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Hanging Bed.

Patent for improvements in hanging or hidden beds by having “hangers pivoted at their upper ends to fixed supports and having upwardly-opening angular hooks at their lower ends, of a bed-frame, legs pivoted to the ends of the end bars thereof, pitman-rods extending inwardly from said legs, a piece to whose ends said rods are connected, an outward projection between the ends of said piece detachably engaging and closely fitting one of said hooks, and a pivot passing through the projection and pi… more

Date: November 24, 1891

Creator: Buell, Will M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "will serve to cut and pulverize the soil and at the same time will act as a guide to the plow, whereby it may be steadied and caused to run more evenly" (lines 17-20). It consists, "with the beam, the standards provided with shovels, and the brace-rod, of the backwardly-extending arm pivoted to standards and having its free end formed into a knife-edge, the vertical bar secured to said arm intermediate of its ends and provided with a series of ho… more

Date: January 13, 1891

Creator: Stuard, Charles Decatur

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for an improved plow using frame-bars to secure a clevis at the front end with a plow-blade attached, and the inner sides of the frame-bars carries three plows which can be adjusted to any desired distance when in use; the clevis can be removed and used as a cultivator. Illustration is included.

Date: February 24, 1891

Creator: Eason, Thomas Gay

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for an improvement in plows by “employing a combined brace for the mold-board and a locking device for the share” (lines 46-48), including illustration.

Date: March 3, 1891

Creator: Hyer, Robert Stewart

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for an improvement in plows by using a series of spring-tines that are secured above the mold-board, when in operation these independently-moving tines “serve to jar and break the clods, thus not only pulverizing the clods to a certain degree but also insuring the freeing of the tines of all dirt” (lines 90-93), including illustration.

Date: March 3, 1891

Creator: Ball, Alfred Fine

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Patent for an improved planting machine by securing a seed-plate with a central longitudinal slot, in the bottom of the hopper, a circular seed disk is placed into the slot; two pairs of gage-plates arranged at the front and rear end of said slot. These gage-plates can be adjusted to regulate the quantity of seeds being discharged when planting cotton. When planting corn, the rear pair of gage-plates can be brought closely together to prevent the escape of seeds. Illustration is included.

Date: March 10, 1891

Creator: Cayton, James Calvin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improved “reversible hillside-plows and enable the plowshare to be rapidly changed from one side of the plow to the other and to move in front of the standard and over the foot of the same and obviate the necessity of lifting the entire plow every time it is desired to change the position of the plowshare" (lines 10-17), includes illustration.

Date: March 10, 1891

Creator: Williams, Irvin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows by providing “a reversible colter adapted to be applied to any style of plow; such as shovel-plows, half or turning shovels, bull-tongue, or other forms of plows. Also to provide a convenient means of attaching and detaching the plow” (lines 12-17). Illustration is included.

Date: April 14, 1891

Creator: Baker, George Washington

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for an improved plow which is attached in the usual manner to the standard of a suitable beam, when the device is used for cultivating young crops, the fender is place in position and will serve to prevent the loose, dirt from tumbling over upon the growing plants. When the plants grew larger, the fender can be removed and a portion of the loose soil will thus be permitted to cover. (Lines 65-73) Illustration is included.

Date: May 5, 1891

Creator: Haynes, Leonard Franklin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Gate.

Patent for improvements in automatic railway and farm gates by using a combination and arrangement of two supporting-frames, two sliding gates, a diagonal rod to secure the gates; with three levers each having its own functions, and two friction rollers. Illustration is included.

Date: May 12, 1891

Creator: Wood, Horace Overall & Smith, Sanford Sanders

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improvement in plows by using a “combination of mold-board, land-bar, and share, which will effectually shed the land and prevent the latter from adhere to it.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.

Date: May 26, 1891

Creator: Brown, William Franklin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Patent for improvements in planters by having two hoppers C and D attached on each side of the concave wheel. A third and smaller hopper E can be interchanged with hopper C when planting seeds or grains. Hopper D is mainly for planting fertilizer. The bottom of hoppers C and D are provided with slides for the purpose of keeping the fertilizer, grain or seeds from banking up. Illustration is included.

Date: June 16, 1891

Creator: Patterson, Thomas C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Piano-Action.

Patent for a new and useful piano-action in which the so-called hammers is "pivotally connecting the hammers to the rail by a specific means." (Lines 11-12) Illustration is included.

Date: June 30, 1891

Creator: Norcross, Levi W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Plow.

Patent for improvements in rotary plows which can be used as a subsoil-plow or it can be converted into a cultivator. The “purpose is to provide a novel gang-plow capable of cutting the soil at different depths, as circumstances may require, and in which the angle at which the plows enter the soil may be varied.” (Lines 18-23) Illustration is included.

Date: June 30, 1891

Creator: Cleveland, George P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improvements in reversible plows: "The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of reversible plows and enable them to be adjusted to any desired depth" (lines 9-12).

Date: August 18, 1891

Creator: McKay, Robert B.

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

Portable Derrick.

Patent for improvements to derricks which make them portable and easily manipulated. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 8, 1891

Creator: Hurd, George Murray

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw-Gin.

Patent for improvements in cotton-gins by having two compartments, one above the other. “The upper roll-box being especially adapted to raw cotton and the lower one to half-ginned cotton as the lint and seeds are only partially separated in one roll-box and are then delivered into another, where the operation is completed.” (Lines 24-29) This operation used less time to separate the seed and lint. Illustration is included.

Date: October 27, 1891

Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for a quilting frame for sewing machines in which the frame would support the quilt in desired position, the frame is designed to move freely in any direction so that any pattern can be quilted on the article held by the frame. This frame can be easily adapted to the feed of any sewing machine. Illustration is included.

Date: February 24, 1891

Creator: Touchstone, James N.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Track Lifter.

Patent for improvement in railroad-track lifters by using “the combination of a base, a upright, a lever and two pawls engaging notches of the upright” (lines 97-99) and “hand mechanism for operating the pawls,” (lines 1-2, p. 2) for easily raising sections of railway-track. Illustration is included.

Date: March 31, 1891

Creator: Brown, Hiram David

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for an improvement in quilting-frames by making one roller adjustable in which it can be turned in either direction from the opposite side of the device. Illustration is included.

Date: April 7, 1891

Creator: Martin, Enoch

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for improvements in quilting-frames in which it “can be used either with or without a sewing-machine. Several lines can be quilted without having to roll the quilt. The frame is suspended from above, preferably upon a wire or cord, and so arranged that it may be moved in any direction desired.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.

Date: June 2, 1891

Creator: Stukes, John Marion

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for improvement in quilting-frames by providing “screw-eyes on the end pieces of the frame for the purpose of holding the frame together and at the same time serving to run in the rollers to carry the frame along,” (Lines 25-31) and an interchangeable roller-gages would enable either straight or curved or fancy quilting to be done. Illustration is included.

Date: July 14, 1891

Creator: Stukes, John Marion

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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