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Load Lifter and Carrier.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, efficient, and inexpensive load lifter and carrier meant to be used in warehouses in order to load and unload barrels, bales, and other loads.
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Butcher, Tilman H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable lifting jack for wagons that is easily operated and does not move the hoisting lever in the post.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Ball, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trunk.

Description: Patent for a trunk meant for traveling that holds clothes and small articles. The trunk has "novel adjunctive features, which will render it more convenient, and better adapted for the stowage and removal of various articles of wear and use" (lines 11-14).
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Warren, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine-Brake.

Description: Patent for a break that "the device may be brought to a stop either gradually or instantaneously as may be desired. The break is a reciprocative one and comprises a rubber or other elastic or yielding wheel designed to engage the periphery of the fly wheel of the motor and a lug, tooth or analogous provision for engagement with a tooth of a ratchet wheel on the said fly wheel; in operating the break the rubber wheel is first brought into contact with the fly wheel and then by continued movement… more
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Boulte, Adolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Truck.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable lumber truck that is "arranged to conveniently load and carry lumber to and from kilns and other places" (lines 9-11). It has double flanged wheels in independent frames that are connected by crossbars.
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Dodge, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hoisting Device.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive device that is meant to hoist, lift, or extract stumps, stones, or other heavy objects. It also stretches wire and can act as a vehicle jack.
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: Hagelstein, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Feeder for Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for a feeder for printing-presses that "takes one sheet of paper at a time from a pile on the feed-board and delivers it within reach of the nippers to the press, as straight and true as it laid on the feed-board" (lines 11-14). The feeder has an improved design with adjustable retaining plates, a feed-board, a guard bar with sleeves that slide on the bar, retaining plates, pins with thumb-screws, brushes, and gage-blocks.
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Orser, Levi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

End-Gate.

Description: Patent for "an end gate for scooping adapted to be readily applied to the ordinary construction of wagon bodies which have end gates sliding in vertical cleats and which re usually provided with a removable rod for securing the end gate in the cleats" (lines 11-16).
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Lovett, Morris J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Brake.

Description: Patent for "a direct air brake system [that is] adapted to be used in combination with an automatic system, whereby the brakes can be applied by either the automatic or quick system, or the direct, or by both, as the conditions may require" (lines 8-13).
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Pinkston, Lucien A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Sack Carrier.

Description: Patent for a carrying sack meant to carry cotton to and from the field. It is not carried on a worker's back or dragged on the ground. The sack is on an adjustable axle and "may be arranged at an inclination to cause the truck to travel upon a curved line to facilitate the guiding of the same in operation; and furthermore, to provide a fender to prevent objects from falling between the cotton sacks and the wheels of the truck" (lines 14-20).
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Laird, Archibald F. & Hill, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Siphon-Pump for Oil-Cans.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive siphon meant to transfer oil from a container to another container without spilling the liquid. It can transfer a liquid from a reservoir to a receptacle and back again without spilling.
Date: August 15, 1893
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Delivery Apparatus for Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for "an endless band or apron paper-delivery apparatus, for printing presses, which will automaticall take the sheets of paper from the cylinder and deliver them upon the usual table, in an orderly pile" (lines 24-28).
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Sandel, Sam D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cigar-Tip Cutter and Match-Safe.

Description: Patent for a combined cigar tip cutter and match-safe that consists of a shaft, an operating lever, a match box under the lever, a link that attaches the match box to the lever, a coiled spring that is attached to the lever, a curved lever that is lined up to the other lever, a spring connecting the two levers, and a picker.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Briggs, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Funnel.

Description: Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Wright, George H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Axle-Lubricator.

Description: Patent for an axle lubricator that continuously lubricates an axle through a hollow nut in the end of the hub bushing, and the oil cup can be refilled easily and without removing the wheel.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Miller, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cart-Scale.

Description: Patent for light, strong, and inexpensive bale weighing scales that "employ a truck or sulky frame, suitable for transporting goods; furthermore, means combined with said frame whereby the goods may be readily weighed; furthermore, means for supporting the goods on the truck independent of the weighing mechanism" (lines 13-19).
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Coupland, Benjamin C. & Hough, Franklin T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Pianos or Organs.

Description: Patent for an attachment for pianos or organs that allows for the convenient movement of the instruments that does not damage the instrument or the building.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Carter, James William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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