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Lubricator.

Description: Patent for an efficient lubricator apparatus that is made up of a reservoir for lubricating oil, a discharge pipe, another pipe that feeds water or condensed steam into the reservoir to displace the oil, a sediment container that has a valved discharge outlet on the bottom, a filter that cleans oil from the discharge pipe, a pipe that lets fluid into the sediment receptacle, and a steam pipe above the oil reservoir.
Date: July 16, 1895
Creator: Herold, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing for Windmills.

Description: Patent for gearing for windmills that "is more particularly designed to provide an improved construction of gearing by which the movement of the wind wheel is transmitted to the pump rod, whereby [the inventor] secures superior advantages with respect to efficiency in use" (lines 14-19).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Keys, Milton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Envelope.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and durable envelope that can hold many letters, documents, and similar materials. "The invention consists of two overlapping end flaps connected with each other by a band and forming, with the front, an expansible pocket for the accommodation of the documents, a top flap and a bottom flap adapted to be folded one above the other, and both over the end flaps, and a band for holding the top and bottom flaps closed" (lines 12-19).
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Scougale, Malcolm
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mansion Hotel

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains a large illustration of the hotel, and includes the names W. W. Dunn; B. H. Dunn.
Date: 1891
Partner: Texas General Land Office

The Fort Worth Gazette

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains illustration with map of Fort Worth, stylized text of business name, and text reading: "Established 1872"; "Democrat Publishing Company, Publishers"; "Address all Business Letters and Correspondence to the GAZETTE and NOT TO ANY INDIVIDUAL."
Date: 1890
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Coin-Controlled Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable coin-controlled apparatus that is "designed to indicate by the varying positions occupied by the spheres, the nature of a dream, the apparatus being designed primarily as a dream-revealer" (lines 17-20). The operator pulls a lever which forces the dice inside the glass container to move into holes. The operator reads a key on the outside of the device that indicates what he will dream.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Taylor, James P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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