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Folding Lamp Shelf for Pianos.

Patent for a new and improved lamp shelf for pianos. This design "consists in an arm pivoted to the back of a music-rack and carrying a lamp-shelf, the arm being arranged to swing outward into a horizontal position, and the shelf being connected with the end of the arm by a pivotal connection, which permits of turning it outward and downward into a horizontal position in front of the plane of the music-rack" (lines 22-30).

Date: August 31, 1886

Creator: Prause, Reinhard

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buggy Top Support.

Patent for a new and improved support for buggy-tops. This design "relates to supports for the tops of buggies or other vehicles, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, effective, and durable device for attachment to the folding braces of the vehicle-tops to prevent the accidental folding of the top when the vehicles are on the road" (lines 7-13).

Date: January 26, 1886

Creator: Finney, James T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cane Mill.

Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).

Date: February 9, 1886

Creator: Webb, John T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Seat Recorder.

Patent for a new and improved car-seat recorder. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the following elements: a car-axle, the depressible car-seat, and the recording apparatus arranged alongside the seat and consisting of friction feed-wheels, a paper strip, meshing spur-gears, and a puncturing device arranged vertically, a lever which operatively connects said seat and apparatus, and gearing which connects the latter with the axle, whereby movement of the car operates said apparatus a… more

Date: March 2, 1886

Creator: Bywaters, Joseph K. & Burke, John Y.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Box for Washing Material for Concrete.

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

Bee-Hive.

Patent for a "new and useful improvement in bee-hives" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 15, 1886

Creator: McCullar, John Jackson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design consists in "an ordinary draw-head provided with the usual pin-and-link coupling [that] can be readily and cheaply adapted for use as an automatic coupling. The invention consists in the combination, with a slotted draw-head and a coupling-pin swinging therein and provided with pivotal supports or trunnions, of a vertically-projecting and axially-rotatable guide loop or staple arranged on each side of the pin-slot and adapted… more

Date: July 13, 1886

Creator: Garrett, Jackson B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the laterally and vertically movable draw-head having the hook at its outer end, the keeper depending from the lower side of the car, and in which the draw-head is confined, the spring connected to one side of the draw-head and bearing thereon, and the arm pivoted in a slot in the draw-head, and having the head projecting in rear of the lip or shoulder of the hook, and the lever fulcrum… more

Date: July 20, 1886

Creator: Gorny, Jacob

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bedstead Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved bedstead-fastener. This design "relates to the construction of a fastener for bedsteads, the object of the invention being to provide a fastener by which the parts are firmly held together and prevented from springing; and to these ends the invention consists of certain details of construction and combination of parts" (lines 8-14).

Date: August 3, 1886

Creator: Dickey, John S. & McKinney, William P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design is "to provide a device to be applied upon the rump of the animal for the purpose of attachment of the back-strap, the trace-bearers or breeching-straps, and the crupper-strap without sewing. [The] device comprises, essentially, a frame carrying a buckle for the attachment of the back-strap and one for the attachment of the crupper, and a loop for retaining the trace or breeching carrying straps or hip-straps" (lines 9-18).

Date: August 10, 1886

Creator: Kay, William V.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bed Bottom.

Patent for an improved bed bottom consisting of a series of hooks and eyes and wires with instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 28, 1886

Creator: Peacock, John Calvin; Graves, James Beard & Huffor, George Allin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "hinged jaws, draw-bars provided with a pin-hole . . . the jaws acting to support the pin until forced apart by the link, a hinged lever, a plate pivoted to said lever, said pin being attached to said plate, and an operating chain or rod connected to said plate for raising said pin" (lines 29-36).

Date: October 12, 1886

Creator: Carley, John W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling

Patent for "...certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings..." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 12, 1886

Creator: Mitchell, William A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Box Car Door Fastener and Spark Arrester.

Patent for a new and improved box-car door fastener and spark arrester. This design consists in "the door, the screws extending therefrom, the strips having the inclined slots received on the screws, and provided with the projections, the lever pivoted on the screws outside the strip, stops on the lever to engage the projections, and means--such as cord--for locking the lever" (lines 4-11).

Date: October 19, 1886

Creator: Lynch, Hubbard Calhoun

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvement of automatic car coupling and uncoupling devices.

Date: November 2, 1886

Creator: Ferguson, George Jones

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists of "a yielding draw-head having a horizontally-moveable coupling-pin and a pivoted lever connected to said pin, of a rotatable latching-plate connected with said lever by a rod or chain, a spring for acting on the pin-lever, and a spring-catch for engaging the latch-plate, said catch and latch-plate being disengaged by the pressure of the draw-head in the act of coupling, thereby releasing the retracted coupling-pin … more

Date: December 7, 1886

Creator: Sessions, Egbert G.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Seat.

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

Boot Cleaner.

Patent for a new and improved boot cleaner. This design "affords facilities for readily and conveniently scraping all parts of the boot or shoe. The heel is scraped on [a] semicircular portion located at the top of the arch, the sides of the sole by the arms, the upper hollow of the foot by the projections, [and] the toe by the lower side of the arch or bow" (lines 38-45).

Date: May 25, 1886

Creator: Scovel, Purley A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has relation to that class of car-couplings in which the open ends of a coupling bar or link are engaged by hooks in the draw-heads; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a coupling, in which the hooks are projecting from the under sides of arms pivoted upon the draw-heads and dropping down by their gravity, and in which the said hooks project into registering recesses in the upper sid… more

Date: June 29, 1886

Creator: Boyers, Robert L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brick-Machine

Patent for an improvement to the features of Brick Machines, included with detailed illustrations.

Date: August 31, 1886

Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Window Lock.

Patent for a new and improved car-window lock. This design consists in "the sliding crank-shaped spring-actuated bolt for locking the window, in combination with the oscillating cam acting upon the bolt to unlock it, said cam having a lateral arm with a spring-guide hinged thereto, a spring surrounding the guide, and means for swinging the cam and thus retracting the bolt" (lines 21-27).

Date: October 5, 1886

Creator: Cutter, Martin A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carriage Top.

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

Brick Machine.

Patent for a new and improved brick machine. This design consists in "a mold-wheel mounted to revolve in the horizontal plane and provided with mold-cavities, of a vertically-movable plunger in each cavity, a door for each cavity hinged on the top of the wheel, the hinge plate or lug attached to the mold-wheel being slotted to allow a vertical movement of the hinge-pin, a curved arm pivoted over the top of the mold-wheel and extending over part of the same, and a spring acting on the swinging e… more

Date: November 23, 1886

Creator: Thaison, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.

Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.

Date: February 2, 1886

Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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