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Corn and Cotton Sweep.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton sweep. This design "is to provide an improved sweep for the cultivation of corn, cane, and cotton plants while they are young, which shall be capable of adjustment to plow-stocks of any class; to provide removable wings which can be applied or detached when it is desired to throw the dirt or soil to either the right or left; and to provide a removable point which can be replaced when it is worn out with another point of similar construction and thus… more
Date: September 28, 1886
Creator: Lewis, Samuel Timothy & Babb, John Hendrick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Loading Cartridges.

Description: Patent for mechanizing and streamlining the steps involved in loading a cartridge.
Date: October 10, 1886
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device For Converting Motion.

Description: Patent for a device that converts "regular rotary motion into irregular reciprocating motion" (lines 15-16) which includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 26, 1886
Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Description: Patent for an improvement for the Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator by removing dirt, weeds, and grass from the sides of the row. Included with this are detailed illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1886
Creator: Flewellen, Anthony, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tamping Machine

Description: Patent for the invention of a new and useful improvement in Tamping-Machines. Includes full, clear, and exact description and illustration. Invention relates to an improvement in machines for tamping, intended for tamping dirt under railway-ties (20).
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Carley, John, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Buckle and Trace or Breeching Loop

Description: Patent for a "device whereby, in a harness, the back-band and belly-band may readily be connected to a trace-buckle, or a breeching-loop or 'trace-square'" (lines 10-13) without sewing the buckle into other harness pieces.
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Kay, William V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Wheel

Description: Patent for Vehicle-Wheel. "I am enabled to produce a wheel which can be put together, taken apart, repaired, renewed or tightened, with no tools or appliances other than a wrench, and by persons wholly unskilled in the manufacture of wheels in the ordinary way." (lines 13-18)
Date: April 6, 1886
Creator: Horrne, Henry M. & Rutherford, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Machine.

Description: Patent for the improvements of ice machine gas compressors and its adjuncts.
Date: May 25, 1886
Creator: Schuehle, Jacob
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Seat.

Description: Patent for improvement in regular car-seating (not baby car-seat) by enabling the seat to recline “like an ordinary sleeping-coach without the necessity of the upper berths required in a sleeping-coach.” (Lines 45-48) Illustration is included.
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Goelet, Edward B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Cracking Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that helps crack and break down nuts for processing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Arc Amp

Description: Patent for electric arc lamp.
Date: October 1, 1886
Creator: Crowdus, Walter A. & Sutton, Henry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Compressor.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements for air-compressors" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1886
Creator: Harrold, Mahlon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Loading Cartridges.

Description: Patent for "improvement in machines for loading cartridges" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam Plow

Description: Patent for Steam-Plow. "The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved steam-plow, which is simple in construction, has great tractive force, can-not slip, and plows very rapidly and perfectly." (lines 7-10)
Date: August 3, 1886
Creator: Lay, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination-Lock for Money-Drawers, &c.

Description: Patent for improvement to a combination lock for money drawers to make it more secure.
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Time-Calculator.

Description: Patent for a machine that easily calculates the number of days within a given time span, up to one year, with illustrations.
Date: October 18, 1886
Creator: Wood, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring Socket Iron for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for a new and improved spring socket-iron for vehicles. This design "relates to thills and thill-couplings by means of which a more convenient and safe fastening for the thills or pole of a carriage or wagon are provided, whereby the thills are readily attached to or detached from spring-socket thill-irons, and the irons are securely locked in the ears of the axle-clips by means of flanged bolts working in recessed movable bushings in the ears of the clips and in the eye of the thill-iro… more
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Horrne, Henry Monroe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Attachment for Freight-Car Doors.

Description: Patent for a mechanism that creates "an adjustable attachment for freight-car doors, for preventing sparks and other objectionable matter from getting into the cars, and means for operating the attachment that is adapted for use in securing the door in different positions of adjustment, and for connection with the body of the car by means of a seal-support, in order that the fixed adjustment of the door cannot be changed without breaking the seal" (lines 12-21).
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Duzan, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the driving devices and the pivoted dasher-operating lever, of the fly-wheel provided with a series of holes each of square contour throughout the greater part of its length, the wrist-pin shaped to fit in any one of said holes, the cap pivoted on the rear side of the fly-wheel and adapted to cover any one of the holes in which the pin may be placed, and the pitman attached to the wrist-pin and connecting the … more
Date: July 6, 1886
Creator: Jones, Caleb
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carriage Top.

Description: Patent for an adjustable carriage top for protection from the weather. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date: November 2, 1886
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for improvement of automatic car coupling and uncoupling devices.
Date: November 2, 1886
Creator: Ferguson, George Jones
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Box for Washing Material for Concrete.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in boxes for washing aggregate or rough material for making concrete" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Nut-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench that is used to fix railroad tracks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Forbes, Alston J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Engine

Description: Patent for improvements to be made upon steam engines, with description of parts and use and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1886
Creator: Cross, David L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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