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Chimney-Jacket

Description: Patent for a chimney jacket construction for naval vessels. Illustrations included.
Date: December 17, 1912
Creator: Newell, Allen
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Cloth-Winding Machine.

Description: Patent for a cloth winding machine, which measures cloth for cutting and then winds the rest of the bolt of cloth back up.
Date: April 7, 1908
Creator: Blythe, Edward Willey
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Bedstead Brace.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bedstead brace. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails, the end rails, and posts, of the hooks secured to the inner faces of said posts, the eyes on the inner sides of the side rails and located a slight distance apart, the wires secured to the hooks and passing through the eyes, the plates having openings, through which the wires pass and the screw bolt and nut connecting said plates" (lines 60-68).
Date: December 29, 1885
Creator: Durham, John William & Alexander, Winston Buchanan
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Bedstead.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design consists of a frame with tension wires "extending diagonally across the bed-frame to the side pieces thereof at points intermediate between the corner posts, and independent tension devices to which the ends of the wire are connected, whereby a longitudinal and lateral strain is exerted upon the bed-frame when the wires are adjusted" (lines 1-7).
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Clowers, William B.
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Antifreezing Outlet-Valve for Tanks.

Description: Patent for a new and improved "valve-operating mechanism which cannot be rendered inoperative by ice forming in the tank, and also whereby the valve itself cannot become frozen" (lines 26-30) including illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Whipp, John W.
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Water-Tank.

Description: Patent for a railroad water tank, which automatically opens the discharge valve when the spout is opened.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Miller, Charles H. & Bunnell, Walter A.
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Weather-Strip.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved weather strip that "will be operated by the opening and closing of the door, and which will not interfere with carpets, and which will when the door is closed effectually exclude wind, rain, dust and the like" (lines 12-16).
Date: July 4, 1893
Creator: Bradford, McDuffee
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Sash Fastener

Description: Patent for Sash-Fastener. "My invention relates to sash-fasteners for holding and locking a window-sash either in an open or closed position." (lines7-9). With illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1888
Creator: Williams, Harry I.
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Sash Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sash-fastener. This design consists "[t]he combination, [of] an angle-bracket having an opening produced in its horizontal member wider at its top than at its bottom, and an essentially yoke-shaped bar passed through the said opening, [and] a thumb-lever hinged in the vertical member of the bracket, extending over and parallel with the horizontal member of said bracket, and a lip integral with the under edge of the lever, concavo-convex in cross-section, and capabl… more
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Miller, Charles H. & McDonald, Samuel A.
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Riding Saddle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "relates especially to devices intended for use in coupling or connecting girths to saddles in stock countries or elsewhere where it is desirable to quickly adjust the saddle onto a horse . . . in drawing [a] strap to tighten the girth the inner portion, by reason of the friction of the parts passing through the rings, becomes rolled or creased up and straightened out, and loosens the girth in a short time . . . [the] invention seeks to overcome… more
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Newman, John W.
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Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for "a quilting-frame with equalizing bar and means for adjusting the same so that the quilting-frame shall at all times be held in a level position" (lines 8-11). This invention has a new method for suspending the quilting-frame and for supporting the rail where the traveler operates.
Date: May 9, 1893
Creator: Chenoweth, James W.
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Non-Freezing Connection for Tanks

Description: Patent for a valve for water tanks that prevents the water from freezing by taking in water from the central portion. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Miller, Charles Hector & Bunnell, Walter Alex
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Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins.

Description: Patent for an invention that improves mote boards for cotton gins by causing the "impurities and dust thrown off by the centrifugal action of the brush to be conducted away by a dust passage" (lines 19-22).
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Wooldridge, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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