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Improvement in Fences

Description: Patent for an improvement in fences through the manufacturing of a fence or fence-paneling of hoop-iron, so that it may be sold in sections of any desired length, rolled up in compact form, easily and cheaply transported to any distance, and put up by the farmer with rapidity and facility.
Date: June 4, 1872
Creator: Brown, Floyd G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for a plow called the "The Texas Cultivator" (line 7) that uses left and right wings and diamond plows that may be used to plow either side of stock to eliminate additional operators and time for the same job, including illustration.
Date: June 4, 1861
Creator: Cain, Shugar M. & Stelfox, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Holder for Sliding Doors and Windows

Description: Patent for a clutch mechanism for sliding doors and windows that ensures the panel can be moved in both directions freely but will not disengage of it's own accord, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Benson, Jarome F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Square

Description: Patent for a simple, accurate try-square composed of minimal pieces for the ease of use in measuring and tracing requirements needed for architects, carpenters, and similar professions, with illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Frazier, Samuel D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Communion-Service Cabinet.

Description: Patent for an improved communion service cabinet meant to distribute communion service to parishioners "quickly and noiselessly" (lines 5-6). The shelves contain grooves to hold wine glasses and small loafs of bread.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Howard, Jewell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brush.

Description: Patent for a brush that provides adjustable handle for variety of uses and great saving of time and labor. The brush is durable and not excessively heavy.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Lay, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Lock-Faucets.

Description: Patent for a improvement in lock faucets, includes instructions and illustration.
Date: June 4, 1878
Creator: Seward, Marion F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transmission-Gearing.

Description: Patent for "improvements in variable speed transmission gearing, adapted for use upon automobiles or the like, while not necessarily restricted to such use. An important object of the invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is so constructed that the various speeds may be obtained in a highly expeditious and convenient manner" (lines 11-17) including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Pilcher, Newton R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vacuum-Energized Make-and-Break Spark-Plug.

Description: Patent for a vacuum-energized make-and-break spark plug that "relates to new and useful improvements in ignition apparatus for internal combustion engines" (lines 16-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Irwin, Herbert Glen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Closet Attachment.

Description: Patent for an attachment for water closets in outhouses without running water that blocks odors from escaping the pit by closing off the pit when not in use and automatically opens by a pressure bar behind the seat when the water closet is in use.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Bradford, McDuffee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Engine

Description: Patent for an improved steam engine for train engines.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Sanders, William Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mattress-Making Machine.

Description: Patent for a mattress making machine for use in cotton gins that fills the mattress tick with a even amount of stuffing without wadding and can be used with any type of cloth mattress tick.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: White, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Switch

Description: Patent for a triple rail railway switch with improved opening and closing mechanisms.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Phinney, Grover Cleveland
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Scraper for Mixing-Machines

Description: Patent for a now and useful Scraper for Mixing-Machines, which is specifically a scraper attachment for the mixing-cylinder wherewith the material that may cling to the inner surface of the cylinder may be scraped off and the mixing operation may be thoroughly performed.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Sliger, Charles F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buggy-Top Support.

Description: Patent for buggy-top support by providing a device that can “secure the folding top of any vehicle and will protect the bows from strain and breakage, when in lowered position and will also prevent all rattling of and shocks of the folding top.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Mason, Everett H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Block and Tying Mechanism for Baling Presses.

Description: Patent for blocks and tying mechanism for baling presses, which include "a hollow block, a plurality of which may be used in a press, and a tying mechanism including transversely operating needles or plungers entering the the blocks and cooperating with the means therein for tying the bale wires" (lines 17-23) including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Ezell, Uberto D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spoke-Tightener

Description: Patent for a spoke tightener that reduces the strain on the felly.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Norton, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pilot-Coupling.

Description: Patent for "an automatic pilot coupling, which will enable the pilot bar of a locomotive to be coupled with a car by a brakeman while standing to the side of the locomotive out of the way of all danger, from which position he can accurately operate the device, thus doing away with all necessity for going between the moving engine and the car to which it is to be coupled." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 4, 1895
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
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Door-Strip

Description: Patent for a door strip for blocking air gaps below doors.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Valentine, Levi Jackson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring-Motor Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a spring loaded dasher for use in churns that results in automated turning of the dashers.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Elliott, Claude B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rein Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a base-plate and spaced posts upon one face of the said plate grooved on their adjacent sides, of a spring-actuated lever provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and a flange projecting from the outer face beyond said surface, the opposite extremity of the lever being curved to form, essentially, a hook, the cylindrical surface being adapted for engagement with one post and the hook extremity with… more
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for working body-churn "which is mounted between springs and is adapted to be worked up and down by the contraction and expansion of the springs so as to thoroughly agitate the cream within the receptacle thereof" (lines 16-20) including illustration.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Payne, Luther Maxie; Thompson, Robert Asbury & Morris, Lute Percy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the beam, the clamping-bars secured to the under side of the beam and arranged at an angle thereto, the teeth clamped by and between said bars, the hangers having their upper ends provided with a vertical series of openings, the securing-bolts passed through said openings in the ends of the clamping bars, and the scraper having a horizontal series of openings in each end, and the securing-bolts passed throug… more
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Ruddell, Charles Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coop or Crate.

Description: Patent for crates or coops for poultry that are easily assembled and disassembled, pack tightly, and are cheap and lightweight.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: La Bauve, Odelon Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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