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Air-Compressing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new air compressing apparatus which employs two kinds of tanks called high pressure containers and low pressure containers charged by means of an air compressing engine.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Lister-Plows.

Description: Patent for a lister plow, which is a device to be attached to listers, plows, and other farming equipment. The broad design (consisting of mold board wings) and blades (or knives) will remove weeds or prevent weeds from damaging different types of farming equipment.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: McCune, Floyd S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Cushion Tire.

Description: Patent for improvement to the air-cushion tire in terms of resilience, and an improved structure.
Date: March 16, 1920
Creator: Williams, Harry S.
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Wire-Stretcher

Description: Patent for new and useful multi-functional improvements in stretchers, specifically wire stretchers, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Lowe, Elijah J.
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Knee-Protector

Description: Patent for a knee protector "adapted to be worn by cotton pickers, miners, and other workmen who are required to walk or labor while resting on the knees. The present invention contemplates the provision of a knee protector of unique construction...the present device while applied to the knee, permitting the wearer to walk conveniently either while standing or kneeling."
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Bassett, Rufus C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretching Device for Fence Posts.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a fence-post, the coupled pulleys mounted thereon and adapted to be simultaneously rotated, independent fence-wires extending in opposite directions and attached to one of the pulleys at points thereon that are arranged close together, and binding-sleeves for preventing the rotation of the pulleys after the wires have been stretched" (lines 14-21).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Priday, Henry
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Improvements In Machines for Distributing Compounds for Destroying Cotton-Worms

Description: Patent for improvements on machines to distribute poison for cotton worms in the field. It consists of vibrating,sifting boxes combined with a suspension bar which is secured to the front of a horse saddle so the rider can shake the boxes to distribute poison powder to two rows of crops at a time.
Date: March 16, 1875
Creator: Willie, William T.
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Mechanical Movement.

Description: Patent for a mechanical movement for ratchet feeding mechanisms " in which movement is imparted from a rocking lever to a ratchet wheel through the medium of a plurality of pawls that are so connected to the lever as to operate on the ratchet wheel during movement of the levers in both directions"(lines 10-16).
Date: March 16, 1909
Creator: Oswald, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Bale-Ties.

Description: This patent was crated for an improved way of manufactoring ties to hold packages together that consists of bale, hemp, cotton, rags or substances. It was created to reduce the rising costs or manufacturing products of this caliber.
Date: March 16, 1878
Creator: Davis, Water S.
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Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for improvement in combined planter and cultivator by “combining instruments such as hoppers, plow-beans, brace-bars, foot-levers and many others that required for preparing the ground, planting the seed, and cultivating the plants and which may be easily adjusted for the various uses.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date: March 16, 1869
Creator: Switzer, W. C.
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Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for "an improved stalk cutter and has for its primary object to provide a very simple, durable, and serviceable device of this character which may be advantageously employed for cleaning a field of corn stalks as the same is plowed." (lines 9-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Carnes, Dudley Don
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Silo

Description: Patent for a air-and-liquid tight silo structure that "may be built up readily out of a plurality of relatively small stock units which may be handled easily" (line 11-13).
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Shoupe, Joseph Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door-Check.

Description: Patent for a door check with improvements to device operation and movement control, with illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Kinard, Chester E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post driver

Description: Patent for a portable post driver.
Date: March 16, 1900
Creator: Armstrong, Joseph Milton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-point, of the curved guides or fenders recessed at their rear ends and provided with cutting lower edges, said fenders being detachably connected to the plow-standard" (lines 63-67).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Felder, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trolley-Pole.

Description: Patent for a trolley pole, which attaches easily to the wire and can be placed on it by the operator without him leaving his station on the trolley.
Date: March 16, 1909
Creator: Barr, George T., Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Music-Leaf Turner.

Description: Patent for a device for "Turning Leaves of Sheet-Musics, Music-Books and, other Books" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1880
Creator: Becker, Francis L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stirrup.

Description: Patent for "a stirrup having an improved turntable spring-support which will permit the stirrup to turn readily, so that the foot can assume any desired angle toward or from the horse and so that the stirrup will be yieldingly upheld, whereby certain advantages are attained in mounting, particularly when employed in connection with a wild or unmanageable animal." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1897
Creator: Vann, George G.
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Hand Support for Use in Writing.

Description: Patent for a new and improved writing aid. This design "is an improved device to rest the hand and give ease and fluency thereto in writing; and it consists, essentially, in a support made of glass, rubber, or other similar suitable material, and having very smooth edges to travel without friction over the writing-paper, in combination with a hand-rest pivoted and capable of a certain degree of motion thereon, and having connected to it the handle of the pen" (lines 18-27).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Wyche, John Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a swinging gate provided with a rearwardly-extending arm and a pivoted latch, of a crank-shaft journaled in said gate and connected to said latch, and an operating mechanism consisting of pivoted arms on supporting posts, rods or wires provided with loops and connecting the arms, one loop engaging with the rearward gate-arm and the other loop with the crank-shaft, and levers operating to give a longitudinal mov… more
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Gillis, Cyrus W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill-Collar.

Description: Patent for a new design for collars to be used on water-flushed rotary drills, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Myers, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-Alarm System.

Description: Patent for "an alarm system consisting of an electric circuit within which as thermally operated circuit closer was placed, which was adapted to sound an alarm when the circuit closer had been closed by an operation of the thermal elements of the circuit closer." (lines 78-84) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Ammons, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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