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Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for improvements in animal-traps that would be capable of catching two animals; to set the trap, bait is placed upon the hooked ends of the bait-hooks, the jaws are elevated and retained in a position by the link-catches, which have the lower hooked ends engaging the trigger, which has its free end engaging the eye at the inner end of the bait hooks, thus setting the trap, (lines 66-73) ready to catch animals. Illustration is included.
Date: May 5, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Henry Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compound Tool

Description: Patent for a compound tool which combines the features of the nut-wrench and the pipe-wrench.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Scroggins, James L. & Waldrop, A. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ratchet Die-Stock

Description: Patent for improvement on the usage of die-stocks which are used to cut and thread metal objects such as pipes.
Date: July 22, 1919
Creator: Hestand, Rue S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Solar steam]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 24, 1981, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bonaparte]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 27, 1983, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sherman Fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a freak accident in Sherman which has claimed the life of a 57-year old Sherman resident.
Date: August 30, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Plane Crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of three person who believed to be from Texas died in the crash of a light plane near Texas Oklahoma border.
Date: September 6, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wood-Boring Machine.

Description: Patent for a wood boring machine "which is especially adapted to bore holes of extreme length in columns or like structural members by cutting away only a portion of the wood forming hole in same" (lines 11-15).
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Bible, Hunley & Robinson, Lee A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device.

Description: Patent for a tool "which is adapted for stretching wire for fencing purposed and which may also be used for drawing the staples from the posts and splicing between posts when such action is necessary." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: McElroy, Jesse Roberts
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench whose jaws can be adjusted quickly by pressing a handle on the wrench with the thumb.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Ferguson, Rufus Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Leather-Cutting Gages

Description: Patent for improvement in leather cutting-gages in order to negate the need for the set-screw at the end of the gage handle that is needed to hold the rule. The document contains instructions and illustrations of the device.
Date: April 17, 1877
Creator: Lindsay, George F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilated Granary

Description: Patent for ventilated granary. This patent is for better improvements of the granary which already exists. It allows for even better ventilation for grains being stored in the granary.
Date: December 8, 1914
Creator: Elliott, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Churns

Description: Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Gray, Whitley F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Can Spout.

Description: Patent for an oil can spout that is used as a connection to a dispensing can which serves as a spout and as a stopper. This spout is easily installed and removed when desired, this spout also prevents accidental removal while handling.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Melvin, Joe D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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