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Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "consists in the combination of a slotted lever provided with points at one end to catch against the side of the post and a hook over which one end of the chain is fastened, a sliding frame, a reel or drum, pawls, a guiding-pulley, a wire or chain, to which the clamp is secured, and a chain for fastening the stretcher to the post . . . [it] is to provide a slotted handle a sliding frame . . . so that when the strain of the wire being str… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Dunbar, William E.
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Water Elevator Chain.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water-elevator chain. This design "has relation to that class of water-elevators in which the buckets are connected to an endless chain formed of wire, the several links being connected to each other by loops or eyes formed thereon; and the object thereof is to improve the construction of this class of wire chains, whereby the bearings for the links are greatly increased and strengthened and the general construction of the chain rendered more durable, also the link… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
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Line-Holder.

Description: Patent for a line holder for holding reins, while driving a vehicle.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Hitt, Allen
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Leveling Instrument

Description: Patent for leveling instrument. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Akins, Henry King
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Well-Casing

Description: Patent for a sectional well casing. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Hardy, Paul
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Improved Side-Saddle.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1870
Creator: Smith, Fenwick
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Stalk - Chopper.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stalk choppers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1898
Creator: Upshaw, Foy
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Journal-Box

Description: Patent for a journal box that requires no disassembly to be replenished. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: McFadden, John M.
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Mold for Earth and Stone Fences.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mold for earth and stone fences. This design "consist[s] of the inclined adjustable sides, having inclined standards, removable boards, and boards, tables, and locking-bolts . . . [and] the sides having lower boards or metallic pieces, upper removable boards or metallic pieces, and inclined standards of the tables, locking-bolts, handles, and stakes" (lines 21-30).
Date: July 26, 1881
Creator: Budd, Lewis R.
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Method of Working Volatile Hydrates for Artificial Refrigeration.

Description: Patent for a new and improved method of working volatile hydrates for refrigeration. This invention "consists in the continuous circulation through a chamber to be refrigerated of aqueous solution of volatile matter previously cooled by the expansive elimination therefrom of a portion of said volatile matter" (lines 64-68).
Date: July 26, 1881
Creator: Rose, Thomas
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Milk-Cooler.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1898
Creator: Estelle, Rhodes
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Tooth

Description: Patent for an artificial tooth. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Stallman, George E.
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Tool for Lowering and Raising Well-Tubes

Description: Patent for a tool used for lowing and raising well tubes. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Hardy, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Plug

Description: Patent for a spark plug used in explosive engines. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Estes, Robert E. & Inman, John P.
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Spring Draft Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved spring-draft attachment. This design "is to do away with the ordinary doubletree . . . which is especially adapted for a two-horse vehicle, which . . . prevents the horses from pulling against one another, [and ] prevents the pole from swaying sidewise" (lines 10-18). It "consist[s] of a frame provided with an eye at one end and with a cross-bar near its center, a draw-bar having one end screw-threaded and provided with an eye at its other end and with a collar at … more
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Tiner, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Triple Valve.

Description: Patent for a triple valve for brake systems on trains, which reduces pressure in the air pipes of the train and automatically brakes if there is a broken air hose.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Torbron, Orin F.
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Tank and Support

Description: Patent for a liquid tank and a support stand. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
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Stove Flue Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved stove-flue cleaner. This design "has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple device by which the soot may be removed from the flue and gathered into a receptacle without danger of getting it on the floor" (lines 11-15). It "consist[s] of a vessel with a tube extending therethrough and a handle fitted to slide through said tube and carrying a scraper" (lines 52-55).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Mothershed, Thomas Bortley
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Fire-Extinguisher

Description: Patent for a fire extinguisher for putting out fires in oil tanks.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Spawn, Able F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Oil-Can.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in safety oil cans...to provide in an oil can, [a] mechanism for securely closing the spout, to prevent waste and evaporation..." (lines 9-13).
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Richey, James David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railway-tie. This design "is to produce a simple and inexpensive tie which may be easily secured in a road-bed and to which the rails may be solidly and conveniently fastened and which is also adapted to be used in connection with wooden sleepers, being constructed so that it may be easily placed in position between wooden sleepers without tearing up the rails" (lines 9-16).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Budington, Albert G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rock Drill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rock-drill. This design "is to construct a simple and efficient rock-drill in which the forward feeding and rotating of the drill are accomplished automatically" (lines 15-18). It consists in "the drill-rod, a tappet-plate placed loosely on the drill-rod, clutch mechanism connected with the tappet-plate for engaging the drill-rod, a spring for impelling the drill-rod, a cam provided with conical ends for lifting the tappet-plate, and the guide" (lines 20-26).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Belt, Perley P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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