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Marking Device.

Description: Patent for a new and improved merchandise tag. This design consists of a stick "provided with means for holding it fixed in its position after it has been inserted and having hinged to its outer end the tag having a strip of suitable material secured around its edges, as shown, so as to form on both sides of the tag the flanges adapted to receive the removable, reversible, and interchangeable cards (lines 1-8).
Date: August 25, 1885
Creator: Brown, Sampson Harvey
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for the improvement of railroad constructions by means of using a fishplate that provides an effective connection between two rail bars and secures the accuracy in lining the bars up.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Starkey, Ollie B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Crossing Signal

Description: Patent for improvements in Railway-Crossing Signals that provide both a visual and audible signal to be given at the crossing when a train is approaching.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Adleta, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Piano Key Bushing.

Description: Patent for an improved piano key bushing that designed to reduce sticking of the keys. Important parts of the bushing are made of metal and given ample room to expand without causing friction that might cause the keys to stick.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Rogers, Karl C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pinless Clothes-Line.

Description: Patent for "a simple device constructed of connected links and provided with means for engaging articles to be suspended therefrom, such means being so constructed as to prevent displacement when subjected to severe strains." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Cooper, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Cultivators

Description: Patent for attachment for cultivators that consist of new improvements that allow for cultivator-beams to spread apart and draw together with the attachment. This attachment can be affixed while the cultivator is in use.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Faubion, Rufus O.; Workman, Calvin W. & Workman, Cave G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash-Lock.

Description: Patent for sash-lock. This device is designed for locking a window sash at any given position. It may be applied to a window frame without damaging the frame or sash.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Clements, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety-Pin.

Description: Patent for an improved fastening device which incorporates a sliding shield.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Pyron, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed Planter.

Description: Patent for a "seed planting machine mounted upon a wheeled frame adapted to form a furrow and drop a predetermined quantity of seed at predetermined intervals" (lines 14-19), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Cantrell, Isaac D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shirt

Description: Patent for a mans shirt which is held in place by a strap going between the legs so that the garment does not move throughout the day and which helps hold up drawers.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Pollak, Julius
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Headlight.

Description: Patent for a train engine headlight, which shines light around a curve.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Bell, Robert A. & McKiel, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cylinder-Cock

Description: Allows the cylinder cocks on a steam engine to be opened or closed using a coiled spring instead of steam or air pressure to ensure it is opened only when the engineer wants.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Galey, John Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for an improve to a Gas-Generator by controlling the liquid for decomposing the carbid in acetylene, by doing this the generation of gas is monitored and the waste of gas will not occur. This is an improvement to the Gas-Generator, this construct will have an automatic cut-off for the liquid-supply.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Summerfield, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dress-Chart.

Description: Patent for dress-chart, with illustrations. The purpose of this dress-chart relating to "pattern charts for cutting any and all garments" regardless of man, woman, or child (lines 9-11).
Date: August 25, 1885
Creator: Northen, Mary Eva
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow-Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a harrow cultivator, which can be operated on opposite sides of a row of plants at the same time.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Farris, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Governor for Steam-Engines.

Description: Patent for "a steam engine governor for shutting off the supply of steam to the engine in the event of the governor-belt breaking or slipping from the pulley, which is operatively connected with the weighted arms of the governor, so as to control the motion of the latter." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Wilcox, Ferdenand, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow

Description: Patent for a plow. The invention is applied to the "Georgia" plow and double-shovel plow.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Smith, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling Press

Description: Patent for a baling press that improves the baling of hay. The baling press is capable of receiving continuous stream of hay providing the maximum of leverage for operating the press plunger. Illustrations included.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Stopple, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carriage Top Support

Description: Patent for a carriage top support. This carriage top support is designed "with sufficient resiliency to take up all the jolts and strains between the body and the top" (line 16-18). Illustration included.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Mason, Everett H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric-Railway Conduit.

Description: Patent for an electric railway conduit that is more efficient and durable. It has "guides for the traveling switch, one of said guides being a continuous one and the other a sectional one, one being insulated from the conduit and the other guide-strip (lines 16-20). The traveling switch moves in the conduit and on the sides of the guides. Only one section of the conduit is live at once, the one that a car is passing over.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Hull, William Sharkey
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Feed-Water Heater.

Description: Patent for a feed-water heater for steam-boilers. It provides "such a heater having an arrangement of distributing-troughs located in such a manner as to evenly distribute the water over tubes in thin streams or a thin sheet, whereby it may be quickly heated, and, furthermore, in so constructing the parts that the interior portions comprising the circulating tubes and troughs may be easily removed for the purpose of cleaning" (lines 10-18).
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Muday, George T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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