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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date: October 9, 1894
Creator: Austin, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Log-Loading Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it aboveā€¦ more
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Fletcher, William Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen Utensil.

Description: Patent for a kitchen utensil that can be used for washing dishes, scraping cooking vessels, and cleaning ornamental glass and silver.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Adair, Annie E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Music-Leaf Turner.

Description: Patent for an automatic page turner for an organ or piano. The pages can be turned right or left, and the mechanism is operated using foot pressure.
Date: February 27, 1894
Creator: Stinson, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whiffletree.

Description: Patent for a whiffletree for doubletrees and singletrees that is made of metal in its entirety. It consists of metal bars with end recesses, a middle brace, end caps with heads, hooks, a cross-bar or pivot, and rivets.
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Gang-Plow.

Description: Patent for a rotary gang-plow that has laterally movable castings, stirrups, beams working in the stirrups, axles connected to the disks, and adjustable sleeves.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Willis, WIlliam Beale
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow.

Description: Patent for a harrow that has "teeth bars or beams and teeth [that] may be readily cleared of rubbish and other obstacles which tend to clog the teeth and interfere with the efficient working of the harrow" (lines 16-20).
Date: June 16, 1895
Creator: Faris, John Wesly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horseshoe-Nail Clincher.

Description: Patent for an improved simple and efficient clincher for horseshoe nails. It consists of a serrated jaw with a beveled extension, a handle, and two plates that act as springs.
Date: January 2, 1894
Creator: Seeliger, Oswald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metallic Roof.

Description: Patent for a metallic roof that has "an improved means for securing the adjoining edges of the metallic strips together, whereby a tight water proof joint is produced and the metal strips securely attached to the sheathing of the roof" (lines 15-20).
Date: April 16, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grain-Drill.

Description: Patent for an improved grain drill that is simpler and more efficient than other grain drills. It consists of a disk with a central hub, an annular recess around the hub, segmented washers, radial slots, radial seed apertures, gravity slides, and stems on the slides.
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Lawrence, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing for Windmills.

Description: Patent for gearing for windmills that "is more particularly designed to provide an improved construction of gearing by which the movement of the wind wheel is transmitted to the pump rod, whereby [the inventor] secures superior advantages with respect to efficiency in use" (lines 14-19).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Keys, Milton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer.

Description: Patent for an ice-cream freezer which can also be used as a churn, with an improved drum that revolves and its lower half sitting in ice or hot or cold water. It has a central shaft and flat heads on the ends of the drum so it can rotate.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Harton, Thomas Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whiffletree-Hook.

Description: Patent for whiffletree-hook that provides "a novel device of this character in which it is impossible for the trace ring or link to become accidentally detached, but which may be readily removed or disengaged from the hook when desired" (lines 15-20). The invention has a flattened circular plate.
Date: March 26, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Convertible Corn and Cotton Planter, Stalk-Cutter, and Roller.

Description: Patent for a convertible corn and cotton planter, stalk-cutter, and roller. It has a main frame, a supplemental frame that has its front end hinged to the front of the main frame, a roller with circular journaled in the supplemental frame, transverse segment-plates with removable blades attached to the supplemental frame, spaces between the segment-plates, an axle, driving-wheels, a sprocket wheel and chain, feed-boxes, means for feeding the grain, and wheels for laying the ground and the coverā€¦ more
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Mauldin, Columbus Scott
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Wheel and Axle.

Description: Patent for a car wheel and axle made up of a built-up metallic wheel with dished side-plates that have flanged and riveted rims, hub-nuts, a lock-plate, hollow screw-threaded ends, hexagonal offsets, tubular journals, a tubular journal, and a radial lubricating feed-tube with a cross-head and a collar.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis Spencer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.

Description: Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date: December 31, 1896
Creator: Flatau, Louis, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car coupling that automatically couples cars so people do not need to go between cars. This invention is meant to "provide an improved car coupler of the above character, which shall be simple and economical in construction and efficient in operation" (lines 21-24).
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Lawhon, David West
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cigar-Package.

Description: Patent for an improved cigar-package that complies "with all the requirements of the revenue laws, to be retailed to purchasers, who destroy the stamp upon opening the package, the construction being such that the packages thus opened can be used as pocket cases for the protection of the cigars" (lines 21-27).
Date: June 5, 1894
Creator: Philipson, Sigmund
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Funnel.

Description: Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Wright, George H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Thompson, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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