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Wagon Brake.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wagon-brake. This goal of this design "is to provide an automatic brake for wagons and other wheeled vehicles running on dirt roads" (lines 11-13).
Date: May 23, 1882
Creator: Le Roy, Charles Jerome & Henson, John Wesley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine For Cleaning Vegetable Fiber

Description: Patent fora machine for cleaning vegetable fiber. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Stacker.

Description: Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in lumber stackers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1899
Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn-Mower.

Description: Patent for improvements on lawn mowers with "drive wheels and an adjustable cutting mechanism [...] held in adjusted positions by means releasable by the propelling handle" (lines 10-15). This allows "adjusted positions to cut grass of different lengths without the necessity of the operator stooping" (lines 21-23), including illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Martin, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for changes in the construction of a cultivator.
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Walker, Leander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person

Description: Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Raiford, Philip H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ladder.

Description: Patent for a ladder that will allow its prop legs to be slided longitudinally of the main ladder legs to form an extension ladder.
Date: May 23, 1912
Creator: Vierheller, Paul E.
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Staple-Set

Description: Patent for a staple set for building and fixing wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Highsmith, Aubrey O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Cotton Picking and Transferring Machine.

Description: Patent for pneumatic cotton picking and transferring machine that readily transfers the cotton from the receiver to a wagon where it can be taken to a gin.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Tulley, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Moistening and Sprinkling Attachment for Brooms.

Description: Patent for attachment to brooms which enables the moistening of the broom during use to prevent the spreading of dust. One part regulates the flow of liquid to the broom and another provides a container for the liquid. In effect the attachment to the broom makes it into a convertible mop.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Taylor, James P.
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Pliers

Description: Patent for a pair of pliers. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Uhrnell, Carl A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow that has an improved land-slide that can be "expeditiously and conveniently removed from the shank plate of the plow, and to so construct the shank plate that the share when placed thereon will be firmly held in position and be prevented from slipping vertically" (lines 10-15). The land-slide and shank-plate are firmly interlocked.
Date: May 23, 1893
Creator: Wherry, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Cotton-Picker.

Description: Patent for an improved pneumatic cotton-picker that is meant "to produce a simple machine having a cotton receiving box or vacuum box and arranged to use both a blast and suction pipe, these pipes being oppositely arranged and the suction pipe being made to deliver into the cotton box" (lines 10-17). The cotton is sucked from the plants and delivers it into a cotton box. A guide lines the machine up with the row of cotton.
Date: May 23, 1893
Creator: Mauermann, Gustav A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Measuring Device

Description: Patent for improvements to the measuring device used to ascertain the depth of a well.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: Bevel, Jack H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle Feed.

Description: Patent for improvement of pressed cakes for cattle feed.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Carter, Newton L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Surgical Instrument.

Description: Patent for a medical instrument used to perform circumcisions "without pain and bloodlessly" (lines 10-11) and illustration.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: Couch, Albert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heating Frame for Lamps.

Description: Patent for a new and improved heating frame for lamps. This design seeks to "simplify and improve the adjustable supports for the top plate upon which the vessel [to be heated] is supported; secondly, to improve the construction of said top plate . . . allowing the warm air to circulate both under and around the vessel . . . thirdly, to construct and combine the top plate and a base-ring with the supporting-rods in a firm, durable, and efficient manner" (lines 27-38).
Date: May 23, 1882
Creator: Melvin, Josiah W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Provision Safe.

Description: Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "provide[s] a household safe that will prevent rats and mice from gaining access thereto, and at the same time allow a ready handling of the articles contained in it; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same," utilizing jointed covers, spring-locks, metallic bottoms, caster-rollers, and a clasp (lines 11-15).
Date: May 23, 1882
Creator: Sykes, Robert R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Burner

Description: Patent for an oil burner. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Watts, Simeon Jefferson; Jones, David Crockett & Barton, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for how a oil-burner works and invention in the oil-burner with more advanced features.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pin-Holder

Description: Patent for mechanism that will encase and dispense pins. It holds a roll of pins and its paper and guides "the removal of pins without manipulation of any apparatus, and without requiring mechanism for checking the pins individually" (lines 20-23).
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Bowman, Levi M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new invention of pipe-wrench, how it is made and how it is used.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Adams, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Seed Planter

Description: Patent for a cotton seed planter. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: McGuire, Daniel Harry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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