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Steam-Boiler.

Description: Patent for the improvement for steam boilers by having a detachable fire-box for a portable boiler with little maintenance and efficient as a steam generator, including illustration.
Date: March 5, 1861
Creator: Porter, John
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Improvement in Bee-Hives.

Description: Patent for a bee-hive that prevents insects (such as moths) from entering therein and maximizes the amount of honey collected from the hive, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: March 5, 1878
Creator: Park, Jesse W.
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Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.

Description: Patent for a cotton-hoe with interchangeable blades (one smaller and the other larger), for "chopping cotton" (line 15) and garden use, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date: March 5, 1878
Creator: Moore, Joseph M.
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Vehicle-Brake.

Description: Patent for vehicle-brake, with description and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1885
Creator: McIntosh, John L.; Bacon, Edward Hamlin & Vail, Theron
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Fire Clay Heater.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fire-clay heater. This design "consists in an improved fire-log burner for oil or other fluid or gaseous inflammable substances, said burner being in form of a tube or hollow cylinder, and made of 'fire-clay,' and provided with numerous jet or burner passages in its periphery, and filled with comminuted asbestus or other analogous absorbent or capillary fluid-conducting fire-proof material . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a practically-operating an… more
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: White, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fluid Burner Fire Log.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fluid-burner fire-log. This design consists "in combination, a perforated tubular body, metallic removable heads, a fluid-supplying tube, a perforated air-induction distributing tie-tube provided with screw threads and nuts on its ends outside the heads, and a comminuted or disintegrated fire-proof filling surrounding the perforated portion of the air-tube and occupying the chamber of the body" (lines 25-32).
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: White, George W.
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Mattress-Stuffing Machine

Description: Patent "to provide simple means whereby the dimensions of the packing-box, as well as the spout, may be readily increased or diminished, either vertically or laterally, to enable the operator to stuff mattresses of varying sizes, whereby the dimensions of the packing-box and spout shall be at all times varied in the same relative proportions" (lines 12-20).
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: Stephenson, Edwin N.
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Method of Making Mattresses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved method of making mattresses. This invention "consists in first disintegrating the material and simultaneously forcing the same into a suitable receptacle, fanning said material as it passes into the receptacle, and finally compressing the same . . . thereby dispensing with tacking of the bat" (lines 15-22).
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the center bar, the adjustable sweep, and the saddle . . . [the] longitudinal center bar extending below the base of the sweep and having the pointed nose and the fan-shaped lip" (lines 85-90).
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: Stewart, John A.
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Sash Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window-sash, of the spiral spring, its inner end resting in the socket, its other in the thimble, locking-plate having the hinge-nib working in the perforation, and [the] thimble receiving and covering the outer end of said spring, and handle, said lock-plate and handle fitting and working in [the] groove and [other] perforation, [a] cover-plate countersunk in the face of said sash, covering said loc… more
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: Teal, Thomas Henry
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Mail-Bag Catcher and Deliverer.

Description: Patent for "a device capable of catching or transferring mail bags from a mail bag hanger to the mail car while the car is in motion, the device also acting to deliver a mail bag at the same station, if necessary, one operation in no manner interfering with the other." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1895
Creator: Sliger, Charles F.
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for "improvements in rotary engines by which a flanged or bladed disk is made to revolve in a steam tight chamber or chest." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1895
Creator: West, Joseph
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Rein-holder.

Description: Patent for simple, inexpensive and efficient rein holder "adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle and capable of ready adjustment to arrange it to suit the height of a horse and of supporting the lines and of preventing them from coming in contact with the tail of the animal" (lines 11-16).
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Campbell, James W.
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Spoon.

Description: Patent for a spoon designed to avoid spilling liquids, including illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Holman, Clara Belle
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Windlass Elevator

Description: Patent for providing "an improved device... which is especially designed for use as a water-elevator for drawing a bucket out of a well and arranged so as to conveniently take up the slack cable and coil it upon the windlass-drum" (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Higson, Jasper S.
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Windmill-Regulator

Description: Patent for "improvements in windmill-regulators of that class distinguished by the provision of a movable bucket connected to the regulating-cable of a windmill and communicating with the tank or reservoir supplied by the mill to cause the depression of the bucket for the purpose of throwing the mill out of gear or out of the wind. . .when the level of water in the tank has reached a predetermined point" (lines 8-18).
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Stein, John
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Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Description: Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
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Cotton Cleaner And Gin Feeder

Description: Patent for a cotton cleaner and gin feeder. This invention is designed to clean cotton of impurities and then feed the cotton into the gin. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Norris, Mishael E. & Norris, Jesse L.
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Sash Fastener

Description: Patent for a sash fastener. This invention applies to fastening and locking the lower sash of a window to the windows frame. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Sloan, Emanuel
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Saw-Filing Machine.

Description: Patent for a gin and linter saw filing machine that is fully automatic and can sharpen multiple saws in succession and then stop when finished without resetting the device or manually stopping it. It also can sharpen saws of varying sizes and thicknesses to different levels of sharpness.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Beaver, John M.
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Shears

Description: Patent for shears. The shears are meant to be used with corn, sorghum, and picking and pruning fruit. This invention is designed to worn on the hand and "are operated by the thumb and index-finger" (lines 15-17). Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Moncus, Joseph Gideon
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Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter that easily attaches to various farm equipment with wheels.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.
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Stalk Puller

Description: Patent for a stalk puller. This invention is designed to pull cotton stalks from the ground. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Smith, Cullen Rogers
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Water Distilling Apparatus

Description: Patent for a water distilling apparatus. This invention is designed for condensing steam into distilled water. Additionally, the design is meant to separate empyreumatic gases from the water vapor during the distillation process. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Lazenby, Robert S. & Lazenby, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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