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Tombstone-Mold

Description: Patent for a "new and useful Tombstone-Mold" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 2, 1913
Creator: Cameron, Neill C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Extinguishing Fire

Description: Patent for a method to extinguish fire. In a fire event, a container holding sulfur and alum is added to a tank holding water, soda and salt which will create pressure and eject the water in the tank.
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Millis, Hiram S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool-Sharpener.

Description: Patent for a tool sharpener for various farm equipment such as plows or tools.
Date: March 23, 1909
Creator: Kirksey, Elijah F. & Stegall, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Box Hanger

Description: Patent for a mail box hanger for mailboxes that allows the mailman to easily deliver mail to them.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Bell, Fred
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Planter Attachment For Cultivators

Description: Patent for a planter attachment for cultivators. Illustration included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Mitchell, Wade H.
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Puzzle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved puzzle. This design consists in a "trick-puzzle, the same consisting of one false and three true members, each of a stiff wire bent at its center into a loop or ring, with its ends extending therefrom and standing approximately parallel, the bends of the true members being in one direction and of the false member in the opposite direction" (lines 5-12).
Date: July 12, 1892
Creator: Walker, William Turner.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Prescription-Filing Machine.

Description: Patent for a prescription-filing machine that allows for more accurate sorting of medical prescriptions.
Date: August 6, 1918
Creator: Elder, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Protective Runner for Cotton-Pickers' Sacks.

Description: Patent for a protective runner that protects the collection sack from being damaged as it is dragged. This design is meant to be quick and easy to attach and is shaped like a trough.
Date: November 14, 1922
Creator: Shipp, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a subsoil plow that is adjustable and includes a root cutter.
Date: October 17, 1911
Creator: West, William O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rod for End Gates.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rod for wagon gates. This design is "first, to provide a rod that can be readily attached or detached to the end-gate of any wagon or vehicle; second, to provide a rod that will effectually and rigidly hold the end-gate in position and afford practical facility whereby the end-gates of vehicles can be quickly opened or closed and detached from the wagon-bed or placed in their normal position therein" (lines 15-23).
Date: September 30, 1890
Creator: Coyle, Dan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam and plow, of the semicircular stay-brace pivotally secured to the beam at one end and at the other end formed with a slot and a horizontal portion extending across the top of the beam, the bolt passed through the slot into the beam, the colter, and the adjustable wedge-shaped block having a plurality of depressions upon its inner face to receive the horizontal portion of the brace" (lines 81-90).
Date: October 14, 1890
Creator: Dickerman, Lewis M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow-Point.

Description: Patent for a plow-point that can be used on a shovel or spade plow. "it consists of an attachment which can be applied to the point of these plows and which will operate to more effectually divide the ground and allow the plow to cultivate the hardest and most refractory kinds of soil" (lines 10-15).
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Prentice, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring Foot Cultivator Attachement

Description: Patent for device that spreads the links that lead from a spring foot cultivators to the tilling shoes.
Date: December 5, 1916
Creator: Grayson, Wilbur D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rein Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rein holder. This design is "to provide an attachment for the purpose of preventing the horse's tail from engaging the reins . . . and adapted to be applied to the thills or adjacent parts of the running-gear of a vehicle" (lines 9-15). It is "formed of wire and comprising a frame having its opposite vertical members secured at their lower ends to the thills, the corners and opposite members being provided with pairs of integrally-formed eyes, and a cross-bar at th… more
Date: May 10, 1892
Creator: Young, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the track-bar having the brackets on its ends, the continuous suspension-wire extending between the extremities of the said brackets and extending longitudinally in the rear of the track-bar, the movable block inserted between the rear portion of the suspension-wire and the rear side of the track-bar, the pulleys mounted on the suspension-wire, and the carrier-bar carrying the quilting-frame and connecte… more
Date: March 11, 1890
Creator: Raines, Burress Wesley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Provision-Safe.

Description: Patent for "a pantry and kitchen safe combined and designed to be built apart from the house and constituting a distinct and removable piece of furniture," (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 22, 1891
Creator: Jones, Walter Adolphus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a new and useful railway cattle guard, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Sivley, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint Chair.

Description: Patent for a new rail-joint chair used in the connection between rails to prevent rail movement, including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Williams, Charles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Popcorn-Parcher.

Description: Patent for a popcorn parcher that has adjustable beaters.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Baird, Willie D.
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Rail Joint

Description: Patent for a rail joint. Illustration included.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: Bruton, David Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow, which attaches to cultivators that both turns the earth destroying weeds and puts some soil around the tops of the young plants to keep them low growing.
Date: May 11, 1909
Creator: Avery, Charles Lafayette
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Cultivator Attachment.

Description: Patent for a cotton cultivator attachment, which allows sections of plants to be left intact or plowed under as desired.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Connell, Alexander Hardee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Seed Planter

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. The design "in which the cotton-seeds in the hopper is fed down through the feed-opening of the same by vibrating teeth." (p. 1; lines 15-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1885
Creator: Elliston, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for a simple cotton press that is adapted to be run from the same source of power as the gin so that the plunger operates automatically (lines 12-16).
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Van Dyke, James E. & Stobaugh, Harry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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