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[News Clip: Underwater gardner]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Joe Dorsey, the gardener for the San Marcos Aquarena.
Date: July 30, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Machine for Sharpening and Gumming Saws.

Description: Patent for a machine that sharpens and gums saws for cotton-gins. It does so quickly and does not fatigue the operator. It automatically feeds "the saws so as to bring the teeth successively into position to be operated upon, and which will cut the teeth uniformly, thereby preserving the circular outline of the saws and preserving the teeth of a uniform length and appearance" (lines 15-20).
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Hulme, William A. & Hulme, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pocket-Knife.

Description: Patent for a pocket knife that includes a wet stone built into its detachable handle. The handle may be taken off in order for the user to sharpen retractable blades attached to the pocket knife. This improvement upon the pocket knife design may be employed to the handle portion of any knife such as butcher knives or hunting knives.
Date: December 19, 1911
Creator: Irick, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety-Razor-Blade Sharpener.

Description: Patent for a safety razor blade sharpener with an improved arrangement of the metal grinding elements and a novel blade holder that can hold various types of blades and sharpen both sides, including illustrations.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Hauser, Peter D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hoe-Sharpening Device.

Description: Patent for a mechanical hoe sharpening device with a holder for the hoe blade and a file that is operated by a lever.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Criddle, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw-Filing Machine.

Description: Patent for a gin and linter saw filing machine that is fully automatic and can sharpen multiple saws in succession and then stop when finished without resetting the device or manually stopping it. It also can sharpen saws of varying sizes and thicknesses to different levels of sharpness.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Beaver, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blade-Holder

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements to a blade holder. It can hold any form of razor blades can be securely held and easily released. The holder allows blades to be inserted safely and then hold blades firmly into place.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Lightfoot, Roy L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ax-Sharpener

Description: Patent for an ax sharpener that can be attached to and removed from an ax head.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Wilson, Friend A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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