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Rail Brace for Railway Tracks.

Description: Patent for rail brace for railway tracks. The brace "acts as a chair for the rail preventing sagging ; as a brace for the base of the rail, and also bracing the head, and prevents both rails from spreading though not in any way secured to the tie" (lines 100-105).
Date: July 8, 1913
Creator: Barfield, Alfred M.
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Method of and Apparatus for Making Concrete Monuments.

Description: Patent for "an improved method of and apparatus for making concrete monuments and tombstones" (lines 9-11) and makes harder and sets faster than other methods. The end result is meant to look like polished stone.
Date: June 26, 1894
Creator: Cameron, Neill C.
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Percolator.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive water-bath percolator meant to extract "the soluble constituents of various substances" (lines 11-12). "The lid or cover may be sealed hermetically whenever it is desirable to exclude the air or prevent the escape of vapor or volatile constituents" (lines 19-22). It has an inner vessel, the outer vessel containing water. The two vessels are easily disconnected.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Riley, David L.
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Permutation-Lock.

Description: Patent for a permutation or combination lock for mail boxes.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Maxfield, James Robert
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Cultivator

Description: Patent for a cultivator. This invention is an attachment used to connecting with other machines to cultivate the ground. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Wheeler, Claud H.
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Cotton-Thinning Machine

Description: Patent for a cotton thinning machine. Illustrations included.
Date: July 12, 1912
Creator: Brawner, William Jefferson
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Baling Press

Description: Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: April 11, 1905
Creator: Darnell, David E.
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Salt Making Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an apparatus to improve salt-making.
Date: April 3, 1900
Creator: Wilderspin, Anderson
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Safety-Pin.

Description: Patent for an improved fastening device which incorporates a sliding shield.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Pyron, John M.
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Slot Angle Bar

Description: Patent for a new slot angle bar design.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Rice, E. B.
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Head and Face Protector.

Description: Patent for a wearable protective hood for the head and face to protect against weather.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: Mincher, Jerry
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Improvement in Pruning Implements.

Description: Patent for "an improved implement for trimming hedges and for cutting and laying down hedges" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Booker, David
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Parsley, Samuel E.
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Design for a Railroad-Brace.

Description: Design patent for a railroad brace that has an essential feature of possessing peculiar shape and configuration.
Date: October 4, 1898
Creator: Cater, Daniel
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Fruit-Cutter and Juice-Extractor.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements Fruit-Cutters and Juice-Extractors" (Lines 6-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Cooper, James A.
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Cotton Chopper, Scraper, and Cultivator

Description: Patent for improvements so that the "choppers may be raised, in order to leave standing such of the growth of the cotton as is necessary, or while turning corners; third, in means hereinafter to be described, by which the depth at which the scrapers and choppers run into the ground maybe adjusted" (lines 16-22).
Date: May 6, 1890
Creator: Ellis, David P,
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Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rotary chopping-shaft, provided with the sliding gear-collar, the inner face of which is beveled round to form a shoulder, of a cross-piece, having a downwardly-extending perpendicular stop-piece" (lines 88-93).
Date: August 8, 1882
Creator: Rains, William O.
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Grate Bar

Description: Patent for a grate bar.Illustration included.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Wilderspin, Anderson & Earnest, David C.
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Grate-Bar.

Description: Patent for a grate bar for furnaces, which allows for proper air distribution in the furnace.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Wilderspin, Anderson
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Gun Muffler

Description: Patent for a gun-muffler. This design if for use with fire-arms to muffle the discharge sound. Illustration included.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Childress, George F.
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Hoisting Device

Description: Patent for a hoisting device. Illustration included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Sims, James L.
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Hopper for Leaching Ashes.

Description: Patent for improved ash-hopper that is composed of suitable frame, two side boards, two triangle end boards that can be used to improve leaching ashes.
Date: June 7, 1881
Creator: Alexander, Abbington B.
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Grain Adjuster.

Description: Patent for a new and improved grain adjuster. This design "consists in the combination, with the platform-frame, of a wire or rod, which is preferably corrugated or bent, and which is fastened to the outer end of the frame and extends inward over the carrier in the rear of the cutter . . . The object of [the] invention is to apply to the frame of binding-machines a corrugated rod or wire, upon which the heads of the grain will catch, and thus prevent the heads of the cut grain from being moved … more
Date: March 27, 1888
Creator: French, Horatio Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grave Cover.

Description: Patent for a new and improved grave covering. This design calls for a concrete slab, slightly larger than its lidless wooden box, to rest on the upper edges of the latter. A slat in the slab will receive a headstone, which will rest on the slab via flanges.
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Thomas, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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