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Improvement in Hawk-Traps

Description: Patent for an "improved trap for catching hawks, owls, and other birds of prey, which shall be so constructed as to adapt it to be attached to a pole or post set in the ground" (para. 4).
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: White, Joseph
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Playing-Cards.

Description: Patent for a card game that aims to teach players the workings of the electoral college. There are 208 cards, divided into four types: "eagle," "star," "banner," "flag," and gathering one of each type gives the player an electoral vote. The cards feature presidential candidates of the mid-1800s.
Date: March 27, 1906
Creator: Noonan, James Harrison
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Game.

Description: Patent for a four-player checker game and a hinged gameboard to play it on which provides storage for the checkers when folded.
Date: March 27, 1917
Creator: Mason, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Belt.

Description: Patent for an electric belt producing "an exceedingly gentle and moderate [current], so as to insure the precise remedial results desired" (lines 91-93) including illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1889
Creator: Everett, Charles
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Implement for Replacing Inner Tubes of Pneumatic Tires.

Description: Patent for a device for replacing the inner tubes of pneumatic tires, designed especially for bicycle tires. The device "will take hold of the end of the inner tube without liability of cutting it, and that will grip it with a degree of tightness proportionate to the amount of force required to pull it through the outer casing" (lines 41-45). This is easier than previous methods of replacing inner tubes.
Date: October 27, 1896
Creator: McCutcheon, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Minnow Bucket and Trap.

Description: Patent for a combined minnow bucket and trap that overcomes past disadvantages, is simple in constructions, inexpensive to manufacture and reliable.
Date: March 27, 1906
Creator: Petmecky, Fred
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Artificial Fly Fish Hook

Description: Patent for an artificial fly fish hook. Illustration included.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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