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Audiphone

Description: Patent for a audiophone which reproduces sounds at their original volume and timbre through the use of diaphragms vibrated by an electric signal.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Baker, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers

Description: Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
Date: January 3, 1871
Creator: Booton, Sinclair
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame Hook

Description: Patent for hame hook. This invention couples traces to the hames in the harness. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Brister, William T. & Galle, Fritz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Desk Receptacle.

Description: Patent for a "novel, convenient, and ornamental bottle or receptacle, adapted to contain ink, a sponge, or the like, combined with a pin-cushion and a pen-wiper" (lines 11-14), with illustrations.
Date: January 17, 1893
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P.; Terrell, Edward H. & Terrell, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon Spring.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wagon spring. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which springs of great strength may be employed which will not require stay-chains, and which will not increase the height of the wagon-body and cause inconvenience in loading and unloading the vehicle and in getting in and out, and, furthermore, to provide a vehicle in which the wagon-body may be but slightly elevated above the axles, and in which the springs will have great play" (lines 17-26).
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Conley, Miles D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the plate, having extensions and laterally-extending arm or bracket, the hopper mounted upon the extension of the plate, the seed-slide or coiled spring connecting the front end of the latter with the bracket, metal plates secured to the front and rear sides of the rear wall of the hopper above the seed-slide, the brush or cut-off arranged between said plates, and suitable operating mechanism for retracting the… more
Date: February 18, 1890
Creator: Cromer, Thomas L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow, of the board, the clip detachably securing said board to the plow-beam, the hopper secured to the rear end of the board and provided with the openings and brush, the lever pivoted upon the clip, the spring, the seed-slide secured to the end of the rear arm of the lever, and the dropping-tube screwed through its wing to the plow standard" (lines 37-46).
Date: January 8, 1889
Creator: Cromer, Thomas L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Planter

Description: Patent for "a seed-planter for planting corn, cotton, and other seeds; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall be simple, inexpensive, and efficient in operation" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 7, 1890
Creator: Cromer, Thomas L. & Schuwirth, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Gesche, Eugene C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing

Description: Patent for a gearing to be used as an attachment for the driving axle of a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Gesche, Eugene C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "may be detached and used independent of the frame or carriage; also, that the tongue or pole may be detached and removed from the axle, and such axle, together with the bolster and hounds, may be applied to and used with the farm or other wagon. Thus by means of the attachments described a farmer can, by providing himself [or herself] with the pole and the attachments thereto . . . readily convert his [or her] ordinary walking plow into a wheel-p… more
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Green, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Feeders for Cotton-Gins.

Description: Patent for the improvement of cotton-gin by feeding cotton in a uniform manner of removing sand and dirt, separating hulls, leaves, and imperfect pods for improved quality and reducing physical labor, including illustration.
Date: September 11, 1860
Creator: Hall, S. Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Cylindrical Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cylindrical power-source. This design "consists in the combination of a cylindrical slotted frame with a series of blades which are connected together in pairs, and which are alternately forced through the slots in the frame to receive the force of the wind or water and then retracted, so that they will offer no resistance during a portion of the revolution of the frame. . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a motor which is adapted for use either as a … more
Date: November 15, 1881
Creator: Hutchinson, Thomas E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Crank-Axle Adjustment.

Description: Patent for a crank axle adjustment "to simplify and produce and efficient crank axle that will efficiently perform its function in connection with the general structure of a plow or cultivator." (lines 13-17)
Date: June 15, 1920
Creator: Kopplin, Otto E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for an improvement to the plow by adjusting various devices for better results.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Kopplin, Otto E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stub-Axle Adjustment Device.

Description: Patent for useful improvements for Stub-Axle Adjustment Devices. This device will allow for the stub-axle to be efficiently adjusted in both a vertical plane and a transverse plane with respect to the machine.
Date: November 8, 1921
Creator: Kopplin, Otto E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring Hub

Description: Patent for a spring hub. This invention is for vehicle wheels to make cheap and quick repairs. Illustration included.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Krezdorn, Herman A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the combination of a central vertical shaft a series of supporting-arms projecting horizontally out from this shaft, a number of curved buckets which are pivoted at or near their centers between these supporting-arms, and suitable springs or weights which are attached to the inner edges of these buckets" (lines 13-20).
Date: June 13, 1882
Creator: Lowther, Lorenzo Dow
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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