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Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer consisting of a steam-generator used with "removable drawers forming the fire-box and ash-pan of the generator, a safety-valve connected with the steam-boiler, and a novel form and construction of flexible discharge-tube, the same being provided with a cut-off device and with a socket-piece adapted to receive a handle by means of which the discharge end of the flexible tube may be elevated and conducted to any desired point" (lines 12-21).
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Maddux, Richard Calvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peanut-Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements in peanut harvester machines with illustrations. The improvement is specific to "improved organiz[ation]" (line 10) and to "simplify and improve the construction" (line 18) of the harvester.
Date: August 12, 1919
Creator: Beard, Willie Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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