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[News Clip: Auction]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 5, 1982, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Proposition 5]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: November 2, 1981
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Insect-Exterminator

Description: Patent for an insect exterminator to be transported to and used within crop fields which separates insects from plants by means of brushes and kills the insects by depositing them into a pan containing liquid insecticide. Exterminator also includes a sprayer to deliver insecticide onto crops. Exterminator is designed to be pulled by draft animals.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Thompson, Everett Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve Operating Mechanism for Presses

Description: Patent for a valve operating mechanism for presses. This invention is meant to be an improvement of baling mechanism effecting the automatic regulation and control the motor fluids. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1903
Creator: Stuart, John Marcus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Wind-Wheels.

Description: Patent for an "invention [consisting] in the construction and arrangement of a dome which surrounds a wind-wheel" (line 14-16) including instruction and illustrations. Constitutes an improvement to then existing windmills.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Stephens, Lawrence E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Manure-Spreader

Description: Patent for a manure spreader that can be connected to the back wheels of a farm wagon. Illustrations included.
Date: July 19, 1910
Creator: Echols, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements to the stalk-chopping machine that will strip the ears from the corn while also chopping the corn stalk into bits to fertilize the field.
Date: January 27, 1920
Creator: Bartz, Adolph J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grapple

Description: Patent for improvements to hoisting grapples with the design focus on the "arrow-points or engaging ends" (lines 19-20) and the mechanics associated with the grapple design when in use. Patent includes illustrations of grapple in use.
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Jones, Rees
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Seed-Planter.

Description: Patent for a seed-planter, with illustrations. The "invention relates to an improved seed-planter, adapted to be attached to and operated in connection with any ordinary plow for planting wheat, corn, cotton, or other seed (line 25-28).
Date: December 19, 1882
Creator: Brown, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the beam, the clamping-bars secured to the under side of the beam and arranged at an angle thereto, the teeth clamped by and between said bars, the hangers having their upper ends provided with a vertical series of openings, the securing-bolts passed through said openings in the ends of the clamping bars, and the scraper having a horizontal series of openings in each end, and the securing-bolts passed throug… more
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Ruddell, Charles Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Seed Dropper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the frame, the roller journaled in the rear side thereof and having the crank, the seed-spout, the supporting bars on opposite sides of the frame, the rigid shaft connecting the said bars, the seed-disk rigidly secured to the said shaft and having the curved fingers or teeth, the hopper journaled on the shaft and adapted to oscillate thereon, the said hopper having the discharge-opening in its lower side, through which the lower ed… more
Date: October 25, 1887
Creator: Ballard, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Sack Carrier.

Description: Patent for a device with wheels to prevent sacks used in cotton cultivation from dragging on the ground, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1892
Creator: Warren, John & Johnson, William Oscar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Hopper

Description: Patent for a seed hopper "constructed to efficiently receive and discharge the cotton seed" (lines 12-13). Illustrations included.
Date: June 30, 1908
Creator: Severson, Oscar W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calf-Weaner.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive calf-weaner muzzle, that can also be used for colts, and is an "attachment for securing a barbed frame to a halter, whereby the frame is maintained in the operative position without interfering with the adjustment of the members of the halter to suit the size of the head of the animal" (lines 10-15).
Date: October 29, 1895
Creator: Sone, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design has an axle "provided with holes, so that the choppers or cultivators may be adjusted thereon to bring them nearer together or place them farther apart, as may be desired, to change the implement from a chopper to a marker or cultivator" (lines 30-35).
Date: April 26, 1881
Creator: Lindsey, James E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the hoe, of a standard, fulcrumed to a hinged adjustable bar, and connected by mechanism[s] with the ground-wheel" (lines 77-80).
Date: December 5, 1882
Creator: Collins, Laura Ann & Graham, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame and the operating-gearing, of the vertical shaft, supported by the frame and acted on by the operating-gearing, the horizontal plate rigidly secured to the lower end of the shaft and provided with radial grooves, and slots in said grooves, the feet having their upper ends bent at right angles, fitted in said grooves and adjustably secured therein by bolts passing through the radial slots, th… more
Date: October 25, 1887
Creator: Ballard, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts the stalks with a sliding cut and has multiple blades that are adjustable.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Henry, Reeves
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses." (line 6-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Abbot, Thomas & Abbot, Harry B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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