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Child's Crib.

Description: Patent for a new and improved child's crib. This design utilizes "a rock-shaft with inward-projecting arms, from the inner ends of which the cords are suspended, [and it] avoid[s] the friction and wear of the cords incident to the carrying of these through the screw-eyes, as shown in [a previous patent], making them last much longer, beside simplifying the construction of the crib" (lines 67-74).
Date: March 15, 1881
Creator: Brown, Fred Harvey
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee and Teapot.

Description: Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Heiss, Gregor & Schmidt, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Clipping: Understanding Nixon and March 21 Meeting]

Description: Full page from The Washington Post featuring a column discussing the meeting between Richard Nixon and John W. Dean III on March 21, 1973. Also on the page are continuations of other related articles, a short column discussing a question and answer session held by Richard Nixon, and brief mention of a fire on a reservation. On the reverse is a continuation of a column regarding the end of an oil embargo.
Date: March 15, 1974
Creator: Meyer, Lawrence
Partner: Texas Southern University

Carriage Bow Support

Description: Patent for a carriage bow support. This invention is designed for use with buggies and absorb shock and jarring motions. Illustration included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Ledbetter, Rufus C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn

Description: Patent for a churn having two dashers for reciprocation.
Date: February 15, 1915
Creator: Jarnigan, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Child's Plate or Dish

Description: Patent for a child's plate or dish. It is designed to be secured to the shelf of the children's chair to prevent throwing. Illustration included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Matthews, Jennie C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Child's Seat for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for a removable child's seat for buggies, phaetons, carriages, sleighs, and similar vehicles that folds up so it can be stored under the seat when not in use. The chair sits next to the dash, and is locked into place so the child is safe.
Date: May 15, 1894
Creator: Padgitt, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for an automatic churn, which is an improvement to a previous churn, no. 39,532. It has a two-part cabinet, the top part equipped with a hinged top, a crank shaft, ratchet-wheel, spring pawl, and a tubular square pocket at the end of the crank-shaft. The square pocket is where one can attach a handle to operate the churn. The lower half of the cabinet opens on the side and contains the container, dasher-rod, and churn-dashers.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Roberts, John A. & Vermillion, William E. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in Washington Pounders by "having a series of concentric cones between the sides of which communication is had through apertures to carry away steam, and affords a suitable circulation of the water and air through the clothes." (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Toler, Henry Wilson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the body, or receptacle and its cover, of the dasher having a frame provided with inner apertured or perforated corner blocks and journaled in the body or receptacle, and a second apertured or perforated cross-shaped dasher journaled within the other dasher, the tripod-frame comprising the arched meeting side bars, and a third connecting-bar having an aperture, through which the upper end of the inner dasher-s… more
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Lines, Daniel & Long, Charles T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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