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Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.

Description: Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: McFarland, Charles M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Machine.

Description: Patent for a well-drilling machine with "novel and improved means for manipulating and actuating the drill cable" (lines 11-12), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Slaughter, George W., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Heater.

Description: Patent for a water heater for use in small spaces. This water heater heats water rapidly and is less costly as well as smaller than a standard boiler.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Damm, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie

Description: Patent for improvements in metallic railway-ties. Invention designed to allow for cheap production of a adequate tie that can secure a road-bed.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Thweatt, Robert Whitley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve Setting Machine

Description: Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
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Improvements in Steam Engine

Description: Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Dickson, Henry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Description: Patent for "an Improved Cotton-Bale Tie" (line 5) including illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1874
Creator: Krone, William
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Improvement in Churns.

Description: Patent for "a new and Improved Churn" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1874
Creator: Ewing, Nathaniel
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Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for stoves, which stores and feeds the hydrocarbon to the stove.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Callihan. Willie H.
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Nut Lock

Description: Patent for a mechanism to lock a nut in place on a bolt that also automatically releases when a wrench is applied to turn the nut.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Edwards, Whitfield H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Milking Apparatus

Description: Patent for a milking apparatus. This invention is designed to imitate the action of hand milking or a calf's sucking. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Sinclair, William
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Spirometer

Description: Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow

Description: Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark & Deen, Irwin Johnson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Type-Distributer.

Description: Patent for improvements in portable “type-distributing device which can be comfortably held in the hand and without strain on the wrist, and which is provided with a suitable main receptacle to hold the matter being distributed and also with auxiliary receptacles for leads and spaces, whereby the labor of distributing is greatly facilitated and lessened and the work much more rapidly accomplished.” (Lines 26-34) Includes illustration.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Clarke, Robert
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Hand-Support for Writers.

Description: Patent for "a support especially adapted for the use of those learning to write, and by which the hand may be accustomed to the proper position for writing from the beginning of the study." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1896
Creator: Yarbrough, William L.
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Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for a railroad tie that locks against cross-plates to stay secure.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Beazley, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Burner

Description: Patent for Oil Burner
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
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Necktie Fastening.

Description: Patent for a new and improved tie pin. This design "is to provide a simple and reliable device for fastening neck-ties or cravats, in place of the elastic loop and other means usually employed. To that end, by perforating the collar-button and providing the cravat-shield with a spring-loop, [the design] obtain[s] combined collar-button and cravat-fastener" (lines 7-14).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Hutches, Benjamin F., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe or Cigar Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and useful holder that has a removable nicotine-cup and, it is capable of being used as a cigar or cigarette holder or used as a pipe. Illustration is included.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Delimage, Edgar C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Egg-Case Fastener.

Description: Patent for a fastener that is used in "egg-cases and packages of similar character designed for shipping goods and which are required to be returned to the consignor to be again used" (lines 8-11). The top of the case has a plate securing it so that it is "secured by positive means against accidental displacement" (lines 23-24).
Date: August 4, 1896
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
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Baling Press

Description: Patent for Baling Press
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Jones, Isaac V.
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Cotton Picker.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton picker. This design has a spring-actuating "mechanism located upon the casing, and a hood for inclosing said mechanism hinged to one of the side walls of the casing and held closed by a fastening device . . . [and] the casing thereof, the endless picker-belt, flanged drums, and the toothed disks contained within said casing . . . and a pulley and belt for winding the spring" (lines 1-12).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Martin, John Tillman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metallic Compound.

Description: Patent for "the process of making alloys for journal-bearings" (lines 42-43) of more durable quality than those formed with "brass and bronzes" (line 10).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Kavanaugh, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Baugh, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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