
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements to a cotton harvester that uses finger-pickers to harvest cotton into a bag or box with illustrations. The changes are intended to make the harvester more durable, less costly, and operable by non-skilled workers.
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Loonie, Patrick J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-planters.
Date: April 12, 1898
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Bath-Brush

Description: Patent for improvements to an electric brush so that it is "exceedingly effective in its operation and at the same time simple in construction, combining lightness with durability, and securing the best results medicinally to the user. A further object consists in providing a construction whereby the entire brush may be dismantled, so as to obtain access to the interior when necessary, and to permit of the brush being used as an ordinary bath-brush by simply removing the batteries" (lines 15-2… more
Date: May 20, 1890
Creator: Williams, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Post.

Description: Design for a post with hexagonally woven or meshed wire structure of tubular or cellular form.
Date: December 27, 1898
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Top.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle-top. This design "is to simplify, improve, and cheapen the construction of vehicle-tops . . . and enable the sliding curtain to be more readily and securely fastened to the standards and bows of the carriage-top" (lines 12-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting-bows provided with longitudinal grooves, and the curtain-carrying frame comprising flat flexible strips arranged in the said grooves and provided at intervals with inwa… more
Date: September 30, 1890
Creator: McCurdy, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Drilling Machinery.

Description: Patent for new and improved well-drilling machinery. This design "is to make a well-drilling machine which will drop the drill at the proper time and from the proper height" (lines 11-14). It consists in "the bevel-wheel having cam on its periphery and arranged loosely on a vertical shaft, a bevel-pinion fast on power-shaft, a loose drum sliding on [the] shaft, the spring, and collar, in combination with the drill-rope" (lines 69-74).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Lee, Joseph G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stirrup Leather Stay.

Description: Patent for a new and improved stirrup-leather stays. This design "is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the rider's foot in the mounting; and the invention consists in a stay the body of which is U-shaped in cross-section to receive the stirrup cross-bar and provided with a loop on its convex side at the bottom for the stirrup leather or strap" (lines 13-20).
Date: October 14, 1890
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
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

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Description: Patent for an automatic railway gate that consists of a picket shaft under the rails, cranks between the rails that are connected to the picket shaft, springs holding the shaft, tread rails that run along the rails and join the cranks, and guide blocks along each tread rail.
Date: February 13, 1894
Creator: Warren, Governor D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Waffle-Iron.

Description: Patent for a waffle iron that can be operated by placing it on a stove-top. It "consists in a base, a yoke pivoted thereto and swinging in vertical plane, and the molding and cooking irons carried by the yoke" (lines 15-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: George, Alexander B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vapor Burner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vapor burner. This design consists, "with the mixing-chamber having a burner connected therewith, of a water chamber and an oil chamber arranged beneath the said mixing chamber, the threaded tube seated in the bottom wall of the water-chamber and extending up into the mixing-chamber, and the air-induction tube leading from beneath the oil-chamber up through the threaded connecting-tube to the mixing chamber" (lines 112-121).
Date: August 19, 1890
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Drury T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Cotton Feeder.

Description: Patent for a gin feeder that carries "the cotton forward, and is provided with some one or more of many additional devices to regulate the amount delivered by the conveyer, independently of the amount that may be in the feeder, provided only that the supply be not to scanty" (lines 13-18). Other feeders do this, but the patent is for an especially simply designed and does not use a belt conveyer. It also does not wear out easily.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Elam, William Erwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas-Compressor.

Description: Patent for gas compressors for ice and refrigeration machines, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Ambrose, Joseph D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type Writing Machine.

Description: Patent for a type writing machine that is small and portable, including illustrations.
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Depuy, Gilbert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Card-Receiver.

Description: Design patent for a card-receiver that is marked by its peculiar shape and configuration of the box and its base or back board.
Date: December 20, 1898
Creator: Groce, Margaret B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stirrup Leather Stay.

Description: Patent for a new and improved stay. This design "is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the rider's foot in mounting" (lines 7-10). To this end, it consists, "with the stirrup, of the U-shaped stay embracing the stirrup cross-piece and extending adjacent to the ends thereof and the central loops along the upper edges of the stay, and of less length than the stay, to receive the relatively narrow stirrup-strap, whereby a narrow stirrup-strap… more
Date: April 8, 1890
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Nut Cracker.

Description: Patent for a Nut-Cracker.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Collins, Corties
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Nut-Lock Washer.

Description: Design patent for a nut-lock washer that consists of an annular disk having a depression on the margin of its inner opening and with an incision cut in from the periphery, forming a tongue.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Carroll, Samuel C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire Kindler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fire-kindler. This design "consist[s] of a tapered tube having lap-jointed edges, a retaining or clamping collar to hold said edges in position, perforations near the larger end, and the overbent flexible strips, said tube being packed with asbestus or other absorbent" (lines 77-82).
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Denton, Winfield Scott
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gage for Job Printing Presses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gage. This design consists in "the gage-bar provided at both ends with spring-clasps for engaging the platen, combined with gage-pins doubled upon themselves at their inner ends and engaging the gage bar and adjustable laterally" (lines 83-88).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Jones, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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