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Baling - Press

Description: Patent for a new and improved hay pressing or baling machine. This design "relates to presses or baling-machines, and more particularly to that class which are worked bu hand-power" (line 9 - 11).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Younger, William Turner
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Combined Automobile-Wheel and Flexible Tire.

Description: Patent for improving tires for the motor vehicles. The invention provides a wheel with a tieldably connected tire so as to take up the vibration upon the vehicle equipped with the wheel. Further, invention provides vehicle wheel with a yieldable rim. This rim is for a wheel formed from sheet metal instead of usual pneumatic tire, eliminating the expense of repairs from punctures and blow-outs.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: La Bauve, Henry John
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Water-Heater.

Description: Patent for a compact gas powered water heater that runs the water through firmly attached tubes that expand and contract with the water temperature and are placed in between heating elements. The machine can also be packed with ice to cool water in the tubes.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Haynie, Brooks
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Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.

Description: Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Perry, Elton
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Improvement in Saddle-Trees.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Still, Henry C. & Still, Joseph R.
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Improvement in Fire-Lighters.

Description: Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Craig, Samuel M.
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Improvement in Paper Bags.

Description: Patent for an improvement in paper bags with design specifications and a description of their functionality and usage, including illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1878
Creator: Alexander, Newton J.
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Switch.

Description: Patent for a switch for electrically operated elevator doors or gates that ensures their proper closing before the car travels through the shaft.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood & Covert, Frank M.
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Improvement in Churns.

Description: Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
Date: April 18, 1876
Creator: Rost, Otto
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Oil Substitute.

Description: Patent for an oil paint substitute consisting of furniture glue, water, soda ash, and salicylic acid, rosin, and pigment. Includes instructions for three different formulas.
Date: May 18, 1897
Creator: Reynolds, Walter James
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Floor Selector-Switch for Electric Door-Operating Apparatus

Description: Patent for floor selector switch for electric door operating apparatus situated at the floor/landing near the elevator shaft to close and open the elevator gate/door. It also allows the elevator operator to use a switch to operate the elevator gate/door, and also lock the gate/door so it cannot be opened by accident. All said to work quickly and quietly.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
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Elevator-door-operating Apparatus

Description: Patent for an electrically controlled means of automatically "opening and closing the doors of the elevator shaft" without slamming or banging the doors, including illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
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Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved gang plow and cultivator" (lines 3-4), including instructions and illustrations. "This invention relates to a new agricultural machine which may be readily changed from a gang-plow into a cultivator, and vice-versa" (lines 15-17).
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Domschke, Charles
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in a "hollow hub or sleeve in combination with the universal joint composed of a band fitting loosely within said sleeve, a gimbal-ring pivoted to said band, and a knuckle pivoted to said gimbal-ring, whereby motion may be transmitted from one rotary body to another when the planes of rotation are or are not parallel to each other" (lines 88-95).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Kirk, John P.
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Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the driving-wheel . . . the rotary mold-board, and the plow-beam, of the universal joint composed of the hollow portion of the hub of the driving-wheel, a ring pivoted thereto, a knuckle pivoted to said ring, and a band encircling the hollow portion of said hub and fixed to the said plow-beam" (lines 6-13).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Kirk, John P.
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Door Operating and Locking Device.

Description: Patent for an electric door or gate operating and locking device that allows for automatically opening and closing a door or gate and locking it when it is open or closed. This device may be turned off if necessary to allow for manually moving the door or gate and may be installed cheaply in preexisting structures.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
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Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a blade arranged for connection with a beam and formed with cutting-edges . . . , of a wing in a horizontal plane formed with a cutting-edge and rigidly connected to the blade at some distance above its lower edge" (lines 60-65).
Date: February 18, 1890
Creator: Henry, Leroy Bell
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[News Clip: Cop shooting (Austin)]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 18, 1978, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Austin Murder]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 18, 1978, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Rape bill]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 18, 1983, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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