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Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that cleans burs and other foreign matter from cotton through a suction process prior to ginning, including instructions and illustrations. The inventor claims this apparatus is simpler, more affordable, and more effective than previous methods for cleaning cotton.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Brown, Thomas N.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Damaged warehouse after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A row of four warehouses stands alongside railroad tracks. The metal framework appears intact, but the first two buildings are missing much of the metal siding covering the sides and ends of the buildings. Large pieces of corrugated metal debris lie in front and along the side of the front building. Piles of an agricultural product stored in cloth bags and stacked in uniform piles can be seen inside the front building. Toward the side rear of the front building four men are gathered in a sm… more
Date: April 16, 1947
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Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Damaged warehouse after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A view from outside looking through a damaged warehouse. The metal framework appears to be intact but much of the covering of the front and back walls has been destroyed. Piles of a product stored in cloth bags of uniform size sit in stacks in the warehouse. A line of freight cars, many heavily damaged, sit on a railroad track along the right side the building. Large pieces of debris are scattered in front of the building. There is a large light colored object in the foreground lying on the… more
Date: April 16, 1947
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Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

Fallen Silo After Tornado

Description: Photograph of a fallen silo after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. There are two metal posts standing diagonally on the left side of the frame. Behind the fallen silo are two standing silos and a building. In the far background on the right side of the frame is an oil pump.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: McMurry, J. W.
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Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum
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[News Clip: More Waco]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 28, 1993, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Federal Grand Jury]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the grand jury who returned a true bill of indictment against Thomas C. Thomas.
Date: April 25, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Steam-Compress.

Description: Patent for a simple, strong, durable, and powerful steam-powered compress for cotton bales that compresses them into standard size and density.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Bryant, William hodge
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Movement.

Description: Patent for improved mechanical movements "applicable to windmills for operating pump-rods and the like" (lines 10-11) including instructions and an illustration.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Ward, Ziba G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Can.

Description: Patent for an oil can that provides a squirt through which oil is ejected with considerable force, illustration included.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Ellis, Water Lloyd
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press.

Description: Patent for a hay press that is meant to "check the rebound of the plunger so that the working beam or lever will not be thrown against the horse; also to provide for automatically applying a brake for the purpose of checking the rebound; also to provide for cushioning the rebound of the plunger so as to prevent or check its tendency to throw the toggle elver against the main lever; also to provide for automatically giving a signal or alarm to indicate when a bale of a given size has been compre… more
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: McNeill, Charles DeWitt
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grain-Car Door.

Description: Patent for Grain-Car Door. "The object the present invention is to arrange the door for use in transporting grain without requiring any additional grain door or planking on the inside door opening." (Line 3)
Date: April 23, 1918
Creator: Hartough, Edward W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Feed-Regulator

Description: Patent for a device, used in connection with crushing and/or storage machinery, to assist in the distribution of dry, powdered, or fine feeding materials.
Date: April 25, 1911
Creator: Searle, James W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Feed Spout Barrier

Description: Patent for "a feel spout barrier for slime thickeners, settling tanks, separating tanks and the like" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 12, 1921
Creator: Allen, Charles
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fiber-Cleaning Device.

Description: Patent for a fiber cleaning device, which removes "the outer fleshy or non-fibrous tissues covering the fibers" (lines 19-21) for varieties of fleshy plants.
Date: April 6, 1920
Creator: Quijano, Ramon
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of runni… more
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Knowles, William W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reaping-Machine.

Description: Patent for a reaping-machine that has grooved rollers spread throughout a recess in the base, slides where the rollers are mounted, horizontal movable shafts with pinions, racks on the slides that engage the pinions, a ring-driver wheel that surrounds the rollers and fits in the rollers with interior flanges, cutters, a belt extending from the rollers to the mechanism that operates the cutters, and a belt that connects the rolls. The cutter is a series of knives on a bar and springs that preve… more
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Rich, Benjamin F.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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