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Wire Stretcher

Description: Patent for wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date: October 2, 1906
Creator: Neel, Randolph D.
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Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Land, Henry Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window Shade, Curtain, and Drapery Hanger.

Description: Patent for a pair of adjustable and flexible bars and brackets to be modified with additional components (such as strips, screws, and nails) to accommodate any window or hangar length. The bars and brackets combination provide simple construction and removals of window shades, curtains, and drapes.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Rawls, Theophilus M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window Shade Support

Description: Patent for window shade supports; specifically adjustable curtains, draperies, and shade supports. This invention is to provide a device that is strong, durable, convenient, and functionally effective for the purposes intended.
Date: July 7, 1913
Creator: Hammers, Wendell P.
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Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench with an adjustable handle for multiple uses, with illustrations.
Date: April 10, 1906
Creator: Land, Henry Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher "which may readily be employed for stretching wires to a post for stapling, for stretching or drawing the ends of wires together for tying and for drawing out or removing staples from a post" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Palmer, Joshua C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and useful wire tightener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Boynton, Willie Amos
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Twin Cultivating-Harrow.

Description: Patent for a twin cultivating harrow with an especially designed coupling that connects the harrow frames. It is adjustable and is meant to cultivate corn, cotton, and similar crops.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Waldrip, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon Bow Socket.

Description: Patent for new and improved wagon-bow sockets. This design "furnishes a firm support for the [wagon] bow at both top and bottom of the socket, by which it is evident it will be rigidly secured against all lateral motions" (lines 38-41). This eliminates the "unsightly appearance, leaking, and other defects of the uneven height of bows so often resulting from the use of ordinary staples" (lines 44-47).
Date: December 28, 1880
Creator: Williams, Richard P.
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Insecticide.

Description: Patent for an inflammable compound for exterminating destructive insects and animals that contains alkanet-root, arsenious acid, gum-camphor, iodine resubl., phosphorus, sulphur resubl., and bisulphide carbon.
Date: January 8, 1886
Creator: Shugart, T. Woodward. & Clifton, Charley D.
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Knee-Protector.

Description: Patent for knee protectors that provide padding for the wearer when kneeling, attached by springs that allow for comfortable movement and easy donning.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Hooker, Rufus B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wind Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in a novel arrangement and combination of wings or gates in a casing outside and independent of the wheel, whereby provision is made for adjusting the position of said wings, and consequently regulating the speed of the wheel, according to the force of the wind" (lines 7-13).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Smith, Hilliard Bonaparte.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Fence Tool.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire fence tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Boynton, John Blijah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Elevator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design consists in "a supporting frame, a drum journaled therein, a rope wound on the drum, a bucket attached to the rope, mechanism for turning the drum to lift the bucket, and a fork journaled below the drum and provided with a central arm adapted to catch under the raised bucket resting in the fork to discharge its contents as the fork is tilted" (lines 21-28).
Date: July 19, 1887
Creator: Mefferd, George Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve.

Description: Patent for a new and useful valve, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1900
Creator: Fox, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lever.

Description: Patent for a lever that attaches to moveable cultivator gangs.
Date: August 6, 1907
Creator: Gillentine, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn-Mower.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lawn mower that "consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts." (lines 13-14), including description and illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Stewart, Henry E. & Stewart, Luther F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transposition Device for Electric Lines.

Description: Patent for improving efficiency in transposing electric lines. Improvements include providing devices "which cannot be destroyed by bullets or rocks and other destructive agencies", providing devices "which will maintain the lines parallel with each other", and providing devices "so that no special tools will be necessary for linemen... only a pair of pliers."
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Neel, Guy W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel-Straightener

Description: Patent for a wheel straightener that can straighten wheels without removing the tires.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Ray, Carry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Movement.

Description: Patent for improved manner of rotary movement on various machines. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Gibson, Levi D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Exterminator

Description: Patent for a device exterminating boll weevils and other insects, which infest cotton and other crops. The device produces new means for producing fumigating gas, and its delivery mechanism. An improved driving mechanism for the device, which connects to a blower, is also part of the patent.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Rawls, Theophilus M. & Miller, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tobacco Substitute.

Description: Patent for a tobacco substitute "compounded of gentian, licorice, prickly-ash bark, and sassafras (lines 37-38).
Date: November 11, 1890
Creator: Rose, William Percy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tobacco Substitute.

Description: Patent for an improvement in tobacco substitutes, by using a combination of ingredients that “will completely destroy all desire for tobacco and thus enables them to discontinue its use without any of the inconvenience or suffering,” (lines 18-21) ingredients of the compound are included. No illustration.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Miller, Levi, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Tanning.

Description: Patent for improvements in tanning by steaming the broom-weed (Amphiachyris dracunculoides) to extract liquor and gradually condense the liquor into a strong solution as tanning ingredient for treatment of hides or skins. No illustration.
Date: October 13, 1891
Creator: Turner, Robert W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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