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Milk-Cooler.

Description: Patent for an improvement in milk-coolers “in which water is drawn by capillary attraction from a receptacle placed above the milk-receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the latter, thus cooling the milk by evaporation.” (Lines 8-12) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Banks, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp-Wick Raiser.

Description: Patent for a device designed to manipulate a lamp-wick in its guiding tube without cutting or injuring the wick, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: McBride, Martin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Heater.

Description: Patent for improvements in tire-heater by using a tire box with a number of horizontal bars, tires are placed “into the front of the box and moved into correct position upon the horizontal bars without necessarily lifting the tires.” (Lines 29-32) Diverging arms are secured to the axis inside the tire box. Lamps are secured at the outer ends of the diverging arms. These diverging arms operate by a regulating crank which makes the lamps revolved beneath the tires, therefore heating the tires… more
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Parks, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new kind of fastener for draft animal harnesses that is inexpensive and has no springs or buckles. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame.

Description: Patent for a hame of simple and inexpensive construction, including illustrations.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Lee; Broad, Thomas & Martin, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Imposition-Furniture for Printers' Use.

Description: Patent for improvements in imposition-furniture for printers’ use; in this “improved furniture, the page can be removed with the cord tied around it and set aside for future use and the improved pieces of furniture used around another and different page of type and so on indefinitely. It is made to serve the purpose of an almost endless set of furniture-pieces of that style of furniture border-piece where the groove is formed on the outside of furniture border-pieces and the tying-cord is fitt… more
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Clarke, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Anna Martin & Sons

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with business name, and text reading: "Anna Martin & Sons., Dealers in General Merchandise."; "Pay the highest price for Cotton, Wool and Hides." Letterhead contains the names Anna Martin; Chas. Martin; Max Martin.
Date: 1891
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Quilting-Frame.

Description: Patent for an improvement in quilting-frames by making one roller adjustable in which it can be turned in either direction from the opposite side of the device. Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Martin, Enoch
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for improvements in rail-joint fastenings by providing “curved fish-plates with bearing-surfaces adapted to receive rubber washers, and the bolt has a slot through which the tapered split key is passed and the thin portion thereof turned up against the bolt to prevent displacement.” (Lines 20-25) Thus it will “securely retain in position, easily removed when desired, and [will] prevent rattling sounds as the cars pass over the rails.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date: October 13, 1891
Creator: Wiley, John Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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