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Cotton-Planter.

Description: Patent for a cotton planter that is adjustable in order to plant a variable amount of seed, as required.
Date: October 26, 1880
Creator: Byers, Athony Walter & Dorser, James Carrol
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Cotton Compress

Description: Patent for "an improved cotton-compress adapted to be used in connection with a cotton-baling press for increasing the density and reducing the size of the bales formed in the press."
Date: August 26, 1902
Creator: Denton, John L.
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Cotton-Gin

Description: Patent for a cotton gin which removes lint with air pressure. Illustrations included.
Date: January 26, 1909
Creator: Epps, Clinton Calvin
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Ant-Trap

Description: Patent for an ant trap "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be place over an ant-hill and capable of capturing the ant in the hill as they leave the same and also of catching the outside ants as they attempt to enter the hill. (line 11-17)
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Finley, William Frederick
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Gin Attachment

Description: Patent for improved attachments for cotton gins. Useful amendments include the improvement of the function of "moving and regulating the feeding of cotton to the gin and the ejection of refuse, hulls and chaff." (lines 13-15). This is accomplished with the addition of a mechanism that "at regular intervals, close the feeder, open the gin breast and discharge the hulls and waste and again close the gin and open the feeder." (lines 37-40).
Date: September 26, 1922
Creator: Hooton, Claude A.
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Hame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hame. This design "consists in an attachment provided with a series of lugs or hooks for the attachment of the link of the chain trace or the eye of the tug, whereby the draft may be attached to the hame attachment at any desired point, said attachment being adapted to be secured to a hame of the ordinary construction" (lines 10-17).
Date: January 26, 1886
Creator: Hughes, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and efficient and at the same time cheap and durable sash-locking device which will serve to automatically lock the sash at any desired height. The device is ornamental in appearance, of few parts, and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 16-22).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Lynch, William Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive.

Description: Patent for an improved locomotive or traction-engine, with a series of water-shells, each containing "a series of fire-flues, a feeding-water heater, a pipe discharging steam" (lines 118-121), and a double-action plunger-pump.
Date: January 26, 1897
Creator: McCallum, Daniel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dry-Closet Commode.

Description: Patent for a sanitary dry closet commode for areas that do not have a sewerage or water works system. The commode is "readily cleaned, simple in construction, practically odorless, and adapted to be emptied with facility" (lines 15-18). The patent includes illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Mershon, John Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grease-Gun

Description: Patent for an applicator of grease to targeted areas with improved method for refilling, including illustration.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Handle and Toilet Case.

Description: Patent for a new and improved toiletry case. This design consists in "[a] combined hollow parasol or umbrella handle and toilet-case, consisting of an ornamental hollow case having an end opening for the reception of a parasol or umbrella stick, its opposite end provided with a rigid extension-ring, a hinged cover provided with a mirror on its inner face and working against the tension of a coiled spring, and an end lip to said cover to contact with end spring secured to said case, the internal… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Myers, Ida Louise
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Surgical Applicator

Description: Patent for a surgical applicator "which may be employed for the application of a suitable medicament to the membranous lining of the urethral canal of the phallus.(line 10-14).
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Ridgeway, Elzie L. & Bailey, Dan H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk - Chopper.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stalk choppers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1898
Creator: Upshaw, Foy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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