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Dental Chair.

Description: Patent for a dental chair improvement.
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Stiles, Edmund P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Body

Description: Patent for "an improvement in extensible wagon-bodies," (lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1887
Creator: Stumpf, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tuck Creasing and Marking Attachment for Sewing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved tuck creasing and marking attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to provide a simple and effective tuck creaser or marker to be operated directly by the needle-bar of a sewing machine; and it consists, essentially, of a creaser and an arm attached to the needle-bar and carrying an indent-piece, which strikes the creaser to mark or crimp the tuck. The creaser is formed upon a slide adjustable upon a graduated plate or bar attached to the plate of the sewing… more
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Crawford, Alice Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a brace consisting of two rings secured together, and having recesses in their meeting sides, and provided with a number of brace-rods passing to one or two rings secured upon the hub of a vehicle-wheel, the spokes fitting in the recesses in the meeting sides of the rings" (lines 19-27).
Date: January 15, 1884
Creator: Stein, Philip Harris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kettle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved kettle attachment. This design "provides an attachment to be used with the kettle, whereby the "boiling over" of the material and the consequent running of the same down the sides of the said kettle are prevented. The material that would ordinarily flow over the sides of the kettle and waste is by the use of [a] device . . . saved, and any and all danger of fire from the overflowing sugar in candy manufacture is prevented" (lines 11-20).
Date: February 17, 1885
Creator: Lamme, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "relates to improvements in the class of washing-machines commonly known as 'cylinder washing-machines,' and has for its object the production of a machine which will operate thoroughly and expeditiously, and without injury to the fabric, while at the same time it is light and inexpensive in construction and simple in operation; and with these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts" (lines … more
Date: July 7, 1885
Creator: Ekman, Axel F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locking Device for Baling Press Doors.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lock for baling-press doors. This design "is to provide a . . . locking device for the doors of the baling chamber of a baling-press, which locking device is so constructed that all the doors can be locked in a single operation and by means of the same device, and may be loosened simultaneously" (lines 8-14).
Date: February 16, 1886
Creator: Clark, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for windmills by making them self-regulating and "it consists in the construction and arrangement of devices whereby the force of the wind is made to move the wind-wheel and crank-shift backward and turn the vane, and also in the devices for turning the vane at will" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 3, 1880
Creator: Tevis, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Cleaning, Polishing, and Assorting Nuts.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut cleaner, polisher, and sorter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the nut-cleaning cylinder having the longitudinal door and transversely-arranged wire cylinders having doors, of the intermediate hopper, arranged lengthwise of the cylinder, as well as under it, and having apertures over the doors of the wire cylinders . . . and a series of sieves, successively increasing in mesh, of a perforated floor, an end plate terminating in [an] eccentric, a… more
Date: September 13, 1881
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Writing Pen.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pen. This design has for its object "to provide a simple implement which may be readily employed for writing purposes; and it consists in a thimble-like sleeve having a writing-pen arranged at its outer end, adapted to be easily applied to the index or fore-finger; and it further consists in the peculiar construction of implement" (lines 7-14).
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Seabaugh, Conrad
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Three Wheeled Vehicle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved three-wheeled vehicle. This design "has an advantage over a four-wheeled vehicle in dispensing with one wheel and one or more springs. It is more readily turned than a four-wheeled vehicle, and can more easily avoid collision with other vehicles when in motion. It also offers better facilities for entering and leaving the carriage, and a vehicle for this design and of equal strength with a four-wheeled vehicle will weigh twenty to fifty pounds less" (lines 73-82).
Date: January 4, 1881
Creator: Humbert, Prosper
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam, Air, or Water Engine.

Description: Patent for simplifying the construction of steam-engines allowing them efficiently use the power of steam" gas, vapor or air in varying positions, vertical, horizontal, or inclined.
Date: May 9, 1882
Creator: Adams, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

T-Square.

Description: Patent for a new and improved t-square. This design calls for a triangular prism of a tongue, which enables more scales to be available to the work-person. The head, with its brackets and rabbet, will fasten the tongue in place while the work-person uses it.
Date: November 7, 1882
Creator: Rowe, Joseph William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Engine

Description: Patent for improvements to be made upon steam engines, with description of parts and use and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1886
Creator: Cross, David L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to an improvement in . . . the construction of the mold-board and to the arrangement thereof relative to the plowshare. The mold-board, instead of being curved or concave, as has usually been the case, is . . . made perfectly flat, and so constructed that it projects at one corner slightly beyond the upper edge of the plowshare. . . . [C]onsequently the plow can be moved through the soil with less difficulty" (lines 13-25).
Date: January 10, 1882
Creator: Domschke, Charles.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp Chimney Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for oil-lamp chimneys. This design is for a metal piece to be inserted into the top of the glass chimney, resting along the chimney's brim. The piece has an elbow that connects the inserted part to an angled and tapered part, which, when appropriately turned, prevents the wind from extinguishing the lamp's flame.
Date: November 28, 1882
Creator: Illingworth, James O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of and Apparatus for Cleaning, Tinting, and Polishing Pecan and Other Nuts.

Description: Patent for a new and improved method and machine for cleaning, tinting, and polishing nuts. This design facilitates "[t]he process of cleaning and tinting pecan and other nuts, which consists in first subjecting them to the action of a lye, abrading substances, and water within a rotating close vessel, and subsequently to the action of a dyeing solution in a separate rotating close vessel" (lines 5-11).
Date: October 30, 1883
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Propelling Vehicles.

Description: Patent for a means of transportation similar to a bicycle, the "essential feature" (line 7) of which "resides in the combination, with the vehicle, of an extensible frame adapted to freely slide back and forth…" (line 7-10). Includes illustrations.
Date: February 12, 1884
Creator: Moore, Baldwin S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Manufacture of Hydralic Cement

Description: Patent for invention is to utilize in rejected hydraulic matter such as decomposed limestone.
Date: July 7, 1885
Creator: Dimelow, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Arrester.

Description: Patent for an improvement to spark-arresters, which deflect sparks and cinders released by locomotive engines. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1886
Creator: McCormick, John Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow carriage, having a sprocket-wheel attached to the driving-wheel, and a rotary mold-board provided with a sprocket-hub having bearings in the plow-beam, of a shaft journaled upon the carriage-frame provided with toggle or universal joints, and suitable chain or belt connections for the sprocket-wheels" (lines 69-76).
Date: August 6, 1889
Creator: Kirk, Johnathan P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Can.

Description: Patent for a new and improved oil can. This design "has for its object to provide a can of improved construction, whereby the liability of foreign matter in the oil will be prevented from clogging the escape-tube, and thus rendering the flow of oil impossible until the spout of the same has been freed from such obstruction" (lines 10-18).
Date: May 6, 1884
Creator: English, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Cracking Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that helps crack and break down nuts for processing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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