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Advertising Device.

Patent for "a simple and inexpensive advertising device adapted to be placed on street corners and other public places and capable of exciting the curiosity and attracting attention, and thereby directing the attention of persons to the advertisement" (lines 11-16).

Date: March 20, 1894

Creator: Attaway, Henry F.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Burning Garbage.

Patent for an apparatus for burning garbage that is made up of a roasting chamber, a grate to hold the garbage, two furnaces, a passage for the ashes, a third furnace connected to the passage, flues, a smokestack, non-combustible absorbent material around the flues and beneath the grate, and flues beneath the grate.

Date: March 27, 1894

Creator: Risley, Ward

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Axle-Box.

Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).

Date: May 8, 1894

Creator: Casto, Tony Lo

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for the Treatment of Cotton.

Patent for a machine that puts gins and condensers in a line, which sit over a flue. "The lint cotton in bat form being delivered from all of the condensers in independent bats to a common conveyer, the bat cotton increasing in thickness upon the common conveyer and in its travel to a press, compress or other receptacle, receiving the different bats from the different condensers, one bat lying smoothly upon the other, until at the discharge end of the common conveyer, the bat in which the lint … more

Date: May 22, 1894

Creator: Zedler, Friedrich

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).

Date: January 23, 1894

Creator: Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clevis.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved clevis that can be easily manufactured and employed to a draft-beam. It can be used without a lapring in order to connect to a singletree. The singletree can have its "staple or eye...disposed in a plane with the said singletree" (lines 16-17).

Date: January 30, 1894

Creator: Word, Aaron Matthias

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard that has comprising rollers which can be independently and easily replaced. The bars that hold the rollers can also be easily removed.

Date: January 30, 1894

Creator: Lefléve, Louis

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard for Railroads.

Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.

Date: February 6, 1894

Creator: Lee, Jacob M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.

Date: February 20, 1894

Creator: Brady, Peter L.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Artificial Tooth.

Patent for an artificial tooth with an improved crown so that "it can be attached to the gold cap that has been made to fit the end of the root that is to be crowned, the manner of attaching being materially facilitated" (lines 15-19).

Date: February 27, 1894

Creator: Harrell, Hardy B.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle-guard that does not let cattle become entangled and killed in the guard, and does not allow cattle to pass over the rails. Cattle also will not get thrown or trip on the guard, and the trains will not be endangered.

Date: March 13, 1894

Creator: Hills, Lorenzo

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher that can easily stretch a wire in a series on a fence in such a way that the stretcher doesn't need to brace against a post.

Date: January 9, 1894

Creator: Sparkman, James S.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher that "may be readily employed for taking up the slack of a fence wire at a point between fence posts" (lines 13-15). It also cuts wire and removes staples.

Date: April 17, 1894

Creator: Hughs, George W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Womb-Battery.

Patent for a womb-battery that has "an advantageous electrical or galvanic device adapted, when placed in the womb of a patient where it will be subject to the chemical action of the mucous fluid, to develop a mild electric action and thereby stimulate the generative organs and promote the cure of the various diseases peculiar to the female sex" (lines 13-20). It also is not easily displaced and is easily adjusted.

Date: June 5, 1894

Creator: Petit, Julius C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Bag Fastener.

Patent for a mail-bag fastener that consists of a mail bag with a flap, slots, a double upper portion next to the flap, a channel cut into the portion, guides with slots across the channel, a leather strap that slides into the channel, staples on the inside of the flap, and a tag holder attached to the back of the strap.

Date: November 14, 1893

Creator: Roosevelt, James Albert

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Load Lifter and Carrier.

Patent for an improved, simple, efficient, and inexpensive load lifter and carrier meant to be used in warehouses in order to load and unload barrels, bales, and other loads.

Date: November 14, 1893

Creator: Butcher, Tilman H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Invalid-Bed.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive bedstead meant for use by disabled people. "The hinged head section of the bed may be adjusted to any desired angle of elevation" (lines 14-16). The bed can be adjusted with little exertion. The parts can be easily removed and replaced.

Date: November 28, 1893

Creator: Ottinger, Benjamin

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Seat Spring.

Patent for an elliptic seat spring on a wagon that is "arranged longitudinally on the front of the wagon-box, for the purpose of taking up the jar and jolt of wagons in passing over rough places in the roads" (lines 15-18). The springs will stay in place once installed.

Date: December 5, 1893

Creator: Ingle, Jacob Odem, Jr.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for a simple and durable lifting jack for wagons that is easily operated and does not move the hoisting lever in the post.

Date: December 5, 1893

Creator: Ball, Charles W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Tongue Support.

Patent for "improvements in the running gear of draft wagons, and has for its objects to provide a novel, simple device for the support of the wagon tongue, and an improved means for obviating friction between the coupling pole of the vehicle, and the slide bar on the front hounds of the wagon running gear" (lines 8-15).

Date: December 12, 1893

Creator: Tiner, John F.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trunk.

Patent for a trunk meant for traveling that holds clothes and small articles. The trunk has "novel adjunctive features, which will render it more convenient, and better adapted for the stowage and removal of various articles of wear and use" (lines 11-14).

Date: December 12, 1893

Creator: Warren, James L.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Powder Distributer.

Patent for a poison distributor that has an adjustable discharge distance and does not clog. It is crank operated to generate a steady stream of poison.

Date: January 2, 1894

Creator: Schumacher, Hermann G.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a washing machine that has an improved construction, is more efficient, and one that quickly and thoroughly washes clothes without damaging the clothes. The machine is a cylinder that has a crank-operated inner scrubbing cylinder. The machine has a spout in order to drain the cylinder.

Date: January 23, 1894

Creator: Walter, George P.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Patent for a kitchen cabinet that is uniquely constructed and compactly stores condiments and food articles. The food can be easily accessed, and the cabinet has an apparatus for sifting flour "that may be delivered thereby from the sealed bins in the cabinet, in any desired quantity for use" (lines 18-20).

Date: March 13, 1894

Creator: P'Pool, Frank E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department