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[News Script: Hillsboro trail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a mistrial which was declared in the disbarment trail of Hill county district attorney Frank McGregor.
Date: June 18, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Type-Writer Cover

Description: Patent for a collapsible typewriter cover that is more cheaply constructed, has a base for the typewriter, a supporting frame for the hood that limits the swinging movements, and a felt strip for protecting the furniture the typewriter is on.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Rochelle, Raymond C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Support.

Description: Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the a… more
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Price, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock

Description: Patent for "a simple and inexpensive article which will securely hold a nut in place upon a bolt and form a yielding support beneath the same" (lines 13-16).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Price, Thomas M.
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

File.

Description: Patent for a new and improved file. This design consists in "[a] file provided with longitudinal teeth upon one or both of its edges . . . [and] upon its sides so cut that they extend only half-way across the width of the file, the inner ends of the said teeth meeting at an angle at the center of the width of the blade" (lines 50-56).
Date: March 18, 1884
Creator: Custer, George.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Making Ballast.

Description: Patent for "improvements in methods of making ballast adapted for railway and other uses" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Butler, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive clothes pounder that has a conical casing, interior concentric partition, and equal draft and suction. The casing is divided into two compartments, but the divider has openings for air and suds.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Ware, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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