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Adjustable Stool.

Description: Patent for an adjustable and foldable stool for but not limited to field workers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1880
Creator: Smith, William Alexander & Smith, Robert Toumbleson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Artificial-StoneTomb.

Description: Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 6, 1880
Creator: Wilson, Hence
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.

Description: Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 6, 1880
Creator: Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a draw-head, the laterally-movable pin-retaining arms supported therein, and a pivoted wing normally held in the path of an approaching link, and arranged to distend the arms to drop the pin when acted on by the links" (lines 30-35).
Date: April 6, 1886
Creator: Thomason, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dallas County Probate Case 1206: Rape, Jackson & Eliza (Deceased)

Description: Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Rape, Jackson & Eliza (Deceased) and John Rape (Executor or Guardian). Jackson Rape was born 3 Jul 1819, and died 8 Aug 1889. His wife, Eliza Jane, was born 15 Aug 1820, and died 6 Feb 1889. Jackson Rape died before the joint will was probated.
Date: 1885-04-06/1890-03-29
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Partner: Dallas Genealogical Society
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