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Coffee Mill Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coffee-mill attachment. This design "is to provide an attachment for coffee-mills whereby a cup or other receptacle can be suspended beneath the discharge-spout of the mill to receive the ground coffee therefrom, and which vessel can also be easily and readily fitted or adjusted beneath or removed from the discharge-spout, and to provide means which can be applied very easily and readily to hand coffee-mills of any class, and which shall be simple in construction a… more
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Wiesendanger, Emil Ulrich
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[News Clip: Alcohol still]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 4, 1981, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Automatic Plow-Foot.

Description: Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Dugger, Thomas M.
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[Form letter from George C. Betts to J. B. Allcorn - October 7, 1942]

Description: A form letter addressed to Mr. J. B. Allcorn, 17th District Rehabilitation Officer, The American Legion, Comanche, Texas, from GCB (George C. Betts), Chairman Rehabilitation Program Committee, dated October 7, 1942. Betts advises that the American Legion Rehabilitation Program Committee met with the Department Rehabilitation Committee and selected Allcorn as 17th District Rehabilitation Officer and then explains the goals regarding a rehabilitation program. He advises of the Department Comman… more
Date: October 7, 1942
Creator: Betts, George C.
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Boll-Weevil Catcher

Description: Patent for a Boll-Weevil Catcher. This inventions allows for an attachment to cultivators to catch weevils existing on growing cotton plants. The weevils are extracted, captured in a pan, and can be disposed of. This is an important tool that catches and destroys insects without damaging the plants.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Hitt, Reed R.
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for improvements in wire-stretchers by using a combination of two jaws coupled together and carrying pulleys, a cord to draw the jaws together passing around the pulleys, and a gripping device connected with the jaws to secure the wires. (Illustration is included.)
Date: July 7, 1891
Creator: Bigham, James Oliver
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Two-Row Planter

Description: Patent for a two-row planter, which includes two planting mechanisms. The planters are adjustable, "so that the distance between rows for seed planted can be regulated."
Date: March 30, 1915
Creator: Payne, Bishop M.
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Vehicle-Hub.

Description: Patent for improvements to vehicle wheel hubs, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Jones, George W. & Green, Furney F.
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Washing-Machine

Description: Patent for improvements on washing machines in order "to simplify and improve the construction of washing-machines and to provide one which will remove the dirt from fabrics without inj uring the latter and which may be conveniently operated with a minimum amount of exertion on the part of the operator" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 4, 1892
Creator: Elkins, William Franklin
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Veterinary Medicine.

Description: Patent for "medical compounds for internal application in diseases of sheep and other animals, and it is especially designed to cure the sheep disease known among sheepmen as ‘lombriz’" (lines 8-12) which lists the ingredients, measurements, and instructions for making and use. According to http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=lombriz “lombriz” can be translated as intestinal worm. According to https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/as/as-573-w.pdf “By far the most deadly … more
Date: November 20, 1883
Creator: Green, Furney Fold
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Knee-Protector

Description: Patent for a knee protector "adapted to be worn by cotton pickers, miners, and other workmen who are required to walk or labor while resting on the knees. The present invention contemplates the provision of a knee protector of unique construction...the present device while applied to the knee, permitting the wearer to walk conveniently either while standing or kneeling."
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Bassett, Rufus C.
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Windmill Attachment

Description: Patent for a windmill attachment that allows the windmill to be operated either by wind or hand power without needing to disconnect the sucker rod from the windmill.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Kay, Henry P.
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Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer consisting of a steam-generator used with "removable drawers forming the fire-box and ash-pan of the generator, a safety-valve connected with the steam-boiler, and a novel form and construction of flexible discharge-tube, the same being provided with a cut-off device and with a socket-piece adapted to receive a handle by means of which the discharge end of the flexible tube may be elevated and conducted to any desired point" (lines 12-21).
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Maddux, Richard Calvin
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Vehicle Brake

Description: Patent for a vehicle brake. This invention uses brake shoes. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Ashinhurst, William K.
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Wash Boiler

Description: Patent for improvement on boiler washing machines so that steam is produced in conical chambers underneath a false bottom thus producing steam in less time and stirring the clothes as steam is vented upward and out of said chambers.
Date: January 24, 1893
Creator: Medley, John Alfred
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Stalk-Cutter

Description: Patent for invention that "relates to improvements in 'stalk-cutters,' and pertains to a machine which is adapted to cut three rows of stalks at one operation and is provided with simple means for laterally extending the side cutters to permit the adjustment of the machine to cut rows of different widths" (lines 8-14). Illustrations are included.
Date: July 22, 1902
Creator: Williams, Mark D.
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