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Apparatus for Destroying Weevils.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for destroying weevils and moths, infesting corn, peas, hay, sweet potatoes, beans, and the like, when stored. The apparatus consists of a container with an improved means of distributing heat to the contents in which the weevils and moths are found.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Kasmeier, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Regional Water Plan: Region N (Coastal Bend), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan

Description: Water plan for Region N (Coastal Bend) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation plans, drought response plans, and the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Coastal Bend Regional Water Planning Group
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Rocket launched]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about members of the Southwestern Rocket Society gathering on the Santa Domingo ranch to make final preparations for the firing of a single-stage rocket.
Date: December 15, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rocket launched]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of the Southwestern Rocket Society gathering on the Santa Domingo ranch to make final preparations for the firing of a single-stage rocket.
Date: December 15, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench "that a great number of tools [screw-driver, hammer, hatchet, auger, etc.] may be mounted thereon at one time and each accessible for use without removing any one part and without the various parts mounted thereon interfering with each other." (Lines 30-35) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1896
Creator: Rush, William Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Work Holder

Description: Patent for a work holder. The invention provides adjustable jaws to clamp the work in position. Illustrations included.
Date: August 16, 1904
Creator: Eichblatt, Otto H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for an improved design for windmills that are in regular use. The design implements two sets of hinged vanes and uses weights to control the amount power that the windmill can generate. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1880
Creator: Rudolph, Calvin Foster
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for "an improved insect destroyer" ... "embodying a fuel supply and a burner for the purpose of destroying insects brushed from plants beside which the device is traveling" (lines 9, 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Garner, William W. & Rush, Owen T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Trap.

Description: Patent for a trap for bedbugs made of pine wood with many nooks and crannies and springs attached to either side of the wooden block. It can be put on the bed frame and bedbugs hide in its dark recesses during the day, and then the trap can either be hit to close the springs and crush the bugs or put into hot water to drown them.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Mattingly, Benjamin Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hub-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and useful hub wrench, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Sauls, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hub-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and useful hub wrench, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Sauls, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a riding plow that can be operated by a person rather than a horse or motor. The plow includes means to form straight furrows and stops vines and bushes from getting stuck between the wheels and frame.
Date: May 26, 1914
Creator: Edwards, Jessie V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Syrup Percolator.

Description: Patent for a percolator that makes syrup from sugar, or can turn any granular, or leaf substance into liquid, that involves an air tube to allow air to escape from syrup during the process. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Elledge, William, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Measuring Device for Rolled Goods.

Description: Patent for an improved "means for measuring rolled goods while the materials is being unrolled and also to indicate the amount of material remaining in the roll" (lines 10-13).
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Sauls, Henry & Cook, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp-Burner

Description: Patent for an attachment for lamp burners designed to automatically extinguish the flame of the lamp should it be tilted at an angle. Illustrations included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Sommerville, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow-Attachment.

Description: Patent for a turning plow attachment which prepares the soil to receive seed, whereby reducing labor.
Date: March 6, 1920
Creator: Miller, James Archie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mud Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mud-scraper. This design consists, "with a vehicle, of the transverse shaft geared to one of the wheels and provided at one of its ends with spiders, having its arms provided with perforations, the approximately U-shaped scrapers arranged to straddle the wheel, and the L-shaped plates or knees having one arm secured to a scraper and the other arm provided with perforations adjustably connected to the spider" (lines 88-102).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: Mangum, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stock-Loader.

Description: Patent for a stock-loader that loads cattle onto locomotive cars and does not use a gangway. It is a "movable floor or platform which, by means of suitable mechanism, is moved toward the car, thus carrying the stock thereinto whether they face in the direction of movement or not, and without effort upon their part" (lines 15-20).
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Rotzien, Christopher & Arnold, Philip
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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