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Aparatus for Cleaning Lechuguilla, Henequen, and Analogous Fibrous Plants.

Description: Patent for an improved apparatus for scraping lechugilla, henequen, and analogous fibrous plants. This apparatus scrapes the stalks of the plants mechanically and separates the pulp from the fiber of the plant so that the fiber will be cleaned and ready for use.
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Aguilar, Alfonso
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Cooling System

Description: Patent for an improvement to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine of an automobile. "The object of the invention being to provide an improved cooling system of this kind which embodies means for cooling the circulatory water in the radiator by forcing air therethrough and also embodies means for directly cooling the engine by subjecting the same to the action of a blast of air."
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bat Compressing and Feeding Mechanism for Cotton Presses

Description: Patent for an improved bat system to compress a bat of cotton into a number of individual sheets or laminae and to automatically feed same after being compressed into the baling box of an ordinary cotton press for forming cubical or square bales of cotton.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bent for Suspension-Bridges.

Description: Patent for improvements in bents for suspension-bridges by securing the columns with wire braces, cross-bar and anchor-pins. Illustration is included.
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bird-Cage

Description: Patent for "bird-cages of the circular kind, wherein the main-frame wires have a band at their lower ends and a single tie-wire arranged diametrically across the band. . .to utilize the single diametrical tie-wire as a support for an inverted interiorly screw-threaded connecting-cap, and to combine with such a device a pan" (lines 10-12 and 17-23).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Coffield, Charles Hunter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boiler

Description: Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hensley, Frank Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a simple and reliable car-coupling that embodies "novel features of construction that adapt[s] said coupling for an automatic coupled engagement with a similar coupling, and that may be safely uncoupled from the side of the car whereon the improvement is secured" (lines 11-16).
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Tiner, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Alarm.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient electric alarm to be used for vault protection. It is a magnet, which is a better design than a coil. The magnet is suspended between two points, and a spring that pushes it in one direction. There is an armature that causes friction when it slides, and sounds an alarm when the arm moves in one direction.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Hull, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence-Building Machine

Description: Patent for providing "for the weaving or construction of a picket fence by means of a simple and inexpensive machine, but one which will insure a proper binding of the pickets between the several strands of supporting-wire" (lines 10-14).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Kline, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design "relates to devices for tightening the wires of a wire fence whether in the act of building the latter or after it has been put up and the wire is stretched thereon; and the invention consists of a metallic lever-arm adapted to be seated and adapted to turn in a hole in the fence-post, and upon whose body the wire is tightened as the arm is revolved" (lines 9-16).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Jinkins, Thomas William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Box-Form.

Description: Patent for new and improved folding box-form for making boxes from corrugated board or similar materials. The pattern is designed so that a box can be easily cut and folded, with hinged sections that make handling or storing convenient. The box-form accommodates different sizes.
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Crate, James Searle
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gunpowder Canister.

Description: Patent for a new and improved canister. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable supporting cone-shaped frame provided with a supporting flange at its top and an opening through one side, with the can or case for holding the powder, and which is also provided with a supporting-flange near its lower end, a suitable cover, and a spring-actuated perforated slide . . . to provide a case for holding gunpowder, and from which the powder can be drawn into a suitable measuring-receptacle … more
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Stopple, John J. & Harigel, Emil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press

Description: Patent for improvements in hay presses "to simplify and cheapen the construction and render it more efficient in the formation of the hay into bales" (lines 16-18).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: McNeill, Charles De Witte
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Identification-Tag

Description: Patent for metal identification tags with imprinted indicia to keep records of something. The tags are used on bale ties and will replace paper tags due to flammability.
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Luthy, Joseph Anton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cane-Seats for Chairs.

Description: Patent for improvement in cane-seats for chairs by simplifying the process of dispensing the drawing of the cane through the chair-frame; thereby reduce materials used to produce the chairs. Illustration is included.
Date: September 3, 1872
Creator: Howe, Will F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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