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Drag-Saw.

Patent for a simple and efficient drag-saw that can be easily transported and adjusted. The saw can also be lifted during operation if necessary. It has a frame, a longitudinally-grooved guiding-bracket attached to the frame, a reciprocating pitman-head that slides into the frame, a crank-shaft that operates the pitman-head, an arm that carries the saw with a pivotal connection to the pitman-head, a saw-frame secured to the pitman-head's outer end, an adjustable strap between the saw-carrying a… more

Date: March 3, 1896

Creator: Reeves, Newell Antony

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling-press that means "to provide a simple and efficient power for operating the plunger so constructed as to allow independent return movement of the plunger to avoid loss of time in the operation of the device" (lines 9-13).

Date: June 2, 1896

Creator: Davis, John R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Disk Plow.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in disk plows, the object being to construct a plow of the kind described in which the resistance encountered by the main cutting or master disk in operation is counteracted by oppositely-disposed disks, one of which acts as a subspoiler, the other as a jointer, making a partial penetration of the land, which is followed by the master-disk in the succeeding furrow." (Lines 24-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: April 7, 1896

Creator: Stewart, John A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.

Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.

Date: January 28, 1896

Creator: Innes, Robert Hayward

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Saddle.

Patent for a ridding-saddle that is an improvement previously granted to Jesse D. Padgitt (No. 540,940). The improvements include increasing the strength to the flexible rear portion of the saddle. The first patent was for a saddle "distinguished by a tree or frame formed of a short rigid fork and a flexible body or rear portion, including a seat and cantle, constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material" (lines 10-14).

Date: April 28, 1896

Creator: Padgitt, William C. & Padgitt, Jesse D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Holding Wall-Paper.

Patent for a wall-paper hanging machine. It has a frame with a handle, a paste-pot, pasting rollers, a paper-holding roll, a pivoted matching-frame, a cutter, and a way of putting the frame out of use.

Date: August 25, 1896

Creator: Gowan, Richard H. & Gowan, Louise E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clutch.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive clutch used for transmitting power. The clutch has "independent rotable disks that act on peripheral eccentric proportions, which are so arranged that the said disk will be held free from contact with the drive-shaft and the entire bearing of the clutch mechanism thrown on the grip members, whereby the shaft-apertures in the disks can be made sufficiently large to overcome any irregularity of the bearing-faces of the internal cam portions and obviating the ne… more

Date: April 28, 1896

Creator: Carleton, Ernest WIlliam

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a cotton-press with "new and useful roller-compresses for making bales of cotton into a cylindrical or roll-form, and also having simple and efficient mechanism for continuously forming a bale all the time the compress is in operation, which result has heretofore been impossible in presses of that character employing only one pair of compressing-rolls" (lines 9-17).

Date: June 16, 1896

Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-Escape.

Patent for fire escapes adapted for "being carried fro one portion of a building to another to effect the escape of persons from any portion of the same and at an elevation thereof." (Lines 16-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 8, 1896

Creator: Sjolander, Eric O.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Caster Attachment for Plows.

Patent for "a simple and practical attachment for a sulky or other plow which will enable the operator to readily turn the plow at any point where this may be desired while the plow is in service, and furthermore, to furnish a device of the above-indicated character which will be especially well adapted to facilitate the turning movement of a disk plow and dispense with the use of a tongue to guide the plow." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 26, 1896

Creator: Waters, George W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mattress-Stuffing Machine.

Patent for an improved mattress-stuffing machine which is capable of "feeding the stuffing material directly from the bale in super-posed layers, wherein, if desired, the intermediate layers may be of different quality than that of the outside layers or even of entirely different material." (Lines 19-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 29, 1896

Creator: White, Charles W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metal Packing-Case for Food Products.

Patent for "a new and useful packing-case for food products" (lines 13-14), particularly for cured meats. It protects "against flies, souring, shrinking, &c., than the ordinary forms of packing" (lines 20-21). It is made from metal, stamped into a packing-case.

Date: September 15, 1896

Creator: Blanke, Louis H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting Device.

Patent for "lifting devices, and particularly to the mechanism adapted for use as a stump-puller and for elevating heavy weights, the object in view being to provide a simple and efficient construction and arrangement of parts whereby sufficient power for elevating heavy weights may be communicated to a rotary shaft or drum, and whereby the means communicating motion to the drum may be moved out of operative position and a brake simultaneously applied in order to relieve the operating-lever fro… more

Date: September 15, 1896

Creator: Jensen, Ole T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for an improved combined cotton chopper and cultivator.

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Summers, Dewett C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Quilting Frame and Table.

Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 14, 1896

Creator: Burns, Robert Llewellwynn

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Patent for a simple and efficient churn where "the process of churning is rendered easier, the resultant product firmer, and butter obtained in a shorter space of time than heretofore, while at the same time the milk is left in better condition and rendered free from water" (lines 12-17).

Date: June 16, 1896

Creator: Holt, Henry Lee

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Autographic Register.

Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.

Date: September 29, 1896

Creator: Norcross, George A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer.

Patent for an improvement on a previous patent application (Serial No. 552,724), of which Patterson was an assignee. The improved and simply designed machine has a variety of assets, the main goal being to produce bats of uniformly thick and clean cotton.

Date: June 9, 1896

Creator: Patterson, Warren A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a cotton gin that removes lint-cotton from the saws using an air-suction mechanism instead of a brush, which pose a fire hazard and can impair the gin's effectiveness. An air-blast mechanism is also an ineffective method of cleaning lint-cotton from the saws. The air-suction mechanism sucks "the lint-cotton directly from the rear portions of the saw-teeth independently of and without a brush, and an apparatus for preventing the withdrawn lint-cotton from passing into and through the … more

Date: September 29, 1896

Creator: Graber, Henry W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mergenthaler Linotype-Machine.

Patent for an improvement "to the elevator-arm of the Mergenthaler linotype-machine, and its object is to prevent the rubbing of the matrices against the inner walls of the channel-plates when being raised therefrom." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: April 7, 1896

Creator: Sundstrom, Herman Theodor

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power-Motor.

Patent for a power-motor that a "gearing mounted on a frame, winding-drum, and horse-power, elevations and weights, with means for operating and regulating the same" (lines 12-15).

Date: May 19, 1896

Creator: Levings, Enoc

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee-Roaster.

Patent for a coffee-roaster for family use, and the roasting-cylinder may be rotated automatically or manually. A pendulum swinging below the table attached to a ratchet is how the cylinder can automatically rotated.

Date: February 4, 1896

Creator: Smith, John Dawson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Construction of Doors or Window-Sashes.

Patent for "improvements in the construction of doors and window-sashes, the object being to provide a door or window-sash which shall be constructed of two pieces of timber united by means of a key to prevent warping or twisting" (lines 8-13). The panel of the door or the pane of glass can also be united by the key. This design lightens and cheapens doors and window-sashes.

Date: July 28, 1896

Creator: Cordray, Henry A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for a cotton-chopper attachment for cultivators. It can fit to any cultivator with some modification. It is a wheel that rides "upon the row and presses down into the ground parts of the cotton in the row, leaving the other standing, and of the necessary mechanism for attaching and controlling said wheel" (lines 20-24).

Date: February 4, 1896

Creator: Ray, William T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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