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Fly Fan or Brush.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fly fan or brush. This design consists "[i]n an automatic fly fan or brush, a suitable hollow post terminating at its upper end in a casing, a crank-shaft and conical pulley located therein, and gearing connecting the crank-shaft with the pulley-shaft, in combination with a cord connected to the pulley and to a rubber band or cord passing around a pulley at the base of the post, said rubber cord or band at one end being connected thereto, a pitman-rod connecting th… more
Date: August 28, 1888
Creator: Rembert, Henry
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Flood-Gate.

Description: Patent for a flood-gate meant for use in mill-dams, races, and levees. Its intended use is to allow water to come to a certain height, and automatically release water once it gets past that point. When the water returns to a reasonable height, the gate automatically closes.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Dean, Asa
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Fish-Hook

Description: Patent for a fish hook with additional hooks attached in order to ensure a caught fish remains on the hook.
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Strozier, John J. & Wilson, Francis Marion
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Conveyer.

Description: Patent for the invention of a new conveyor, designed to simplify handling sacked grain.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: King, Marion A.
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Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for a car coupling that improves their construction by "providing a link which may be readily directed to the draw-head of a car to be coupled without necessitating going between cars" (lines 12-14).
Date: January 10, 1893
Creator: McDade, James
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Cotton Buncher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton buncher. This design utilizes a wheel that "is to press down the plants and weeds that are to be destroyed, so that the plows, whether used along with the wheel or afterward, will cover them up with fresh earth, and thus assist in destroying them, and at the same time cultivating the plants to be retained and facilitating the subsequent thinning process" (lines 62-68).
Date: January 16, 1883
Creator: Goodin, James Louis
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Apparatus for Baling Cotton.

Description: Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1891
Creator: Rembert, Henry
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Chain-Lock.

Description: Patent for an improvement in chain-locks. The improvement locks one end of a log chain to a car so that it cannot be accidentally released.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Clarkson, Jay Caleb
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a new improvement in cattle guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
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Axle

Description: Patent for an axle. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Price, George T.
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Combination Valve and Cap Tool

Description: Patent for a combination valve cap and stem used to ease the process of deflating pneumatic tires by eliminating the need to keep track of a separate cap piece when removing the valve core, including illustrations and instructions for use.
Date: May 7, 1918
Creator: McComb, William Perry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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