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Staple-Puller and Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a simple, reliable, and efficient staple-puller and wire-tightener or twister. The operator can easily transfer between pulling staples and tightening wires.

Date: June 2, 1896

Creator: Wooten, Theophilus Parker

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

Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer.

Patent for a storage-condenser and lint-cotton conveyer based off two previous patents, one that the inventor was assignee of, Serial No. 552,724, the other one that the inventor submitted an application for, Serial No. 563,386. This patent simplifies the above patents and is meant to efficiently cleans the cotton, "to avoid the employment of the rotary foraminous drums or cylinders" (lines 29-30), to draw out the dirt with the air, and to regulate the amount of cotton that is supplied to the c… more

Date: June 16, 1896

Creator: Patterson, Warren A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Square.

Patent for a square meant "to provide a simple and cheap steel square embodying also a level, an inclinometer, and mitrometer" (lines 13-15).

Date: September 15, 1896

Creator: Johns, John P.

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Thill-Coupling.

Patent for an expansible coupling-bolt designed to not rattle and to "provide a simple but effective means for taking up the play between the coupling-pin in the lug-bearings" (lines 17-20).

Date: November 3, 1896

Creator: Stowe, John N., Jr.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydraulic Pump.

Patent for a pump that operates "a pump-rod designed especially to dispense with valves, valve-cages, or other impedimenta to the flow of liquid" (lines 40-44). It is capable of pumping liquids to elevated heights.

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Clarkson, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydraulic Pump

Patent for a hydraulic pump with "means for automatically supplying water to the pressure-pipe while the pump is working to replenish waste or leakage." (Lines 18-20) Includes instructions or illustrations.

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Clarkson, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Support.

Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the a… more

Date: February 18, 1896

Creator: Price, Thomas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer.

Patent for a storage-condenser and lint-cotton conveyor. It forms lint-cotton into a bat so it can be delivered to a baling machine. with this invention, "a battery or batteries of gins can continuously discharge lint-cotton to a mechanism for conveying the same to a point in juxtaposition to cotton baling or pressing mechanism, and the necessity of stopping the gins during the time the bale is being tied, where a single press-box, or single pressing mechanism is used, is avoided, thus enabling… more

Date: February 25, 1896

Creator: Tennison, John S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanism for Overcoming Dead-Centers.

Patent for a "mechanism for overcoming what are known in mechanics as 'dead-centers,' which occur in machines where a shaft is driven by means of a crank." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: February 4, 1896

Creator: Johnson, Willie Harry

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Mirror Attachment for Dressers.

Patent for a mirror attachment for dressers with an improved clamping mechanism so that it can be easily adjusted when in use and easily put to the side when not in use. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: April 7, 1896

Creator: Gibson, Lizzie & Crank, Albert

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Means for Making Bats for Mattresses.

Patent for a simple means for making bats for mattresses, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 399,041). "I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twenty-five feet, more or less to allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or… more

Date: April 7, 1896

Creator: Haynes, Daniel

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Measuring and Proportioning Machine.

Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.

Date: May 5, 1896

Creator: Collins, Alonzo G.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Tanning Hides.

Patent for "an improved process of tanning hides in an expeditious and economical manner, and to produce a fine quality of leather" (lines 8-11). The limed and haired hides are baited thrice, afterwards the hides are packed into "tanning-vats with bark and covering them with a solution of alum and water" (lines 80-82). The hides are then leached in salt water and scoured and dried.

Date: July 14, 1896

Creator: Rogers, John Charsley

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Hardening Bitminuous Substances.

Patent for "a process for hardening or partly solidifying to any required degree substances such as liquid or viscid bitumens, tars, or asphaltums, either natural or artificial" (lines 8-12). It hardens bitumens without evaporating oils and leaves them solid when cooled.

Date: August 11, 1896

Creator: Dumble, Edwin Theodore

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

Tool for Cleaning Out Nuts.

Patent for a tool for cleaning out internally-threaded apertures. This removes rust and dirt from screw-threads without damaging the threads, and is much less destructive than acid baths, heat, and screw-taps.

Date: September 22, 1896

Creator: Rall, Frederick A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Speed-Recorder.

Patent for an improvement in speed-recorders or device meant especially for street-cars, meant to protect the streets from reckless driving. The machine punches tape, recording the time the trolly takes to travel each block and how long the trolly takes at each stop.

Date: May 5, 1896

Creator: Spence, James, Jr.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Speed-Indicator.

Patent for a speed-indicator to be used on trolly-cars and other vehicles that informs anyone looking behind the trolly-car if that car is speeding or not. An alarm goes off when the car goes above a predetermined speed, which is activated by a governor that is controlled from the wheels. A device keeps the signal normal.

Date: July 7, 1896

Creator: Bateman, Talbot Owens

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for "an improved plow of simple and inexpensive construction employing two shovels so arranged and attached that either one may be quickly and easily removed to convert the plow into either a right or left hand plow, and has for its further object to provide a plow especially designed for opening new ground wherein the plowing is rendered difficult by the presence of roots and similar growth" (lines 9-18).

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Stephens, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing-Press.

Patent for a printing, ruling, and cutting press of a simple and durable construction. The printing press can print both sides of a sheet of paper and has adjustable guards so that the operator can print any size paper. The machine also provides a "means for regulating the feed of the machine for adapting it to print short or long sections or a newspaper as well as a small tract" (lines 20-22). The machine has two plates opposite each other, the weight of one counterbalances the other so doubl… more

Date: March 31, 1896

Creator: Hallenbeck, Matthew L. W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for a plow that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventors (No. 507,854). The improvements are that the "stock may be used in connection with any form of share needed for working a crop" (lines 14-16) and the plow provides "a sweep-stock with a point which will be integral with its shoe or foot-bar, and which will assist in holding the share in position" (lines 20-23).

Date: April 28, 1896

Creator: Symmank, Herman & Matthijez, Ernst

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for a plow that has a new design for a "subsoil and harrow attachment to the ordinary break-plow" (lines 9-10).

Date: May 19, 1896

Creator: Bowers, Thomas M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Furnace.

Patent for a furnace adapted for camping and general outdoor use. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: July 21, 1896

Creator: Underwood, William T. & Underwood, Leroy C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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