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[News Clip: More Waco]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 28, 1993, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Windmill.

Description: Patent for windmill that is cheap and highly efficient with a simple manufacture.
Date: October 28, 1902
Creator: Faubion, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thatch Roof.

Description: Patent for a simple, cheap, and effective thatched roof for temporary storage of goods or animal pens. It has "overlapping layers of straw or like material secured or fastened in place by running wires attached to the foundation on which the said thatching or covering is arranged" (lines 15-19).
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Mandeville, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for a churn that consists of an upright frame, an adjustable central ring, a dasher rod, and devices for operating the rod.
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Martin, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for an improvement to "shovel-plows" that "is adapted to cultivate between the rows of corn, &c., and one in which the rearwardly-extending moldboards can be adjusted [...] in case the rows are close together or far apart. The cultivator is also arranged so that the depth of the furrow can be regulated" (lines 14-21).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Dinkins, James Oscar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent is for a cotton press adapted to bale cotton and other materials by compression.
Date: June 28, 1903
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fruit-Press.

Description: Patent for a device that extracts and strains "the juice of fruits, and it has for its general object to provide such a device of a cheap, simple, and durable construction, and one adapted when not in use to be disconnected and folded back against the wall so as to occupy but a minimum amount of space" (lines 13-18).
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Thompson, Sarah Rosaline
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Curing-House.

Description: Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a machine "for the purpose of cleaning the cotton before it is ginned, and thus free it from foreign substances and produce a better grade of cotton than that which is ginned without being previously cleaned" (lines 15-19).
Date: April 28, 1885
Creator: Tucker, Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vegetable-Grading Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a vegetable grading apparatus that delivers select grades of vegetables to the picker, separating the majority of vegetables into containers. The apparatus prevents bruising of vegetables and allows the picker to see all sides of the vegetables.
Date: June 28, 1921
Creator: Rigney, Samuel C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle and the wheels, provided with the sleeves, one of which is provided with the spur-wheel of the reach bar secured to the axle, the sleeve mounted on the said bar and provided with the pinion, the arms secured to the sleeve, the curved rods adjustably secured to the arm, and the blades secured to outer ends of the said rods" (lines 8-17).
Date: January 28, 1890
Creator: Jordan, Perry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bag-Turner

Description: Patent for "a machine which will perform the whole act of turning a sack" (lines 11-12), including illustrations.
Date: September 28, 1915
Creator: Hirschfeld, Ike
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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