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Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers.

Description: Patent for an "apparatus for kindling fires in locomotives; and it is intended to provide an improved apparatus by which the fires may be rapidly and economically kindled and steam may be gotten up without much of the tedious delay now ordinarily incident to raising steam in a cold locomotive-boiler." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Connor, John T.
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Apparatus for Retailing Shot.

Description: Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Stokes, Micajah
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Wire-Winding Machine

Description: Patent for a wire winding machine for well screens that allows for winding wire around a tube with notches for the wire to fit into.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Stancliff, George W.
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Well Screen

Description: Patent for a well screen. This invention is intended to screen sand used in well drilling. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
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Well-Strainer

Description: Patent for a well-strainer, specifically to "a cap or plug applied directly to a cap or plug applied directly to an aperture in a pipe-section used for wells." (lines 9-12)
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: McEvoy, J. H.
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Well-Boring Rod.

Description: Patent for a well boring rod in which a hollow rod or shaft is used as a rotary power transmission shaft. The invention has for its primary objects the provision of means for reinforcing or stiffening a well boring rod so that a lighter tube may be used than would otherwise be the case.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
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Mail-Station Device

Description: Patent for a mailbox in rural areas for outgoing and incoming mail to be placed in a convenient manner in a designated area. The mailbox will also have individual receptacles for individual persons to access with their designated key.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Gibson, Joe
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Steam Generating System

Description: Patent for steam generating system. Illustration included.
Date: July 21, 1908
Creator: Bebber, August W.
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Housing for Electric Alarm Mechanism

Description: Patent for a protector for electric appliances used on railways. Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Mayberry, James Blount
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Hydraulic Drill

Description: Patent for a hydraulic drill that allows drill bits to be easily inserted and removed and locks them in place when inside the drill.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Charlton, James
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Tourist's Glass.

Description: Patent for "improvements in tourist's glasses" ... "intended for the use of tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, mineralogists, and analogous purposes, the object of which is to combine with a compass a plurality of instruments particularly adapted for the aforesaid persons and purposes" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Faehrmann, John M.
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Tourist's Glass.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in tourists' glasses" (lines 5-6)
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Faehrmann, John M.
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Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps.

Description: Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 21, 1876
Creator: Boyle, James
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Standing Valve

Description: Patent for a Standing Valve. This standing valve is designed to improve the way the fluids pump through oil and water wells. it also includes an improvement in the way the standing valve is secured to the wells. The new valve can also be easily replaced because of the materials it is composed of.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Adams, Thomas M.
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Staple-Setting Device.

Description: Patent for a staple setting device. This invention sets staples in blind slats and sticks with a special reference to assist with the setting of staples for the purposes of both construction and repair.
Date: February 21, 1922
Creator: Chamberlain, Kit Carson
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Fire Alarm System

Description: Patent for a new and improved fire alarm system. This alarm system will allow the room on fire to be identified and alert the fire department that there is a fire in that house. Using a minimum number of wires, for safety, this alarm signals only one bell no mater the room on fire.There is also a self test feature within this system.
Date: January 21, 1915
Creator: Ammons, John B.
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Engine-Canopy for Motor-Vehicles.

Description: Patent for an improved and cheaper engine canopy for motor vehicles, that "may be applied to any conventional auto-mobile without the necessity of structural change" (lines 20-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Preston, Frank W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire Escape.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fire-escape. This design "has relation to that class of fire-escapes consisting of a chute placed in an inclined position against a window . . . and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a chute fire-escape having transverse rollers in the bottom of the chute for reducing the friction between the bottom of the chute and the body sliding down the chute, and provided with means for regulating the revolutions of the anti-friction ro… more
Date: August 21, 1888
Creator: Howard, William H.
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Street Sweeper

Description: Patent for a street sweeper. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Ramsay, Henry M.
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Roller-Bearing For Shafts.

Description: Patent for a roller-bearing that allows the thrust of a shaft to go in an outward direction.
Date: November 21, 1911
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fertilizer.

Description: Patent for improvements in fertilizers “for restoring to the soil the elements which form the food for plants, and which have been abstracted therefore by the absorption of successive crops, or which are naturally deficient in quantity or entirely wanting in the soil.” (Lines 12-16) Instructions on preparing the fertilizers and ingredients are included. No illustration.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Elsasser, Isaac
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Firearm

Description: Patent for an automatic gun which reloads itself.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Consentino, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fishing-Tool

Description: Patent for a fishing tool that is "light, and of simple construction... (line 37)." The fishing tool is also meant to be let down into well bores without the rods or tubing getting stuck and automatically locks.
Date: December 21, 1920
Creator: McMillian, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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