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Swivel Joint

Description: This patent is for a swivel joint, used to connect a pipe to a coupling sleeve and allow for water-tight, axial pipe movement.
Date: unknown
Creator: O'Brien, Daniel
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Hay-Press

Description: Patent for a hay press "that simultaneously compressing material to form two bales within a single hopper." (lines 12-14)
Date: unknown
Creator: Fields, Moses M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Animal-Traps.

Description: Patent for improvements to animal-traps to wound or kill rats, mice, and game with the size and strength being adjustable to the size of animals sought.
Date: August 15, 1887
Creator: Martin, Josiah
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Improvement in Portable Fences

Description: Patent for an improvement to portable fences so that they can be "easily and cheaply constructed in sections, and then quickly put together and firmly braced and supported." (lines 14-17) Illustration included.
Date: October 3, 1876
Creator: Martin, Josiah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for the, "improvement in the auxiliary blades attatched to plows...[and] in the improved method of constructing and attaching the blade to a plow, so that it can be shifted and adjusted in different positions" (lines 14-21). Illustrations included.
Date: February 27, 1877
Creator: Kersh, Thomas E.
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Seal-Press

Description: Patent for "invented a new and useful Seal-Press" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1892
Creator: Douthit, Albert Gilbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hoe.

Description: Patent for improvements in hoes, the inventor designed the handle of the hoe to carry two shanks; the shanks diverging form the handle and bent to be parallel with each other. A connecting-rod at the end of two shanks is being threaded and provided with locking-nuts, which used to secure the hoe blades. The hoe blades can be adjusted laterally. Illustration is included.
Date: May 19, 1891
Creator: Brown, Henry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Stock-Guard.

Description: Patent for "a guard which will effectually prevent cattle from entering adjoining fields to which ingress is afforded by means of a railroad traversing them and to provide means for preventing the guards being injured by trains passing over the road," (lines 11-16) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Bridges, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garment-Seam.

Description: Patent for a method "of forming seams for joining fabrics, metals, paper, or other sheets by means of thread, rivets, solder, or other expedient, and it has for its object to provide a seam within the outer sheets and their linings will be simultaneously joined at a single operation and by use of a single line of stiching, rivets, or other securing means." (lines 11-19)
Date: April 14, 1903
Creator: Johnson, Nellie E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Seat.

Description: Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1897
Creator: Meier, Hermann
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Catamenial Applicance

Description: Patent for a catamenial appliance that can be worn like an apron. In conjunction with a "napkin the device can prevent outer garments from stains during or prior to menstruation" (p. 1, lines 10-15)
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Myers, Jennie C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Mosher, Benjamin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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