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Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "a frame having two arms, one carrying a fixed clamp and the other a roller, a windlass mounted on said frame having a rope passing over said roller and adapted to be fixed to an end of wire, and a central clamp consisting of a rigid bar on the frame between its arms, a notched clamp pivoted thereon, and a ring for retaining the clamp" (lines 6-14).
Date: February 22, 1887
Creator: Ainsworth, Phineas Hardaman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Distributing Poison on Plants.

Description: Patent for a new and improved machine for distributing poison on plants. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheeled-frame, a counter-shaft thereon driven from the wheels, a poison-hopper, an air and discharge pipe communicating therewith, a fan giving air-blast through said pipe, and an agitator in the poison-hopper, of wheel and belt-gearing operating the fan and agitator from the counter-shaft on the frame" (lines 112-119).
Date: March 11, 1890
Creator: Brown, George R. & Brown, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Proportionate Scale.

Description: Patent for improvements in scales which would quickly and accurately determine the proportion of the lint contained in seed-cotton. Illustration is included.
Date: April 8, 1902
Creator: Brown, George Raymond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench which "may be efficiently employed in places which are inaccessible to the ordinary wrench."
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Culbertson, Charles P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Mining Sulfur.

Description: Patent for innovations in the underground fusion or Frasch process of mining sulfur, "which comprises conducting an appropriate fusing medium [such as hot water] into the formation containing the sulfur deposit and thereby melting the sulfur" (lines 91-95). Central to the innovations is the use of a compressed gas to "eliminate or largely reduce heat losses in porous rock and exhausted sulfur regions at the higher levels of the mine where the presence of the hot water is of no benefit so far as… more
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: Drachenberg, August Toby
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for an improvement to the plow by providing a plastic or plastic-like material to help sticky, thick soil and clay to glide over the surface and decrease frictional resistance, including illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Fleehearty, Edward L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Core.

Description: Patent for a tire core with interlocking sections that can be removed easily from built tires to reuse, including illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1920
Creator: Gillette, Walter S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Threshing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a harvester in a threshing machine, which can be put at different levels from the ground.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Haynes, Thomas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Threshing-Machine

Description: Patent for a threshing machine "especially adapted for the cutting and threshing of small grain" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
Date: May 12, 1908
Creator: Haynes, Thomas Stanley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Grapple.

Description: Patent for an improved pipe gripping mechanism which engages the interior of a pipe or tube.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Martin, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door-Check.

Description: Patent for a door check that holds the door at any point when it is swinging closed.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Martin, Joseph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill-Collar.

Description: Patent for improved drill collar for "connecting a drill shank to the pipe" (lines 11-12).
Date: December 15, 1914
Creator: Means, Able C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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