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Machine-Gun

Description: Patent for an improvement in a "battery of guns, and has for its object the operating of any one of the guns by the recoil of another and in succession as long as may be deemed necessary" (lines 7-11).
Date: July 1, 1890
Creator: Greer, John William
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

Machine for Making Tamales

Description: Patent for a Machine for Making Tamales
Date: July 2, 1918
Creator: Winfrey, Herbert O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ledger.

Description: Patent for improvements in ledgers by giving each column in a ledger sheet a “label” such as customer’s name, daily entry, daily balance, monthly balance and etc… to record daily and monthly transactions of an individual customer's account. Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Winn, Joseph B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Incubator.

Description: Patent for an incubator, which automatically turns all the eggs to allow them to get the same amount of warmth and light.
Date: July 19, 1910
Creator: Gerard, Alonzo
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Improvement in Eyeglasses.

Description: Patent for improvements to eyeglasses to accommodate facial differences.
Date: July 9, 1878
Creator: Hawkes, Albert K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improved Side-Saddle.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1870
Creator: Smith, Fenwick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Postage or Revenue Stamps.

Description: Patent for an improvement in postage or revenue stamps. Patent for postage or revenue stamp "composed of two superposed sheets or layers, A B, the top layer carrying the printed designs, having parallel incisions therein, and the bottom layer being provided with adhesive material on the back". Patent for postage and revenue stamps that cannot be re-used.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Beaumont, David G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metal Fastener for Envelops, &c.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in metal fasteners for envelops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Holcombe, Henry Cannon; Maddox, John Wilson & Maddox, Francis Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold.

Description: Patent for a form of mold that is constructed to expand and contract quickly to form sidewalks and curbs.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Forbis, Frank H.
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Manufacture of Hydralic Cement

Description: Patent for invention is to utilize in rejected hydraulic matter such as decomposed limestone.
Date: July 7, 1885
Creator: Dimelow, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nail Driving Tool.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nail-driving tool. This design consists, "with the shell of the tool formed with recesses and a guide-groove . . . the driving-bar provided with notch, die, and roller, spline guided in the groove of the shell, and the returning-spring, of the levers having toes, the former of said levers bearing normally upon the roller, the spring secured to said shell, bearing by its ends upon the ends of the said levers, and the magazine obliquely attached to the shell, provide… more
Date: July 15, 1890
Creator: Brady, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stem Winding and Setting Watch.

Description: Patent for a new and improved watch. This design "has relation particularly to an improvement in mechanism for winding and setting the watch, so that the 'movement' may be rendered interchangeable for application to a case, whether arranged for a hunting-case watch or an open-face watch. In watches as commonly constructed a different arrangement is made for the winding and setting mechanism for a hunting-case watch from that of one having an open face" (lines 12-21).
Date: July 29, 1890
Creator: Heidbrink, Bernard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tent-Stake.

Description: Patent for a tent stake that is used with a metal guy or rope. The purpose of this tent stake is to secure tents under all weather conditions.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Basnett, Augustus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railway-tie. This design "is to produce a simple and inexpensive tie which may be easily secured in a road-bed and to which the rails may be solidly and conveniently fastened and which is also adapted to be used in connection with wooden sleepers, being constructed so that it may be easily placed in position between wooden sleepers without tearing up the rails" (lines 9-16).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Budington, Albert G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Steam Engine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rotary steam engine. This design "first, provide[s] a novel form of valve for regulating the induction and eduction of steam to and from the cylinder; second, [it] provide[s] novel devices for reversing the movements of the rotating pistons; and, third, [it] provide[s] novel combinations of the parts of which the engine is composed"
Date: July 19, 1881
Creator: Cross, David L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Register for Barber's Chairs.

Description: Patent for a new and improved barber's chair. This design relates to certain improvements in registering devices for barber-chairs, and has for its object to provide means whereby a correct tally can be kept of the persons shaved and the number of hair-cuts which have been performed during the day, week, or month. . . . [The] invention is only applicable to the style of barber-chairs that have a tilting motion backward and forward, for the purpose of more conveniently placing the person when be… more
Date: July 31, 1883
Creator: Lane, Fernando G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fan attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the sewing-machine table and the upright of the fan-supporting frame, of the triangular base provided with a rubber-covered base hinged to a sleeve adjustably fitted upon said upright" (lines 111-115).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: McComas, Arthur W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan for Rocking Furniture.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fan for rocking furniture. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the fan-supporting frame . . . the fan adjustably journaled to the bar, and the holding forks pivoted to uprights of the fan pivoted to the ends of the horizontal arms of the frame, all arranged to form a set of fans for front and rear service" (lines 94-100).
Date: July 30, 1889
Creator: McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grubber.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable grubber that has "a frame preferably carrying a caster-wheel at front, guiding-handles at rear, vertical cutting knives or shares at its sides, penetrating shares or points at the lower ends of said knives, and a transverse or horizontal knife or share at rear of said points, preferably in substantially the same plane therewith, and adjustable mounted to be tilted or inclined out of the horizontal and adjusting handles for the transverse share" (lines 20-30).
Date: July 16, 1895
Creator: Cameron, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Ankarstolpe, Nels.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door Check.

Description: Patent for a new and improved door check. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheel provided with annular offsets and journaled in a movable bearing, the brake, and the spring, of the sheath provided with vertical grooves for the U-shaped bearing" (lines 54-58).
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Rigging for Railway-Cars.

Description: Patent for a draft-rigging for railway-cars that consists of a metal plate in an inverted U-shape, with its legs doubled upward and attached to the middle sills of the car, and the option of attaching a coupler to the plate. The plate legs can receive a king bolt ransom.
Date: July 2, 1895
Creator: Roosevelt, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Handling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a cotton handling apparatus, which automatically feeds the cotton into the gin and stops if there is an overflow.
Date: July 7, 1908
Creator: Sullivan, Arthur A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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