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Wrench

Description: Patent for improvements to wrenches and monkey wrenches in particular, "improved construction and arrangement of adjustable jaw and improved means for locking the latter in its adjusted position and quickly releasing the same for readjustment" (lines 16-19) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 2, 1913
Creator: Waters, Richard Henry
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretcher used in the building and repair of wire fences, including illustrations. This wire-stretcher's design has features which improve the efficiency of the construction of wire fences.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Feist, Felix L.
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Wire Stretching Implement

Description: Patent for a wire stretching implement. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1904
Creator: Smith, Isaac
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Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the supporting stand and the suds-box, of the cleats at the upper end of said box and formed with openings, the blocks pivotally secured to said stand and provided at one end with the thumb-screw, and the springs secured at their lower ends in said blocks and their upper ends working loosely in the openings in the cleats" (lines 24-31).
Date: August 7, 1888
Creator: Neal, Stephen N.
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Leather-Dressing.

Description: Patent for improvements to "composition of matter for the stuffing or filling of leather and to soften and polish the same, and also to preserve the leather, and is particularly applicable as a dressing for harness, boots, shoes, and all leather exposed to the weather" (lines 9-14).
Date: November 18, 1890
Creator: Jolly, John M.
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Insecticide

Description: Patent for an insecticide specifically for insects that burrow into the shucks of corn. "The general object of my invention is to provide a compound capable, when affected by moisture incidental to the sweating of the corn in the crib, of generating a poisonous gas which will permeate the shucks and reach and destroy the insect within the shucks, where it cannot be destroyed by simply sprinkling the corn with a poisonous powder or solution" (lines 17-25).
Date: September 13, 1892
Creator: Carter, Joseph John
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Windmill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "relates to that class of windmills in which semicircular wings are employed upon a vertical shaft; and it has for its object to provide simple and efficient means to govern the speed of the same, and also to throw the windmill into or out of operation when desired . . . A further object of the invention is to provide a windmill of the above-mentioned class which will possess merit in point of durability, inexpensiveness, and general efficienc… more
Date: November 6, 1888
Creator: Moore, Charles M.
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Trunk-Corder.

Description: Patent for "Improvement in Trunk-Corders." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Kessee, Walter Lee
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Ironing-Board

Description: Patent for a folding ironing board that has an attached clothes rack.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: Cottle, John B.
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Vehicle-Lift.

Description: Patent for a vehicle lift, which is stable when in use.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Lockerd, James R.
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Insect Destroyer

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Beasley, Henry & Huber, Gauttleb
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Transmission Gearing.

Description: Patent for transmission gearing which is the gearing inside of the transmission.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Halze,Edwin J
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Wash Boiler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved laundry boiler. This design consists in "a partition at its lower end slightly above the bottom formed with a screw-threaded neck at its center, a perforated tube fitting with its lower end upon the neck and having its upper end closed, and a number of perforated triangular tubes upon the side of the boiler provided with stoppers at their upper ends and extending from the partition in the lower end of the boiler, and a rack consisting of rings connected at their up… more
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Fountain, Henry Stephen
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Improvement in Portable Fences.

Description: Patent for "a simple, cheap, and portable fence...which can be readily folded up for transportation from place to place." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Taylor, Byron L.
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Improvement in Cotton-Gins.

Description: Patent for improvements in the manner in which cotton is separated.
Date: July 16, 1878
Creator: Etheridge, Daniel T.
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Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for a variety of cotton-bale ties that has has a series of notches and pins that lock together when the ends are brought together.
Date: December 30, 1879
Creator: Singer, Edgar C.
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Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter, which has a better width than previous stalk cutters.
Date: December 8, 1908
Creator: Stillwell, Frank R.
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Stalk Cutter

Description: Patent for stalk cutters.Invention can be horse drawn to fell stalks. Illustrations included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Durham, Thomas L.
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Station-Indicator.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators for moving vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1898
Creator: Barry, Jefferson D.
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Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for carriage and wagon couplings, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 22, 1892
Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer
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Stalk and Straw Chopper.

Description: Patent for "improvements to stalk, straw and weed choppers for attachment to plows" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Gray, Wallace W. & Witzsche, Frank P.
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Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for "an improved stalk cutter and has for its primary object to provide a very simple, durable, and serviceable device of this character which may be advantageously employed for cleaning a field of corn stalks as the same is plowed." (lines 9-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Carnes, Dudley Don
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Post Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved post auger. This design "has relation to that class of post-augers which consist of a number of concavo-convex cutting blades secured upon the lower end of a shaft having a cross-handle at its upper end, and provided with means for expanding the said blades for the purpose of boring holes of different sizes; and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of parts of the same" (lines 19-27).
Date: August 14, 1883
Creator: Miles, John E.
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Post Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved post auger. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a post-auger, of the socketed block, the screw-threaded rod extending from the center of the lower end of the block, the expander-disk fitting upon said threaded rod, and having the slotted wings or extensions, the two nuts for adjusting the position of the expander-disk upon the threaded-rod . . . whereby the lower pointed ends of the blades may be arranged to cross one another . . . the shaft [and] the cr… more
Date: February 12, 1884
Creator: Miles, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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