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Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper

Description: Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S. & Adreon, Edward L., Jr.
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Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in animal traps, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 29, 1899
Creator: Griffin, Walter R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Treating Granular Materials

Description: Patent for an apparatus for treating granular materials. Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Lanaux, Alfred A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Alarm.

Description: Patent for an alarm designed to attach to windows or entryways and sound to alert residents of a burglary attempt, with illustrations.
Date: May 29, 1906
Creator: Hobbs, Francis Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bathing-Suit.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in bathing suits.
Date: March 29, 1898
Creator: Davis, Jesse W D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Brake Mechanism.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful air-brake mechanisms in relation to a pressure controller and distributer designed to perform the several independent and joint functions of a triple valve, a pressure-retaining valve, and a pressure relief or reducing valve."
Date: May 29, 1900
Creator: Dillander, John
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Apparatus For Molding Whetstones

Description: Patent for an apparatus for molding whetstones. Illustration included.
Date: November 29, 1904
Creator: Cameron, Neill C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum

Description: Patent for an apparatus for using the sulfur content of petroleum found in the oil fields of Texas. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Eggleston, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chafing-Iron

Description: Patent for a chafing iron for passenger cars designed to prevent injury to passengers who place their hands in between the irons. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Labadie, Victor
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Axle

Description: Patent for an axle. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Price, George T. & Knight, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Auto-Organ

Description: Patent for an organ that can be operated by vehicles or windmills. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: England, James Ross
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Ant Trap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n a device for catching ants, the combination, with an open frame, of the end piece or trough, having a concave bottom and overturned edges" (lines 84-87).
Date: March 29, 1887
Creator: Haines, Samuel Alfred
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Animal Trap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame, of the spear fitted to slide therein and provided with a notched shank, spring for forcing the spear down, and the trigger pivoted to the frame and provided with a forked plate at its lower end, and with a toe for engaging the notch of the shank of the spear" (lines 8-15).
Date: November 29, 1887
Creator: Wood, Evans
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Apparatus for Handling Cotton.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit.
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles.
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Barrel Cover.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cover for barrels. This design calls for downward-extending flanges with wings along the perimeter of the cover. These flanges hold the cover in place over the barrel opening, but they also allow for the cover to rest at an angle on the upper rim of the barrel so that one has access to the contents of the barrel without the cover touching the ground.
Date: May 29, 1883
Creator: Lane, Fernando Gustavous
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Method of Marking the Keys of Key-Boards for Musical Instruments

Description: Patent for "a system of musical notation in which the several notes or note-symbols are shaped so as to approximate in appearance the shape of the letters from which they derive their appellations" (lines 37-41) especially in relation to piano-fortes, organs, and keyed instruments and in teaching music, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1880
Creator: Black, Jane B. D.
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Apparatus for Condensing Flue-Dust.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for "condensing and saving the flue-dust passing with the waste gases through the chimney of lead-smelting furnaces." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 29, 1892
Creator: Hizon, Hiram W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bale-tie that eliminates the need for buckles. This design achieves this with a hook and a U-shaped piece of iron to be riveted to the band, thus fastening the bale without buckles.
Date: January 29, 1878
Creator: Lenard, William R.
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Autographic Register.

Description: Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Norcross, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids.

Description: Patent for a pneumatic lift that maintains the air pressure needed to effectively move liquid through a pipe.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Auto power transmitting jack

Description: Patent for auto power transmitting jack and it uses.
Date: March 29, 1915
Creator: Adolf F. Johnson, of El Campo, Texas
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Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate

Description: Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: McCombs, Oliver A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fence Posts.

Description: Patent for improvements in fence posts and has "for its primary object to provide a post which may be of extremely simple construction and operation and especially adapted for use in constructing wire fences" (lines 12-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Conner, Elmer E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c.

Description: Patent for the improvement of "the construction of spring trips, and to provide a simple and inexpensive spring trip, capable of being constructed of sufficient strength to enable it to be employed on stirring and breaking plows as well as cultivators, planters and the lighter class of agricultural implements" (lines 12-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Alsup, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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