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Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters

Description: Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Agee, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard for railroad tracks, which is activated by the pressure of a cow stepping on its platform and raises bars to block the the cow from crossing the track. It goes back down automatically when the pressure is removed off the platform.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Crouch, Jim L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton

Description: Patent for an improvement to boll breakers and cotton cleaners by performing the tasks of picking, cleaning, beating, and spreading more efficiently and effectively.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Streun, John Arnold
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel.

Description: Patent for an improved and resilient spring wheel for a vehicle.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Collinsworth, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Log-Cart.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin log carts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1900
Creator: Bender, Gustave
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Stacker.

Description: Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in lumber stackers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1899
Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrist Blotter

Description: Patent for a wrist blotter that provides a simple and inexpensive blotter to be attached to the wrist.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Cardwell, Harland W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Basket.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire basket. This design "consists in a wire basket formed of a circular bottom, and a wire frame bent to form a cylinder, in the lower part of which cylinder the circular bottom is held" (lines 13-16).
Date: February 10, 1885
Creator: Elliott, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Turnstile-Gate.

Description: Patent for a turnstile-gate meant "to provide a gate of novel construction to be used at the intersection of a number of fences that access may be had through the gate from one to the other of the inclosures formed by said fences" (lines 13-17). It is especially meant for stockyards when several fences come together in one place.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Cowley, Benjamin T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Variable Speed Governor

Description: Patent for a variable speed governor. This invention regulates speed of vehicle without stopping the motor. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Casteel, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Signals

Description: Patent for a signal for an exhaust pipe of an automobile. Essentially, this device would quiet exhaust noise leaving an automobile.
Date: February 26, 1919
Creator: Baker, James Slayton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Bucket.

Description: Patent for a well bucket with a float attachment to prevent the bucket from hitting the bottom of the well and stirring up sand or mud.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Thomas, Eliga Moran
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Animal-Traps

Description: Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Flournoy, Rice Smith
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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