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Tuning-Hammer.

Patent for improvements in tuning-hammers by using a handle having a central square hole closed at its upper end, a ferrule around its lower end adapted to receive a tool. The tool is a T shaped head having holes in the ends of its cross-bar and the end of its shank adapted to fit into the handle that can be used to tune pianos. Illustration is included.

Date: September 1, 1891

Creator: Fuchs, Benjamin F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weight for Horses' Hoofs.

Patent for improvement in weights for horses’ hoofs by providing “a toe-weight or side weight which will adjust itself to the inclination of the hoof to which it is applied, and further, to provide a weight that will be self-locking, be effectively held against rattling, and be readily attachable and detachable.” (Lines 9-14) Illustration is included.

Date: September 22, 1891

Creator: King, George R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Chopper and Cotton-Thinner.

Patent for improvements in stalk-cutters and cotton-thinners by making the cutting-blades and scraper-blades interchangeable, “so as to use the apparatus either as a stalk-chopper or a cotton-thinner; or may be changed to a dropper as may be desired.” (Lines 19-21) Illustration is included.

Date: September 15, 1891

Creator: Mauldin, Columbus Scott

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Preparing and Tempering Slurry for Portland Cement.

Patent for improvements in the process of preparing and tempering slurry for Portland cement by expedite the process of production and to produce a uniform quality of cement. Detailed instructions included. No illustration.

Date: September 29, 1891

Creator: Kalteyer, George H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mowing-Machine.

Patent for improvements in mowing-machines by “providing a simplified means of applying the power direct to the cutter-bar by means of levers and connections,” (lines 16-18) in which will result in an easily run and quieter machine. Illustration is included.

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: Rich, Benjaman F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Heater.

Patent for improvements in tire-heater by using a tire box with a number of horizontal bars, tires are placed “into the front of the box and moved into correct position upon the horizontal bars without necessarily lifting the tires.” (Lines 29-32) Diverging arms are secured to the axis inside the tire box. Lamps are secured at the outer ends of the diverging arms. These diverging arms operate by a regulating crank which makes the lamps revolved beneath the tires, therefore heating the tires… more

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: Parks, James H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Till-Alarm.

Patent for improvements in Tills or cash-drawers by using “a combination-lock to prevent its being opened by unauthorized parties, and which will give an alarm with manipulated by any one unacquainted with the secret of its management.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included. Corrections in Letters are also included.

Date: September 15, 1891

Creator: Garrett, Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Parcel-Delivery Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in mail and parcel delivery apparatus: "is designed particularly for use at suburban residences, or where the distance from the house to the street is considerable" (lines 11-14).

Date: September 29, 1891

Creator: Gieseke, Otto

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows by using “a double-mold-board plow comprising a plow-point provided with a shank, whose reverse inclines are slightly convex from the upper end of the shank to the plow-point, in combination with two mold-boards that are concavo-convex in cross-section as well as in longitudinal or vertical section” (p. 2, lines 44-50). The described construction of plow would enable the plow to thoroughly broken up the soil. Illustration is included.

Date: September 15, 1891

Creator: Rutherford, John W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows: "This invention relates more particularly to double mold board plows, but it is applicable to ordinary sulky and other plows having a rotary colter over the plowshare and friction wheel with acts as a rotating support or sole in rear of the plow" (lines 8-13).

Date: September 15, 1891

Creator: Wilson, William H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pedal Attachment for Velocipedes.

Patent for a new and useful safety attachment “for the pedals of bicycles, tricycles, and other wheeled vehicles operated by the feet through the medium of pedals.” (Lines 9-11) This attachment will form a long bearing for the foot of the rider, thus avoiding dead-centers in the revolutions of the cranks, and to provide means for preventing any slipping of the pedals.” (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.

Date: September 1, 1891

Creator: Wheeler, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dry-Kiln Furnace.

Patent for improvements in dry-kiln furnaces by using “a series of furnaces alternating with a series of heating or radiating drums parallel to and on a plane above the furnace,” (Lines 116-119, p. 2) and valved connected flues. This arrangement allowed the “heat being regulated and so distributed through the kiln as to produce a varying temperature, highest at the end where the lumber is introduced and gradually diminishing toward the opposite end, where it is taken out.” (Lines 21-26) Illus… more

Date: September 22, 1891

Creator: Ketcham, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator-Harrow.

Patent for improvements in cultivator-harrows in which an adjustable “harrow-frame is adapted to the ready attachment of cultivators, plows, sweeps, scrapers, and various forms of cultivating devices which are interchangeable with each other and can be used either with or without the harrow-teeth, according to the character of work to be done.” (Lines 80-86) Illustration is included.

Date: September 29, 1891

Creator: Wilson, William H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saddle-Jack.

Patent for improvements in saddle-jack in which it “can be readily adjusted to hold the saddle-tree in any desired position to enable the workman to conveniently finish the saddle.” (Lines 9-12) Illustration is included.

Date: September 29, 1891

Creator: Bateman, Eugene E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Fastening.

Patent for improvements in shoe-fastenings by using a “pivoted clasp-lever which has a tail-piece acted upon by a leaf-spring for holding the lever in its closed or open position.” (Lines 11-13) Illustration is included.

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: Dessoir, Julius

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Imposition-Furniture for Printers' Use.

Patent for improvements in imposition-furniture for printers’ use; in this “improved furniture, the page can be removed with the cord tied around it and set aside for future use and the improved pieces of furniture used around another and different page of type and so on indefinitely. It is made to serve the purpose of an almost endless set of furniture-pieces of that style of furniture border-piece where the groove is formed on the outside of furniture border-pieces and the tying-cord is fitt… more

Date: September 1, 1891

Creator: Clarke, Robert

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings by enhancing a device called pin-lifter to couple and uncouple rail cars. Illustration is included.

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: Weathersby, Sarah Ann

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a draw-head having a chamber and a recess from its upper face into the chamber, of a coupling-dog pivoted in the recess and having a notch in its under faces and a hook at its forward end...... and the chain and levers connected with the said eyes.” (Lines 32-41) Illustration is included.

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: Lewis, Thomas E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvement in car-coupler particularly to that known as “swing-pin.” This is how it works “a pin comprises a pin proper whose upper end is connected by a chain with the front end of the arm on a horizontal rod. The body of this pin passes through a catch, from which it may be removed.” (Lines 40-45) “The catch has a transverse pin and a rounded upper edge, terminating in a shoulder at its front end and a tongue at its rear end.” (Lines 46-49) Illustration is included.

Date: September 15, 1891

Creator: Harrington, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Feed-Trough.

Patent for improvements in feed-troughs in which a controlled amount of feed can be placed in a feed box, and in which the latter will be fed as rapidly as consumed and the unconsumed feed will be protected. (Lines 11-14) Illustration in included.

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: Webb, William James

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Engine.

Patent for improvements in rotary engines to allow for the expansion of steam after admission and minimum leakage in order to provide an engine that is capable of long-continued use with a minimum of wear and working friction (lines 15-22), including illustrations.

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: Stocker, James M. & Stocker, Ziba O.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Engine.

Patent for improvements in rotary engines by proving “a reversible rotary steam-engine in which friction shall be reduced to as small an extent as consistent with suitable packing of the joints, the pressure on the piston-wings be practically balanced, and compensation made for wear” (lines 11-16). Illustration is included.

Date: September 29, 1891

Creator: Bretherton, Montague James

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Replacer.

Patent for improvements in car-replacers by using a jack-screw with a swiveled rest secured on top. The swiveled rest consists of an oblong box having rollers projecting above its upper edge. A windlass with a rope is journeyed in the jack-screw, passing through the swiveled rest, over a pulley and out of one end of the rest; the rope end having a hook or other suitable means for connecting it with the car. When the windlass is turned, “the car-body is moved laterally upon the rollers until … more

Date: September 8, 1891

Creator: White, James L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bed-Drawer Attachment for Bedsteads.

Patent for improvement in bed-drawer attachments for bedsteads by “having bed-drawer arranged to slide beneath the usual mattress-support.” (Lines 8-10) Illustration is included.

Date: September 22, 1891

Creator: Mabee, Leonia

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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