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Improvement in Clasps.

Description: Patent for improvement in clasps "especially adapted for garment supporting" (lines 9-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Stafford, Beverly F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for railroad-ties, and "the special object of the invention is to make a railroad cross-tie of metal, built up firmly and secured to the rails without screws, bolts, rivers, cushions or other appurtenances." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1896
Creator: Noonan, Philip
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Clock Attachment

Description: Patent for an improved clock attachment to operate "a series of alarms or signals arranged in different rooms of a building or in other separated stations for simultaneously sounding the alarms or for operating the signals at predetermined times." (lines 11-17) including illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1915
Creator: Moore, John R.
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Support for Telegraph and Telephone Wires.

Description: Patent for a circular metal support for telegraph and telephone wires; including illustrations.
Date: November 11, 1913
Creator: Hoybook, Henry Levid
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Weather Boarding Apparatus

Description: Patent for an apparatus to properly space and hold in position weather boards. Illustration included.
Date: November 1, 1904
Creator: Spear, William
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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Description: Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale ties, with description and illustrations.
Date: July 21, 1874
Creator: Cooper, William
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Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines

Description: Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Bell, Thomas
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Stirrup.

Description: Patent for a saddle-stirrup with springs on the bottom and a spring-catch on the top.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Long, Francis F.
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Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Description: Patent for "washing-machines known as self-regulating machines; and consists in the arrangement for controlling at will the amount of pressure to be used, in combination with the construction of the feed and washing rollers." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1873
Creator: Rowland, William M.
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Grocer's Bin.

Description: Patent for a new and improved grocer's bin. This design "consists, broadly, in a box or bin pivoted so that its upper open end may be conveniently tilted out for the purpose of replenishing or taking therefrom, and may as conveniently be pushed back into the casing or framing" (lines 9-13).
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: Johnston, Lysander
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Harrow-Tooth

Description: Patent for an improvement in the device known as harrow tooth. Due to being constructed differently certain parts of the invention can be arranged any way the user wants and the harrow tooth is also capable of a more thorough cultivation and pulverization of soil which allows closer cultivation of crops or being more precise and thorough when digging up weeds.
Date: September 25, 1905
Creator: Smith, James Wilson
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Grain-Door

Description: Patent for a grain car door that keeps the grain securely in the railroad car.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
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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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Improvement in Farm-Fences.

Description: Patent for "a cheap and easily-constructed fence, and one which neither small nor large stock will be able to jump over or pass through." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Rush, Alonzo & Yarbrough, Fisher
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Crate.

Description: Patent for "a crate for packing and transporting bottles of such material and such form of construction as will present a minimum liability to breakage of the contents." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Riviere, Richard Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truss.

Description: Patent for improvements to trusses, which uses "a pair of spring hangers each carrying a pad of particular construction and arrangement" (lines 9-11). Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Gilmore, Aaron W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wedge-Buckle.

Description: Patent for improvements in wedge-buckles by using a “combination of a stiff plate having wedge-shaped side jaws, of the strap having an inwardly-curved spring portion terminating in projections and flanges which engage the jaws, and adapted to be straightened outwardly in clamping a belt of band between the plate and strap” to (Lines 18-24, p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: White, Lee
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Nutcracker.

Description: Patent for a nutcracker with an adjustable jaw and a smaller number of parts.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fender.

Description: Patent for a device "to be secured to the prow of a ship or vessel and which projects forwardly therefrom for the purpose of protecting the vessel against injury from a collision" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Barton, Charles H.
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Buggy-Top Support

Description: Patent for a buggy top support which has springs in it to absorb shocks from bumps and is compact.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Martin, Edward G. & Miller, Joseph S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Building Construction.

Description: Patent for a building construction method. After completion of typical foundation and framework construction, "interlocking slabs or tiles are secured to the framework to form an outer covering or sheathing for the building." The interlocking method requires no cementing of material yet still allows water to be shed. "Provision is also made for fastening slabs or tiles to the framework in a manner permitting rapid assembly of parts" which reduces building time. The invention can be applied to d… more
Date: November 8, 1921
Creator: Walker, Isham P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Vegetable Slicer and Grater.

Description: Patent for a combined vegetable slicer and grater that consists of a main frame with vertical arms and bearings, a screw that attaches the arms to the frame, a shaft journaled with an annular flange into the bearings, a cylinder made of sheet metal that serves as knives, and spring tongues that regulate the thickness of the cut vegetables.
Date: July 10, 1894
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Boll Picker

Description: Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Hewitt, Daniel
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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