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Automatic Weighing-Scale

Description: Patent for a new and improved Automatic Weighing Scale. The improvements provide competely automated operation for weighing materials in bulk. The efficiency of device allows materials to be weighed without having to add or remove weights.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Standefer, Henry R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Description: Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
Date: May 9, 1899
Creator: Ledbetter,William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for a cotton-press that compresses "cotton as it is delivered from the gin into convenient shape and size of bundle, for facilitating the transportation thereof" (lines 12-15).
Date: June 25, 1895
Creator: Taylor, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Elevator and Gin-Feeder.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive cotton-elevator and gin-feeder that is easy to assemble and have removable screens and suspended chutes and feeders. Suction draws the cotton through the distributing trunk, and gravity drops the cotton into a gin. These concepts are also outlined in the inventor's previous patents, Nos 472,607 and 488,446.
Date: May 26, 1896
Creator: Murray, Stephen A.
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Automatic Weighing-Scale.

Description: Patent for a more accurate continuous weighing automatic scale of such bulk materials as grain, cotton seed, etc. with a mechanism for automatical control of both a main and an auxiliary receiver door.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Williams, Andrew M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Crate.

Description: Patent for a crate for eggs which allows the eggs to be suspended in individual compartments for shipping. The crate will be lined with flexible material that will cushion the egg absorbing shock, including illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Smith, Nora S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: RR x-ings]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 5, 1979, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: SOF Approaching]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of members of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas who staged a wrap session in storage area of a soft-drink firm.
Date: December 19, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Food Shortages]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about food shortages that is excepted to happen in the Nation but according to the survey there might be scattered shortages on some items.
Date: July 6, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Porno Hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of peace justice Bob Ashmore who has been viewing the confiscated films at the Tarrant County Criminal Justice Building.
Date: January 22, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Protest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of independent truckers who maintained blockages at truck stops in north and east portion of the state despite an end to such activity at locations in west Texas.
Date: February 6, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Curing-House.

Description: Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Decapitator.

Description: Patent for improvements to decapitator handles which "may be very cheaply produced and will present a broad surface for the hand of the operator which will permit him to exert all necessary pressure without any discomfort to himself" (lines 71-75).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Rece, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Buried alive - but escaped death]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Vernon Harp being trapped inside a silo when an air pocket collapsed and buried Harp under the soft earth.
Date: June 12, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Peas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an old Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year Day which is supposed to bring good luck throughout the new year.
Date: December 31, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Federal Grand Jury]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the grand jury who returned a true bill of indictment against Thomas C. Thomas.
Date: April 25, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Covering for Meats.

Description: Patent for an aromatic asphaltum and paraffin wrap to preserve, protect from air and moisture, and transport meat that will not become brittle under cold temperatures.
Date: October 18, 1921
Creator: Pletcher, Lyle J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vegetable-Grading Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a vegetable grading apparatus that delivers select grades of vegetables to the picker, separating the majority of vegetables into containers. The apparatus prevents bruising of vegetables and allows the picker to see all sides of the vegetables.
Date: June 28, 1921
Creator: Rigney, Samuel C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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