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Refrigerating Machine.

Patent for improvement of refrigerating machines with detachable top and hinged sides with refrigerant pipes extending longitudinally. Accompanied by illustrations.

Date: February 5, 1884

Creator: Lee, Charles B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shot Case.

Patent for a new and improved shot case. This design "is to draw given quantities of shot from the case without the necessity of weighing each draft. To this end the invention consists in a case, means for hanging the same, and a charger" (lines 12-16).

Date: February 12, 1884

Creator: Ellis, Quincy Adams

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window frame and sash, of a fastener consisting of stops secured to the frame and formed with beveled ends and a shoulder . . . and a button pivotally secured to the sash and recessed to form a triangular projection, and a finger-piece extension, which latter serves also as a weight to effect an automatic fastening as the window is lowered" (lines 72-80).

Date: March 4, 1884

Creator: Bendy, Napoleon Bonaparte

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reflector Holder for Lamps.

Patent for a new and improved reflector holder for lamps. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a lamp and a lamp-collar, provided with a circumferential flange, of a reflector provided with a keeper, spring-clasp, springing around said collar under the flange at its lower end, and having its free ends bent angularly at their upper ends and secured in said keeper by their tension and slide" (lines 2-9).

Date: April 22, 1884

Creator: Williams, Daniel Ruggles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed Planter

Patent for...a seed planting machine which improves upon an earlier cotton seed planting machine. The improved apparatus can be substituted for corn and other seeds. It may also be utilized for ground cultivation.

Date: July 15, 1884

Creator: Pietzsch, Louis; Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Joseph R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Planter

Patent for a new construction of rotary seed planter, with illustrations and description and arrangement of parts.

Date: September 23, 1884

Creator: Daniel, Ellison A.

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Reflector Attachment for Lamps.

Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design's object "is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device for attaching and detaching a reflector to the bottom of the chimney of an ordinary coal-oil or other hand-lamp" (lines 13-17).

Date: December 9, 1884

Creator: Hayes, Elbert N. & Kimball, Walter J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oscillating Engine

Patent for improvements to oscillating steam engines, including illustrations and instructions.

Date: February 26, 1884

Creator: Gilbert, John Oakley

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved device used to connect rail cars, including illustrations and descriptions of how the new coupling works.

Date: April 15, 1884

Creator: Hathaway, Charles L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists "[i]n a washing-machine, the combination of the suds-box with an open-bottomed perforated inner casing, smaller in dimensions than the suds-box, and having supports to raise it above the bottom of the suds-box, and a perforated rubber, the upper wash-board or rubber provided with flanges fitting over the inner casing, the intermediate frame and operating lever" (lines 12-20).

Date: July 29, 1884

Creator: Lee, Joseph Green

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shawl Strap.

Patent for a new and improved shawl strap. This design "relates to shawl, book, and other straps, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient article, which can be used with packages of any size, and fastened thereto easily and quickly without applying buckles to the ends of the straps" (lines 8-13).

Date: August 19, 1884

Creator: Tharp, William B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whip.

Patent for a new and improved whip. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the spring-wire core and rubber-compound covering of the body of the whip, and the metallic coupling of the detachable screw whip-handle constructed to form a clasp-knife" (lines 85-89).

Date: November 11, 1884

Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Engine.

Patent for improvements to rotary engine designs.

Date: April 22, 1884

Creator: Griffin, George L.; Shoup, William A. & Cade, James Robert

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists of cross-posts pivoted to a stringer, provided with a top-rail, having slats extending from the stringer to the ground, and secured to said stringer by barbed wire and staples (lines 36-40). This design is easily disassembled and moved, and the barbed wire prevents animals from disturbing it.

Date: February 12, 1884

Creator: Messenger, John William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

File.

Patent for a new and improved file. This design consists in "[a] file provided with longitudinal teeth upon one or both of its edges . . . [and] upon its sides so cut that they extend only half-way across the width of the file, the inner ends of the said teeth meeting at an angle at the center of the width of the blade" (lines 50-56).

Date: March 18, 1884

Creator: Custer, George.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "ha[s] its rails arranged diagonally to the line of fencing, consisting of the double end posts, bound together at their upper ends by means of the crown-wire . . . the intermediate single posts, the horizontal rails having their ends alternately lapping the inner and outer sides of the said single posts, the transverse blocks, interposed between the respective rails, and the top rails bound to the single posts by means of the wire loops" (lines … more

Date: May 20, 1884

Creator: Ford, Benjamin Franklin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fleece Binder.

Patent for a new and improved fleece-binder. This design "consists in a fleece-binder constructed with a box attached to a supporting-frame, and having inclined flanges upon its side edges, and provided with hinged press-boards and fingers operated by push-bars, a cord, and a treadle, whereby the fleece can be compressed and held while being tied. To the ends of the sides of the box is attached a knife, so that all the twines of the bundle can be cut at a time" (lines 20-29).

Date: September 2, 1884

Creator: Krueger, Theodore C. H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fiber-Machine.

Patent for an improvement in fiber machines that is "adaptable to fibers of various plants; but it is especially designed for separating the fiber of plants found in Mexico--such as lechugilla, Spanish dagger, and similar plants" (lines 28-32). The machine is used to separate the usable fiber from the leaves, stalks, and other parts of the plants.

Date: September 2, 1884

Creator: Worthington, George & Parvin, Enoch, J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fiber machine.

Patent for the improvement of fiber-machines, using rolls, bearings, wheels, brushes, racks and pinions.

Date: September 2, 1884

Creator: Worthington, George & Parvin, Enoch J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Table.

Patent for a new and improved folding table. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a table having a triangular top plate, of the hinged triangular leaf, the sliding strip, the leg, and the brace-rod, secured on the inner end of the strip and on the leg" (lines 60-64).

Date: November 4, 1884

Creator: Bolles, Charles Morris

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Button.

Patent for a new and improved button. This design consists "[i]n a detachable button, the combination, with the hollow threaded shank of the button-head, having end serrations, and the base-disk, having a central screw, of the loose clamp-disk, applied on the screw, and having a spring-pawl or projection to engage the serrations of the shank" (lines 70-76).

Date: March 11, 1884

Creator: Matthews, William H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle Stopper.

Patent for a new and improved bottle stopper. This design "consists in the combination of the tubular body, having its lower end closed by means of a cork, and having its upper end formed into a measuring-chamber, which is adapted to be closed by means of a cork, so as to protect the measuring chamber from dust and dirt" (lines 13-19).

Date: July 15, 1884

Creator: Cotten, Jefferson Davis

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design consists "[i]n a harness-buckle, the combination, with the frame, provided with a tongue-bar having two tongues thereon and a tongue-bar having a single tongue thereon, of a clasp-rest and a hinged clasp near opposite ends of the buckle-frame" (lines 77-82).

Date: October 7, 1884

Creator: Daniel, Ellison Armistead

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bedstead Fastening.

Patent for a new and improved bedstead fastening. This design "consist[s] in the locking-pin, the sections which are . . . provided with the laterally projecting alternating studs . . . having aligned vertical perforations to receive the said locking-pin, and their faces provided with the outer beveled flanges at the base of the studs, extending the entire length of the sections, so that when the sections are connected together they will meet each other in angular form, whereby the strain on th… more

Date: October 7, 1884

Creator: Stewart, John Adkerson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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