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Animal-Trap

Description: Patent for an animal trap with a new kind of trigger fir closing the door to the trap.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Hatchell, Benjamin
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Air-Brake-Setting Appliance

Description: Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
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Cotton-Handling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new cotton-handling apparatus with cleaning mechanisms and a storage-house, including illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Tidwell, Albert F.
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Clamp.

Description: Patent for a new clamp to improve support functionality in household construction, including illustration.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Stevens, John J.
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard mounted on cross-ties and braces with exposed wires to permit identification of damaged wires and to be readily repaired without disturbing the remaining wires, which lists the parts for construction and illustration.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Meador, Edgar T.
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Analgetic Bandage.

Description: Patent for a new and useful "analgetic bandage for curing headaches and oher disorders of the nervous system" (line 5-7) including illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Ray, Thomas L.
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Amusement Device

Description: Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
Date: August 13, 1912
Creator: Dougherty, James P. & Beeman, Mark
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Combined Switch Socket and Plug

Description: Patent for a combined switch socket and plug for lamps and light bulbs. Illustrations included.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: McNeel, William Pinkney
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Cattle-Holder.

Description: Patent for a cattle-holder, which provides the "novel means for confining cattle and holding them in an upright position against movement" (Lines 14-16).
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Terrell, Joseph E.; Terrell, William. & Montgomery, Franklin M.
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Banana-Case

Description: Patent for a banana case to "provide a case or crate in which bananas may be readily packed and transported without injury to the fruit."
Date: November 13, 1888
Creator: Aiken, Robert H.
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Door-Saddle.

Description: Patent for new and improved door saddles, which consists "of a longitudinal and cross-grooved arrangement of parts coacting with inclined surfaces and shields to cause a perfect drainage of water" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustration.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Vogel, Thomas.
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Ant-Trap.

Description: Patent for an ant-trap with an inflexible bottom with a hole in the middle, a perpendicular section rough on the inside and smooth on the outside, and the perpendicular smooth sides are attached to the edges of the bottom. The trap has a device that prevents the ants from running around the trap.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Carter, William B.
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard that does not let cattle become entangled and killed in the guard, and does not allow cattle to pass over the rails. Cattle also will not get thrown or trip on the guard, and the trains will not be endangered.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
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Corn Sheller.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn-sheller. This design, "[o]n its rear face, at the upper end of the body of the corn-sheller . . . provide[s] a hinged nubber-plate, which serves as a supporting-arm, and is constructed . . . for use in breaking or cutting off the smaller end of the ear of corn, at which end unsound kernels of corn are frequently found. The nubber-plate is hinged . . . to the upper end of the rear face of the body, and when opened out extends at nearly a right angle from the b… more
Date: September 13, 1887
Creator: Price, Benjamin B.
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Earth-Auger

Description: Patent for structural improvement in machines used for boring post holes and wells with illustrations and instructions included.
Date: April 13, 1880
Creator: Cudd, Decater P.
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Selkirk Candlestick

Description: Patent for candlestick handle/dish with an extension that can be used traditionally for holding and carrying a candle as well as hanging on a nail in a wall with illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 13, 1880
Creator: Selkirk, William
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APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ICE.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice" (lines 3-4)
Date: July 13, 1880
Creator: Zilker, Andrew J.
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Attachment for Sulky-Plows.

Description: Patent for a sulky-plow that "is designed to secure an even and steady movement of the plow when turning furrows across listed ground, whereby the work is facilitated, the draft lightened, and the task of the laborer reduced" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Mann, John Quincy
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Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for bale-tie buckle improvement for tightly securing single length wire prior to pressure release around a cotton bale. Further bale-tie buckle improvements include sharper bends using flat or oval wire to further decrease slipping of wire.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Frantz, Erza A.
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Plate Retaining Device

Description: Patent for a license plate holder for automobiles.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Stafford, Frederick
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Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Description: Patent for improvements to a device for exterminating insects, in particular corn weevils, including illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Geeslin, Robert Worn
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Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a buckle that secures ends of bale ties so that they are not exposed nor endanger the hands of farm workers.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: McFarland, Frank Hays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Route-Indicator.

Description: Patent for an improved route indicator for automobiles "which not only visually indicates the characteristics and risks of the road" but in addition provides an "auditory signal to call attention to approaching hazards or dangers" (lines 36-41). Illustrations included.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Cranmer, Howard
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Railway-Switch.

Description: Patent for an improvement to railway switches, by creating an automatic switch that changes the direction of a track from object while object is moving on track.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: James, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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