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Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the bar having a longitudinal slot, with knife-edge and forked twisting-hooks, and the offsetting lever-handle having flat portion, with notch or wire-seat fulcrumed in the slot of the bar and having its outer end extended in the form of a prong between the twisting-hooks . . . to form a discharging device for the wire" (lines 64-72).
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Loose-Leaf Binder.

Description: Patent for a loose-leaf binder for records that does not require removing previously inserted pages to add new ones and secures them in place with a screw lock on the paper holding rings. When the book is full, the whole binder may be locked in place as a form of permanent binding and may only be opened with a key.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Parry, Rees F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truck For Wood Preserving Retorts

Description: Patent for a truck for wood preserving retorts. This "invention relates to a truck specially adapted for carrying articles which are to be moved on the truck into retorts, especially those constructed in cylindrical form" (lines 9-12). The truck is designed to permit large amounts of wood to loaded. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Rollins, Henry M. & Neff, Asa J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well -Bucket

Description: Patent for an improvement in well -buckets adapted for cleaning and drawing water from drilled wells.
Date: March 19, 1916
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Watch-Case Bow

Description: Patent for improvements in fastenings for bows of watch-cases.
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Cooper, Jonathan H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hoes.

Description: Patent for an improved, lightweight hoe with beveled blades used for "weeding cotton and other plants" (lines 13-14) and cutting grass without damaging the stalks, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: March 19, 1878
Creator: Eggleston, Walter H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Packing for Doors and Like Closures.

Description: Patent for new packing for closures for air-tight and temperature-regulating containers (i.e. refrigerators), with illustrations included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Carter, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Toboggan-Slide.

Description: Patent for a toboggan slide for use in amusement parks that is easily taken up and down and includes guard rails and ant-friction devices to help guide the toboggan down the slide. It also provides a method of easily moving toboggans from one slide to another.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Allen, Orcenith F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Umbrella-Holder

Description: Patent for an umbrella holder. Illustrations included.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Rauch, Otto
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Preserved Wood and Process of Making Same.

Description: Patent for a method of injecting preservative materials, in a manner that will reduce the cost of the treatment without greatly reducing the preservative action.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Ellis, Carleton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump Rod Coupling

Description: Patent for pump rod coupling. This invention is designed to couple adjacent ends of pistons or pumps. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Fletcher, Homer M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump

Description: This patent is for pumps. This patent allows for the pump barrel to be readily disengaged from its normal positive engagement with the well tube for removal from said tube for repairs or any other reason.
Date: March 19, 1918
Creator: Perry, Sherman V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor-Bicycle.

Description: Patent for a motorized bicycle with pedal gears.
Date: March 19, 1901
Creator: White, Edward Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tag.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple tag to label bolts of cloth that is "a convenient means for fastening the [tag] in such position upon a bolt of goods as to prevent it from becoming twisted or turned, and so that the tag will always be held or supported so as to exhibit the markings thereon" (lines 12-16).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Winkler, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a hose-coupling that is "simple and economic in construction and which shall be capable of rapid and ready action without use of any tool for manipulating the same" (lines 14-17).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Goodspeed, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic-Tire Protector

Description: Patent for an improved pneumatic tire protector. This is a liner "interposed between the inner tube and tire casing to prevent puncture of the inner tube" (p.1 lines 6-8)
Date: March 19, 1918
Creator: Haas, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Hand-Stamp.

Description: Patent for a rotary hand stamp that has an interchangeable printing surface that is simple, convenient, and is especially created for rapid operation.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Walshe, Denny Edmund
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pillow

Description: Patent for a pillow. Illustrations included.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Platt, Samuel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint

Description: Patent for "the provision of a substantial and staff joint at a less expense than the ordinary joint including fish-plates and a series of bolts and which will obviate the use of chairs to support the ends of adjacent rails and bordering upon the joint" (lines 13-18).
Date: March 19, 1901
Creator: Stephens, Ammon I. & Stephens, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wind-Wheels.

Description: Patent for a new wind-wheel design with pivoted frame and adjustable wings.
Date: March 19, 1878
Creator: Everhart, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planing-Machine

Description: Patent for a machine for planing lumber with "a very smooth surface, avoiding the undulating marks upon the lumber and holes caused by the occasional lifting or breaking out of incurved portions of the lumber, as caused on surfaces planed by rotary cutters" (lines 22-27).
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Davis, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Description: Patent for a cultivator. This invention is an attachment used to connecting with other machines to cultivate the ground. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Wheeler, Claud H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Seed Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner. This design "is to be used in connection with a machine for removing short lint from cotton-seed . . . The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner, which is simple and durable in construction and very effectively removes all impurities from the shell of the seed. . . . The invention consists of a revolving horizontal disk-brush and of a fixed table provided with emery-slabs and perforated plates and in conta… more
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Baumgarten, Christian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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