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Fly-Trap.

Description: Patent for an improved fly-trap that effectively ensnares flies while providing an efficient method of fly disposal and easier access to the trap for cleaning, including illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Crawford, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Level.

Description: Patent for an instrument to determine a level at widely distant points or determining inclinations and which may be correctly read under conditions where a level cannot be held erect. Also known as hydrostatic leveling, this instrument is comprised of flexibly connected liquid containers that are spaced apart at certain distances.
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Kaspar, John & Beran, Rud F.
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Windmill

Description: Patent for a windmill. It turns creating rotary motion, caused by the wind, which is used as a pumping power source.
Date: November 2, 1905
Creator: Doty, David
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Leaf-Gathering and Lawn-Treating Implement.

Description: Patent for device for easily picking up leaves from a lawn. The device consists basically of spikes mounted on a wheel that pick up leaves when the machine is run over a lawn and then are deposited in a recipticle.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Murrah, Louie T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn-Trimmer

Description: Patent for improved lawn trimmer "whereby the margins of a lawn adjacent side walks or curbing may be trimmed." (lines 12-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Rial, John & Hodde, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Description: Patent for an insecticide that uses an arsenic compound to kill insects instead of Paris green or London purple, and can easily be made into a beautiful green powder that may be used as a pigment.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Brumleu, Ludwig & Brumleu, Ernest
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sprinkler

Description: Patent for lawn sprinkler that is simple, convenient and inexpensive device that can be easily and quickly attached to a garden hose and which the device has simple means for placing the same into operative or inoperative position.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Houston, Hugh Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Scoop.

Description: Patent for a ridable shovel with wheels that allows the user to control digging and dumping of scooped loads by footrest operation.
Date: August 19, 1919
Creator: Mitcham, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pruning Implement.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient pruning implement meant to prune trees, cutting brush, and trimming hedges. It has a reciprocating knife, an improved hatchet-blade, and an extensible saw-blade "which is seated within a groove or recess in the shank of the implement and capable of being extended and held in operative position by means of a retaining-spring" (lines 16-20).
Date: November 12, 1895
Creator: Baiey, George M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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