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Clothes-Pin

Description: Patent for "a clothes pin or clasp which will have a clamping-spring action and which can be conveniently manipulated to apply or remove it to and from a holding position and one wherein the clamping members mainly he within the same plane" (lines 7-13).
Date: May 21, 1901
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating leve… more
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Gramm]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 3, 1978, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: O'Daniel opens race for governor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about campaign efforts across North Texas by former governor and U.S. Senator W. Lee O'Daniel, who is again running for governor of the state.
Date: May 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for improvements in atmospheric clothes pounders: "Dividing the outer section into compartments so that air in escaping is distributed evenly from all sides of the pounder instead of escaping in a body from one side, whenever the pounder strikes a wad or knot of cloths and is tipped sidewise; it also makes the suction better" (lines 49-55).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Allgaier, George E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "relates to improvements in cotton-chopping machines in which revolving hoes are attached to plows; and the object of [the] improvement is to afford facilities for chopping out cotton by means of horse-power instead of by hand" (lines 8-13).
Date: May 13, 1890
Creator: Green, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle Bit.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle-bit. This design consists "[i]n a bridle-bit, the combination, with the bit-bar, provided with the loops of the angle-levers mounted on the said bar and having their corresponding arms respectively connected by the curb-chain and provided with rein loops or rings and the studs or pins on the levers engaging the loops" (lines 70-76).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Bowles, Zachary Taylor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for improvements to the cotton-chopper. This invention outfits the cotton-chopper with a blade that can be moved, either mechanically or with electric power. Previously, the blade was fixed and stationary.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Janes, Henry T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Tornado]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the destruction caused by a tornado in Whitney.
Date: May 23, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Whitney tornados]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the damages caused by two tornados in Whitney, Texas.
Date: May 24, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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