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Improvement to Bridle-Rods

Description: Patent for the improvement of Bridle-Rods “of means whereby the device may be adjusted to accommodate itself to rails of different sizes” (lines 18-20). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Simpson, Charles M.
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Indicator

Description: Patent for a vehicle indicator that indicates speed using a sound and light. "The driver may be warned when a certain speed is reached and so officers of the law and others may readily tell by glancing at the vehicle whether or not it is exceeding the speed limit."
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Hartman, Arthur R.
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Life Raft.

Description: Patent for boat state rooms that convert into life rafts.
Date: September 9, 1884
Creator: Adams, John R.
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Ironing-Board.

Description: Patent for an ironing board for the particular use of ironing sleeves of garments and other small articles, and can be readily attached detached from a table, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.
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Truck

Description: Patent for a new device that "embodies a trailer connected in a novel manner to a truck of the ordinary form, so that the trailer wheels will track the rear truck wheels” (lines 9-12), including an illustration.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Turnbow, William C.
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Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.

Description: Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 9, 1879
Creator: Richardson, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
Date: August 9, 1870
Creator: Stopple, Charles W.
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Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.

Description: Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1868
Creator: Milner, Thomas
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Station-Indicator

Description: Patent for a station indicator for showing the names of street or stations on a web.
Date: August 9, 1910
Creator: Hathhorne, Robert A.
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Packing Mechanism for Oil and Water Wells

Description: Patent for a mechanism which cases water off of oil when boring oil wells.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Fuqua, William Y.
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Steam Trap.

Description: Patent for invention that relates to improvements in steam and water separators, and more particularly to that class within the valve controlling the escape of the water condensation from the collecting-trap is operated by the movements of a float actuated by the water of condensation (Reynolds, 1901).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Reynolds, William H.
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Washing Machine

Description: Patent for a washing machine. This invention has a basket for holding clothes contained within a tub with hot soapy water. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Hamilton, Walter Scott & Williams, James Rozier
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Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.

Description: Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
Date: February 9, 1875
Creator: Erlenmeyer, Erwin
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Toy Fountain.

Description: Patent for toy foundation. It is "an improved form of toy fountain by which a column of water or other liquid may be discharged into the air from a suitable reservoir by pueumatic pressure" (lines 8-11).
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Attwater, Henry P.
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Trolley-Wire Holder

Description: Patent for a trolley wire holder that prevents the trolley wheel from coming off the overhead conductor line and automatically releases the trolley wheel from the conductor line when the trolley car arm is pulled down from the conductor line.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: La Bauve, Valcoure J.
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Grain-Shocking Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements on grain shocking machines for receiving and automatically tying sheaves from the binder into shocks.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
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Electro Automatic Advertising Machine

Description: Patent for electro-automatic advertising machine. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Myers, Clarence & Buchard, Alonzo H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reed-Organ

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction and design of reed organs.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: England, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Screen Attachment

Description: Patent for window and door screens to prevent the entrance of insects inside and prevents the escape of those already inside, which inevitably collect on the inside of the screen.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Simons, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for improvement in cotton-presses that relates to a specific combination toggle arms connected to a platen with a ball-and-socket or other joint and sliding guide rods.
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Bearce, Larned S.
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Pumping Mechanism

Description: Patent for pumping mechanism.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for the improvement of pipe wrenches necessary for use in well drilling or other circumstances where a wrench of strong construction is needed. This patent provides for a pipe wrench that can be easily adjusted to fit pipes of differing sizes and is easily manipulated for use regardless of direction.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Carmichael, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mosquito Net Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mosquito-net frame. This design "has for its object to provide a frame . . . capable of convenient attachment to or of detachment from any bedstead, and which when attached will be firmly braced and firmly held against lateral movement" (lines 9-14). It consists, "with the standards having tenons at their upper ends, the rear and side bars having eyes receiving said tenons, and a front bar connecting the front ends of bars, of the horizontal angle-plates mounted at… more
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Lottman, Albert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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