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Car-Coupling

Patent for an improvement of car coupling design so as to be automatic so that it can couple and uncouple without needing a person to move from car to car that can be used alongside pin and link couplings (lines 11-16).

Date: December 27, 1892

Creator: Millican, Joel W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

New Methodist Church

New Methodist Episcopal Church South in Grapevine

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

Frank Estill and Others at Grapevine Springs

Frank Estill, Nell Giles, Mary Yates and Emma Ezell at Grapevine Springs.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

[Indian Artifacts]

Photograph of Indian artifacts, arrowheads, spear points, a bracelet, a cup displayed in glass cases.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

Indian Artifacts

Indian artifacts, displayed in glass cases, collected by Mrs. Howell of Grapevine

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a wire-tightener that stretches "the wire after it has been secured to the post, and to take up any slack which may exist therein, owing to causes arising subsequent to the first stretching of the wires" (lines 10-13). It has similar features of other wire-tightener but is simple and efficient.

Date: January 1, 1895

Creator: Glenn, John William

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilating Attachment to Hearths.

Patent for a new and improved ventilating attachment for hearths. This design "consists in extending the ventilating box or casing . . . sufficiently below the floor of the room to the hearth to which it is applied to allow it to project into the room below" (lines 19-23).

Date: June 27, 1882

Creator: Howard, Joshua Eaffrom

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow

Patent for a modification of a plow that improves ease of use. Additionally the plow adds wings that allow plowing of soil at different angles.

Date: October 21, 1919

Creator: Richardson, William T.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate

Patent for a "class of gate known as a 'turnstile' or 'revolving gate'" (lines 8-9) including illustrations.

Date: June 10, 1902

Creator: Johnson, Charles B.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hoe-Sharpener.

Patent for a new and useful hoe sharpener, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 13, 1898

Creator: Foster, James T. & Miller, John B.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hog-Pen.

Patent for a hog pen and feed trough that can hold and feed a variety of variety of animals. It consists of an inclosure with an opening, ways extending into and out of the opening, a sliding trough mounted in the pen, rollers that slide into and out of the pen, pulleys in the trough, a shaft journaled in the front of the trough, ropes that go around the pulleys, and a turning mechanism for the shaft.

Date: July 4, 1893

Creator: Wilkinson, Benjmon M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of upright posts having top cross-pieces provided with depending hooks at their ends, hooks pivoted at the bottom portion of the posts and extending laterally in opposite directions, and the panels comprising a series of longitudinal rails, the lower one of which is provided with staples at its ends, and provided with wire strands engaging the ends of the rails and extending longitudinally above the series of rails,… more

Date: April 7, 1885

Creator: Tillman, William A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Patent for improvement to the cost and strength of fences.

Date: February 16, 1886

Creator: Tillman, William A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Floor Jack

Patent for floor jack. Illustration included.

Date: November 15, 1904

Creator: Millican, Charles M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Balance.

Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design consists "of the strap provided with a series of holes and designed to have one end secured to the upper sash of a window, the hanger secured to the top of the window-frame and provided with the roller, the clasp or fastener secured to the lower sash and consisting of the plate having the ears and provided with a roller journaled in the ears and having the pin or stud arranged to engage the hole of the strap" (lines 85-95).

Date: June 10, 1890

Creator: Estill, Charles C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for an "improvement in car-couplings; and it consists in the arrangement and combination of devices whereby the pin is supported in a raised condition; also in a spring-slide for holding up the link ready for coupling with another car." (lines 13-18)

Date: July 2, 1878

Creator: Gassaway, John H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame

Patent for a new type of quilting frame. The improved Quilting-Frame can be used with a standard sewing machine. The device allows a sewing machine to in seams.

Date: February 18, 1913

Creator: Cribbs, William D.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pencil-Lighting Attachment.

Patent for improvement in pencil-lighting attachments. This is meant to combine an electric lamp with a pencil, pen, etc. within a mounted casing so that the surface being written on may be lighted.

Date: October 1, 1918

Creator: Bennett, Jerrell

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings in which it can be adapted “to the draw-heads of car-couplings that is already in used and that there need not be two similar couplings of this character in order to permit the device to operate successfully.” (Lines 74-78) Illustration is included.

Date: October 13, 1891

Creator: Yates, Junius E. M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Stalk Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "[t]he frame mounted upon sled-runners and provided with braces, draft pole, and knives, in combination with the rake having check-bar, the sliding bar, connecting bar, and lever, all co-operating" (lines 89-92).

Date: July 28, 1885

Creator: Woodard, James A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department