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Cotton Picker's Truck

Description: Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Franek, Jakob
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Cotton Planter

Description: Patent for a machine used to plant cotton. Contains mechanisms for both plowing a furrow, planting seeds, and covering the seeds.
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Carter, Edwards D.
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Cotton Sprinkler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the L-shaped nozzle having the longer arm and the shorter arm, the spring-board secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and projecting over the end thereof, and provided with a boss on its upper side, the L-shaped bracket secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and having one end projecting over the spring-valve and provided with a screw-threaded opening, and the thumb-screw inserted through and playing in … more
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Kister, William
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Crate

Description: Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: McLeod, Norman J.
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Design for an Insect-Exterminator.

Description: Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.
Date: April 11, 1899
Creator: Hightower, Elijah H.
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Digging-Machine.

Description: Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Holly, Charles
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Drier

Description: Patent for a drier used for drying sugar canes from a sugar mill. Illustrations included.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Rayner, Henry William
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Flash-Lamp

Description: Patent for a flash lamp for taking photographs. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Harrington, David
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Garden Implement

Description: This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.
Date: November 9, 1912
Creator: Ward, John Swayze
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Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, one that may be easily operated, and yet be positive in its engagement with the latch to prevent it from being opened by cattle, &c." (lines 8-14).
Date: December 8, 1885
Creator: Dunn, Henry Frankling.
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Horseshoe.

Description: Patent for horseshoes that can be attached to the horses' foot without nails.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Lainweber, Mary C.
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Improved Bridge.

Description: Patent for an invention that "is to provide certain improvements in the construction of bridges, whereby the parts thereof, of wood, may be readily removed for the substitution of others, when decayed or broken, without interfering with the use of the bridge or weakening it (lines 10-15)". The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1870
Creator: McDowell, H. S.
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Improvement In Bale-Ties.

Description: This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.
Date: April 16, 1878
Creator: Knipscheer, John
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Improvement in Churns.

Description: Patent for improvement in churns by using an oblong box with a diamond-shaped dash fixed in the box. The churning is done by rapidly swing the box back and forth until butter is obtained. Illustration is included.
Date: October 8, 1872
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
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Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Description: Patent for the improvement of the cotton-seed planter in the arrangement of the hopper, roller with stirring and feeding teeth attached while distributing seeds accurately, including illustration.
Date: December 27, 1859
Creator: Kesler, Charles & Reinhard, Fred
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Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Description: Patent for a wheeled vehicular device to destroy cotton worms that can be connected to a horse or a wagon. It carries a poisonous cotton-worm destroying agent and disburse this substance on crops or foliage to deter worms.
Date: December 16, 1873
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
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Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.

Description: Patent for an "improved apparatus by means of which ground-squirrels and gophers can be destroyed in their holes, conveniently and effectively, and at small expense" (para. 4). The mechanism works by gassing underground vermin with sulphuric fumes.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Dreyer, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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