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Concrete-Mixer.

Patent for a concrete mixer that keeps the materials low to the ground and has improved mixing and delivery mechanisms.

Date: October 3, 1911

Creator: Foley, Charles H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Conductor's Train-Book

Patent for a conductor's train-book. This invention if for a conductor to log train movements. Illustration included.

Date: April 12, 1910

Creator: Crane, James C. A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bran Dresser

Patent for new and valuable Improvement in Bran-Dressers

Date: December 13, 1881

Creator: De Haven, Charles

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Rake and Portable Baling-Press

Patent for a "combined rake and portable baling-press, the objects in view being to provide a machine of the above class of comparatively cheap and simple construction and adapted to rake, elevate, deliver, pack, and bale hay and to apply the binding wires to the bales as formed in one continuous operation" (lines 8-15).

Date: September 7, 1892

Creator: Shero, Christopher C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle Attachment.

Patent for "a new and improved bicycle attachment arranged to serve as a foot-rest for the feet of the rider while coasting and adapted to be lowered to support the bicycle in a vertical position when not in use and to securely lock the wheel and support together to prevent the machine from being stolen" (lines 7-14), including illustrations.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Zintgraff, August

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Car-Switching System.

Patent for "a system of switching where the cars of a train are pushed up an incline and placed successively on an elevated annular revolving platform, by which they are automatically distributed to their respective receiving-tracks" (lines 9-14).

Date: March 24, 1896

Creator: Lelardoux, Pierre

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Band Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved band stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in band-stretchers in which a windlass, crank, and ratchets operate in conjunction with a sliding clamp; and the object of [the] improvement is to provide a device with which the ends of a band may be drawn together and held for the purpose of lacing" (lines 15-21).

Date: February 23, 1886

Creator: Lawrence, Joseph A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Grain-Measuring Machine.

Patent for automatic grain-measuring machine, with illustrations. The purpose of this automatic grain-measuring machine is to be an improvement to already existing machines.

Date: April 10, 1888

Creator: Grissom, Abram Jackson.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Check Hook.

Patent for a new and improved check-hook. This design is "composed of the U-shaped frame having a threaded stem projecting from its lower end, and having the lugs extending from its vertical branches, the spring, and the cross-bar pivoted at one end between the lugs, and having side depressions near its other end to receive the lugs, and having its end adapted to be engaged by the spring and provided with the thumb-piece or horse-head" (lines 90-100).

Date: August 14, 1888

Creator: Matchette, James S.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).

Date: January 23, 1894

Creator: Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Damper-Regulator.

Patent for an automatic steam damper-regulator that is simply constructed, and can quickly close and open its damper in the flue of the boiler or furnace.

Date: February 13, 1894

Creator: Gaston, Stephen M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cigar-Tip Cutter and Match-Safe.

Patent for a combined cigar tip cutter and match-safe that consists of a shaft, an operating lever, a match box under the lever, a link that attaches the match box to the lever, a coiled spring that is attached to the lever, a curved lever that is lined up to the other lever, a spring connecting the two levers, and a picker.

Date: April 4, 1893

Creator: Briggs, William J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the standards, the longitudinal bars connecting the same, the driving-shaft journaled on the upper bars, the counter-shaft journaled on the lower bars and provided with a crank-disk at one end, gearing between the driving-shaft and the counter-shaft, the balance-wheel on the counter-shaft, the rock-shaft journaled on the upper bars and provided with the oppositely-extending crank-arms between the said bars, the c… more

Date: April 29, 1890

Creator: Anderson, Henry C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the base-board having the opposite recesses and the transverse shaft, the yoke having the spring-coils mounted on the projecting ends of the shaft in said recesses, the standard having the holding-rod, the trigger, and the guards or prongs secured in the base-board" (lines 20-26).

Date: August 19, 1890

Creator: Anderson, Henry C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn Motor.

Patent for a new and improved churn-motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame, the rock-shaft arranged longitudinally in the top of the same and having the arm and the cross-head, the dasher-rods pivoted to the cross-head, the crank-shaft journaled transversely in the frame below the rock-shaft and having the fly-wheel and the pulley, the pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the arm, the driving-shaft arranged transversely in the frame, the pulley thereon, and the belt con… more

Date: June 18, 1889

Creator: Anderson, Henry C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compressed-Air and Steam Apparatus for Sinking Wells

Patent for "a simple and inexpensive apparatus for drilling the rock and earth until sufficient loose material has accumulated in the shaft, and then remove such material by the pressure of an aeriform fluid - such as steam or compressed air" (lines 23-29).

Date: July 16, 1889

Creator: Goodrich, Hervey K.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes Pin.

Patent for a new and improved clothespin. This design consists in "[a] wire clothes-pin composed of a pair of spring-coils connected by a loop, the free ends of the wire forming said spring-coils being extended in the direction of said loop and connected by a ring or link which affords a bearing for the said loop when the latter is inserted between the free ends of the wire" (lines 79-85).

Date: August 27, 1889

Creator: Stewart, John Adkerson

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.

Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).

Date: January 14, 1890

Creator: Caradine, Virginia C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace for Bedsteads, Gates, &c.

Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "the posts having the hooks or eyes, the head-board, foot-board, and rails, also provided with hooks or eyes, the swivel, the wires, each having one end secured to one of the corner hooks or eyes, passed through the eye-bolt and screw-bolt, respectively" (lines 97-102). Said wires are further "given a half-turn on themselves, and their other ends secured to the opposite corner hooks, and the [other] wire having one end … more

Date: May 31, 1887

Creator: Lenix, John M. & Swann, George B.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Patent for a new improvement in baling presses that improves strength, durability and handling and is cheap to manufacture, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 14, 1887

Creator: Mansfield, James Edward.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Handle and Toilet Case.

Patent for a new and improved toiletry case. This design consists in "[a] combined hollow parasol or umbrella handle and toilet-case, consisting of an ornamental hollow case having an end opening for the reception of a parasol or umbrella stick, its opposite end provided with a rigid extension-ring, a hinged cover provided with a mirror on its inner face and working against the tension of a coiled spring, and an end lip to said cover to contact with end spring secured to said case, the internal… more

Date: July 26, 1887

Creator: Myers, Ida Louise

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "a box having its upper end open and having an outwardly-opening door at the lower portion of one side, a plunger in the box having a post provided with a braced cross-piece near the upper end, ropes secured to the ends of the cross-piece, a drum under the lower end of the box, having a helical pulley at one end and a small drum at the other end, and having the ropes secured to it and winding upon it, a rope passing over guide-… more

Date: December 13, 1887

Creator: Weddle, Henry

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Button Attaching Machine.

Patent for a new and improved button-attaching machine. This design consists in "the combination, with the plunger, of . . . the die having a central projection to enter the concavity of a button and parallel oblique curved recesses in said projection . . . [and] a peripheral flange" (lines 84-99).

Date: January 24, 1888

Creator: Tone, Harrison

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design "relates to car-couplings; and it has for its object to provide improved devices whereby the cars may be automatically coupled; and further, to provide improved devices for this purpose which shall be simple in construction and thoroughly effective in operation" (10-16).

Date: September 23, 1884

Creator: Reid, Henry

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department