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Hoop-Fastening for Buckets, &c.

Description: Reissued patent for a a hoop fastening "to hold the hoops on buckets, barrels, kegs, and other like vessels in an effective manner, and to prevent them from dropping off when the vessel dries and shrinks" (lines 8-12).
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Phillips, Hiram B.
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Cotton Condenser.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton condenser. This design involves "[t]he lint pass[ing] from the gin through the flue and between the condensing-cylinders, by which it is formed into a bat. The blast from the gin serves to blow all dust from the lint through the wire-cloth of the cylinders and out through the openings in the ends of the latter. The upper cylinder will move vertically in its bearings . . . and thus adjust itself to any quantity of lint that may pass from the gin" (lines 46-55… more
Date: July 10, 1883
Creator: Sewell, Franklin Milner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for a new press for baling cotton and hay that is "simple, durable, and convenient," including illustrations.
Date: May 1, 1883
Creator: McIver, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Bale Binder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton bale binder. This design "consists of a simple contrivance for binding cotton and other bales together when loaded on flat cars to prevent the load from being shaken apart and separated by the shocks and jolts of the car, and also to prevent the bales from being pulled off by cotton thieves, the said contrivance consisting of two or more hooks having pulleys or eyes strung on a rope, the rope being fastened to one of the eyes or pulleys forming one end of th… more
Date: May 8, 1883
Creator: Burr, Lewis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design "consists of a short thin plate of metal having two tongues . . . fronting each other, said plate being pivoted at one end to the bale-hoop . . . the other end of the bale-hoop being passed under the tongues and drawn tightly around the bale, the expansion of the bale on the hoop causes the respective ends to pull on the respective ends of the tie-plate . . . so as to grip the edges of the end passed between the tongues and hold it firmly" (l… more
Date: July 24, 1883
Creator: Arnold, Abbott
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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