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Spike.

Description: Patent for a railroad spike "which can be used in soft-wood ties." (lines 15-16) including description and illustrations.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Teele, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spike Puller

Description: Patent for a spike puller. This invention uses a clawed head set on a roller where by a fulcrum can move inward to apply power to pull the spike. Illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Bradshaw, Richard A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pumping Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements to a pumping apparatus "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and easily-operated apparatus through the medium of which water may be forced from a well, stream, or other source of supply by the weight of a person" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Simmons, Jessie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mud-Scraper.

Description: Patent for a mud scraper attachment for vehicles, which prevents mud from getting in the wheels of the vehicle on muddy dirt roads.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Whitaker, Ira Paschal
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tag

Description: Patent for a tag. This tag is intended for use with dry goods, material bolts, and like items. Illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Brown, Sampson H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sunshade-Gear for Personal Wear.

Description: Patent for a wearable sunshade, which is worn over the shoulders and allows free movement of the body while in use and has holders for farm tools included on the sunshade holding device.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Ridout, William Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trolley

Description: Patent for "a peculiar construction" (lines 11-12) that will reduce the liability of a trolley running off of the trolley-wire. This construction "involves a trolley-wheel carried on an axis fixed on the trolley pole or harp and an auxiliary wheel yieldingly mounted on the pole and pressed against the under side of the wire, so that should the pole drop slightly the auxiliary wheel will move relatively to the pole and reduce this contact with the wire." (lines 12-19)
Date: July 17, 1906
Creator: Ward, Gurney Enoch
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for pump that allows for ease of maneuvering, via balanced operating mechanism; as well as ease of access and repacking, via a simpler valve.
Date: July 17, 1906
Creator: Terry, Hiram
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Crossing.

Description: Patent for a railway crossing track, which does not jar the train's wheels as it passes over the crossing.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Adams, Powell O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Match-Box.

Description: Patent for match boxes that automatically opens when unlatched and has a projecting member arm that slides the lid with a match for removal conveniency.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Whiteker, Bosque M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Match Box

Description: Patent for match box. This invention is designed to push matches forward and ejecting it without disturbing the other matches remaining in the box. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Kerley, Melvie V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a pipe cutter, which can be used on pipes that are at any angle and in narrow spaces.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Thomas, Roy L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Retort Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for improvements in retort-burners, to be used for any suitable and desired purposed and for any kind of oils by providing a "direct-combustion retort-burner that the combustion will be perfect and complete and the oil and air may be supplied thereto under a uniform pressure of high or low degree." (Lines 20-27) The retort-burner will be "readily assembled without the necessity of having special machinery for their manufacture or skilled workmen to put them together." (Lines 31-34) Illus… more
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Duncan, Alfred D. & Wafer, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Producing Device

Description: Patent for a draft producing device. This invention is placed under the eye of a kiln or under a boiler to increase air to the furnace. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for an improved cultivator that utilizes wheels and implements adapted for working in adjacent parallel furrows. The cultivator can be used to remove potatoes and similar crops from the earth.
Date: December 17, 1901
Creator: Sheridan, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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