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Improved Stitching-Horse.

Patent for improvements in the construction of stitching-horses by re-configuring the original constructions, in order to make them better for users. The patent includes instructions and a single illustration.

Date: October 27, 1868

Creator: Depp, Thomas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Chairs.

Patent for improvements in chairs: "the back, seat, foot rest, and head rest are all self adjusting, and operated by the natural movements of the occupant" (lines 11-13).

Date: April 16, 1872

Creator: Haupt, William W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for improvement in seed-planters that is able to plant different kinds of seed by simply adjust the position of the lower ends of the end-plates in the seed-box. Illustration is included.

Date: April 27, 1869

Creator: Haupt, W. W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.

Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 4, 1877

Creator: Hart, Alfred

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for a new improvement to washing machines.

Date: July 21, 1874

Creator: Mitchell, Daniel Chasteen

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.

Date: July 14, 1874

Creator: Dixon, Shadrach

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Chairs.

Patent for improvement in chairs consisting of self-adjusting chair-backs.

Date: November 5, 1872

Creator: Haupt, William W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Loading and Weighing Device.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cotton loading and weighing device for wagons. It can be easily put onto or removed from any wagon. This invention has a unique way of "clamping-loop or wire support by means of which the main inclined beam or support of the device is firmly and securely upheld and braced with relation to the tail-gate of a wagon with which said clamping frame or loop is adapted to engage" (lines 25-31).

Date: January 7, 1896

Creator: Paolucci, Henry Emanuel

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Picker's Wagon.

Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).

Date: February 21, 1882

Creator: Collins, Charles P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Pianos or Organs

Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).

Date: August 9, 1892

Creator: Stukes, John M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Basket.

Patent for a metallic produce basket. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: February 16, 1897

Creator: Taylor, John W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Patent for an automatic churn, which churns up and down and rotationally. To operate, turn a crank and a gear inside the churn moves the blades.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Rogers, James P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame.

Patent for a bit-brace with right-angled V-guide frame, with description and illustrations.

Date: June 8, 1897

Creator: McClellan, Stephen

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bit-Brace.

Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 29, 1897

Creator: McClellan, Stephen

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Patent for a simple and efficient baling-press that has an improved press-box and plunger-operating power. The connections between the power and the plunger will be lighter and the feed-opening of the press-box will be closed automatically. The machine has a continuously-rotating operating wheel that allows for an easier way to engage and disengage the pitman.

Date: April 7, 1896

Creator: Franks, Lewis W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.

Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).

Date: August 1, 1893

Creator: Dailey, Basil

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "form[s] the central opening of the draw-bar with a tup-bar having rearwardly a spiral spring. The forward end of this tup-bar is inclined forwardly somewhat at an angle at the top, so that when the said bar is pushed forward by the spiral spring at its rear end, the coupling-pin will rest upon this forwardly-projecting end of the bar, while the link will rest beneath, so that in dropping the pin will rest within the link, an… more

Date: December 15, 1885

Creator: McAllister, Sanders F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "[t]he bar having the nut-wrench and the hammer-head formed at one end, the pipe-wrench formed at the opposite end, and the slot made in one side, the spring located in the bottom of the slot or opening, and the blade pivoted in one end of the slot or opening and bearing on the free end of the spring, the said blade forming a screw-driver" (lines 52-59).

Date: May 4, 1886

Creator: Wright, Augustus Washington

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Sweep.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-sweep. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame, having the longitudinal beams and with the detachable shanks of the blades or points each composed of the outer long arm and the inner short arm, making the front angle of about forty-five degrees with each other, and having their lower front edges sharpened" (lines 83-90).

Date: May 8, 1888

Creator: Knight, Thaddeus Warsaw

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Fan.

Patent for a new and improved automatic fan. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the attaching-plate, the depending rod, the fixed plate on the lower end thereof, the socket arms pivotally connected to said plate at their inner ends, and the fans held in the sockets in said arms, of the plate loosely mounted on the rod above [the] plate, having arms, the rods pivotally connecting the outer ends of said arms, the pitman connected to [another] plate, and the operating crank" (lines 6… more

Date: October 9, 1888

Creator: Goodspeed, Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace for Boring Holes, &c.

Patent for a brace for boring holes through window sashes. It was invented "to enable [the inventor] the more quickly and better to apply my "sash lock", patented July 19, 1892, and numbered 479,152, but may be used for other purposes" (lines 20-23).

Date: February 13, 1894

Creator: McClellan, Stephen

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Brake.

Patent for improvement to train brakes by using a car brake apparatus.

Date: July 21, 1885

Creator: Sledge, Clarence Linden

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Packer.

Patent for an improvement that "relates to that class of cotton-packers which receive cotton from the condenser after ginning and pack it in a box preparatory to being pressed and tied into a bale; and its object is to provide means whereby the cotton may be packed int he box automatically" (lines 8-14).

Date: September 29, 1885

Creator: Hart, Alfred

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the wheeled frame, the two laterally and vertically movable drag-bars jointed thereto, and each provided with shovels, the horizontal rotary-shaft lying between the drag-bars and provided with a blade arranged to revolve between the shovels of the respective beams, the transverse shaft mounted on the frame and connected by driving devices with the ground-wheel, and the intermediate shaft connected to the [other] shafts . . . by … more

Date: June 21, 1887

Creator: Hutchins, Charles Nelson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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