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Improvement in Corn-Planters

Description: Patent for a construction that will act as a plow, and aid in the process of planting corn. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: September 8, 1868
Creator: Kidd, I. J.
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Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Description: Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
Date: April 28, 1868
Creator: Kidd, I. J.
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Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers.
Date: April 28, 1868
Creator: Kidd, I. J.
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Improvement in Fire-Tongs

Description: Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.
Date: January 17, 1871
Creator: George, Alfred M.
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Improvement in Pen-Holders.

Description: Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.
Date: January 24, 1871
Creator: George, Alfred M.
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Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for a cotton press that is constructed using fewer parts than other models. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1870
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
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Improvement in Belt-Fasteners.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in Belt-Fasteners. Illustration is included.
Date: November 28, 1871
Creator: Olmsted, Marcellus
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Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for an improvement in plow design, including illustrations.
Date: February 25, 1873
Creator: Nichols, James R.
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Improvement in Remedies for Dropsy.

Description: Patent for a medical compound to alleviate dropsy, consisting of grape-vine, spirits of niter, oil of grape-vine, extract of Spanish apple root, and common salt. Includes instructions.
Date: November 14, 1876
Creator: Lawhon, David W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of runni… more
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Knowles, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Reissued patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton press: "The invention consists in operating the nut of a follower-screw by means of a drive-pinion, whose own shaft is actuated alternately in opposite directions, by a friction-wheel" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for an improvement in car couplings "whereby the pin-support is operated not by the links but by the impact of the cars themselves and of a yielding link" (lines 55-58).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Young, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination of the draw-heads provided with projections, a coupling-link, an operating-rod loosely connected to each of its ends, and a suitable support or guide through which these rods move . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a car-coupling in which the two cars are coupled together by means of a link which is provided with an operating rod at each end, both of the rods and the link being atta… more
Date: April 29, 1890
Creator: Campbell, Neil Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle.

Description: Patent for a bicycle that has a drive wheel, a ratchet wheel attached to the drive wheel, a chain that goes around the ratchet wheel, an apparatus for reciprocating the chain, a guideway from the chain to the ratchet wheel, a knob on the chain that engages the guideway, a pair of levers connected to the chain, and a chord that connects the levers to the chain.
Date: February 19, 1895
Creator: Williams, Elbert D.
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Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for an improved car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1887
Creator: Young, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Violin.

Description: Patent for an improved violin that is meant to "improve the acoustical properties of the instrument whereby it is enabled to give forth a deeper and softer tone, free from the "twang" common in instruments of this character, and second, to improve the mechanical construction of the instrument so that it will be less liable to become split" (lines 26-33).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Clopton, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle for Cotton Pickers.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle for picking cotton. This design "consists in a three-wheeled vehicle provided with a seat, in combination with a suitable frame which is supported at one end upon two wheels, and which is loosely attached at its other end to the axle of the three-wheeled vehicle, and which is used for carrying the bag or basket which is to hold the cotton . . . thus enabl[ing] persons to pick cotton who have weak backs" (lines 15-28).
Date: February 27, 1883
Creator: Reid, John Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for "an improved knee pad or cushion formed to properly fit and bend with the knee and to keep its proper shape while on the limb, and one that will be adapted for all persons engaged in occupations requiring a kneeling posting on the part of the operator." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1896
Creator: Laird, John E. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Telegraph-Sounder

Description: Patent for "a sounder wherein a finger-lever and sounding-lever are combined together with a spring" (lines 13-15) and is "adapted for the use of learners for practicing the manipulation of a telegraph finger-key" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Clopton, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Cotton-Conveyer.

Description: Patent for a combined cotton elevator and feeder "having exceedingly few parts and which can be easily operated and kept in running order, and which will be cheap, strong, and durable," (lines 34-40) including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Clopton, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for an attachment for plows or cultivators "whereby it may be converted into a sweep plow, adapted to be operated between rows of growing crops and capable of being adjusted in width in accordance with the distances apart from said rows" (lines 12-16).
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Baggett, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paper-File.

Description: Patent for improvements in paper-files by using a "combination of a base board and a clamp provided with a jaw, a presser-foot provided with a bearing, a crank-shaft journaled in the bearing with its cranked portion under the clamp, and a hinged support or flap under the presser-foot." (Lines 75-80, p. 2) Papers can be held in position or remove by the raising or lowering the presser-foot. Illustration is included.
Date: August 18, 1891
Creator: Clopton, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Saw Gummer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gin saw gummer. This design "consists in constructing a gin-saw gummer of a base-block, having a slot to receive the saw, and carrying the dics or stationary cutters, the guide-bar and shoe, the weight-bar, the pivoted bar, carrying the cutter and the gage, the lever and cam for operating the cutter-bar, and the feed mechanism" (lines 23-29).
Date: March 1, 1881
Creator: Clopton, John Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved washing machine: "The invention consists in combining a lower cylinder having longitudinal spiral grooves with an upper cylinder having longitudinal straight grooves and holes" (lines 14-17).
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Dorris, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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