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Planting Attachment for Cultivators

Description: Patent for a planting attachment for cultivators. This attachment is designed to raise and lower equally to contours of the land. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Benton, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hammer

Description: Patent for a hammer
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Rowe, George Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow Attachment for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for a harrow attachment that permits the attachment to be held with its teeth disposed in any desired relation to the cultivator.
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Wynne, Robert S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harvester-Reel.

Description: Patent for the placement of a "covering of canvas, cloth, or other suitable material" (lines 16-17) around a harvester-reel for various improvements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1880
Creator: Moore, Joseph Martial
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay or Cotton Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "[i]n a hay-press, the combination of the box or casing having suitable doors in its top, bottom, and side, and supported on longitudinal base-strips, a main lever having a short toggle-arm, a semi-rotating fulcrum thereof, auxiliary arms pivotally connected with the main lever, reciprocating followers, and a drum and cord" (lines 26-33).
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Bragg, Thomas P.
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Stove Pipe Joint.

Description: Patent for a new and improved joint for stove pipes. This design has for its object "to secure a firm and safe connection between the sections of pipe, and at the same time to protect the joint so that the pipe is not liable to crack or split at that point. [The] invention consists in combining with the threaded sections of a stove-pipe, a cap or band secured to one of the sections and overlapping the other, so as to inclose and protect the joint" (lines 9-17).
Date: June 2, 1885
Creator: Laughlin, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Suspension-Bridge.

Description: Patent for improvements in suspension-bridge by using a combination of upper main cables reached from one pillar to the opposite pillar and anchored in the rear side of the pillars. A pair of lower cables at each side of the bridge; each pair being crossed at the center of the A-shaped or angular girders, these girders are bent for use as receiving hooks to form vertical stays. A series of girders hold the upper and lower cables in position thus making the bridge strong, light and rigid span.… more
Date: April 28, 1891
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
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Gate.

Description: Patent for an improved vertically swinging gate. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Russell, Charles, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for an improved gate-latch for swinging gates that is especially simple, economic, and efficient.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Wilson, James L.
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Gin Compress

Description: Patent for improvements upon the cotton gin-compress which includes driven screws with gearing to make the compress "more effective than that heretofore employed"(lines 10-11) machinery.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Dunlap, Samuel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

End-Gate.

Description: Patent for "an end gate for scooping adapted to be readily applied to the ordinary construction of wagon bodies which have end gates sliding in vertical cleats and which re usually provided with a removable rod for securing the end gate in the cleats" (lines 11-16).
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Lovett, Morris J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electromechanical Switch Thrower

Description: Patent for an electromechanical switch thrower. Illustration included.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Posey, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch For Street-Railways.

Description: Patent for an electric switch for street railways. This invention allows for the operation of switches of the track from the car, so the operator can turn the switches without stopping the car.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Posey, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch Throwing Device

Description: Patent for an electric switch throwing device. The invention provides a method of operating the switches of the track so that the motorman can turn switches of the track without stopping the train car. Illustration included.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Posey, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switching Device

Description: Patent for an electric switch for railways. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Posey, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch for Street-Railways.

Description: Patent for switches used to electrically control street railways. Intended to allow the motorman to electrically control the switches of the track from the railway car without having to stop the train to turn the switch on the track.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Posey, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire Alarm

Description: Patent for a new and useful automatic fire-alarm to "provide an improved alarm of this character especially designed for use in hotels and other large buildings having a large number of rooms" (line 8 -13).
Date: October 26, 1897
Creator: Staples, John & Spake, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Hinge.

Description: Patent for an inclined gate-hinges. One part is "secured to the supporting-post or upright and is formed with two parallel loops slightly separated one from the other located just outside the recess in said post, and the other [part is] adapted to be secured to the gate, having an outwardly-extending arm and a cross-head adapted to be passed between and parallel loops and to bear against the rear surface thereof" (lines 94-102).
Date: October 6, 1896
Creator: Wilson, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow.

Description: Patent for a riding harrow, which can have its teeth lifted up and out of operation.
Date: January 28, 1908
Creator: Hosford, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe Upper Blank.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shoe-upper blank. This design "relates to an improvement in blanks for the uppers of what are known as 'plow-shoes,' wherein a fly is folded over the instep and secured upon the side of the shoe by means of a tongue and buckle. The object of [the] invention is to provide a durable, inexpensive, and comfortable shoe which will be largely free from stitching and will have a neatly fitting and pleasing appearance" (lines 7-16).
Date: October 4, 1887
Creator: Skinner, John Leary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shovel-Fastening for Cultivators

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in shovel-fastenings for cultivators. Improvements include incorporating a spring latch in the cultivator foot so that no time is lost and no tools would be needed in replacing cultivator shovels.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Kirkpatrick, James M. & Tirey, Grover C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Street-Cleaning Machine

Description: Patent for a street-cleaning machine that brushes the dirt into small piles and sucks the dirt piles into bags or receptacles for easy disposal.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Atkinson, Wiley F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Strain-Relieving Attachment for Telegraph-Keys.

Description: Patent for a strain relieving attachment for telegraph keys, which allows Morse code letters made up of dots and dashes to be typed with one key stroke rather than multiple ones, reducing strain on the key and operator and getting rid of extra spaces in the message.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Teachworth, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Switch.

Description: Patent for a railway switch that is triggered by a shoe on a train car.
Date: February 7, 1911
Creator: Rousseau, Lawrence C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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