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Lifting Device.

Description: Patent for "lifting devices, and particularly to the mechanism adapted for use as a stump-puller and for elevating heavy weights, the object in view being to provide a simple and efficient construction and arrangement of parts whereby sufficient power for elevating heavy weights may be communicated to a rotary shaft or drum, and whereby the means communicating motion to the drum may be moved out of operative position and a brake simultaneously applied in order to relieve the operating-lever fro… more
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Jensen, Ole T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Voting-Machine

Description: Patent for a voting machine whereby voters register their votes by pushing a button. Illustrations included.
Date: September 15, 1908
Creator: McClain, Eli
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer designed to kill agricultural pests with fumes. Illustrations included.
Date: September 15, 1908
Creator: Murff, Jerry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vegetable-Separator

Description: Patent for a vegetable separator used to assort and clean fruits and vegetables. Illustrations included.
Date: September 15, 1908
Creator: Sherrard, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Violin Bow

Description: Patent for an addition to tip of the violin bow, including illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Roark, B. Mortimer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Joining and Fitting Hoof-Hooks.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved Hoof-Hook or cleaner, for cleaning the hoofs of horses and mules" (line 3) including instructions and an illustration.
Date: September 15, 1868
Creator: Stanley, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Square.

Description: Patent for a square meant "to provide a simple and cheap steel square embodying also a level, an inclinometer, and mitrometer" (lines 13-15).
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Johns, John P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Chopper and Cotton-Thinner.

Description: Patent for improvements in stalk-cutters and cotton-thinners by making the cutting-blades and scraper-blades interchangeable, “so as to use the apparatus either as a stalk-chopper or a cotton-thinner; or may be changed to a dropper as may be desired.” (Lines 19-21) Illustration is included.
Date: September 15, 1891
Creator: Mauldin, Columbus Scott
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Speculum.

Description: Patent for an improved speculum, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: P'Pool, Frank E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Producing Gas.

Description: Patent for a continuous process of producing a gas rich in carbon monoxide, in which the gas-forming combustible material enters the gas-generating chamber from one end while producer gas exits the other end. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process for Refining and Purifying Oils.

Description: Patent for "processes for purifying oils, especially petroleum, and has for its object the removal of impurities and the neutralization of acids, and the reduction of the cost of refining oil by simplifying the process and reducing the length of time usually required for completing the purification" (lines 9-16).
Date: September 15, 1910
Creator: Lasher, David F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metal Packing-Case for Food Products.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful packing-case for food products" (lines 13-14), particularly for cured meats. It protects "against flies, souring, shrinking, &c., than the ordinary forms of packing" (lines 20-21). It is made from metal, stamped into a packing-case.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Blanke, Louis H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Pump, &c.

Description: Patent for improvement to a pump "adapted for attachment to small vessels containing oil, water or any other liquid" (lines 10-12) that includes a better means of securing the pump.
Date: September 15, 1885
Creator: Phillips, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tag Holding Device.

Description: Patent for a device for attaching price tickets or tags to fabric or other goods, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Towler, Mary E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tanning Compound.

Description: Patent for a new compound used for tanning hides and skins of all kinds. It lists the ingredients and their proportions. “The principal advantage of the compound is that its action on the hides is speedy” (lines 27-28).
Date: September 15, 1882
Creator: Hayden, Charles Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Till-Alarm.

Description: Patent for improvements in Tills or cash-drawers by using “a combination-lock to prevent its being opened by unauthorized parties, and which will give an alarm with manipulated by any one unacquainted with the secret of its management.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included. Corrections in Letters are also included.
Date: September 15, 1891
Creator: Garrett, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paper Box.

Description: Patent for a paper box that can be easily and securely locked. The ends of the box are locked into place with inwardly-curved edges, and slits receive the end portions of the inwardly -curved edges.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Girard, Alexandre Ferdinand
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements in plows by using “a double-mold-board plow comprising a plow-point provided with a shank, whose reverse inclines are slightly convex from the upper end of the shank to the plow-point, in combination with two mold-boards that are concavo-convex in cross-section as well as in longitudinal or vertical section” (p. 2, lines 44-50). The described construction of plow would enable the plow to thoroughly broken up the soil. Illustration is included.
Date: September 15, 1891
Creator: Rutherford, John W.
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Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements in plows: "This invention relates more particularly to double mold board plows, but it is applicable to ordinary sulky and other plows having a rotary colter over the plowshare and friction wheel with acts as a rotating support or sole in rear of the plow" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 15, 1891
Creator: Wilson, William H.
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Ratchet-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench that uses friction-rollers to clamp the thing that is being turned. A rotary ring-shaped cam is what actually turns the wrench's object, and there are teeth that surround the outside of the cam. A pawl, when turning the handle, turns the teeth. This is what makes the cam rotate.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Fisk, Marston
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Joint Connection

Description: Patent for Rail-Joint Connection
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Houlehan, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nutcracker

Description: Patent for improvements in nutcrackers that make it easier and safer to use, and more easily retrieve the contents of the nut. It is durable and can be manufactured at low cost.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Dato, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Device for Locomotives.

Description: Patent for a safety device for a locomotive that can be automatically tripped to shut off the steam from the locomotive engine and apply air to the brake mechanism. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Conover, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door Hanger.

Description: Patent for a car door hanger that will take the weight of the door off the supporting rollers and the track and apply a braking action to the track that will prevent the door from unnecessarily shifting. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Kinard, Chester E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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