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Corn-Shuck Chopper.

Description: Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on … more
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Pluck, James
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Gage for Plows.

Description: Patent for a new type of gage for a running plow, that can be adjusted for a specific depth
Date: December 17, 1901
Creator: Wilson, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Making Cotton-Bales.

Description: Patent for improvement in apparatus for making cotton-bales from continuous sheets or bats by “employing only a single press and which permits the ginning and bat-forming devices to be operated continuously which accumulated the cotton in light and fleecy condition during the covering and removal of the bales, which feeds the cotton from the accumulator to the baling apparatus whenever this is desired.” (Lines 68-75) Illustration is included.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Anderson, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harvester Attachment.

Description: Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Marshall, John Henry.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Barrel-Stand.

Description: Patent for improvments to barrel stands and related to the "object in view being to provide a simple, and convenient stand for holding barrels and casks and permitting the same to be readily turned with slight exertion from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa" (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: McClary, Rufus E. & Gray, Thomas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Rake and Stacker.

Description: Patent for an improved combined rake and stacker. The improvement includes an added horse-rake for hay, which can be used to load hay into a wagon or place in a stack.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Jahns, R. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill

Description: Patent for "improvements in windmills." (lines 8-9) specifically a vertical windmill and includes five figures and an explanation of the device.
Date: January 15, 1901
Creator: Harris, Edwin
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Windlass Elevator

Description: Patent for providing "an improved device... which is especially designed for use as a water-elevator for drawing a bucket out of a well and arranged so as to conveniently take up the slack cable and coil it upon the windlass-drum" (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Higson, Jasper S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for improvements to the wheel and operating shafts of windmills, including illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1901
Creator: Byrne, John Richard Edward
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Pneumatic Conveyer

Description: Patent for an invention that "relates to a pneumatic conveyer, and is particularly adapted for use in connection with cotton-seed and other material for the purpose of elevating and conveying the material to a room or compartment where it may be deposited and for transferring the contents of one of said compartments to another whenever desired" (lines 10-17). Illustrations are included.
Date: July 6, 1901
Creator: Seifert, John, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press

Description: Patent for a press for hay, straw, and similar. This device, intended for horse-powered bailing processes, is designed for cheap and efficient hay press for the bailing process.
Date: May 7, 1901
Creator: Armstrong, James McRae
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed Planter

Description: Patent for a seed-planter designed primarily for corn, but can be used with other seeds. The primary mechanical construction consists of a wheel.
Date: October 8, 1901
Creator: Everhart, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow.

Description: Patent for "improvements in harrows of the clod crushing or pulverizing type; and it consists in a certain peculiar construction the novelty and utility." (lines 9-11) including illustration.
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: Killough, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer.

Description: Patent for improvement in draft-equalizer “to drive a plurality of animals abreast, and is arranged so that neither of the animals need travel upon ploughed ground. It is also designed to obviate the usual unnecessary looseness of the draft connections and to provide for an adjustable tension upon the connection between the opposite equalizing-bars.” (Lines 12-19) Illustration is included.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Shipman, Samuel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for an improved cultivator that utilizes wheels and implements adapted for working in adjacent parallel furrows. The cultivator can be used to remove potatoes and similar crops from the earth.
Date: December 17, 1901
Creator: Sheridan, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Compress.

Description: Patent for improvement in cotton-compresses by employing two compressing rolls, so that while one compress is finishing a bale the other would continuously carry out the feeding operation; making it unnecessary to stop the condenser or any part of the ginning apparatus. Illustration is included.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator and Planter

Description: Patent for improvements in combined cultivators and corn/cotton planters to adapt an ordinary cultivator for planting of seeds with adjustable seed-tube and furrow opener to accommodate various character of ground being worked or cultivation being done.
Date: January 8, 1901
Creator: Prentice, Peter Mack
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Cotton-Planter

Description: Patent for "a planter-carriage frame adapted to carry a cotton-seed hopper having novel and peculiar means for feeding the cotton-seed in planting the same, so that the same frams may be employed for both hopper without alteration of either hopper or frame" (lines 11-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
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Cotton-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a new cotton tie buckle "that will prevent the band engaging the same from slipping, forma a reliable securing means of simple and cheap construction and also economize in the use of the band length, with considerable consequent by saving in expense, the positive retention of the band b the improved device as required rendering the bale of uniform density and the strength of the device resisting breakage and consequent expense of repair frequently necessary in the ordinary uniform of… more
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Ragsdale, William C. & Eddleman, Dudley E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for an improvement in cotton-press to form cylindrical cotton bales, including illustrations.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
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Cotton-Topping Machine.

Description: Patent for improvement to cotton-topping machine to make growth compactly, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Palm, George William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-seed Planter

Description: Patent for a cotton-seed planter that can plant other seeds if necessary, distributing them more evenly, at a lower cost, through an efficiently constructed device.
Date: February 25, 1901
Creator: Mills, William Cairill
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for an improved baling press including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Tom, Joseph C. & Walker, Hiram F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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