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Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for baling press for baling hay,cotton, and the like; is simple, durable and efficient.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Heinrich, Ferdinand, L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle-Rod for Railroad Rails

Description: Patent for a system of attaching railroad rails when the rails are first placed. This device is used to keep the rails a precise distance apart before the railroad spikes are placed into the ground holding the rails firmly in place.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Johnson, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Thinner.

Description: Patent for improvements in corn-thinners for removing excess stalks in the field by constructing the “upper portion’s blade flat to present straight side cutting edges, and having the lower portion curved transversely to present to a lower semicircular cutting edge.” (Lines 53-56.) With this design, the operator would not have to stoop over, making the thinning operation easier. Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Horn, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for cotton-choppers in which it can be converted into cultivators; the height and sweep of the rotary chopper can be adjusted. The depth of penetration of the cultivator-shovels can also be adjusted independently without affecting other part of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1903
Creator: Talley, George C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door-Check

Description: Patent for a door check that holds a door open in a secured position. This particular door securer has a manual operation lock independent of the knob-spindle.
Date: February 24, 1903
Creator: Skidmore, John C. & Tyer, Author
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer.

Description: Patent for improvement in draft-equalizers in which the draft-equalizer will “first, take away the side draft; second, to enable the plow to follow the furrow; third, to work three, four, or five horses to the same bars by simply adjusting the bars; fourth, to enable all horses except one to walk on solid ground, the one to walk in furrow; fifth, to enable the operator to place load on any point of the bars he chooses and still have a straight pull.” (Lines 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Lawrence, David & Vincent, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dumping-Cart

Description: Patent for a dumping cart with a body that locks to the frame, but can be released quickly to dump materials via two toggle arms connected to a crank handle. Including illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 25, 1903
Creator: Davis, Frank C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Educational Device.

Description: Patent for improvements in educational device by providing “a simple and comparatively inexpensive one designed for teaching addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division and capable of enabling the same to be explained with greater ease and at the expenditure of much less energy of both pupil and teacher.” (Lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Williams, Willoughby Columbus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Medicated Salt Brick.

Description: Patent for a formula for a livestock salt brick that purports improve animal health. The formula includes salt, clay, sulfur, saltpeter, copperas, nux vomica, and santonin.
Date: February 24, 1903
Creator: Eaton, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Petroleum-Oil-Burner

Description: Patent for an oil burner for providing heat, light, and for cooking or baking. It super heats steam in two steam chambers to generate more heat.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Demory, Alexander F. & Barron, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe Connection.

Description: Patent for "an improved means of connecting the T which usually joins the pipe of a windmill-operated pump to a cistern-pipe" (lines 7-9)
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Collins, Livingston G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pumping Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements to a pumping apparatus "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and easily-operated apparatus through the medium of which water may be forced from a well, stream, or other source of supply by the weight of a person" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Simmons, Jessie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Planter.

Description: Patent for a seed planter in which the “plows is used in connection with the purpose of opening a furrow to receive the seed and for quickly covering the seed after it has been deposited.” (Lines 15-18) In addition, an auxiliary plow is attached “to work directly in front of the seed tube, as to provide the scattering of the seed and to cause it to be deposited directly into the furrow.” (Lines 29-32) Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Paste Applier.

Description: Patent for shoe-paste applier by using “cotton or cloth, wound into a roll to make the paste-applying element.” (Lines 65-66) “A holding member having terminal arms held associated by being twisted together and a curved intermediated coiled portion to house the paste-applying element, and a handle for receiving the twisted portions of the arms.” (Lines 15-19) Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Smith, William Roland
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spindle-Nut Attachment.

Description: Patent for improvement in spindle-nut by providing “an extension to the spindle-nut, not being a washer in any sense of the word, but to all intents and purposes an integral part of said nut adapted to extend toward the outer end of the axle-box and to hold the same to its seat upon the spindle as efficiently as when the parts were new.” (Lines 35-41) Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Carlton, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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