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Improvement in Wood Pavements.

Description: Patent for a new and improved construction of Bois D'Arc Pavement, which uses two layers of planks that cross at right angle as a base, sand to hold bois d'arc blocks in place and fill gaps in between, and coal-tar covering planks to prevent sand from shifting. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1879
Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel Luther
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Hot Box Cooler dated November 12, 1918

Description: Patent for the implementation of improvements to hot box coolers. This will assist in the cooling of hot bearings in railway cars.
Date: November 12, 1918
Creator: Edward W. Hartough
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Wood-Boring Machine.

Description: Patent for a wood boring machine "which is especially adapted to bore holes of extreme length in columns or like structural members by cutting away only a portion of the wood forming hole in same" (lines 11-15).
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Bible, Hunley & Robinson, Lee A.
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Window-Sash.

Description: Patent for a window sash, which does not require the use of putty to secure window panes and can be used on various size windows.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Crump, William R.
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Wire Stretcher

Description: Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustrations included.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Chisholm, Walter P. & Ladd, J. A.
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Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Hunter, Arthur G.
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Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench used specifically for turning nuts or other related mechanisms that need a sliding jaw.
Date: December 8, 1914
Creator: Hunter, Arthur G.
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Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device.

Description: Patent for a tool "which is adapted for stretching wire for fencing purposed and which may also be used for drawing the staples from the posts and splicing between posts when such action is necessary." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: McElroy, Jesse Roberts
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Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the bar having a longitudinal slot, with knife-edge and forked twisting-hooks, and the offsetting lever-handle having flat portion, with notch or wire-seat fulcrumed in the slot of the bar and having its outer end extended in the form of a prong between the twisting-hooks . . . to form a discharging device for the wire" (lines 64-72).
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross
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Wire Tightener and Splicer

Description: Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.
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Wood Column Turning Lathe

Description: Patent for a wood column turning lathe. Illustration included.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Bible, Hunley
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Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: July 25, 1911
Creator: Hunter, Arthur G.
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Wrench.

Description: Patent for a wrench whose jaws can be adjusted quickly by pressing a handle on the wrench with the thumb.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Ferguson, Rufus Andrew
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Locking Device for Car-Doors.

Description: Patent for a locking device for a sliding train car capable of locking automatically upon close, including illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Tierney, Henry J.
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Wagon-Body

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in wagon-bodies, having for its object simplicity and durability," (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
Date: December 27, 1887
Creator: Folsome, Charles F.
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Washing-Machine

Description: Patent for improvements to cylinder washing machines.
Date: April 29, 1890
Creator: Anderson, Henry C.
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Liniment

Description: Patent for "a medical compound or liniment for the alleviation and cure of wounds, especially those occasioned by barb-wire fences, burns, bruises, sprains, rheumatism, frost-bites, and hemorrhoids on man or beast" (lines 11-15).
Date: October 7, 1890
Creator: Doppelmayer, Mayer
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Ironing Table.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ironing board. This design consists, "with the supporting-frame and hinged board, of the inclined bar pivoted to the under side of said board, the lever hinged at one end to the lower end of the bar and fulcrumed . . . to the under side of the cross-bar, and the treadle hinged to one bottom rail and passing under the other" (lines 75-82).
Date: October 21, 1890
Creator: Wagnon, Andrew W.
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Washing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved washing-machine. This design "is to simplify and improve the construction of washing machines and to enable clothes to be thoroughly washed without liability of injuring them" (lines 10-14). This design consists in "a frame comprising the legs, the rounds connecting the legs, and the parallel horizontal side bars connecting the upper ends of the legs at each side of the frame, the ends of the frame being open at the top, a diamond-shaped washing-machine body journa… more
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Gardner, David
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Wagon Brake.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists "[i]n the brake-beams pivoted in the clamp, in combination with the bent rods, castings, brake-blocks, and lever" (lines 87-89).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Zellers, Robert Emanuel
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Vulcanizing Apparatus

Description: Patent for an apparatus used during the process of retreading tires that updates the manufacture of rubber tire patches.
Date: July 12, 1918
Creator: Rasor, James, E.
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Wire-Fence Shield.

Description: Patent for a tool to cover a portion of barbed wire fence allowing one to cross over or through without harm, composed of three or more telescoping metal tubes.
Date: April 6, 1920
Creator: Davis, Marion L.
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Machine for Mixing Mortar.

Description: Patent for a new and improved machine for mixing mortar. This design "consists in a cylinder composed of bars set into open heads and rotating beneath a hopper . . . so that the material to be mixed rests upon the cylinder, and is rasped or grated off by the motion of the cylinder and received on the inside of the cylinder between the bars. . . . When the material is received inside the cylinder it is carried around by the rotary motion, and is turned over and forced out" (lines 7-22).
Date: September 14, 1880
Creator: Schellenberger, Samuel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Gage.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water gauge. This design "consists in the arrangement of a chamber attached to the lower valve of an ordinary water-gage; and the object of [the] improvement is to prevent the foam and sentiment of steam-boilers from accumulating in the glass, stuffing-boxes, and valves of water-gages" (lines 8-14).
Date: January 20, 1885
Creator: Willis, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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