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Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for the improvement of pipe wrenches necessary for use in well drilling or other circumstances where a wrench of strong construction is needed. This patent provides for a pipe wrench that can be easily adjusted to fit pipes of differing sizes and is easily manipulated for use regardless of direction.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Carmichael, Robert E.
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The "Gibson Well" Mineral Wells, Texas

Description: Shown here is a picture of the first Gibson Well drinking pavilion. Located in the 700 block of what is now NW 2nd Avenue, it was one of the first drinking pavilions in the city. An expanded pavilion replaced the one in this picture, and it became one of the more popular social gathering places in town. The Christian Church now [2008] occupies the entire city block on which the Gibson Well was located.
Date: 1900?
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[Woman leaning on a well]

Description: Photograph of a woman leaning on a wooden well in a backyard. The woman stands on the left side of the image and looks off camera to the right, she has her left hand on the well and leans her weight on it while she has her right hand on her hip. The area is shady from the porch awning above her, and hills covered with trees can be seen beyond the fencing in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Woman pouring well water]

Description: Photograph of a woman pouring water from a well into another bucket. The woman stands in the center of the image and has her back to the camera, the well sits to the right of her and she uses a bucket attached to a pulley system above it. Behind the woman on the porch sits three bins full of apples, and hills covered in trees can be seen in the background on the right.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Well-Strainer

Description: Patent for a well-strainer, specifically to "a cap or plug applied directly to a cap or plug applied directly to an aperture in a pipe-section used for wells." (lines 9-12)
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: McEvoy, J. H.
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Well-Cleaner.

Description: This invention relates to an improved well cleaner, and has for its principal object to provide a device of this kind adapted to be positioned in a well casing to direct a volume of air into the casing for cleaning the valves and straining elements thereof. A further object of the invention is to provide an automatic means for sealing the cleaner for holding the fluid within the well casing, against back pressure, during the cleaning operation. (Lines 8-19)
Date: October 18, 1919
Creator: Sargent, Lemuel H.
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Pump.

Description: Patent for a "pump for effectively pumping oil or quicksand from wells troubled with quicksand." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Wintz, James Philip
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Pump

Description: Patent for a pump used during the process of drilling wells. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Wintz, Thornton E.
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Method of Sampling.

Description: Patent for improving methods of boring wells by "raising the cuttings from an earth boring drill to the surface" (lines 70-71), including illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Carmichael, Robert E.
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Oil-Well Screen

Description: Patent for an oil-well screen that provides a finer degree of filtering small particles from oil and gas.
Date: November 1, 1916
Creator: Scott, Clarence N.
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[The Crazy Water Well--1974]

Description: What is said to be the original Crazy Woman's Well is preserved under the sidewalk at the northwest corner of the Crazy Hotel. This is supposed to be the well the mentally-challenged (or the once-designated "Crazy woman") drank from that "Cured" her dementia. Stories are in conflict about how many women there were--and whether the water actually cured any of them of epilepsy. Subsequent analysis of the water refuted a rumor that there was any Lithium was in it. … more
Date: March 24, 1974
Creator: Weaver, A. F.
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Texas Carlsbad Well [ 2 of 3: People on Porch]

Description: An early picture (probably taken from a newspaper) of the Texas Carlsbad Drinking Pavilion, located at 415 NW 1st Avenue. It stood across the street west of the Crazy Well and its first Crazy Drinking Pavilion. The large, two story Second Crazy Pavilion, built adjacent, and to the south of the first one, faced west toward the Carlsbad. The Carlsbad had been replaced by a brick structure by 1909. Stained glass windows were later added to the building that depicted Ponce de Leon and his… more
Date: 1905?
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[Well standing at a slant]

Description: Photograph of a well's wooden structure standing at a slant in a yard. The structure stands in the center of the image and takes up most of the frame, a large wheel with a crank is seen attached in the middle and a small, white pail is hanging from the top. A pile of plywood is seen lying on the ground to the left of the structure and what appears to be an ice chest sits to the right, the background is made of tall bushes that take up the frame.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Well-Reamer

Description: Patent for an improved well-reamer with a more stable and supported cutters to straighten or increase the size of the hole with less damage from wear.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
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Well Drilling Machinery.

Description: Patent for new and improved well-drilling machinery. This design "is to make a well-drilling machine which will drop the drill at the proper time and from the proper height" (lines 11-14). It consists in "the bevel-wheel having cam on its periphery and arranged loosely on a vertical shaft, a bevel-pinion fast on power-shaft, a loose drum sliding on [the] shaft, the spring, and collar, in combination with the drill-rope" (lines 69-74).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Lee, Joseph G.
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Well Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved well cleaner. This design "is to provide a simple instrument by which wells can be cleaned out without descending into them. It is well known that much danger exists in descending into foul wells on account of the poisonous gases often collected near the bottom of the same" (lines 20-26).
Date: October 7, 1884
Creator: Neitsche, Frederick Theodor
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Well Bucket.

Description: Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Arnold, James S.
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Pump.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pump. This design consists, "with the working-barrel, of a casing or shell secured to the lower end of said barrel, the said shell tapering downward and being provided with an annular shoulder on its inner surface, a valve-seat provided with an annular flange and downward elastic extensions constructed to close against said shell and rest on said shoulder, and a valve-cage connected with said seat and containing a valve" (lines 82-91).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Shelburn, Cephas C.
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