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Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
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Automatic Wrench

Description: Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Clay, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Trains

Description: Patent for an automatic stopping mechanism for trains. Illustration included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Mingo, William, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Picker's Truck

Description: Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Franek, Jakob
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Crate

Description: Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: McLeod, Norman J.
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Automatic Switch Indicator

Description: Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Coffin, Edward F.; Shaw, Carey & Green, Samuel
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Brooder

Description: Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Becker, August B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition For Staining Wood.

Description: Patent for a “paint or stain, which, when applied, will harden on the common woods of commerce, render them durable and smooth, and give them the exact appearance of black walnut” (lines 15-18).
Date: May 16, 1882
Creator: Gloger, Anton F., Jr. & Gloger, Joseph P.
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Clevis.

Description: Patent for a new and improved clevis. This design "is to provide a clevis with a series of attaching-loops whereby the line of draft may be changed as circumstances may require, to bring the line of draft to either side of the plow-beam, or above or below the same, and to provide a clevis with a centrally-located attaching-loop, to be used where a direct or central draft is needed" (lines 11-18).
Date: January 26, 1886
Creator: Dunn, Henry Frankling
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Cotton Chopper and Cultivator Combined.

Description: Patent for improvement to a cotton-chopper with a "mechanism for cultivating the soil between the hills as well as for bringing the said hills to a regular form" (lines 18-20).
Date: February 23, 1886
Creator: Muray, Joseph L.
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Corn or Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be un… more
Date: April 23, 1889
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua & Lowrey, Andrew Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Sprinkler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the L-shaped nozzle having the longer arm and the shorter arm, the spring-board secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and projecting over the end thereof, and provided with a boss on its upper side, the L-shaped bracket secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and having one end projecting over the spring-valve and provided with a screw-threaded opening, and the thumb-screw inserted through and playing in … more
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Kister, William
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Cotton or Corn Planter

Description: Patent for novel improvements in the construction or production of cotton or corn planters.
Date: October 8, 1889
Creator: Hardison, Dock C. W.
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Car Ventilation.

Description: Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1879
Creator: Knipscheer, John
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Cotton Planter

Description: Patent for a machine used to plant cotton. Contains mechanisms for both plowing a furrow, planting seeds, and covering the seeds.
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Carter, Edwards D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bee Hive.

Description: Patent for improvements to "that class of bee-hives or bee-houses having a series of compartments..." (lines 15-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1878
Creator: Walton, George Slaughter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Description: Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date: August 2, 1881
Creator: Gray, Hiram Balderston
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Adjustable Hoe

Description: Patent for improvement in "the construction of hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and inexpensive hoe, of strong and durable construction." (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1915
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Construction of Railroad-Beds.

Description: Patent for a railroad-bed design that is used to support railroad tracks.
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Alley, William W.
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Collapsible Bench.

Description: Patent for a collapsible bench that improves the structure of general work benches by folding together when not being used.
Date: June 15, 1920
Creator: Danyluk, Iwan.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to the construction of a planter so arranged that by simply shifting the connection between the corn-slide and the crank-arm of an agitator the device may be adjusted to act as a planter of corn or cotton, but a single connecting-rod being employed in connection with a single driving crank-shaft to operate the planter both as a cotton and a corn planter" (lines 8-16).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Walker, William
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Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design, when used "as a corn-planter the slotted plate upon the inclined portion of the bottom is adjusted to cover the entire slot, and the pitman is attached to the pin projecting from the bar operating the seed slide, and when the machine is to be used as a cotton-planter the pitman is attached to the crank at the side of the seed-box, and the plate in the bottom of the box is adjusted so as to give the slot sufficient width to allow the cotton-see… more
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Andrew S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Digging-Machine.

Description: Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Holly, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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