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Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for invention relating "to improvements in automatic car-couplings" (lines 9-10) for railroad cars.
Date: April 16, 1901
Creator: Priddy, Miles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer.

Description: Patent for improvement in draft-equalizer “to drive a plurality of animals abreast, and is arranged so that neither of the animals need travel upon ploughed ground. It is also designed to obviate the usual unnecessary looseness of the draft connections and to provide for an adjustable tension upon the connection between the opposite equalizing-bars.” (Lines 12-19) Illustration is included.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Shipman, Samuel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Detacher.

Description: Patent for improvements in horse-detachers to "increase their strength, durability and efficiency and to provide one adapted to enable a horse to be readily released from a pair of shafts and capable facilitating hitching and unhitching." (Lines 12-16). Illustration is included.
Date: October 29, 1901
Creator: Haines, Samuel A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Percolator.

Description: Patent for a percolating tea- or coffeepot that segregates the tea or coffee within the body of the pot so that the material doesn't float freely in the liquid.
Date: February 25, 1902
Creator: Seney, Joshua C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for improvements “in axle-nut wrenches in which the wrench comprising an angular socket portion adapted to extend partially within the wheel-hub to engage the nut,” (lines 81-83) so that the nut may be unscrewed by rotating the wheel. Illustration is included.
Date: April 15, 1902
Creator: Haines, Samuel Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Fence Machine

Description: Patent for a wire fence machine. This invention is designed to tie wires to the line wires and line wires to the stay. Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Baumgartner, Blassie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Pulling Stalks.

Description: Patent for improvements in machine for pulling stalks in which it “can break the stalks in small pieces and guide the stalks into the pulling-section of the machine; the pulling-section may be adjusted to suit the average height of the stalks and bodily raised and lowered at any time to permit the pulling-section to be carried out of the way of obstructions when occasion so demands.” (Lines 11-21) Illustration is included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Kirkpatrick, George Milton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Crane

Description: Patent for a mail crane. This invention is designed "for instantly shifting the bag or pouch holding arms of the crane" (line 17-18). Illustration included.
Date: December 13, 1904
Creator: Hardwick, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam Engine

Description: Patent for "useful improvements in Steam-Engines, of which the following is a specification" (lines 5-6). Includes description and illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1905
Creator: Murphy, Joseph F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydraulic Swivel.

Description: Patent for "a simple, compact, and efficient water-swivel for well-drilling machines, to reduce friction between the water-swivel and the drill-rod, and to provide certain novel and improved details of construction and arrangement." (lines 8-13).
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Embry, Leonard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for "an invention for tilting gates to materially simplify the erection of a gate for farm and other users and also render the gate sensitive and reliable in opening and closing movement by employing minimized operating mechanism." (lines 7-11).
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Connolly, Peter H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch for Street-Railways.

Description: Patent for switches used to electrically control street railways. Intended to allow the motorman to electrically control the switches of the track from the railway car without having to stop the train to turn the switch on the track.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Posey, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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