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Improvement in Coffee-Pots

Description: Patent for the design of an improved coffee and tea pot with an internal water reservoir, dripping cup for coffee or tea, gauge for water level, and two separate valves for the hot water and resulting coffee or tea. Includes illustration of both a sectional and horizontal elevation of coffee-pot design.
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: Sherwood, Willis H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hawk-Traps

Description: Patent for an "improved trap for catching hawks, owls, and other birds of prey, which shall be so constructed as to adapt it to be attached to a pole or post set in the ground" (para. 4).
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: White, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Buckles.

Description: Patent for an improvement in buckles which involves the creation of a diamond-shaped plate.
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: Kennon, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compound for Making Brick, Tile, &c.

Description: Patent for creating brick, tile and other material using hydraulic cement and magnesian lime-stone.
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Hunt, Henrey Hardon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Caster.

Description: Patent for a new and improved insect-killing furniture-caster. This design "consists in a cup shaped shell having a bowl or liquid-receptacle at its lower edge and a filling orifice or passage extending through the shell and leading to the bottom of the liquid-receptacle. A socket or inwardly-projecting tube at the top of the shell encircles the shank of the caster and rests upon a shoulder on said shank, which serves to hold the insect guard in position" (lines 17-25).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Tumey, Charles Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car coupling that consists of a pin, a lever, a catchbar, a drawhead that sits under the catchbar and guides it, a rack slide, and a curved lifter. It improves on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 437,734).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Testard, Adrian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Funnel.

Description: Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Wright, George H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truck for Railway-Carriages.

Description: Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Yielding and Buoyant Pile Breakwater.

Description: Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design is "of a cheap, durable, and efficient breakwater for localities exposed to the destructive action of the waves; and it consists mainly in a line of single-column buoyant piles, arranged side-by-side, and grouped together in sections . . . and anchored to their water-bed, and also in certain constructions and combination of parts" (lines 28-35).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Machinery.

Description: Patent for a mechanism that drills and bores; it attaches to a vehicle so the engine can be used to power the mechanism.
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Lee, Joseph G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Driving Horses.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient horse-whipping or driving machine that is meant to whip horses that are connected to machines that are powered by horses, such as thrashers, fans, and bark-mills. "The invention comprises a whip-carrying lever pivotally mounted on one end of the sweep-lever of a draft horse power, and means for moving said lever so that the whip will be caused to strike the draft horses" (lines 18-22).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Williams, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilating Attachment to Hearths.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ventilating attachment for hearths. This design "consists in extending the ventilating box or casing . . . sufficiently below the floor of the room to the hearth to which it is applied to allow it to project into the room below" (lines 19-23).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Howard, Joshua Eaffrom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Switch.

Description: Patent for an improved railway switch that "may be operated by a passing car or train, and one which will be most effectual and certain in its operation and which will at the same time automatically adjust a signal at one side of the track which will indicate to the next approaching train the position of the switch" (lines 18-24).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Johnson, Samuel Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness Attachment.

Description: Patent for a simple, strong, and durable back-band and chain trace attachment that connects the two. This holds "the chain trace and back-band in their proper places and thus prevent[s] chafing of the horse, &c., by the trace chain when it slackens" (lines 12-15).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Camp, John Cecil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of and Apparatus for the Construction of Concrete Abutments, Bridge Piers, &c.

Description: Patent for a new and improved method of making béton concrete. This design "consists of a method of building piers and abutments in a monolithic character of cement, sand, and broken stone or gravel, called 'béton concrete,' by laying the same in sectional molds contrived to add successive sections to the molds as the height of the structure increases, the molds being supported against the lateral pressure upon the sides by rods passing through the structure, and being removable when the materi… more
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Burns, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pile for Use in the Construction of Wharves and Other Structures.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pile. This design "relates to that class of piles which have a portion of their length most exposed to decay and destruction from worms constructed of metal, and that portion of their lengths above the water and beneath the water-bed constructed of wood" (lines 25-30).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Wire and Wireless Telephone System.

Description: Patent for a combined wire and wireless telephone system that allows 2 people who are calling through two different central operating stations to talk to each other even though there is no wire directly between the 2 parties, through the use of a wireless system.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Box for Carrying Wireless Signalling Apparatus

Description: Patent for a box for carrying wireless signaling equipment that fits the equipment well and has a handle or strap for carrying the box with.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer.

Description: Patent for a new and useful convertible churn and ice cream freezer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 27, 1899
Creator: Everhard, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Wire and Wireless Telegraph System.

Description: Patent for a combined wire and wireless telephone system that has a wireless system in between two wired systems.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aerodrome

Description: Patent for an aerodrome/helicopter with improved wing design.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Snow, Guy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bonnet

Description: Patent for a bonnet. Illustrations included.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: Hancock, Mollie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wireless-Telephone System.

Description: Patent for a wireless telephone system that does not require the user to flip a switch in between receiving and sending a message.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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