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Corn-Planter.

Description: Patent for a cotton or corn planter with detachable parts.
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Yarborough, William O.
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Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.

Description: Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Adams, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Description: Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date: August 2, 1881
Creator: Gray, Hiram Balderston
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Wrap.

Description: Patent for a wrap for babies, which encloses the body except for the face that is closed with hooks at the arms, legs and head, which can be opened to free any of those members.
Date: August 2, 1910
Creator: Mercey, Nettie T.
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Word-Counter for Type-Writing Machines.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in word counters for type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Moseley, Marion S.
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Wagon Brake

Description: Patent for an improvement in wagon brakes
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Templeton, Absalom
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Vehicle Top.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle roof. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rabbeted vehicle-top-supporting bows, of strips mounted in said rabbets and provided with overlapping upper ends, curtain-supporting frames, and clips carried by said frames and arranged to engage the overlapping strips" (lines 92-97).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: McCurdy, Thomas B.
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Ironing Board.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ironing-board. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive ironing-table adapted to be readily attached to the edge of a table or to a cleat on the wall and capable of being adjusted vertically to accommodate itself to the height of the table or other support" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[a]n ironing-table comprising an ironing-board provided at its rear end with parallel slots . . . the ribs secured to the lower face of the ironing-board and forming gro… more
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Chapin, Frederick N.
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Machine Gun

Description: Patent for improvements in machine guns. Improvements include the facilitation of the following mechanisms: The simultaneous discharge of multiple bullets in a sweeping pattern of trajectory; simultaneous discharge of cartridges arranged in the gun, magazine functionality in tangent with the gun's cartridges, and other items concerning fabrication, features, and capabilities.
Date: August 2, 1918
Creator: Clarence, Gregg
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Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "facilitate[s] the building of wire fences; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transporting bed or wagon, its spindles for the spools of wire, and its transverse windlass-rollers and their ratchets and pawls" (lines 16-21).
Date: August 2, 1881
Creator: Morter, John Letcher
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Listing-Plow

Description: Patent for a new listing plow that is "cheap and simple construction and readily adjustable to form wide or narrow beds and to be used in bedding of cotton or corn" (lines 11-13).
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Leatherwood, Calvin Nathaniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in kitchen cabinets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Lackey, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Two-Horse Equalizers.

Description: Patent for an adjustable device that redistributes weight so that two animals of unequal strength can perform their equal share of work. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1870
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
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Vaginal Irrigator

Description: Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date: August 2, 1904
Creator: Farrington, Charles O.
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Stalk Cutter

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustration included.
Date: August 2, 1904
Creator: Tally, Richard C.
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Stationery for Transmitting and Recording Bank Collections

Description: Patent for a stationary that can make accurate records of bank item collections, and can be adapted to a typewriter. Illustrations included.
Date: August 2, 1910
Creator: Price, Jacob L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Standard for Logging Cars.

Description: Patent for a new and improved standard for logging-cars. This design "consists of a pivoted standard connected by links to a lever a short distance from its pivot, so that when the lever is turned out of alignment with the links the standard will be firmly locked in position. . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a standard for cars and wagons which can be readily turned down out of the way when loading, and which, when turned up into position, will be firmly and securely held" (lin… more
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Minnock, Edmund Junius
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Method of Working Hydrated Volatile Refrigerating Agents, and Apparatus for Ice Making and Refrigeration.

Description: Patent for a new method of working hydrated volatile refrigerating agents and a new refrigerator. This design "involve[s] the use of such highly volatile matters as are capable of hydration — as, for instance, ammonia, that being the refrigerating agent preferable to all others . . . [and] is a simplification in the mode of operation, and in apparatus which enables the employment of comparatively unskilled labor, the production of apparatus at comparatively low cost, and the working of the ammo… more
Date: August 2, 1881
Creator: Rose, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool-Joint

Description: Patent for tool joints to be used in detachable connection between lengths of pipe. Specifically used with drill pipe for drilling deep wells for oil, gas, or water.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Thomas, Avery H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate Latch.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design is "so constructed as to permit of its ready adjustment to different gates, and also its adjustment, as may be required, subsequent to its attachment to the gate, without necessitating its removal" (lines 20-24). It "compris[es] the latch-bar having therein a longitudinal slot, the arm connected to the intermediate portion of said bar by a bolt or pin passing adjustably through said slot, said arm being curved forwardly at its upper portion,… more
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Fox, James T.
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Electric Switch

Description: Patent for an electric combination lock switch. Illustrations included.
Date: August 2, 1910
Creator: Wright, Joseph Henderson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-Escape.

Description: Patent for a new and useful fire escape, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Buck, Sterling P. & Meaker, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Switch Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved railway-switch lock. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts whereby an independent key is used to unlock the latch or bolt of the bolt-case" (lines 14-17).
Date: August 2, 1881
Creator: Angus, Alexander & Phillips, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Switch

Description: Patent for "automatic switches wherein the operative devices are under the control of the engineer, brake-man, or other authorized person on the train or a portion thereof" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Robberson, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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