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Churn.

Description: Patent for a churn with an improved "construction of working body churns, to effect a rapid production of butter, and to enable the temperature of the contents of the churn to be readily controlled and regulated to facilitate churning" (lines 11-15).
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Robert, Cumberland M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire stretcher designed "to provide simple and efficient means for twisting the terminals of a broken fence-wire together for connecting them, and also to enable a wire to be readily severed when desired." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Morrow, William I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher and Splicer.

Description: Patent for a wire stretcher and splicer device, for "stretching of the wire when a fence is being constructed, the tightening of the wire after the fence is constructed, and the splicing of broken wire" (lines 10-13), with illustrations.
Date: January 17, 1893
Creator: Dowell, Lawson Henrey
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trunk.

Description: Patent for a trunk meant for traveling that holds clothes and small articles. The trunk has "novel adjunctive features, which will render it more convenient, and better adapted for the stowage and removal of various articles of wear and use" (lines 11-14).
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Warren, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trace-Carrier.

Description: Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient trace-carrier" (line 12) "capable of readily receiving and of securely holding the chain of a trace close to the back-band and of preventing the inner trace-chains form becoming hooked into each other when two horses are employed at a plow or the like" (lines 13-18).
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Brown, Lewis E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spout-Connection for Cans and the Like.

Description: Patent for a device that connects a spout to any vessel.
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: Vacher, Ernest W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the beam, of a hopper having the front hole, the elastic standards, beam bows or braces, and the eye-rod . . . [as well as] the handles of a planter, secured detachably in a clip on the end of the beam and just within the front of the hopper" (lines 71-77).
Date: November 16, 1886
Creator: Pulley, David F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design consists in "an improvement in quilting-frames, the combination, with the foot-pieces, of the hinged arms, braces, clamping screws, rollers, and set-screws" (lines 66-69).
Date: October 10, 1882
Creator: Murphree, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Pneumatic Toy.

Description: Patent for improvements in rotary pneumatic toys, "which can be carried by a child and caused to rotate by the action of the air when the toy is carried rapidly or if the air is violently circulated" (lines 11-15) including illustrations.
Date: November 17, 1896
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn Planter

Description: Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Robinson, Charles William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher

Description: Patent for a device that stretches wire, specifically for fence construction.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Cox, Caine Lafayette
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Smith, Henry D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill

Description: Patent for "improvements in windmills." (lines 8-9) specifically a vertical windmill and includes five figures and an explanation of the device.
Date: January 15, 1901
Creator: Harris, Edwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Fence Tool.

Description: Patent for a new wire fence tool for "applying binding members at the crossings of the strand and stay wires, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date: April 3, 1906
Creator: Harris, Edwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Variable Float-Shaft Bearing for Cotton-Seed-Linting Machines

Description: Patent for a shaft bearing designed to regulate and maintain the density of the cotton seed rolls in linting machines. Illustrations included.
Date: May 12, 1908
Creator: Rosson, Joseph Linville
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Bag Catching and Delivering Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a mailbag catching and delivering apparatus for trains that can be used by a train going either direction on the tracks.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Tidmore, Irenaeus P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Movement

Description: Patent for a mechanical movement. This invention is intended to producing more power. Illustration included.
Date: December 29, 1903
Creator: Stevens, Samuel David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Toy.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in toys. This design is to " produce a top which will be capable of unusual momentum with the resultant prolonged action" (line 10 - 12).
Date: January 25, 1898
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stew-Pan.

Description: Patent for improvement in stew-pan by using a large size of stew-pan which having three separate compartments with different dimensions, to allow for large quantities of cooking materials to cook at one time without using separate cooking utensils. The heater designed to have fire-box in the front and at the rear, and the top portion of the heater being almost completely open. The elongated stew-pan placed on top of the open fire acted as a closure for the open top of the heater when food is … more
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Dowell, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Making Concrete Tombstones.

Description: Patent for a method of making concrete tombstones which are waterproof and don't require wetting during the drying process to prevent cracking, reducing the drying time from 30 days in the shade to 4 days in the sun. This is achieved by adding salt to hold water which prevents cracking while drying, and a paint coat of aluminum powder and gasolene to waterproof the concrete and add a shine to it.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Hendley, Marion Jonathan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spittoon

Description: Patent for a spittoon for hospital use. Illustrations included.
Date: October 15, 1912
Creator: Grisham, Mattie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock that keeps bolts attached extra tightly.
Date: January 31, 1911
Creator: Greer, Benjamin J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock that is easy to manufacture.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Dowell, Lawson H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Padlock

Description: Patent for a padlock. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Greer, Benjamin J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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