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Harrow

Description: Patent for a harrow designed to cultivate only one row of crops at a time. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Arnold, Jesse E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing-Table.

Description: Patent for a new ironing table that folds into a compact form. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1900
Creator: Beacham, John Brandon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Holder

Description: Patent for a sash-holder, which "consists in an improved sash-fastener embodying novel features" (lines 16-18). Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: August 10, 1897
Creator: Beck, George Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type-Writing Machine

Description: Patent for improvements to typewriting machines with the aim of providing "a machine of simple and durable construction, capable of use for the ordinary purposes to which type-writers are applied, but especially adapted and designed for typewriting upon blank books, thereby facilitating the making of official records and producing records that are more legible and compact than it is possible to obtain by handwriting" (lines 11-18).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Borden, William J. & Johnson, Jahu W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Radiator-Plug

Description: Patent for improved radiator plug used for sealing radiators with a fluid-tight joint making it unnecessary to have the radiator pipe extended or threaded. This invention allows the pipe to be sealed at any point.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Brown, Charles James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Planter

Description: Patent for "a device which shall be simple in construction and by meansof which the planting of the seed may be performed in an even and regular manner" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Cook, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vending-Machine

Description: Patent for a vending machine designed to dispense liquids, including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Elder, Thomas Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for a hand- or wind mill-operated water pump that is cheap and easy to manufacture.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Eppler, Edwin R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calf Weaner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved calf weaner. This design consists in "a strap, ring, or belt surrounding the muzzle of the calf or other animal, and attached permanently by means of head-stall straps or other suitable-devices, the muzzle-ring being provided with radiating blunt-pointed wires of suitable length, whereby the calf is prevented from reaching the teat, and the mother, being irritated or titillated by the projecting wires, repulses the attempts of the animal to suckle" (lines 18-27).
Date: June 16, 1885
Creator: Evans, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a knee-pad that is meant to protect cotton-pickers as they crawl in uncomfortable areas. The knee-pads are made up of a concave oval made from leather, metal, or another strong material, with cloth attached to the base and edges of the oval. Straps go around the cloth and around the leg to hold it in place.
Date: July 7, 1896
Creator: Fergusson, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cylinder for Cotton-Gins

Description: Patent for a cylinder for cotton-gins in which the cylinder has teeth that are "secured to the project from the periphery of the disk" (lines 17-18).
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saddle Jack.

Description: Patent for a new and improved saddle-jack. This design consists in "the combination, with a support, of a post having a hollow trunnion and carrying a saddle-tree support on its upper end, and a bolt passing through the hollow trunnion and carrying hooks on its upper end for engaging a saddle-tree to hold it on its support" (lines 84-90).
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Garrett, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Description: Patent for an air suctioning instrument that exterminates boll-weevil and other insects that infest cotton crops. Illustrations included.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Goar, Robert Keith
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for wire stretcher which draw fence-wire and hold the stack. This device is used mainly while working with fence-wires and supplemental tie-wires.
Date: July 15, 1902
Creator: Halpain, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Traction Gang Plow

Description: Patent for a traction gang plow. This invention uses multiple disks for furrowing. Illustration included.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Johnson, Charles J. & Lumpkin, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle Guard

Description: Patent for a cattle guard. This invention is for use with railways to prevent passage of stock over the tracks. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Jungman, Leo A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Back-Band Hook.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in back band hooks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1898
Creator: Lynch, John Elbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn Motor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a wheel or disk having a toothed periphery and provided with a broad friction-flange, or a disk at right angles to the former, bearing against its friction-flange, and having studs engaging its teeth . . . [also] [i]n a churn-motor, the combination, with the box or body of the cover, having uprights, [a] shaft having [a] crank, disk having teeth and [a] flange, and the vertical shaft having [a] disk, pro… more
Date: October 3, 1882
Creator: May, Benjamin Cary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flour Bin and Sifter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved flour bin and sifter. This design consists in "[a] bin having sleeves secured thereto at opposite sides and removable screening and sifting mechanism provided with similar sleeves, and two-prong pins engaging said sleeves for connecting the sifting and screening mechanism to the bin, the said pins being arranged with their heads in opposite directions" (lines 20-27).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: McClellan, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Surgical Instrument

Description: Patent for a surgical instrument for increasing dilation of the uterine cavity and for taking medical tampons in and out.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: McMordie, William Emmett
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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