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Car-Seat.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Meier, Hermann
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Cultivator

Description: Patent for a cultivator. This invention consists of a plurality of spring teeth or blades. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Omberg, Niles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Mosher, Benjamin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Seat.

Description: Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1897
Creator: Meier, Hermann
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blow-Off Cock and Fire-Extinguisher

Description: Patent for "a new and improved blow-off cock and fire-extinguisher to be used on locomotives for cleaning the boiler, and at the same time serving to sprinkle wooden structures in the track, such as bridges, railroad-ties, trestles, &c., to prevent their being set on fire by falling cinders discharged from the ash-pan of the locomotive or from other causes" (lines 8-16)
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Michell, Lucius E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Distilling Wood.

Description: Patent for improvements in wood distillers "wherein the liquids of the woods are extracted by subjection in a closed heated chamber or retort and carried by vaporization through the process of distillation to condensation" (lines 18-22).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Spangler, Samuel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Harvester

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements to cotton harvesters" (lines 5-6) with illustrations and instructions.
Date: unknown
Creator: Myers, John & Meyers, John Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Watch-Barrel.

Description: Patent for a winding mechanism for watches, related to the barrel and rachet of the winding mechanism, with illustrations and instructions included.
Date: November 5, 1880
Creator: Martin, Josiah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Catamenial Applicance

Description: Patent for a catamenial appliance that can be worn like an apron. In conjunction with a "napkin the device can prevent outer garments from stains during or prior to menstruation" (p. 1, lines 10-15)
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Myers, Jennie C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press

Description: Patent for a hay press "that simultaneously compressing material to form two bales within a single hopper." (lines 12-14)
Date: unknown
Creator: Fields, Moses M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Attachment for Freight-Car Doors.

Description: Patent for a mechanism that creates "an adjustable attachment for freight-car doors, for preventing sparks and other objectionable matter from getting into the cars, and means for operating the attachment that is adapted for use in securing the door in different positions of adjustment, and for connection with the body of the car by means of a seal-support, in order that the fixed adjustment of the door cannot be changed without breaking the seal" (lines 12-21).
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Duzan, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire stretcher, which can stretch and hold a wire for a fence until it is securely fastened to the fence post and is easy to operate.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Dobbs, John & Welborn, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a pipe-wrench that has a shank with a fixed jaw, a handle for the shank, a movable jaw with two loops for the shank to pass through and a movable upper loop, a ferrule attached to the handle with a long opening, an adjustable screw with a milled collar in the movable jaw, and a pin attached to the shank.
Date: July 16, 1895
Creator: McElroy, Harry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock-Joint Rail.

Description: Patent for a lockable joint for connecting segments of a railway track. The joint is resistant to breakages due to the passage of trains but allows for the replacement of worn track.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Swindler, Edgar L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement to Fire-Box for Boilers

Description: Patent for the improvement of fire-boxes for broilers by reducing the draft and “causing a more complete mixture of the fuel and air and consequently a more thorough combustion of the fuel” (lines 13-16). Instructions and illustration included.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Shaw, Carl C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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