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Heel for Boots and Shoes.

Patent for a new and improved heel for boots and shoes. This design is for a hollow heel of malleable metal (e.g., iron) to be filled with some cheaper material (e.g., wood). This design represents an improvement over previous heels with its cheaper production cost and greater durability.

Date: November 7, 1882

Creator: Dranley, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pocket Hanger for Hats and Coats.

Patent for a new and improved portable hat- and coat-hanger. This design utilizes two metal hooks, each of which fold into a metal handle, so that one hangs from a surface while the other hangs an article of clothing. One hook should be sharp enough to engage with a wall, while the other need not be sharp to hang an article from the back of a chair or pew.

Date: February 14, 1882

Creator: McDonald, Thomas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Dark Room.

Patent for a new and improved portable dark room. This design "consists in a box provided with an opening in one side and a sleeve of pliable material extending outward from this opening, which box contains two smaller boxes for receiving the exposed and unexposed dry plates. The box is provided with a handle for carrying it" (lines 13-19).

Date: February 28, 1882

Creator: Serdinko, John

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Mold Board.

Patent for a new and improved plow mold board. This design "consists of a circular roll arranged in the mold-board near the point and covered with belting, which, in the forward movement of the plow, is revolved and carries the earth backward on an endless belt passing around rollers journaled in the end of transverse slots made in the mold-board, whereby, in the forward movement of the plow, the belt is revolved and the friction of the earth on the mold-board decreased and the plow scoured" (l… more

Date: August 22, 1882

Creator: Dahlman, Carl Oscar

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machines.

Patent for a new and improved quilting attachment for sewing machines. This design "has for its object to connect the quilting-frame and the sewing-machine so that the action of the machine will automatically propel the quilting frame; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts" (lines 17-22).

Date: September 26, 1882

Creator: German, Francis M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rat Trap.

Patent for a new and improved rat trap. This design consists of "the pendulum bait-frame, in combination with triggers and attached to cam-springs and weighted trap-doors and rollers" (lines 59-62).

Date: February 7, 1882

Creator: Younger, Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Frame.

Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design "is a quilting-frame for use with sewing machines, consisting of rollers adapted to stretch the quilt or cloth in customary manner and running in bearings in a frame which is mounted on a suitable stand, which adapts it for lateral movement to follow the feed of the sewing machine" (lines 8-15).

Date: February 7, 1882

Creator: Davis, Henry T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Tie.

Patent for a new and improved railroad tie. This design "has reference to improvements in railroad-ties of that class in which two metallic pot-sleepers connected transversely by a brace-rod are employed in place of wooden ties for supporting the rails; and the invention consists of two transversely-connected iron pot-sleepers, which are provided with a longitudinal box-shaped center portion, upon which the rail rests, said center portion being made in one piece with the sleeper, and adapted fo… more

Date: February 7, 1882

Creator: Herbst, Charles F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Provision Safe.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "provide[s] a household safe that will prevent rats and mice from gaining access thereto, and at the same time allow a ready handling of the articles contained in it; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same," utilizing jointed covers, spring-locks, metallic bottoms, caster-rollers, and a clasp (lines 11-15).

Date: May 23, 1882

Creator: Sykes, Robert R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Ditching Machine.

Patent for railway-ditching machines used "to facilitate the opening of railway ditches and the removal of dirt" (lines 41-42) including illustrations.

Date: September 12, 1882

Creator: Grove, David E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Frame.

Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design consists in "an improvement in quilting-frames, the combination, with the foot-pieces, of the hinged arms, braces, clamping screws, rollers, and set-screws" (lines 66-69).

Date: October 10, 1882

Creator: Murphree, John B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post Hole Digger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient device, the levers of which can be readily separated, so that either of them can be used as a spade or shovel to fill in the earth around the post after it is placed in the hole" (lines 14-19).

Date: November 21, 1882

Creator: Armstrong, John J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of and Apparatus for the Construction of Concrete Abutments, Bridge Piers, &c.

Patent for a new and improved method of making béton concrete. This design "consists of a method of building piers and abutments in a monolithic character of cement, sand, and broken stone or gravel, called 'béton concrete,' by laying the same in sectional molds contrived to add successive sections to the molds as the height of the structure increases, the molds being supported against the lateral pressure upon the sides by rods passing through the structure, and being removable when the materi… more

Date: June 27, 1882

Creator: Burns, James

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pile for Use in the Construction of Wharves and Other Structures.

Patent for a new and improved pile. This design "relates to that class of piles which have a portion of their length most exposed to decay and destruction from worms constructed of metal, and that portion of their lengths above the water and beneath the water-bed constructed of wood" (lines 25-30).

Date: June 27, 1882

Creator: Franklin, Robert M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Permutation Lock.

Patent for a new and improved combination lock. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the slotted bolt, follower, and follower-shaft, the elongated bolt-stop pivoted in the slot of the bolt, the radially-slotted disks having concentric stems on the follower-shaft, and the lettered or figured and graduated stem-caps engaging the respective stems by means of circular series of teeth" (lines 20-27).

Date: December 12, 1882

Creator: Saxon, James W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plaiting Machine.

Patent for a new and improved plaiting machine. This design "is to make the plaits with less labor and in less time than could be done by the plaiting-machines heretofore known or used" (lines 9-11).

Date: August 1, 1882

Creator: Shane, Oscar G.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Brush

Patent for invention of new and useful improvements of electric brush, adapted for use as a body or flesh brush, with battery that can be easily removed and replaced with accompanying drawings

Date: July 19, 1882

Creator: Williams, Robert, E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Car Brake.

Patent for a new and improved electric car brake. This design "consists in a combination . . . of a friction-wheel mounted on a laterally-adjustable vertical shaft, provided at its upper end with a beveled cog-wheel, engaging with a beveled cog-wheel on a horizontal shaft, journaled in the under side of the car-floor, on which horizontal shaft is loosely mounted a worm, which engages with a worm-wheel mounted on [a] shaft . . . when this worm is locked on the shaft . . . the brake-chain will be… more

Date: September 26, 1882

Creator: Conover, Philip Vorus

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Equalizer.

Patent for an improved double tree adapted to be used without single-trees designed to equalize the draft in case on horse gets ahead of the other in a draft team.

Date: July 18, 1882

Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Robertson, Alexander W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Earth-Auger.

Patent for an earth-auger that allows a hole to "be bored in ordinary soil in much less time than with the ordinary auger. It readily bores in ground in which the ordinary auger will not bore - viz., dry, hard, and packed soil, gravel, and concrete beds."

Date: September 12, 1882

Creator: Porter, Thomas & Gillilland, George Washington

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in the combination, with the slotted hopper-bottom, of the hinged and curved cut-offs and their spring, whereby the escape of seed will be prevented, except as forced out by the prongs of the feed-wheel" (lines 19-23).

Date: January 24, 1882

Creator: Byers, Anthony Walter & Dorser, James Carrol

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk cutter. This design "is to facilitate the operation of cutting down of cotton-stalks in preparing the ground for a new crop. The invention consists in the combination, with the sled provided with a series of holes, in its upper surface, of the hinged perforated bars, the cross-bar, the pins, and the knives; also, in the combination, with the sled carrying the hinged perforated bars, cross-bar, and knives, of the platform secured to the rear part of the… more

Date: February 28, 1882

Creator: Thompson, Francis Marion

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk and weed cutter. This design calls for "[a]n interchangeable cotton-stalk cutter and sulky plow . . . adapted to receive a plow at its rear end" (lines 67-70). The cutting blades can be raised and lowered as needed.

Date: March 21, 1882

Creator: Vannoy, James Harvey

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "is to promote accuracy and uniformity in the planting of cotton-seed and to secure the depositing of the seed in moist soil. The invention consists in the combination, with the frame, the drive-wheel, and the hopper, of gear-wheels connected to the drive-wheel, a shaft, a feed-screw working in the hopper, and a tube inclosing the rear part of the screw, whereby the seeds will be fed out one at a time by the advance of the machine" … more

Date: October 17, 1882

Creator: Hopper, Thomas Pinkney

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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