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Hog-Trough

Description: Patent for a feeding trough for pig sties. Illustrations included.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: Wilkinson, Duke A. & Austin, Ben A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a simple device meant for securing a pair of hames on a harness collar, including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Risk, Maurice E.
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Safety-Stirrup.

Description: Patent for a safety stirrup that will reliably open when pressure is applied to the sides.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Sipes, Alfred M.
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Sash Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the casing having apertured ears and a front plate, of the rack-bolt having a head beveled on its rear face to fit a corresponding beveled opening in the front plate, the pinion, and the spindle, the beveled head being adapted to enter the beveled opening of the front plate and lie flush with the outer surface of said front plate" (lines 77-85).
Date: March 30, 1886
Creator: Gibbon, Richard
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Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved road scraper. Prior to this design, "difficulty has been experienced in . . . discharging the dirt from the pan or bowl . . . It is the object of [the] present invention to . . . obviate the difficulty mentioned, and to construct a scraper which will be practically self-dumping . . . the invention consists . . . in a scraper in which the bowl is divided with the rear section hinged at the back in such manner as that when allowed to drop it will dump the contained … more
Date: February 11, 1890
Creator: Rath, Charles
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Rat and Mouse Trap

Description: Patent for a mousetrap that may be set without having to touch the choker wire, and that will stay shut reliably yet be more easily released by the human emptying it. Finally, the trap is designed to be harder for humans to spring accidentally while setting it.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pokorny, Joseph
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Merchandise-Cabinet

Description: Patent for a cabinet made up of concave bins to hold merchandise such as nails. The cabinet also has a removable chute for filling the bins with merchandise.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Montgomery, Franklin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blotter Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blotter-holder. This design "relates to improvements in devices for attaching to the top of a desk the sheet of blotting-paper usually employed as a surface upon which to write; and it consists in certain appliances by which the blotter will be held tightly and securely to the desk-top and which will present no obtruding edges" (lines 11-18).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Welch, James S.
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Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-52

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of H.B. 1687, 63rd Leg., abolishing the office of County School Superintendent in Wheeler County.
Date: June 26, 1973
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of Wheeler County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1899
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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