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Buckle-Making Machine

Description: Patent for a buckle making machine for forming wires into tie buckles for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Canopy-Frame.

Description: Patent for "a simple, compact and efficient extensible frame adapted to be supported for use either in connection with a bedstead or door and window openings, &c" (lines 9-13). It is constructed to be arranged in multiple positions and "to support the fabric of the canopy in the desired position without risk of tearing or otherwise injuring the same" (lines 15-18).
Date: May 2, 1899
Creator: Baggett, Charles Bennett
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee-Mill.

Description: Patent for a coffee mill that utilizes an electric motor for power (grinding).
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: Sligar, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridge Construction

Description: Patent for a truss bridge which also uses suspension cables and is lighter than previous truss bridges.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Carroll, John Morton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a bicycle attachment that supports the frame and can be used as a "carrier or support for a child, package, a satchel, &c." (Lines 12-13) Illustrations included.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Flinn, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling Press

Description: Patent for a baling press to be used for hay, straw, wool, and other fibrous materials.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Tate, William Elbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn-Motor.

Description: Patent for improving crank-lever churn motors for a more simple construction that results in a more lightweight but strong machine.
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Crawford, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for a baling press with an improved plunger which returns to upright position automatically after pressing the bale.
Date: July 21, 1908
Creator: Hamilton, James William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling Press

Description: Patent for a baling press. This invention is a screw operated double acting plunger that compresses the bales. Illustration included.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Tate, William Elbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of John and Lillian Langdon]

Description: Full-length portrait of John and Lillian Langdon. Lillian Langdon, sitting, wears a light-colored checkered dress with a matching jacket and a pearl necklace. John Landon, standing to the right of his sister, wears a dark jacket and knee-length shorts with dark tights and button-up boots. A hand written note on the back reads, "John Langdon & sister Lillian (Lillie). He was born 1887, about 4 yrs. old here, I suppose."
Date: 1891
Creator: Whittaker & Kennedy
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Apparatus for Loading Wagons.

Description: Patent for a new and improved apparatus for loading wagons. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform having the opening and the trap-doors, the fastening devices to secure the trap-doors when closed and to permit the same to open, and the counter-weights connected to the trap-doors" (lines 24-28).
Date: November 27, 1888
Creator: Bernard, Alfred Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boot Upper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved boot upper. This design "relates to improvements in boots for use by lumbermen, laborers, miners, and others requiring a stout heavy boot capable of withstanding great strain, water-tight, and durable" (lines 7-11). It "consist[s] of a front and rear section, each of said sections being made in one piece and the edges of the rear section doubled over upon themselves and having their edges secured to the edges of the front section by edge stitches passing through sa… more
Date: July 12, 1892
Creator: Baker, Oscar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Recutting Files.

Description: Patent for a new and improved file re-cutter. This design consists "[i]n an apparatus for recutting files by electro-chemical action, the dialectric plates and the carbon plates having their upper ends attached to said non-conducting plates, whereby the files to be recut are disposed between the carbon plates when in the solution" (lines 76-82).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Emley, James E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Operating Churns, &c.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for operating churns, ice cream freezers, or the like, and is meant "to produce an apparatus in which there is simultaneously given to the vessel a revolving motion and a revolving or vibrating motion to the agitator working in the vessel" (lines 14-18).
Date: April 16, 1895
Creator: Crawford, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for bale-tie buckle improvement for tightly securing single length wire prior to pressure release around a cotton bale. Further bale-tie buckle improvements include sharper bends using flat or oval wire to further decrease slipping of wire.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Frantz, Erza A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for clothes pins made from non-oxidizable wire, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Buckley, John Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a new bale tie buckle made of wire material "in which the buckle is closed by the strain or stress on the bale tie" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

A Castle of Memories

Description: A poem titled "A Castle of Memories," written by T. H. Gatlin, Weatherford, Texas. Religious poem/song recounting the life, once fair, of a homeless man, found with a worn Bible in his hands gone home to "A Mansion not made with hands", a smile on his face that "seemed to whisper of God's Grace". He implores the Youth to let the Bible guide their lives. The reverse side includes a printed advertisement "Complements…Of American Beauty Flour and Your friend, Virgil O. Stamps."
Date: unknown
Creator: Gatlin, T. H.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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