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COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.

Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).

Date: April 20, 1880

Creator: Faucher, George E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "construction and arrangement of arrow-shaped draw-heads and lever-bars adjustable upon rack-bars for the purpose of raising and lowering the draw-heads" (lines 16-20)including instructions and illustrations.

Date: April 20, 1880

Creator: Gray, John D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH.

Patent for formula used in whitewashing homes, walls, fences. etc. with ingredients and instructions included.

Date: April 20, 1880

Creator: Kerr, Archibald Henderson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Tightener and Splicer

Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).

Date: August 20, 1889

Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Veterinary Medicine.

Patent for "medical compounds for internal application in diseases of sheep and other animals, and it is especially designed to cure the sheep disease known among sheepmen as ‘lombriz’" (lines 8-12) which lists the ingredients, measurements, and instructions for making and use. According to http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=lombriz “lombriz” can be translated as intestinal worm. According to https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/as/as-573-w.pdf “By far the most deadly … more

Date: November 20, 1883

Creator: Green, Furney Fold

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Destroyer.

Patent for a new and improved pest trap. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable fire chamber provided with a cover at its top, a pipe which passes through its side to admit a blast of air, a removable bottom, which is supported inside of the bottom of the chamber upon suitable supports, and a removable pipe through which the products of combustion are forced . . . when these parts are destroyed they have only to be replaced by new ones" (lines 14-28).

Date: November 20, 1883

Creator: Melcher, John C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Gage.

Patent for a new and improved water gauge. This design "consists in the arrangement of a chamber attached to the lower valve of an ordinary water-gage; and the object of [the] improvement is to prevent the foam and sentiment of steam-boilers from accumulating in the glass, stuffing-boxes, and valves of water-gages" (lines 8-14).

Date: January 20, 1885

Creator: Willis, Robert L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Cooler.

Patent for an improvement in water-coolers wherein the vessel for holding the water is surrounded with fibrous material that is kept saturated with water, the evaporation of which will absorb the heat from the water contained in the vessel in a manner well known to science.

Date: October 20, 1880

Creator: Barber, Edwin Louis

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Bucket Windlass.

Patent for a new and improved windlass mounting. This design "consists of an improved construction of and contrivance for mounting the windlass for a well-bucket; also, an improved contrivance for mounting the pulley of the windlass, whereby it is designed to provide simpler, cheaper, and easier working well-bucket windlasses than as heretofore constructed" (lines 10-15).

Date: May 20, 1884

Creator: Palmer, William Washington

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel Hub.

Patent for a new and improved wheel-hub. This design "relates to wheel-hubs, and its objects are, first, to permit removal or renewal of the spokes without displacing the tire; second, to insure synchronous motion of the axle-box and the hub; and, third, to attain these ends with simplicity of structure" (lines 8-13).

Date: July 20, 1886

Creator: Miller, William J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hunting Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).

Date: December 20, 1881

Creator: Brittan, Edward H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Household Utensil.

Patent for a new attachment for buckets. This design is for a metal cup with hooks by which to hang from the rim of the bucket and a groove to receive the handle of the dipper or ladle. This allows for the dipper to be stored near the bucket without resting on the floor.

Date: June 20, 1882

Creator: Sims, Thomas W. & Fischer, Fred

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutters" (lines 5-7). It includes a description and an illustration. The construction of this stalk cutter is "adapted to be driven across the field in the direction of the rows of corn, and the knives may be adjusted to operate on rows of different widths or at different depths, so as to leave only a small stubble in passing over the field" (lines 73-78).

Date: May 20, 1884

Creator: Brown, Azariah R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Miter and Framing Square.

Patent for a new and improved miter and framing square. This design "consists in the improved arrangement and construction of graduated scales, whereby I attain superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, inexpensiveness, and general efficiency" (lines 11-15).

Date: November 20, 1883

Creator: Bolles, James H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Power.

Patent for a new and improved engine. This design "relates to a combined room-ventilator and fly-hand; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be simple in its construction and thoroughly efficient and effective in its operation. With these ends in view the invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 9-17).

Date: May 20, 1884

Creator: Ellis, James W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sulky Carriage for Plows.

Patent for a new and improved sulky plow. This design "furnish[es] a sulky-frame and plow supporting and adjusting devices of a simplified construction, and [provides] more effective means for gaging the depth of the penetration of the plow into the ground, and guiding or steadying the movement thereof" (lines 17-23).

Date: September 20, 1881

Creator: Ward, James & Washburn, Rufus

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design "consists in a friction roller held loosely between two nuts, or between a nut and any object to be held by a bolt, which roller, when the nut or lock-nut is screwed down upon it, binds the nut or nuts upon the bolt and locks them securely thereon" (lines 11-16).

Date: January 20, 1885

Creator: Campbell, James A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Padded Hat.

Patent for a new and improved padded hat. This design "is to provide a pad which can be quickly applied and when applied will remain in place, and by means of which a hat that is a trifle too large can readily be made to fit. . . . Heretofore persons wearing hats of odd sizes, or after having their hair cut short, have been compelled to place paper, felt, or some other material in between the sweat-band and the body of the hat in order to make the hat fit. These pieces, not being secured, are c… more

Date: August 20, 1889

Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sulky-Plow

Patent for a new and useful improvement in Sulky-Plows. The invention utilizes "a novel construction-levers, and arrangement of hangers, braces, and levers, whereby provision is made for the attachment of plow-beams of different sizes, and for adjusting the parts" (lines 7-11)

Date: July 20, 1880

Creator: Powell, Louis W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists, first, in the combination of an adjustable support which is pivoted to the side of the beam, and which has secured to its lower end a series of revolving arms which terminate in broad cutters, for cutting the sod as it is turned over by the mold-board as the plow is drawn along; second, in the revolving cutter, which runs along upon the land side and cuts the sod where the next furrow is to be cut, and thus takes the place of the usual … more

Date: November 20, 1883

Creator: Pinter, Francis T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "slides over opposite holes in the bottom of its hopper and a dropping-cylinder provided with seed-cups on its periphery and removable screws rising from within the cups, whereby it may be changed . . . so as to plant corn or cotton" (lines 59-65).

Date: September 20, 1887

Creator: Becker, Philipp William Adolph

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Frame.

Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design consists in "the combination of the vertical standards bent forward at their upper ends and provided with dovetailed projections, the track-bar beveled toward the upper edge and provided with dovetailed notches to receive the projections whereby the said bar may be removed from the standards, the folding braces between the standards, the roller-bar having the rollers to run on the track-bar, and the frame connected to the roller-bar by t… more

Date: March 20, 1888

Creator: Raines, Burress Wesley

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power Attachment for Treadle Machines.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for treadle machines. This design "consist[s] of the frame provided with the bearings and adapted to support the machine to be driven, the shaft journaled in the said bearings and provided with the arms, the roller journaled between the outer ends of the said arms, and the pulley secured on the said shaft" (lines 85-92).

Date: November 20, 1888

Creator: Von Boeckmann, Eugene

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Odorless Dry Outhouse and Apparatus for Use Therewith

Patent for "an outhouse which will be adapted for use in localties where water is scarce, or where it is either or both impracticable or undesirable to use water for flushing or draining" (lines 32-36).

Date: November 20, 1888

Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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