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Kettle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved kettle attachment. This design "provides an attachment to be used with the kettle, whereby the "boiling over" of the material and the consequent running of the same down the sides of the said kettle are prevented. The material that would ordinarily flow over the sides of the kettle and waste is by the use of [a] device . . . saved, and any and all danger of fire from the overflowing sugar in candy manufacture is prevented" (lines 11-20).
Date: February 17, 1885
Creator: Lamme, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive Head-Light

Description: Patent for improvements to locomotive headlights granted to John Robert McCormick in order to make the headlights movable by levers or gears.
Date: March 31, 1885
Creator: McCormick, John Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn. This design "consists, primarily, in the combination, with a suitable bucket, of a removable stationary dasher and a staff loosely mounted to turn on said stationary dasher, said shaft having a series of radial wings or dashers at its lower end" (lines 15-21).
Date: May 12, 1885
Creator: McRae, James Armstrong
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "relates to improvements in the class of washing-machines commonly known as 'cylinder washing-machines,' and has for its object the production of a machine which will operate thoroughly and expeditiously, and without injury to the fabric, while at the same time it is light and inexpensive in construction and simple in operation; and with these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts" (lines … more
Date: July 7, 1885
Creator: Ekman, Axel F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in gates of that class known as 'tilting and folding' gates, and is designed to produce a gate that will automatically lock itself when down and close the passage by means which will not interfere in the least with the operation of the tilting" (lines 9-15).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Howe, Charles P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cuff Button and Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cuff button and holder. This design consists in "[a] cuff button and holder having in combination a shank-plate, two buttons, one attached at each end of the shank-plate, and a clamp-bar, one end of which is for attachment to the shirt-sleeve, and the other end having a device to couple with said shank-plate" (lines 1-6).
Date: August 11, 1885
Creator: Stuart, John A. & Woodmansee, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bailing-Press.

Description: Patent for Bailing Press including illustrations. The purpose of the bailing press was to improve "the bailing-press especially adapted for bailing cotton, which press is simple in construction, strong and durable, and operates rapidly" ( lines 9-12).
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Clark, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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