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Lock-Hinge.

Description: Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.
Date: August 13, 1895
Creator: Hough, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for knee pads that are "simple, inexpensive, and durable, and which is so constructed as to hold the knee of the user in an elevated position above the ground or other surface upon which the pad may be placed, thereby preventing the knee contacting with the ground or other surface and causing injury to the knee (lines 10-17).
Date: December 29, 1897
Creator: Rice, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locking Device for Lubricating-Cups.

Description: Patent for a locking device for lubricating cups that prevents the plug from coming out of the cup.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Anderson, Kos M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Running-Gear.

Description: Patent for vehicle running-gear, catered toward machinery that has fifth-wheel reach beams. Designed for smoother vehicle functioning.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Singler, Frank J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine

Description: Patent for insect collecting and destroying machine. This invention uses brushes that mechanically collects boll weevils off of cotton. Illustration included.
Date: June 21, 1904
Creator: Steinmann, Herman Werner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knife

Description: Patent for a knife used for cutting grass and shrubbery. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vegetable-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a vegetable cutter that cuts cleanly, rapidly, and with force.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve

Description: Patent for a "blow-off valve" (line 16). Illustrations included
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Koch, Rudolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Riding-Saddles.

Description: Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date: June 10, 1873
Creator: Hamil, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments

Description: Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
Date: February 11, 1873
Creator: Hart, Richard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Description: Patent for an improved design of the rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date: February 6, 1877
Creator: Willson, Hodgen I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons

Description: Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.
Date: September 9, 1879
Creator: Gibson, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Velocipede.

Description: Patent for a device related to "velocipedes or wagons propelled by hand-power" (lines 20-21), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1880
Creator: Overstreet, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Current-Wheels.

Description: Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 6, 1871
Creator: Tuder, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wash Board.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washboard. This design consists in "a suitable base-frame, a series of alternately right and left handed spirally-grooved rollers journaled therein, an inclined forked frame straddling and pivoted to the base-frame, a lever for securing the adjustment of said forked frame on its axis, a rubber, and rocking spring-arms journaled in said forked frame and connecting the same and the rubber" (lines 92-100).
Date: March 22, 1887
Creator: Stone, Charles M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Cooler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water cooler. This design consists in "the combination, with an outer casing, a central ice-receptacle having a perforated bottom, a water reservoir surrounding the ice-receptacle, provided with a packing of filtering material in the bottom, of an auxiliary reserve held beneath the ice-receptacle and main reservoir and connected with the latter by a series of tubes, and a tank in the bottom of the casing surrounding said auxiliary reserve adapted to receive the dri… more
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: Glück, Solomon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel Scraper.

Description: Patent for a "device adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle to prevent mud from clinging to the wheels, and thereby make the draft lighter on a horse or team, and at the same time prevent mud from being thrown upon the body of a vehicle and the occupants thereof." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Taylor, Mascener
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tongue-Bar-Supporting Clamp.

Description: Patent for a clamp that holds the hammers in a piano. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.
Date: January 27, 1874
Creator: Ford, Isaac M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Description: Patent for a new mechanism by which corn planters may be converted into a machine for planting cotton.
Date: July 16, 1878
Creator: Clary, Stephen S. & Clary, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydrocarbon-Burner for Stoves or Furnaces

Description: Patent for invention that relates to improvements in hydrocarbon-burner for stoves or furnaces or the like, the same being more especially intended for the consumption of crude oils... Among other things the invention has for its object the provision of an improved burner in which the liquid is vaporized within a confined space by causing it to splash upon a suitable obstacle and against the inner surface of a heated air-tube; to heat the air as it passes to the burner and to commingle the vapo… more
Date: December 27, 1901
Creator: Greene, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Tug.

Description: Patent for a simple thill-tug that can be easily connected and disconnected, and is strong and durable. It does not use spring latches, and the device attaches to the harness.
Date: January 29, 1895
Creator: Carton, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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