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Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination of a central beam having a slot at its rear end and a hook at its front end, the laterally-adjustable bars connected with said beam, the scraper-standards pivoted to the adjustable bars, the front clevis for the beam, and rear yoke or support having a transverse pin, and the suspension-chains with a supporting-frame" (lines 101-108).
Date: November 1, 1881
Creator: McCaskill, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Table.

Description: Patent for a new and improved table. This design "can be adjusted vertically by turning the screw-spindle, or it can be drawn upward, and will be held in position by the spring-catch, which catches on the shoulders. If the table is to be used at a sick-bed, it can be projected laterally by drawing the table-top in the direction in which it is to project, the track-plate sliding in the grooved plate. The table-top can be locked in the desired position by means of the binding screw" (lines 90-100… more
Date: November 11, 1884
Creator: Kossbiel, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide for Boll-Weevils.

Description: Patent for boll-weevil insecticide with novel method of compounding. Arsenic and baking soda are combined with wood ash to create a dust which kills the insects as an inhalent instead of needing to be consumed by the insects in order to be effective.
Date: November 1, 1921
Creator: Koenig, Philipp
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Insecticide.

Description: Patent for an insecticide that uses an arsenic compound to kill insects instead of Paris green or London purple, and can easily be made into a beautiful green powder that may be used as a pigment.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Brumleu, Ludwig & Brumleu, Ernest
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Insect Destroyer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pest control device. This design "consist[s] of the flexible air-supply funnel, having end-supporting and mouth-distending rim, terminating in vertical bottom legs or branches, the gas generator, the air-inlet tube having the valve, and the rigid gas-discharge tube" (lines 22-28).
Date: December 25, 1883
Creator: Grafton, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Securing Device

Description: Patent for pins or bolts having a head at one end and a pivoted locking bar at the opposite end adapted to be moved angularly in relation to the pin or bolt to prevent removal.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: Urban, William A. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gasolene Tank Filler and Gage

Description: Patent for a means of filling a gasoline tank for a motor vehicle with a sight gage for determining the level of gasoline placed in the tank.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Boyce, Leonora
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Patent for Planter Attachment

Description: Patent for a planter attachment for cultivators that allows for replanting of crops in skips where there is a poor stand. This cultivator attachment allows for access to replant crops amongst other growing crops and plants.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Wolter, Fredrich W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Railway-Switch and Car-Replacing Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a combined railway-switch and car-replacing mechanism that is meant to "provide certain improved devices which can be arranged to operate as a switch mechanism, or as car replacing means, which can be easily manipulated, are of a simple construction and which will effectively serve for their intended purposes" (lines 11-16). It can be easily assembled and dissembled.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Debose, Albert S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Top Support

Description: Patent for vehicle top support. Illustration included.
Date: April 11, 1905
Creator: Buchanan, Sanford McElroy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Tanning Hides.

Description: Patent for "an improved process of tanning hides in an expeditious and economical manner, and to produce a fine quality of leather" (lines 8-11). The limed and haired hides are baited thrice, afterwards the hides are packed into "tanning-vats with bark and covering them with a solution of alum and water" (lines 80-82). The hides are then leached in salt water and scoured and dried.
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Rogers, John Charsley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Engraving-Machine

Description: Patent for improvements "in the peculiar construction and combination of [engraving machines]" (lines 10-11).
Date: November 19, 1889
Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for a refrigerator especially designed to cool meat, dairy, and other farm products. It uses little ice and cools using vaporization.
Date: October 1, 1895
Creator: Elder, Philip T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paper Holder and Cutter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved paper cutter. This design "relates to that class of paper holders and cutters in which the paper is drawn through a holder and severed at any desired point. Its objects are to secure a cheap, simple, durable, efficient, and easily-manipulated apparatus capable, if required, of holding several sheets of the same or different widths, which can be fed side by side and cut to the requisite length, leaving a projecting edge behind the cutter to afford ready means of dra… more
Date: November 13, 1888
Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Tractors

Description: Patent for a tractor that of a light and durable but simple construction for the purpose of advancing the implements over the ground.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lightfoot, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and useful washing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1900
Creator: Schumacher, Hermann G.
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Apparatus for Floating Vessels.

Description: Patent for a mechanism for raising, and hauling into deeper water, a floating vessel that has run aground.
Date: November 12, 1901
Creator: Debose, Albert S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the design of corn cultivators, including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1873
Creator: Helm, Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for the improvement of the cotton press using a cam-lever for operating the side of the press-box with two different application of power, including illustration.
Date: February 16, 1858
Creator: Witting, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Non-Spillable Oil Can

Description: Patent for improvements upon non-spillable oil cans that contain "a valve-controlled inlet and outlet whereby the receptacle can be readily and easily filled and its contents prevented from spilling irrespective of what position it may be arranged when not in use" (lines 10-15).
Date: July 6, 1915
Creator: Matthews, William James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Float for Linters.

Description: Patent for a float for rapidly removing lint from cotton seeds.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Blanchard, George L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination-Penknife

Description: Patent for a combination penknife that includes: blades, awl, tack puller, screwdriver, beer bottle opener, cork screw, thorn extractor. The pen knife uses a "pocket" within the blades to house the corkscrew and awl.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Feyrer. Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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