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Car-Seat.

Description: Patent for improvement in regular car-seating (not baby car-seat) by enabling the seat to recline “like an ordinary sleeping-coach without the necessity of the upper berths required in a sleeping-coach.” (Lines 45-48) Illustration is included.
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Goelet, Edward B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draw-Bridge

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction and design of draw bridges.
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: Briggs, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Passenger Mileage-Recorder.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in mileage recorders for steam railway coaches and similar vehicles" (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: West, Samuel M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Lewis, Nathan D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Running-Gear for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive running gear for vehicles that allows the vehicles to turn in a small space. An ordinary running gear can be easily modified into this invention.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Keith, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saddle-Pad.

Description: Patent for inflatable saddle pads designed "to do away with the use of one or more blankets which have been placed between the saddle and the back of the animal, and substitute therefor inflatable pads, which not only prevent the back of the animal from being chafed, but to do away with the jar and concussion from the animal to the rider and from the rider to the animal." (Lines 18-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Wall, Frederic Watson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Inkstand and Pen-Rack.

Description: Patent for a inkstand with a magnetized pen-rack. If the pen or pencil isn't metal, a metal sleeve is provided to put around the utensil so it can sit on the rack. There is a space for ink-wells, pen-boxes, and a space for advertisements. It is meant for customers to use in lobbies.
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Moyer, Herman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas- Generator

Description: Patent for improvements in gas generators relating to machines that use acetylene gas. These improvements are meant to make gas generators easy to use and easy to construct.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Ferguson, Andrew J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bedclothes-Clamp.

Description: Patent for new clamping device that holds the mattress and bedding of a folding bed in place, is adjustable, and is not in the way when the bed is in use.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: Baley, Katie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Marine Illusion Apparatus

Description: Patent for a Marine Illusion apparatus. This invention is to fit between two boats so that passengers can travel from one boat to another that is attached to a dock. Illustration included.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: White, Francis Marion & Langever, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas-Producing Furnace

Description: Patent for a gas producing furnace that is "highly efficient in the combustion of slack coal, lignite, and other gas producing material" (lines 12-14).
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Gamer, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Conveyer.

Description: Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Schubert, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap

Description: Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Link, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for the "improvements in rail joints, the object being to so construct and arrange the meeting ends of two railway rails as to provide interlocking members..." (lines 8-12). The patent includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Evans, James B., Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve

Description: Patent for valves which are of a better construction to prevent leakage.
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Bird, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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