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Locomotive-Pilot Coupling.

Description: Patent for a locomotive-pilot coupling that can lift or elevate locomotive pilot or draw-bars, a cylinder that can turn in all directions depending on how the bars moves and is collecting to the motor fluid supply, a piston in the cylinder that connects the bar to the cylinder, a swinging jaw, and various other parts.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Brake.

Description: Patent for improved vehicle brakes, and the "object is to arrange the brake shoes so that when applied they will bear on the wheels slightly below a point on a line drawn horizontally through the center of the wheel, whereby a greater brake power is obtained with less force exerted, and further, to so construct and arrange the brake shoes that during the backing of a team for any purpose the brakes will automatically release themselves and not bear upon the wheels to interfere with said backing… more
Date: May 7, 1895
Creator: Christian, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Axle Point.

Description: Patent for a vehicle-axle point that does not require repair. The "invention consists of a thimble that is to be shrunk, pressed, or fastened onto the axle by clips, bolts, or set-screws" (lines 20-22), so that the point does not need to be taken off.
Date: July 16, 1895
Creator: Ford, William Gardner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve.

Description: Patent for a valve made up of a shell with a water inlet and a water outlet, a perforation for the valve stem, a gable-shaped seat made from hard metal that is fitted into the shell, a valve stem that works up and down the shell and with a shoulder, a valve with a hollow neck, a soft contact ring between the gable-shaped seat and the face of the valve, a guide and cap that fits in the shell, a stem nut, and a stuffing-box.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Speer, George F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool for Cleaning Out Nuts.

Description: 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

Surface Cattle Guard.

Description: Patent for a new and improved surface cattle-guard. This design "compris[es] a series of parallel triangular bars tapered at their ends and provided with lateral perforated horizontal flanges, the plates to which said flanges are secured, the cross-tie supports, and the solid plank flooring upon which said ties rest, said flooring being some distance below the guard-bars" (lines 55-62).
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Berry, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stirrup.

Description: Patent for a saddle-stirrup with springs on the bottom and a spring-catch on the top.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Long, Francis F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Dental Chair.

Description: Patent for a simple portable dental chair meant for traveling dentists. It adjusts easily and folds compactly.
Date: January 15, 1895
Creator: Lovejoy, Edward Harrison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Oil-Box Jack.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and efficient railway oil-box jack, or "hoisting jack", that is easier and faster to use than other similar jacks.
Date: July 10, 1894
Creator: Moore, Francis A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Splice.

Description: Patent for an improved railway rail joints that consists of cross-ties, rails with the top flanges of the ends cut away, a joint plate, and bolts.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Quinn, William & Berry, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for railroad-ties, and "the special object of the invention is to make a railroad cross-tie of metal, built up firmly and secured to the rails without screws, bolts, rivers, cushions or other appurtenances." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1896
Creator: Noonan, Philip
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas-Generator.

Description: Patent for a gas generator "which will be entirely automatic in its action so long as the supply of oil is kept up and thereby render the use of weights and winding apparatus unnecessary." (Lines 21-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Plate.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in shoe plates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Long, Francis F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shirt-Starching Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in shirt-starching machines by using a combination of a shirt holding device having an oscillatory motion for one-fourth of a full revolution, and a semi-cylindrical starch-holding receptacle with longitudinal rubber bottom; when the shirt-holder is turned, shirts are crowded into the compartments, with the bosoms and wristbands hanging outside. When the door is closed, shirt-bosoms and wristbands are thoroughly starched. Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Herndon, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Attaching Horseshoes.

Description: Patent for a new and improved device for attaching horseshoes. This design "relates to improvements in means for attaching shoes to the hoofs of horses or mules without the use of nails; and the invention consists in . . . a nailless shoe [that] can be firmly and securely attached to the foot and detached therefrom without requiring the services of a smith" (lines 9-18). To this end, it consists in "the combination, with the shoe-plate and the toe-plate, of the toe-bar having a flange to engage… more
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Mayow, Daniel L. & Castle, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fruit-Picker.

Description: Patent for a fruit-picker that has a jaw or jaws that severs the stem of the fruit, a fabric tube that brings the fruit to the operator or a basket. It bruises the fruit less than other pickers do.
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Williams, Thomas Page
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for a gate-latch. A latch-pin secured in a beam, another latch secured to the inside of another post, with two pivoting hangers, and plates come together to form this latch.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Berry, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for a gate latch that works by having stop-pins secured to the gate, while a rod goes through the post, with a handle on one end and a latch on the other end. The latch is shaped so that it catches the pin.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Berry, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grease-Trap.

Description: Patent for a grease trap "in which the grease is designed to be removed from the trap automatically and the object of my invention is to cause the water passing through the trap to carry the grease out with it" (lines 8-12).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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