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Machine for Cleaning, Polishing, and Assorting Nuts.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut cleaner, polisher, and sorter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the nut-cleaning cylinder having the longitudinal door and transversely-arranged wire cylinders having doors, of the intermediate hopper, arranged lengthwise of the cylinder, as well as under it, and having apertures over the doors of the wire cylinders . . . and a series of sieves, successively increasing in mesh, of a perforated floor, an end plate terminating in [an] eccentric, a… more
Date: September 13, 1881
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Treasure Box.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lock-box. This design "is provided with means for giving an alarm when an attempt is made to enter the same; and it also has a device for clamping it to the berth or other part of the apartment in which the traveler lodges, so that when the alarm sounds he [or she] is awakened, and thus notified at an attempt at robbery. The device is especially adapted to be clamped to the inner-face of a bed-rail, adjacent to the mattress thereof, so that it cannot be reached wit… more
Date: July 13, 1886
Creator: Hayes, Elbert Newton & Sauer, Venant August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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