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Piano-Sling

Description: Patent for a piano sling used for handling pianos. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Hanson, Henry Harrison
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Pessary

Description: Patent for an improved uterine dilator for the application of medicine to the uterus, with illustrations.
Date: July 22, 1902
Creator: Overton, Benjamin Franklin
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Door Fastener

Description: Patent is for door locking device for fasteners that can be carried around in a pocket. It is an improvement on models in circulation.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Price, John
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Door-Operator.

Description: Patent for a device that is a means of mounting a train car door by which it may be easily opened or closed, and especially easily fixed when stuck.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a cultivator, which has a movable beam for use as a straddle row cultivator that allows the draft animal to walk on either side of the rows of plants.
Date: July 23, 1907
Creator: Nicholson, Matthew H.
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Cultivator

Description: Patent for a cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Nicholson, Matthew Harris & Rosenbaum, Eugene
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Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a cultivator for cotton farming meant to be strong and durable as well as light and inexpensive to construct; to make it convenient to adjust the shovel beams for different distances between rows; and to support the shovel-beams in an elevated position so that they do not contact the ground and to allow them to be lowered as needed.
Date: August 12, 1902
Creator: Comstock, Andrew J.
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Attachment for Plows

Description: Patent for "improvements in attachments for plows for the purpose of cutting roots, sods, and the like, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed attachment which not only provides a suitable cutting implement but likewise includes a removable landslide." (9-15)
Date: January 25, 1916
Creator: Reeves, Wesley L.
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Gas-Generator.

Description: Patent for a gas generator "which will be entirely automatic in its action so long as the supply of oil is kept up and thereby render the use of weights and winding apparatus unnecessary." (Lines 21-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
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Saw-Handle.

Description: Patent for improvements in saw-handles. Invention provides for adjustable and detachable means for clamping of a saw blade. The device includes a "head member, means for clamping the end of a saw blade" (lines 19-20).
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Smith, Lee A.
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Shoe-Plate.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in shoe plates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Long, Francis F.
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Shirt-Starching Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in shirt-starching machines by using a combination of a shirt holding device having an oscillatory motion for one-fourth of a full revolution, and a semi-cylindrical starch-holding receptacle with longitudinal rubber bottom; when the shirt-holder is turned, shirts are crowded into the compartments, with the bosoms and wristbands hanging outside. When the door is closed, shirt-bosoms and wristbands are thoroughly starched. Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Herndon, William S.
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Safety-Harness

Description: Patent for a harnesses for horse-carriages designed to enable the instant detachment of the horse. Includes illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1872
Creator: Ellis, Ira
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Sawing-Machine

Description: Patent for an improvement in the invention of sawing machines. Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date: unknown
Creator: Irwin, Hall M.
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Seat Brace

Description: Patent for a seat brace. Illustration included.
Date: December 6, 1904
Creator: Limerick, Clem B.
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Saw Gummer and Sharpener

Description: Patent for a sharpener for saw blades designed to increase the strength of the blade by "imparting an oval or rounding cut to the back of the teeth" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Loughridge, John H.
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Metallic Cross Tie

Description: Patent for a metallic cross tie. This cross tie is designed with clamps to firmly place the rail in place. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Bickley, George S. & Bickley, Rufus P.
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Dasher for Churns.

Description: Patent for a more buoyant and compact churn dasher.
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Wood, Edmund L.
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Detachable-Blade-Connecting Device For Tools.

Description: Patent for detachable blade connecting device for tools, the importance of which lies in the fact that this tool provides "simple and efficient means for detachably supporting interchangeable blades which may be quickly removed and replaced" (lines 16-19).
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Grimes, John Willis
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Design for a Badge

Description: Patent for a design for an ornamental badge celebrating the Emancipation of slaves by Abraham Lincoln.
Date: October 6, 1906
Creator: Whitney, Junius P.
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Design for a Quilting-Frame Stand.

Description: Design patent for a quilting-frame stand that has U-shaped legs leading up to a horizontal stand with an ornate frame.
Date: July 5, 1898
Creator: Overton, Benjamin F. & Bryant, Louis E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Detachable and Adjustable Roller.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hand-truck. This design consists in "the combination, with the sections . . . arranged parallel to each other and adapted to have a combined longitudinal and lateral motion with reference to each other . . . rollers located upon the under side of said sections, and the spurs on the upper faces at each end, of the braces . . . located, respectively, upon the lower and upper faces of the device and diagonally across the same, and pivoted at each end to said sections … more
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Delany, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Attaching Horseshoes.

Description: Patent for a new and improved device for attaching horseshoes. This design "relates to improvements in means for attaching shoes to the hoofs of horses or mules without the use of nails; and the invention consists in . . . a nailless shoe [that] can be firmly and securely attached to the foot and detached therefrom without requiring the services of a smith" (lines 9-18). To this end, it consists in "the combination, with the shoe-plate and the toe-plate, of the toe-bar having a flange to engage… more
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Mayow, Daniel L. & Castle, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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