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Foot Piece for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for foot pieces of "simple and improved construction whereby the cultivator blade will be held in ground engaging position resiliently with sufficient force to maintain it properly in position in varying conditions of the soil" (lines 10-15). The foot pieces allow for variation in the force with which the blade is maintained in ground, the blade being "quickly and conveniently changed" (lines 24-25).
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Myers, Jim H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the fence-wires, the stay-rods having their lower ends fitted in the ground and provided with a series of steps or rests fitted to the fence wires, a series of tie-wires securing the fence-wires to said steps, and braces twisted around the stay-rods near the upper ends thereof and having their ends secured to buried anchors" (lines 59-66).
Date: February 7, 1888
Creator: Lott, Arthur
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plowshare Attachment.

Description: Patent for a plowshare attachment, which will allow a new replacement part when this part is no longer in working condition.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Hickle, Pryor H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a planter for planting cotton seed, which can be used with a walking or wheeled planter and automatically drops seeds when moving forward but not backward, and which can have the mechanism turned off while in transit.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Vaughn, George Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Outdoors]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 12, 1990, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Insect Catcher

Description: Patent for Insect Catcher, The objective of this invention is to provide a novel and improved device for this general character especially designed and adapted for use in connection with growing plants and is especially adapted for use to destroy boll weevils, bollworms, sharp shooters, and bugs and insects which infest cotton, potato, tomato and kindred plants.
Date: November 8, 1921
Creator: Ryan, William C. & Ruhmann, Grover C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Cleaner and Separator.

Description: Patent for cotton cleaner and separator. This will allow cotton to be cleaned without twisting or tangling, while removing dust, dirt and leaves.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Hillmann, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal Trap.

Description: Patent for Animal Trap especially adapted for the extermination of mice and similar rodents.
Date: May 3, 1921
Creator: Fredrick, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boiler Feeder and Indicator

Description: Patent for an improvement automatic steam-boiler feeders which controls the feed pump and actuates an alarm whistle (lines 21-23).
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Newman, Prentice A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace Wire Fastening for Wire Fences.

Description: Patent for a new and improved brace-wire fastening for wire fences. This design consists "[i]n a fence, the combination, with the panel wires, of the braces with their ends hooked upon one and the same side of the upper and lower panel-wires, and said braces being stepped to receive and applied to the opposite side of the intermediate panel-wires, and the tri-armed or T-shaped clasps with their arms embracing the panel-wires and the braces at their points of intersection" (lines 81-89).
Date: September 22, 1885
Creator: Lott, Arthur
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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