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Loose-Leaf Binder.

Description: Patent for a loose-leaf binder for medicine prescriptions, which is easier to open and close than previous ones.
Date: July 23, 1907
Creator: Perkins, John Hardeman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wood-Splitting Machine

Description: Patent for improvements in wood-splitting machines whereby the billet or stick of wood to be split is positioned in the path of the maul or hammer after being placed on the blade.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Taylor, Lawerence S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a vehicle wheel that has hub casings, which keep the lubricating oil inside and dirt outside.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Tatum, Franklin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for improvements to a cultivator "which, for convenience of operation, may be attached to the wheels or frame of any ordinary wagon or cart, or it may be operated independently of either of the above by attaching the draft animals directly to the main or principal beam to which the plow-points are connected." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1873
Creator: Hinckley, Jacob B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mill-Stone Dress.

Description: Patent for Mill Stone Dressing- the pattern on a mill stone for the better grinding of grains into flour. The furrows and grooves of the new design allow grain to be "milled... at greater speed (and)even distribution."
Date: March 8, 1870
Creator: Loy, G. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Description: Patent for improvements made to motors that power machinery, called "horse-powers." The specific improvements made are in the arrangement of mechanical pulleys from which the motor derives power, arranged in such a way that will not significantly increase the size or cost of the machine.
Date: February 4, 1873
Creator: Müller, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Millstone-Dress.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1854
Creator: Gaines, Edmund P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Millstone-Dress.

Description: Patent for improvement in millstone-dress by “making each of the main grooves in five sections, in combination with shoulders and inclined planes” (lines 17-19), including illustration.
Date: June 26, 1860
Creator: Gaines, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock

Description: Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date: August 9, 1904
Creator: Payne, Newton & Guynes, Allen Perry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Timber-Jack.

Description: Patent for timber-jacks which are "particularly adapted for use for persons using cross-cut saws on large pieces of timber."
Date: April 6, 1915
Creator: Barret, James H. & Barret, J. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "is to provide an engine or apparatus . . . in pumps of that class known as "force-pumps" . . . which is simple and durable in construction, and which is of large working capacity. . . . [The design] attain[s] the purposes of [the] invention by . . . the pump-buckets or caging and that part of the delivering-pipe containing the . . . valves in the plungers . . . [and] the ball-valves" (lines 9-28).
Date: October 19, 1886
Creator: Sparks, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Pump, &c.

Description: Patent for improvement to a pump "adapted for attachment to small vessels containing oil, water or any other liquid" (lines 10-12) that includes a better means of securing the pump.
Date: September 15, 1885
Creator: Phillips, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for discharging buckshot without reloading and with the precision of firing "a single bullet fired from a barrel of proper bore to fit it" (lines 17-18), including illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1859
Creator: Haynes, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor

Description: Patent for a new and improved motor. This design's "object is to provide a motor possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness, easy operation, and general efficiency" (lines 11-14).
Date: November 6, 1883
Creator: Watkins, Samuel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Suspenders.

Description: Patent for "improved means for supporting trousers and drawers, or two garments of similar form, simultaneously by the same suspenders" (lines 12-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1911
Creator: Hudson, Edwin P. & Mally, Frederick W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grass and Weed Cutter

Description: Patent for devicd for the cutting of grass and pulling of weeds from the root. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date: December 4, 1917
Creator: Taylor, Lawrence S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fish and Rat Trap

Description: Patent for fish and rat trap that can catch bait robbers as well as fish to reduce the nuisance for fishermen. The device contains a sensitive trigger release mechanism that can be activated under water at any point.
Date: July 11, 1916
Creator: Cotton, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Screw-cutting Die.

Description: Patent for a screw-cutting die, including illustrations. The invention includes "a die-plate of special construction, adapted to cut either right or left hand threads" (lines 12-13).
Date: February 6, 1883
Creator: Müller, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roller Bearing

Description: Patent for improvement on roller bearings that include spaced rings and multiple rollers.
Date: November 2, 1911
Creator: Tatum, Franklin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rivet-Set.

Description: Patent for an improvement in rivet-sets which having various sizes of holes and cavities for cutting and setting; it can be riveted by hand or machine. Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1891
Creator: Wilson, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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