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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1886
Creator: Farley, John C.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which "may be operated from either wheel" (lines 12-13).
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Stepleton, James T.
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Horse Collar.

Description: Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "is to supply a cheap, durable, easy fitting and self adjusting or flexible horse-collar for farm and other use, and which shall readily adapt itself to the form of the animal, and thereby obviate those abrasions which are so common with the use of a rigid and unyielding collar. To these and other ends [the] collar is made for the most part of what is known as "moss-yarn," with its strands or fibers arranged and the body of the collar subj… more
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Bailey, William Luther; Knight, Leonard Thaddeus & Knight, Lenis Douglas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for the invention for new and useful improvements on the thill-coupling along with illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer
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Grate-Bar.

Description: Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grass Destroyer

Description: Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Coker, Alvin
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Reflector Attachment for Lamps.

Description: Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design's object "is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device for attaching and detaching a reflector to the bottom of the chimney of an ordinary coal-oil or other hand-lamp" (lines 13-17).
Date: December 9, 1884
Creator: Hayes, Elbert N. & Kimball, Walter J.
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Seed-Planter

Description: Patent for a seed planter so that the distances between seeds can be changed from equidistant to a continuous row and vice versa and so that it can be adapted to sew both seeds and grains.
Date: December 25, 1888
Creator: Leamon, John B.
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Sash Construction

Description: Patent for sash construction with grooves no need for putty or points.
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Holland, Willie Washington
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Swingletree

Description: Patent for a swingletree. Illustrations included.
Date: December 20, 1904
Creator: Brazell, David H.
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Separating Machine

Description: Patent for separation of the foreign materials from the seed meats by means of an air blast directed against the materials as they fall by gravity from an inclined shaker or agitator, the lighter foreign matter being thereby separated from the heavier seed meats which continue their decent so a suitable conveyer of recptacle
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Buckley, Andrew Jackson
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Riveting Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved riveting-machine. This design consists "of the upright frame having the cross-head in the upper front part thereof, the vertical driving rods . . . adapted to move in said cross-head, the upright with perforated top and spring-actuated sleeve attached to the frame below the rod, the separable rivet-holder attached to said rod by the arms, the frame, and the sleeve . . . the upright with solid top attached to the frame below the rod, and means, as pivoted levers . .… more
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.
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Riveting Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved riveting machine. This design "consist[s], essentially, of an upright-frame having a vertically-movable driving-rod therein, a vertically-separable set loosely mounted upon the lower end of the driving rod, and a stationary upright removably mounted in the frame beneath the driving-rod and set, [and] said upright having a spring-actuated sleeve extending above the upper end thereof" (lines 66-74).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riveting-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in "which rivets may be rapidly set in the material to be riveted, the rivet being driven and headed at the same operatio and without first punching holes in the material to be riveted." (Lines 15-19) Illustration is included.
Date: June 30, 1891
Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.
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Foot for Plow-Stocks.

Description: Patent for improvements in plows by using the combination of “two forwardly-curved bars which clamped to a plow-beam, and the heel having its forward end rigidly secured between the lower ends of the bars and its rear portion bent upwardly and forwardly and secured between the bars.” (Lines 94-100) Illustration is included.
Date: April 28, 1891
Creator: Brown, William B.
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Fish-Trap.

Description: Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Green, John E.
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Fertilizer-Distributer.

Description: Patent for improvements in fertilizer distributers by using a combination of a hopper, a detachable drill-chute, two shafts with fingers inside the hopper, and an inclined spring-held and adjustable apron attached at the rear end of the hopper. This adjustable apron allows the shafts to operate effectively and efficiently. Illustration is included.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Barron, John Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence-Stay.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive fence-stay that "may be readily applied in a secure manner to horizontal fence-wires" (lines 12-13). The posts are sheets of metal, and metal T-shaped tongues hold the wires in place.
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Munger, Ennis
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Fishing Signaling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a signal that is put on a fishing pole that helps see if a fisher has a bite at night.
Date: August 14, 1916
Creator: Evans, Lyda D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle and Back Band Hook.

Description: Patent for a new and improved buckle and back-band hook. This design "contemplates certain improvements in combined buckles and back-band hooks; and it consists of a buckle having, or to which may be separately applied, a peculiar hook or tongue" (lines 10-14).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Munger, Ennis
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Boiler-Feed Regulator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful boiler feed regulator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Mitchell, Charles Bradley
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Wire-Clamp.

Description: Patent for a wire clamp.
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Peckenpaugh, John Ervin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Description: Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Kinard, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Description: Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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