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Ant-Trap.

Patent for an ant-trap with an inflexible bottom with a hole in the middle, a perpendicular section rough on the inside and smooth on the outside, and the perpendicular smooth sides are attached to the edges of the bottom. The trap has a device that prevents the ants from running around the trap.

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Carter, William B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling press made up of a vertically movable core that moves up as it gets wrapped up in the internet, supporting drums, a feed apron that presses the material to the core, a pivoted swinging frame with a compression roller, a bale support, a mechanism that lifts the frame when the bale is finished, and a rack-and-pinion mechanism that raises the compression roller that moves up to let the bale get bigger, and a mechanism that rotates the rack-and-pinion.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Smith, Hamilton E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "improvements in car couplings and it has for its general object to provide a coupling embodying such a constructions that two cars may be connected together or disconnected without the objectionable necessity of a trainman going between them." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: November 6, 1894

Creator: Tunnell, John D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Norcross, George A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Railway-Switch and Car-Replacing Mechanism.

Patent for a combined railway-switch and car-replacing mechanism that is meant to "provide certain improved devices which can be arranged to operate as a switch mechanism, or as car replacing means, which can be easily manipulated, are of a simple construction and which will effectively serve for their intended purposes" (lines 11-16). It can be easily assembled and dissembled.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Debose, Albert S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Baling Machine.

Patent for a cotton-baling machine that compresses cotton between two pressure-rolls and rolls it around a core. This invention improves "the mode of applying pressure to the pressure rolls, and [improves] the manner of mounting the core-roll in position within the compress, and for facilitating the removal of said core-roll; and the elevation therefrom of the compress-roll" (lines 15-21).

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Bessonette, Charles Lewis

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Compress.

Patent for a cotton-compress in which the "cotton is fed to the compress direct from the gin, and is wound into a dense cylindrical bale, and the said invention consists in certain novel means for adding additional pressure to the bale as it is being rolled up, in readily detaching the finished bale from the machine, in providing a reservoir for the surplus cotton, when the gin is running and the machine has stopped" (lines 14-22).

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Bessonette, Charles L. & Bessonette, William T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive swinging gate that is strong, durable, and doesn't sag. It can be fully opened and easily conteracted.

Date: November 6, 1894

Creator: Hefner, John M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Patent for a gate that improves "the construction of sliding gates, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which will be positive and reliable in its operation, and which may be opened and closed a distance from it approaching it in either direction, without dismounting or leaving a vehicle" (lines 10-16). It also prevents farm animals from passing through when the gate is closed.

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Smith, Stansbury J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Saddle.

Patent for a harness saddle that has a metallic frame that is hinged with straps, pads, guide straps that are secured to the pads and slide along straps, plates connected to a curved plate in the saddle, plates pivotally connected to the aforementioned plates, cylindrical lugs that are attached to plates, and cylindrical apertures that slip over the lugs.

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Miller, John A. & Warmoth, James H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Patent for an insecticide that uses an arsenic compound to kill insects instead of Paris green or London purple, and can easily be made into a beautiful green powder that may be used as a pigment.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Brumleu, Ludwig & Brumleu, Ernest

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing-Table.

Patent for an improved folding ironing-table that has "its top pivoted to the longer of two pairs of legs, the shorter pair designed to hold a cross bar which is adapted to support the table top about midway its length, when the table is opened and set up for use" (lines 18-22).

Date: November 20, 1894

Creator: Coleman, Robert Franklin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lantern.

Patent for a lantern related to a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 522,062). This patent has a more simple design and improved means for keeping the chimney on the base of the lantern. The base has a pivoted main-bail that extends above the chimney, and the bail has hinged to a handle-bail.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Jarmin, George W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metal-Cutting Shears.

Patent for simple and effective metal-cutting shears that cuts hot or cold metals. The shears are mounted on a frame, and a hand-operated lever forces the upper shear down.

Date: November 20, 1894

Creator: Autrey, Benjamin P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut and Bolt Lock.

Patent for "an improved device for fastening a bolt and nut in position, whereby the tendency of the bolt or not to become displaced under jar or strain is obviated." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions or illustrations.

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Rush, George L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Patent for a pipe-wrench that is a "pair of tongs [made] for holding rods or pipes of different diameter so that, when between the jaws, they will be held by an elastic cam pressure, without any further muscular exertion by the smith or expert mechanic who is about to work upon the rod or pipe" (lines 16-21).

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Riza, Mike H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for a plow that "deposit[s] a portion of the loosened soil in the bottom of the furrow" (lines 17-19). It is an improvement on double shovel plows, especially on how the sheaths are spread and braced.

Date: November 6, 1894

Creator: Whatley, George W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ptich-Board.

Patent for pitch-board that is "an instrument adapted for use by carpenters and others, the same being so constructed as to serve as a rule, a square, or angle, and adapted to be arranged for indicating accurately any inclination or bevel that may be desired, and finally that is capable of being folded" (lines 6-12).

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Frasier, William E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for a quilting-frame that holds "the quilt in position to be sewed with an ordinary sewing machine" (lines 13-14). The frame has rollers on it.

Date: November 20, 1894

Creator: Broadfoot, Thomas W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame for Sweing-Machines.

Patent for a quilting-frame for sewing-machines that "a folding tripod which is adapted to support the quilting frame, by means of a swiveled pulley connected to the handle of the frame carrying the rollers, the said pulley running backward and forward on the upper surface of a horizontal shaft which is held by means of adjustable rods, to a parallel shaft which is slidingly held to the upper surfaces of two of the tripod strips" (lines 18-26). The invention can fold compactly for storage.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Parsons, James A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Machine.

Patent for a quilting-machine that is meant to "improve the construction of quilting attachments for sewing machines, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which will be capable of lateral vibrations, longitudinal movement, and a rotary motion, in order that any form of design may be worked" (lines 12-17).

Date: November 20, 1894

Creator: Click, Washington B. & Click, Isaac A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Releasing Device for Brakes of Locomotive Drive-Wheels.

Patent for a simple and durable improved releasing device for brakes of locomotive drive-wheels that prevents "the drive wheels from being locked and sliding on the track rails, to obviate the uneven wear on the wheel tire" (lines 15-18). The invention has an auxiliary piston connected to the triple valve piston and is controlled by back pressure in the steam chest.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Pelham, Walter O.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw Gummer or Sharpener.

Patent for an apparatus "which may be easily applied to a gang of gin saws, which is arranged in such a manner that the grinder may be quickly and nicely adjusted so as to properly fit the teeth of the saws and to enter between them to any desired distance, also to provide a simple and efficient feed mechanism which moves the saws tooth by tooth as they are ground, to provide a simple means of regulating the pitch of the grinder, and in general to produce a machine which enables the saws to be … more

Date: November 13, 1894

Creator: Oglesby, Jerrold E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil-Breaking Machine.

Patent for a soil-breaking machine that breaks soil, plows and grades, cuts clods, and other things. The invention has a main frame, a drum that has heads and separated cutters that connect the heads, soil-ejector bars that eject dirt, and a carrier that deposits dirt at a desired point.

Date: November 27, 1894

Creator: Ross, William H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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