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Window-Shade Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and useful window shade attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 26, 1899
Creator: Garretson, Charles E.
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Wireworking Tool

Description: Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Dickey, Marion F.
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Wire-Fastener

Description: Patent for a wire fastener. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Kramer, William C., Jr.
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Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Oliver, Jesse L.
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Wrench

Description: Patent for improvements to wrenches and monkey wrenches in particular, "improved construction and arrangement of adjustable jaw and improved means for locking the latter in its adjusted position and quickly releasing the same for readjustment" (lines 16-19) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 2, 1913
Creator: Waters, Richard Henry
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Yardstick-Calculator.

Description: Patent for "a calculating-yardstick adapted for use in connection with the dry goods or any other business in which goods are sold by linear measurement, the object in view being to provide, in connection with a linear measuring scale or rule, an indicating device provided with a plurality of price-scales having relation to the measuring-scale and adapted to indicate the price of a given length of an article at a given price per unit of measure, and also adapted to indicate the length of an art… more
Date: September 1, 1896
Creator: Praeger, Ewald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for improvements in wire stretchers: "provide a wire stretcher of simple, durable, and economic construction, capable of being applied to a wire and supported upon s post or maintained in working position between posts or uprights" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Brannon, Walter Zebulin
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Wrench

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in Wrenches" consisting of "several novel features" including a "revoluble head" (lines 4-5,12, 16-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 22, 1891
Creator: Rosenburg, Helfred, John
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Wire Stretcher and Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher and fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bar constructed of metal and provided at one end with a claw and having its other end bent at right angles to form an arm provided with a slot or bifurcation forming prongs, one of the prongs being longer than the other, the stud secured to the bar on the side opposite the arm and arranged adjacent to the same and forming a hammer-head, and a handle arranged on the same side of the stud an… more
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Chamberlain, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher and Splicer.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire stretcher and splicer that can easily connect to a post and use it as an anchor while stretching wire. The invention also draws wires together and re-connects them. A crank makes the device easy to use.
Date: September 4, 1894
Creator: Marshall, Otto
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective wire-stretcher that stretches wire and attaches it to the same post to which it is applied. It has a frame, a claw, a spool, a crank, a ratchet wheel, a pawl, and and a chain that secures the claw to the frame. The parts fit inside the body portion of the frame, and wire wraps around the spool.
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Myers, John M.
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Wood Column Turning Lathe

Description: Patent for a wood column turning lathe. Illustration included.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Bible, Hunley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date: September 24, 1907
Creator: Boaz, Emery Hatcher
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lid Mover for Ice Boxes, Refrigerators, and the Like.

Description: Patent for a lid mover for ice boxes, refrigerators, ice cream cabinets, etc., that allows the lid to move parallel to the top of the box or other device. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: White, Brown
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Lock

Description: Patent for "improvements in locks, having special reference to locks for the doors of freight-cars; and it has for its object to provide a strong lock so constructed as to be comparatively safe from the attacks of lockpickers" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: Bergman, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn Mower.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lawn-mower. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bifurcated frame, a driving-wheel supported therein, gears secured to opposite sides of said wheel, inclined pitmen-driving shafts carrying at their inner ends pinions to engage said gears, guide-plates supported by the lower and forward end of the frame, cutters provided with slots and supported between said guide-plates, pitmen connecting the cutters and shafts, and adjusting-screws applied to said plate… more
Date: September 18, 1888
Creator: Grothaus, Frederick E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Bag Fastening.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mail-bag fastener. This design "is to provide a fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly manipulated to fasten or unfasten the bag. To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots and carried by an overlapping flap, the said slide being adapted to engaged headed studs that are secured to one side of the main portion of the pouch and passed through apertures formed in the other side of the pouch" (lines 7-16).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Roosevelt, James A.
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Vehicle Top.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle-top. This design "is to simplify, improve, and cheapen the construction of vehicle-tops . . . and enable the sliding curtain to be more readily and securely fastened to the standards and bows of the carriage-top" (lines 12-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting-bows provided with longitudinal grooves, and the curtain-carrying frame comprising flat flexible strips arranged in the said grooves and provided at intervals with inwa… more
Date: September 30, 1890
Creator: McCurdy, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tuning-Hammer.

Description: 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

Vehicle-Seat

Description: Patent for "a device of the character set forth adapted for application to buggies, carriages, sleighs, and other Vehicles and arranged adjacent to the dash, and when not in use the several parts are folded and the device entire detached and placed endwise under the seat 'and behind the cushion-fall, the parts being simple and effective in their construction and operation, strong and durable, and easily and readily handled and applied" (lines 14-24).
Date: September 6, 1892
Creator: Padgitt, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide

Description: Patent for an insecticide specifically for insects that burrow into the shucks of corn. "The general object of my invention is to provide a compound capable, when affected by moisture incidental to the sweating of the corn in the crib, of generating a poisonous gas which will permeate the shucks and reach and destroy the insect within the shucks, where it cannot be destroyed by simply sprinkling the corn with a poisonous powder or solution" (lines 17-25).
Date: September 13, 1892
Creator: Carter, Joseph John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type.

Description: Patent for a new and improved type. This design "relates to printing, and more especially to the type used therein; and the object of the same is to provide a substitute for the large wood type now extensively used on poster and other large work. To this end the invention consists in a type-face and a type-base each of metal" (lines 7-13).
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Coleman, Allison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide Distributor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a base, a bellows mounted thereon, a receptacle arranged in advance of the bellows and adapted to contain poison to be distributed, a forwardly-projecting discharge-tube, laterally-extending discharge-tubes comprising inner rigid sections, outer rigid sections having series of discharge-nozzles, and flexible couplings connecting the rigid sections, and the braces having their inner ends pivoted to the base … more
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Talley, Reuben J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Windmills.

Description: Patent for the improvement of windmills, including illustrations.
Date: September 29, 1874
Creator: Symthe, Peyton.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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