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Mail-Bag.

Description: Patent for a mail-bag meant to "provide such bags or pouches with a secure, efficient, and durable fastening for the mouth which can be easily and quickly opened and closed" (lines 13-16).
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Knight, Moses G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Venetian Blind or Shade.

Description: Patent for a mechanism to control the opening and closing of Venetian blinds both by opening the slats or moving the whole blind up or down. It consists of rollers and gears that operate the blinds.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Hughes, Wallace B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fare-Receiver and Automatic Change-Maker.

Description: Patent for a fare box and change maker mean to improve on fare-receivers and automatic change-makers that "automatically deliver the correct change to a passenger or other person, who deposits in the machine a coin of greater value than is the regulation fare" (lines 16-19).
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved combined automatic vending and money changing machine. It has "a locking mechanism constructed to lock said article and change-delivery mechanisms when a coin inserted by a purchaser is of less value than the article desired by him, and [a] mechanism for unlocking both of said delivery mechanisms while the purchaser's said coin remains in the machine and adjusting bot of said delivery-mechanisms to thereafter deliver an article corresponding to the value of said coin" (li… more
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Hook for Artificial Arms

Description: Patent for an automatic hook for artificial arms that allows a pen or pencil to be held.
Date: June 18, 1912
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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