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Brace for Heel-Sweeps.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable brace for heel-sweeps. The wings of the sweep will not close, and "that portion of the sweep through which the heel-bolt passes will be materially strengthened" (lines 14-16). It also braces sweeps whatever their size, and all the brace's parts are adjustable.
Date: January 7, 1896
Creator: Ferrell, Augustus C. & Hamrick, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Replacer

Description: Patent for invention for new and useful improvements in Car-Replacer. The invention relates to improvements in car replacers which can easily be applied to a track or rail which will quickly and easily cause the car to enter upon the track and which cannot possibly become displaced by the weight and strain of the car
Date: January 3, 1892
Creator: Moore, Francis A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Handling Brick.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Aber, Edgar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars

Description: Patent for "a brake of simple and inexpensive construction, that may be readily attached to steam or tramway cars, that is automatic in its working, and to do away with the brake-beams now employed, which through their breaking down are two-thirds of the causes of car derailments" (lines 19-26).
Date: January 27, 1891
Creator: Inglis, Thomas & Schiermann, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Plows

Description: Patent for "improvements in attachments for plows for the purpose of cutting roots, sods, and the like, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed attachment which not only provides a suitable cutting implement but likewise includes a removable landslide." (9-15)
Date: January 25, 1916
Creator: Reeves, Wesley L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clock Attachment

Description: Patent for an improved clock attachment to operate "a series of alarms or signals arranged in different rooms of a building or in other separated stations for simultaneously sounding the alarms or for operating the signals at predetermined times." (lines 11-17) including illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1915
Creator: Moore, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "the ordinary framing, shell, or case for containing the material and stationary lower platen or bed are used, the upper platen being the movable one to effect the compression. This upper platen is brought down upon the material for its compression by the lowering of screw-threaded rods to which it is attached, such lowering being effected by the rotation of rotating nuts in fixed bearings taking on such screw-threaded rods" (l… more
Date: January 25, 1887
Creator: Brown, Maurice T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench

Description: Patent for improvements in wrenches, particularly relating to the type generally known as the spanner wrench. The object of this invention is to provide an improved spanner wrench including means for reliably retaining the wrench head in proper position with relation to the object being rotated.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Wright, John G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Clasps.

Description: Patent for improvement in clasps "especially adapted for garment supporting" (lines 9-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Stafford, Beverly F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for an improved design of the plow consisting of a modified foot of the plow and curved blade. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Moore, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Harness.

Description: Patent for a new improvement in harness that "enables the detachment of the horse therefrom instantaneously" (lines 8-9) including illustration. It may also be called "safety harness" (line 10).
Date: January 27, 1874
Creator: Ellis, Ira
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Engine

Description: Patent for a steam engine, improving on the original design so as to "provide a steam-engine having few parts so as to avoid the use of eccentrics, slide-valve, valve-rod, piston and connecting rods, stuffing-boxes, and glands, thus increasing the actual power by decreasing the friction" (lines 26-31).
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for a gate-latch. A latch-pin secured in a beam, another latch secured to the inside of another post, with two pivoting hangers, and plates come together to form this latch.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Berry, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for a gate latch that works by having stop-pins secured to the gate, while a rod goes through the post, with a handle on one end and a latch on the other end. The latch is shaped so that it catches the pin.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Berry, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw Gummer and Sharpener

Description: Patent for a sharpener for saw blades designed to increase the strength of the blade by "imparting an oval or rounding cut to the back of the teeth" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Loughridge, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Dental Chair.

Description: Patent for a simple portable dental chair meant for traveling dentists. It adjusts easily and folds compactly.
Date: January 15, 1895
Creator: Lovejoy, Edward Harrison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Radial Tube Boiler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved boiler. This design "consist[s] of a horizontal steam reservoir, a vertical cylinder provided with radial tubes suspended therefrom and forming a steam-generating chamber, all supported by standards placed underneath said horizontal steam-reservoir and outside of the casing surrounding said steam-generating chamber, and the fire-box placed under said steam-generating chamber" (lines 67-75).
Date: January 22, 1889
Creator: Clarke, John & Savage, Robert W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dumping-Car

Description: Patent for a dumping car to be used on railways for the purposes of dumping gravel and soil and other such materials.
Date: January 3, 1893
Creator: Womelsdorff, Henry Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device For Converting Motion.

Description: Patent for a device that converts "regular rotary motion into irregular reciprocating motion" (lines 15-16) which includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 26, 1886
Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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