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Apparatus for Floating Vessels.

Patent for a mechanism for raising, and hauling into deeper water, a floating vessel that has run aground.

Date: November 12, 1901

Creator: Debose, Albert S.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Safety Hook and Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "is especially adapted for use upon the back-bands, whether of leather or canvas, of harnesses, and for receiving and holding the leather trace or trace-chains of the harness; but it may be attached to various other parts of the harness, and used for various other purposes. The buckle part of the device is composed of a suitable frame . . . and a bar formed or provided with points or small tongues for holding the strap or canva… more

Date: July 18, 1882

Creator: Hake, Francis A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for the Treatment of Cotton.

Patent for a machine that puts gins and condensers in a line, which sit over a flue. "The lint cotton in bat form being delivered from all of the condensers in independent bats to a common conveyer, the bat cotton increasing in thickness upon the common conveyer and in its travel to a press, compress or other receptacle, receiving the different bats from the different condensers, one bat lying smoothly upon the other, until at the discharge end of the common conveyer, the bat in which the lint … more

Date: May 22, 1894

Creator: Zedler, Friedrich

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Replacer.

Patent for a car-replacer that is simple and inexpensive and can be easily set and removed. The replacer has two blocks shaped like triangles and tie rods connecting the blocks.

Date: February 13, 1894

Creator: Debose, Albert S.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter

Patent for "a planter that shall be self-covering and adjustable as to the transverse and longitudinal space between the hills and rows, and which at the same time may be regulated as to the amount of material fed at each throw of the seed-slide, and which will also mark off the adjacent row as the machine advances" (lines 10-16).

Date: August 23, 1887

Creator: Westhoff, Emil

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Handling Cotton.

Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit.

Date: September 29, 1891

Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

BED-BOTTOM

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in bed bottoms". The bed bottom fits any bedstead and it is cheap, portable, and durable.

Date: July 13, 1880

Creator: Pafford, John R.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Elevator and Distributer.

Patent for a pneumatic feed device or elevator and distributor for cotton gins. It has a mechanical conveyer that connects "with the blast device, so that a positive force feed is obtained and the cotton is placed evenly over the gins, and wherein further an overflow box is employed and an independent means of feeding the cotton through the medium of the said blast device, either from a vehicle or bin or from the overflow box, thus enabling the gin to be fed even while the connection between th… more

Date: May 14, 1895

Creator: Zelder, Friedrich & Ward, Perry L.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Passenger Recorder

Patent for "automatically auditing the number of passengers and the distance traveled by said passengers while en route on a train or other public conveyance." (lines 9-13)

Date: September 26, 1911

Creator: Rudolf Brown, of Cuero, Texas.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ant Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "has for its object the production of a simple, cheap, and effective device whereby the ants are confined to a space within the circle of the trap, speedily captured, and exterminated. It consists in a trap constructed with a circular flanged pit provided with tubes leading therefrom to a central ant-receptacle; also, in the details of construction of the trap" (lines 8-16).

Date: November 9, 1886

Creator: Barnes, Robert Hanson & Salles, George Camiel

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clevis Attachment for Plows.

Patent for an agricultural plow attachment that allows for more precision concerning the measurement of depth of the plow point against different types of terrain/soil conditions.

Date: February 13, 1920

Creator: Wolter, Fred W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Patent for Planter Attachment

Patent for a planter attachment for cultivators that allows for replanting of crops in skips where there is a poor stand. This cultivator attachment allows for access to replant crops amongst other growing crops and plants.

Date: November 25, 1919

Creator: Wolter, Fredrich W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Destroyer.

Patent for a new and improved pest control device. This design "consist[s] of the flexible air-supply funnel, having end-supporting and mouth-distending rim, terminating in vertical bottom legs or branches, the gas generator, the air-inlet tube having the valve, and the rigid gas-discharge tube" (lines 22-28).

Date: December 25, 1883

Creator: Grafton, William

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide for Boll-Weevils.

Patent for boll-weevil insecticide with novel method of compounding. Arsenic and baking soda are combined with wood ash to create a dust which kills the insects as an inhalent instead of needing to be consumed by the insects in order to be effective.

Date: November 1, 1921

Creator: Koenig, Philipp

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Patent for an insecticide that uses an arsenic compound to kill insects instead of Paris green or London purple, and can easily be made into a beautiful green powder that may be used as a pigment.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Brumleu, Ludwig & Brumleu, Ernest

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Indicating Attachment for Tanks

Patent for an indicating attachment for gas tanks on cars.

Date: May 28, 1912

Creator: Turner, Joseph B.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel or Felly Screw.

Patent for a new and improved screw for a wheel or felly. This design "relates to screws for setting vehicle fellies or rims on the tenons of the spokes; and its object is to provide a device possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, ease of adjustment, and general efficiency, whereby one [person] can easily and conveniently set the rim" (lines 9-15).

Date: January 8, 1884

Creator: Rotzien, Christoph

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.

Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.

Date: September 5, 1876

Creator: Bunker, Thaddeus

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Generator

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of steam engines.

Date: April 9, 1901

Creator: Thompson, Samuel F. & Barnes, Robert H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Tanning Hides.

Patent for "an improved process of tanning hides in an expeditious and economical manner, and to produce a fine quality of leather" (lines 8-11). The limed and haired hides are baited thrice, afterwards the hides are packed into "tanning-vats with bark and covering them with a solution of alum and water" (lines 80-82). The hides are then leached in salt water and scoured and dried.

Date: July 14, 1896

Creator: Rogers, John Charsley

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing Plate.

Patent for a new and improved printing-plate. This design "relates to an improvement in printing-plates designed particularly for printing mailing-lists for newspapers and other periodicals" (lines 8-11). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the bar or holder having the downwardly and inwardly turned ends, and the printing-plates secured on the former . . . of the loop loosely mounted on the plate, and the interposed wedge-shaped locking-key" (lines 5-16).

Date: July 22, 1890

Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Table.

Patent for a new and improved table. This design "can be adjusted vertically by turning the screw-spindle, or it can be drawn upward, and will be held in position by the spring-catch, which catches on the shoulders. If the table is to be used at a sick-bed, it can be projected laterally by drawing the table-top in the direction in which it is to project, the track-plate sliding in the grooved plate. The table-top can be locked in the desired position by means of the binding screw" (lines 90-100… more

Date: November 11, 1884

Creator: Kossbiel, Charles

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse Collar.

Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "consists in forming a portion of the large roll of the collar with leather, and the other part with canvas or ducking of two thicknesses, between which double part of ducking or canvas is placed a medicated composition and preservative, which serves as a remedial agent for the galling of horses shoulders', and as a preventative against gnawing of the collar by vermin. It also relates to an improved manner of stitching together the collar … more

Date: August 7, 1883

Creator: Hake, Francis A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "consists of an adjustable regulating fastener for the upper and lower ends of the hames, and this fastener is further provided with a swinging loop, to which the breast-strap may be attached on the lower fastener and the strap on the upper fastener when desired" (lines 19-25).

Date: September 29, 1885

Creator: Hake, Francis A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department