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[News Clip: Whirling flame]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gas-powered spinning flame generator invented by a McAllen citrus farmer, intended to warm the air in his citrus groves and prevent cold weather from harming the fruit.
Date: February 4, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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City of Edinburg, Master Drainage Plan. Appendix G: Environmental Site Assessment & Constraints Map

Description: Report was performed in accordance with RKEI Proposal Number PSF13-344-00 for the findings, opinions, conclusions, and recommendations for the infrastructure on sectors of the City of Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas. The Report is to define good commercial and customary practice for conducting an environmental site assessment of real estate.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Raba Kistner Environmental, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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[News Script: Whirling flame]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gas-powered spinning flame generator invented by a McAllen citrus farmer, intended to warm the air in his citrus groves and prevent cold weather from harming the fruit.
Date: February 4, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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Attachment for Plows

Description: Patent for a plow attachment that is easy to use, does not "require the use of a supplemental beam or handle" (lines 11-12), and can be used with different makes of plows
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Nunnally, Robert Bruce
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Chain-Tightening Tool

Description: Patent for a tool for tightening automobile wheel chains that is "simple in construction and may be manufactured at a comparatively low cost" (lines 14-16).
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: Ruthven, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Necktie-Holder

Description: Patent for improvements to necktie-holders, particularly to prevent the neck-tie from sliding down toward the lower portion of the collar.
Date: April 21, 1921
Creator: Potter, Arthur C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Orchard-Heat or Smudge-Pot

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in orchard-heaters and smudge-pots to provide an improved drat flue and damper carried by a cap especially adapted for use in connection with heaters or crude oil smudge pots commonly used in various orchards during frosty weather. The invention aims to provide a draft flue and damper to withstand the most severe and erratic winds, the damper capable of being opened to suit any temperature, without impairing its efficiency in protecting the draft.
Date: October 18, 1921
Creator: Potter, Arthur C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Dredge.

Description: Patent for an excavating machine specifically designed for canal digging, that "is an improvement upon a patent granted to Charles S. Butterfield, March 13, 197 and numbered 1,219,371" (lines 10-13). This invention provides a means for firm and stable support of the excavating machine and allows the position of the machine to be easily changed as the work progresses.
Date: November 22, 1921
Creator: Evans, Marvin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Window-Sash Lock

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Sash Locks" (lines 5-7). "The object in view is to produce a simple and efficient device..., [which] consists essentially in the provision of means for permitting either sash to be locked or one sash to be partially or fully opened..." (lines 17-22).
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Rickel, Tremont W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Improvements to Auxiliary Clutch-Pedal Lever

Description: Patent for improvements in Auxiliary Clutch-pedal Levers for tractor foot pedal levers, providing much greater operability when attached, but does not interfere with the driver's use of the pedal in a traditional manner.
Date: unknown
Creator: Stoltz, Otto W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock that has a washer divided on predetermined lines bent in a V-shaped fold line that provides attaching support. Identical sector-like portions of the nut lock have a curved edge that permit embedding in material through which a bolt is passed.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Harding, William L.
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Submarine-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for submarine destroyer that is a projectile of the harpoon type adapted to be dropped from an aeroplane with the purpose to destroy a submarine or other vessel.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Garner, William W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Hat-Box.

Description: Patent for a hat box that is capable of being used on shelves with capability to pile additional objects, with a removable cover and hinged front wall.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Ledbetter, Lewis J.
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Game-Retaining Garment

Description: Patent for a garment with detachable areas that allows for the carrying and quick loading of ammunition when hunting game, and is more sanitary and durable than other options.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Cox, Benjamin F.
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Safety Top for Cans

Description: Patent for a milk can lid which may be locked in place by a spring, and which contains a hollow chamber inside to carry "butter, or other commodities" (lines 62-63).
Date: unknown
Creator: O'Conner, Paul H. & Hardesty, John F.
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Heater.

Description: Patent for a heater, "designed for use in orchards for raising the temperature of the atmosphere at times when frosts or freezing temperature is threatened" (lines 11-14). Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Briscoe, Williard H.
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