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Spring-Motor

Description: Patent for a motor used to operate light machinery such as sewing machines using spring power. Illustrations included.
Date: September 28, 1909
Creator: O'Bannon, William H. & Field, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flying-Machine

Description: Patent for a monoplane flying machine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Smith, Thomas Noah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flooring or Ceiling Jack.

Description: Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Holiman, William Moses
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Family Record Keeper

Description: Patent for a family record keeper that could preserve certificates of birth, marriage, and death, in a manner that would protect them from the elements.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Flanagan, Roland A.
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Gripper for Printing-Presses

Description: Patent for a gripper for printing presses designed to hold the paper during printing more effectively. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Williams, John W.
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Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a new removable quilting frame for sewing machines. Patent for "improvements in sewing-machine attachments for quilting designed to support a quilting frame that can be moved from place to place" (lines 14-21) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new quilting attachment for sewing-machine design with, including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Clark, Chester Cady
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Powder-Ejector

Description: Patent for a vaginal powder ejector. Illustrations included.
Date: September 28, 1909
Creator: Sands, William Walter
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Method of Collecting and Conveying Water.

Description: Patent for a new and useful method of collecting and conveying water.
Date: March 1, 1898
Creator: Manning, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pipe wrench. This design consists, "with the stationary jaw provided with a shank and an inclined portion on the shank, of a movable jaw, also provided with a shank, having an inclined portion on it and pivotally connected to the stationary jaw, and a loop pivoted to the stationary jaw and engaging with the shank of the movable jaw, whereby the said two inclined portions are retained in working position" (lines 85-94).
Date: February 11, 1890
Creator: Bartlett, William George & McCoy, John William
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Railroad Joint

Description: Patent for a railroad joint. Illustration included.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Coupland, David B.
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Draft Device

Description: Patent for a draft device for agricultural machines. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Dowdy, Ewell Monroe
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Cultivator

Description: Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Dowdy, Ewell Monroe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Harvester

Description: Patent for a cotton harvester that aides in picking the most difficult part of cotton to pick by hand. Includes instruction and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Ford, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for a baling press. Illustrations included.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Hendrix, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Fastener

Description: Patent for a fastener of simple, reliable for locking a sash at any given point in its path-of-movement upon the window frame, without the use of springs or any other parts.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Shipman, John Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for improved maneuvering and loading of firearms while riding horseback.
Date: July 20, 1878
Creator: Morrison, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calculating-Machine

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in calculating machines. Whereby substantially correct calculations may be registered or recored without using a series of superfluous or immaterial numbers. The machine will round prices up to the nearest cent. For example, $0.024 becomes $0.02 while $0.025 becomes $0.03. Illustrations included.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Hardgrave, Everett J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Martin, David D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Gillespie, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Counterbalancing Device for Pumps.

Description: Patent for a counterbalancing device for windmill pumps, which reduces friction and lateral pull on the pump.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Cotten, Charles Kavendor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable and Detachable Bow for Spectacles.

Description: Patent for a temple bow for spectacles which is secured to a lens frame and is adjustable to “accommodate the angle of vision of the wearer” (lines 89-90). The connection joints between the bow and lens frame allows adjustment without bending or twisting the bow, providing a more durable bow and frame.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Blanchard, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clutch Clamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved clutch-clamp. This design "is to provide a simple and effective device for lowering or hoisting the pipe or rods of pumps into bored wells or other places, such as mines or shafts, and without injury to the pipe or rod, such device being not only readily and easily handled in connecting it to or disconnecting it from the object to be raised or lowered, but capable of being manufactured at comparatively small cost" (lines 20-29).
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: McCoy, John William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Powder Blower

Description: Patent for a new and improved powder blower used to insert powder medicine into the vagina, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 1, 1913
Creator: Woodward, Mortimer Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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