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Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that cleans burs and other foreign matter from cotton through a suction process prior to ginning, including instructions and illustrations. The inventor claims this apparatus is simpler, more affordable, and more effective than previous methods for cleaning cotton.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Brown, Thomas N.
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Car-Starter

Description: Patent for "a new and improved car-starter adapted for all kinds of cars and vehicles, being specially of great value on grades" (lines 8-11).
Date: February 5, 1889
Creator: Akers, William P. & Lindsey, John C.
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Cattle Guard and Gate

Description: Patent for cattle guards utilizing a gate normally disposed across a railroad track. This gate is modified for operation by actuation of a moving train approaching the guard from either direction.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
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Clamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved clamp. This design "is for an improvement upon that class of inventions known as 'flooring jacks' or 'clamps,' and has for its object the lessening of labor for the attainment of the object or result which this is intended to perform, and the readiness and ease with which it can be manipulated" (lines 15-21).
Date: June 19, 1883
Creator: Sage, Eugene
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Clock Calendar

Description: Patent for a clock calendar.
Date: December 8, 1903
Creator: Woods, Jesse Leroy
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Colter Attachment for Lister-plows

Description: Patent for a colter attachment (triangular blade used on lister plows), by capitalizing on parts that should already exist on the plow.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Mosely, George L.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper that thins plants and provides ample space between those plants to achieve mature and plentiful harvest.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Butler, James T.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for cotton choppers with a moving hoe-frame. The essential feature of the invention is to secure a special construction and arrangement of chopping blades which are adapted to be adjusted in such a way as to leave a greater or less number of the plants in a row as the chopper is operated.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
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Detachable Neck Yoke

Description: Patent for a detachable neck yoke. Illustrations included.
Date: May 10, 1910
Creator: Barry, John, Jr.
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Device for Converting Motion.

Description: Patent for device that converts "motion of the piston-rod in steam engines into a rotary motion" (lines 10-11).
Date: January 29, 1884
Creator: Catlin, Eli
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Dirigible Headlight.

Description: Patent for dirigible headlights for automobiles which pivot in the direction of steering while maintaining an independent tilt adjustment.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Crumpton, Enoch M.
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Fender for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for a fender for cultivators or cotton choppers.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Foster, George M.
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Fire-Extinguisher.

Description: Patent for a fire extinguisher that "reliev[es] water or stream, or both, into pipes from which it discharges at different points in a building" (lines 14-17). The invention operates automatically, and is especially designed for gin houses.
Date: March 27, 1894
Creator: Prosser, Daniel F.
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Flour or Meal Bin.

Description: Patent for "a device of improved form for holding flour and meal and from which the same may be drawn and sifted in any desired quantity." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1897
Creator: Callahan, Simeon O.
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Folding Car-Step.

Description: Patent for folding steps attached to a railway car or trolley, which are easily operated by the conductor and when folded block the exit of the car to prevent passengers leaving or entering without the steps.
Date: October 29, 1907
Creator: Felkner, William G.
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Folding Step for Public Carriers

Description: Patent for public carriers such as cars that are designed for transporting passengers, especially steam operated railways. This patent will provide these carriers with a string of steps at each end upon both sides to facilitate ingress and egress. These steps are stationary and for safety terminate a short distance away from the ground.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
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Fruit Cutting Implement.

Description: Patent for a fruit cutting implement with increased safety measures to help users avoid "the usual and dangerous practice of cutting the lemons with a knife" (lines 23 - 24), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1918
Creator: Davis, Mack H.
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Harrow

Description: Patent for a harrow to be used with a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Wolfe, James A.
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Hay Rake

Description: Patent for a hay rake. Illustration included.
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Lamkin, Lonzo D.
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Improvement in Apparatus for Working Glass.

Description: Patent for a blowing-engine that will make the glass-blowing process less laborious. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1875
Creator: Chase, Benjamin F.
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Internal Combustion and Air Compressing Engine

Description: Patent for internal combustion and air compressing engine. Illustration included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Risley, Ward & Risley, Zeph L.
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Peanut-Harvester.

Description: Patent for a simplified and improved peanut-harvesting machine. With this machine, "peanut vines may be dug from the ground, and thoroughly shaken and agitated so as to separate dirt and sand from the vines and nuts, the vines and nuts being bunched and deposited on the ground in piles or heaps for subsequent gathering," (lines 12-17) including illustrations.
Date: December 11, 1917
Creator: Meador, Lenerd E.
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Railway Gate.

Description: Patent for "improvement in gates and has particular reference to a railway gate employed as a cattle guard" (lines 12-14)
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Norman, Cornelius A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refuse-Crematory.

Description: Patent for an improvement to "crematories or furnaces for burning garbage and other matter" (lines 11-12) that has a combined furnace and garbage chamber with walls of fire-brick or tile.
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Risley, Ward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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