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Composition for Concrete Tombstones.

Patent for "a new and useful composition of matter for concrete tombstones and a process for manufacturing the same whereby a perfectly white substantial rock will be produced that will be very durable, will not be liable to peeling, cracking, or turning dark, but will bleach out in the weather and become very solid, so as to form a permanent and substantial tombstone." (Lines 10-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: September 8, 1896

Creator: Belcher, Jeff D. & Hendley, Marion J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Patent for an automatic churn, which is an improvement to a previous churn, no. 39,532. It has a two-part cabinet, the top part equipped with a hinged top, a crank shaft, ratchet-wheel, spring pawl, and a tubular square pocket at the end of the crank-shaft. The square pocket is where one can attach a handle to operate the churn. The lower half of the cabinet opens on the side and contains the container, dasher-rod, and churn-dashers.

Date: September 15, 1896

Creator: Roberts, John A. & Vermillion, William E. C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Patent for a churn with a "perforated dasher and a hollow or tubular dasher-shaft, through which the air passes into the churn-cylinder during the process of churning" (lines 14-17). The churn has a foot-rest and a false-bottom, and is meant to improve on simple and inexpensive churns.

Date: September 22, 1896

Creator: Stukes, John Marion

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Door-Bell and Mail-Receiver.

Patent for a door-bell joined with a tray or card-receiver, which is installed in a door. "When pulled out it will bring said tray outside the door to receive a card, letter, or package or any mail-matter, and when released will carry it inside the door again" (lines 11-15). The bell goes off when the tray, which has a toothed edge that engages the bell-hammer, is released.

Date: September 22, 1896

Creator: Key, Joseph H.; Brevard, Horace & Purifoy, William R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Barrel-Washer.

Patent for a machine that cleans barrels. It has "barrel-supporting rollers to rotate the barrel in contact with brushes" (lines 13-15), which are more durable than rollers made from rubber tires. The rollers also each have an inner portion, a detachable annular exterior, and an elastic ring around the outside. Brushes are attached on opposite sides of the barrel, held up by a frame.

Date: September 29, 1896

Creator: Herold, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improvement on car-couplers, "especially to the class of hook-and-catch couplers in which the sides of the jaws of the coupler securely hold a link between the same by means of a downwardly-extending hook, the sides of the upper jaw carrying the said hook extending down over the sides of the under jaw, thus protecting the jaws from a lateral jar or pressure, the lower jaw being provided with a series of recesses at different angles, which are designed to receive the end of the lin… more

Date: September 29, 1896

Creator: Krusinski, Ferdinand

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Autographic Register.

Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.

Date: September 29, 1896

Creator: Norcross, George A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved car-coupling that features "a solid block at the back part of the draw-head, which when coupling the cars will come far enough back to hit the solid part in the draw-head and prevent the bent spring from breaking." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 6, 1896

Creator: Schneider, Adolph F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Poke.

Patent for "a combined animal poke and halter of simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction whereby stock to which the device is applied are prevented from forcing through or throwing their weight against barbed and other wire fences, and also whereby a halter strap or chain may be readily applied thereto to provide for securing the stock in their stalls when stabled." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 6, 1896

Creator: Parker, William H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Sulky-Plows.

Patent for a sulky-plow that "is designed to secure an even and steady movement of the plow when turning furrows across listed ground, whereby the work is facilitated, the draft lightened, and the task of the laborer reduced" (lines 9-13).

Date: October 13, 1896

Creator: Mann, John Quincy

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Body-Armor.

Patent for "an armor adapted to be employed without the use of securing-straps and which, while protecting the shoulders of the wearer, will permit of the use of his arms and shoulders, as, for instance, in executing the manual of arms, without such movement being retarded by the weight of one of the body-plates." (Lines 16-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 27, 1896

Creator: Stevenson, Robert Ferguson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cabinet.

Patent for a cabinet meant to contain "screws, bolts, rivets, and similar articles, and has for its object to provide a case for the storage of such articles by means of which the different articles are kept separate one from another, while at the same time ready access may be had to any one of the storage-compartments" (lines 9-15). It is circular and has a wheeled base.

Date: October 27, 1896

Creator: Caplinger, Joseph E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for a wheel-cultivator that attaches to planters or plows. It provides "means whereby a planter or a plow-beam carrying any desired cultivating implement can be attached to the frame of a riding or wheel cultivator frame, and thus enable the cultivator-frame to be applied to uses other than that for which it was intended" (lines 25-30).

Date: November 3, 1896

Creator: Morris, Thomas R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Autographic Register.

Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-… more

Date: November 3, 1896

Creator: Bond, George D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Life-Boat.

Patent for a life-boat that improves on a previous patent (No. 512,591) for a hydraulic propelling device and adapts the jet propulsion means to a life boat. The life-boat is made to have compartments that, when one compartment gets crushed, the others remain afloat. The water goes into the stove or crushed compartment and can be used to propel the boat forward. The boat also has a system of bulkheads on the roof of the boat, each independent of the others and has valved pipes. Independent oil-… more

Date: June 2, 1896

Creator: Walker, James C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Poke.

Patent for an animal-poke that is "placed over the animal's neck and provided with spurs, whereby the animal is pricked when he attempts to pass a fence or other barrier" (lines 9-12). This invention doesn't prick the animal while it is grazing and is more comfortable to wear than similar animal-pokes.

Date: January 14, 1896

Creator: Dickey, John S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher and Splicer.

Patent for "a wire-patcher by which the wire rails of fences may be spliced when broken and stretched when any slack occurs." (Lines 16-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 26, 1896

Creator: Massey, Joseph Borygard

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire-stretcher that has "a body portion bifurcated at one end with the rigid integral forks of the bifurcation oppositely notched with said notches arranged in line substantially transverse of the body portion, whereby the device is adapted to operate in holding the wire for stretching" (lines 75-81).

Date: May 26, 1896

Creator: Willie, William T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire-stretcher. It is "a device of simple and improved form and possessing great power for the purpose of making taut fence or other wires" (liens 14-16). It is operated by rotating a shaft

Date: August 18, 1896

Creator: Willie, William T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Yardstick-Calculator.

Patent for "a calculating-yardstick adapted for use in connection with the dry goods or any other business in which goods are sold by linear measurement, the object in view being to provide, in connection with a linear measuring scale or rule, an indicating device provided with a plurality of price-scales having relation to the measuring-scale and adapted to indicate the price of a given length of an article at a given price per unit of measure, and also adapted to indicate the length of an art… more

Date: September 1, 1896

Creator: Praeger, Ewald

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher and Wheel-Carrier.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher and reel-carrier, meant to make wire needed for fences easier to be ready at the builder's disposal and to stretch the wire to the correct amount of tension.

Date: November 3, 1896

Creator: Pruitt, Andrew L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire stretcher designed "to provide simple and efficient means for twisting the terminals of a broken fence-wire together for connecting them, and also to enable a wire to be readily severed when desired." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 1, 1896

Creator: Morrow, William I.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Patent for a nut-wrench capable of tightening different sized nuts. The lower jaw of the wrench has different levels, the overall effect being that of a staircase, while the upper jaw is flat with a bite that holds the nuts in place.

Date: December 15, 1896

Creator: Tiner, John F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Patent for "removable-jaw wrenches which can be converted into a pipe or monkey wrench at will." (Lines 12-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 29, 1896

Creator: Ezzell, Fletcher

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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