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Heading-Machine.

Description: Patent for a Heading-Machine for maize, Kafir corn, and cane. It can pass through a field of these crops, cut off the heads, and pass them into a receptacle that is attached to the rear of the machine.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Grant, Wilburn C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Portrait of Robert Parker Willis]

Description: Photograph of Robert Parker Willis (1892–1959), son of Thomas Middlebrook Willis and Sallie Ann Parker Willis. He is dressed in a suit and tie with a pin on his lapel. He has combed hair and looks to the left. He was known for being a sharp dresser.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Display Rack

Description: Patent for a display rack for bananas and other fruits for improved mobility.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Stoneham, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cutting-Table.

Description: Patent for an improved trimming-table that easily measures, holds, and cuts or trims fabrics. It consists of a table with measures, keepers that are attached to the top of the table with a stem, and an arched front portion that ends in a foot-piece.
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Jones, Vina
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fruit-Picker.

Description: Patent for a fruit picker that allows the user to stand on the ground and separate fruit from its stem and that allows the fruit to fall in such a way as to prevent bruising. Additionally, the cutting teeth are adjustable.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Young, Valner W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interview with Ray Hunt and Dr. Bill Petty, December 1, 1983

Description: A video recording of an interview with Ray Hunt, President of Hunt Oil Company, and Dr. Bill Petty, the Dean of the College of Business at Abilene Christian University. The interview is conducted by Dr. Gary McCaleb of Abilene Christian University.
Date: December 1, 1983
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Hunt, Ray Lee; Petty, Bill & McCaleb, Gary
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can shop two rows at the same time and performs the work faster than it can be done manually.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Martin, Joseph W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustrati… more
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: McCaul, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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