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Grapple

Description: Patent for improvements to hoisting grapples with the design focus on the "arrow-points or engaging ends" (lines 19-20) and the mechanics associated with the grapple design when in use. Patent includes illustrations of grapple in use.
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Jones, Rees
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Fire-Escape

Description: Patent for a fire-escape for "people irrespective of age, sex, or condition may be safely carried from any landing or floor of a building to the sidewalk or street" (lines 25-28); including illustration and instructions
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Thompson, B. W.
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Drinking-Cup.

Description: Patent for a collapsible holder for paper drinking cups.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Fermier, Victor Emanuel
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Fire Alarm

Description: Patent for a fire alarm. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Andrews, Bolivar C.
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Seed-Planter.

Description: Patent for a seed-planter, with illustrations. The "invention relates to an improved seed-planter, adapted to be attached to and operated in connection with any ordinary plow for planting wheat, corn, cotton, or other seed (line 25-28).
Date: December 19, 1882
Creator: Brown, William A.
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Churn-Motor.

Description: Patent for a butter churn with a "vertical rotary dasher" (line 19), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1880
Creator: Rogers, James P.
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Railway Switch

Description: Patent for a railway switch. Illustration included.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Madeley, George E.
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Smoke and Cinder Conductor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved smoke and cinder conductor. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and efficient conducting mechanism to be attached to the cars, and provided with an improved coupling device at its ends, by which a coupling can be automatically effected with the conducting mechanism of an adjoining car" (lines 11-17).
Date: May 1, 1883
Creator: Brown, William A. & Smith, James F.
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Road-Grader.

Description: Patent for a road grader, which will "excavate a ditch at the side of a road, and distribute the dirt from said ditch at a proper gradient upon the road" (lines 11-14).
Date: January 31, 1911
Creator: Fender, John Brown
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Roller-Shelving and Cloth-Measurer Combined.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in roller shelving and cloth measurer combined, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 6, 1898
Creator: Apperson, Thomas F. & Dorsey, Charles H.
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Fertilizer Distributer.

Description: Patent for an improved fertilizer distributor to be attached to the farm wagon. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Hurley, William G.
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Evaporator.

Description: Patent for a new evaporator design used for evaporating cane-juice, including illustrations.
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Johnson, William Oscar
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Fan Construction

Description: Patent for a fan construction. This invention uses a spring motor to provided hours of fan use.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Burnes, Worley Walden
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Car for Pneumatic Railways.

Description: Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the… more
Date: November 19, 1895
Creator: Rush, Cicero Alonzo
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Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for "...certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings..." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1886
Creator: Mitchell, William A.
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Brace for Back and Legs.

Description: Patent for a new and improved back and leg brace. This design consists in "the combination of the belt, the straps secured to the belt, [other] straps secured to the [same] belt and extending downward V-shaped, the links at the lower ends of the straps, the [other] strap, the pads attached to the lower ends of the straps, and the necessary buckles to secure and adjust the device to the body of the wearer" (lines 54-62).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Smith, Joseph Henry
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Bedclothes-Clamp

Description: Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Martin, Delia
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Boiler Compound

Description: Patent for a boiler compound for purifying water in steam boilers, with ingredients included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Maule, John Quincey
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Boiler Feeder

Description: Patent for boiler feeder. This invention is designed as a gravity feed automatic boiler. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Finch, Clark Ethan
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Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines

Description: Patent for an automatic pump for internal combustion engines. Illustration included.
Date: August 9, 1910
Creator: Smith, Robert W. J.
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Caster.

Description: Patent for a new and improved caster. This design consists in "the combination of a caster having an elongated stem provided with upper and lower annular supporting-shoulders, a poison-receptacle having a central opening in its bottom to receive the stem and provided with a central vertical tube having a top provided with an opening receiving the stem, said receptacle being supported by the lower shoulder, and a concavo-convex shield supported by the upper shoulder and arranged over the mouth o… more
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Gordon, William
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Boot Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved boot cleaner. This design "affords facilities for readily and conveniently scraping all parts of the boot or shoe. The heel is scraped on [a] semicircular portion located at the top of the arch, the sides of the sole by the arms, the upper hollow of the foot by the projections, [and] the toe by the lower side of the arch or bow" (lines 38-45).
Date: May 25, 1886
Creator: Scovel, Purley A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.

Description: Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Smitham, Nicholas L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Brake.

Description: Patent for a new and more effective brake for trains, with illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1887
Creator: Stovall, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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