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Back-Pedaling Brake.

Description: Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to … more
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Keith, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Thompson, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Car-Switching System.

Description: Patent for "a system of switching where the cars of a train are pushed up an incline and placed successively on an elevated annular revolving platform, by which they are automatically distributed to their respective receiving-tracks" (lines 9-14).
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Lelardoux, Pierre
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brush.

Description: Patent for a brush used with pressurized water to clean floors, walls, ceilings, horses, buggies, animal carcasses, etc. The brush can have a hose hooked up to it and has a valve. The water goes into the top of the brush and is distributed evenly throughout with holes in the top of the brush, and the water is sprayed through the bristles.
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Zandt, Luther H. van
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Broom Rack.

Description: Patent for a new and improved broom rack. This design "compris[es] the lower ring provided in its outer edge with a series of notches adapted to receive the head of the brooms, the upper ring arranged to fit within the opening of the lower ring when not in use and provided with a series of perforations to receive the handles of the brooms, the chains or other suitable means for connecting the rings, and the chains . . . secured to the upper rings" (lines 79-88).
Date: June 24, 1890
Creator: Neely, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Baling Cotton.

Description: Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1891
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle-Filling Machine.

Description: Patent for a bottle-filling machine in which "a number of bottles of equal capacity may be simultaneously filled from a common reservoir by the single movement of a lever" (lines 13-16), illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1891
Creator: Baldinger, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for improvements in car-couplings by providing "a coupler which will without any adjustment couple two cars whose draw-heads are of different heights.” (lines 17-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Thompson, James A. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a clamp that is used in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Howard, Zenas F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Strainer.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in well strainers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1898
Creator: Booth, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Hardaway, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a well-drilling apparatus meant "to provide improved means for adjusting and withdrawing drill-tools without removing the drill-rod to provide a folding reamer and means for adjusting the blades thereof, and to provide means for conveying water to the drill, whereby the drillings are carried up outside of the drill-rod or barrel" (lines 9-16).
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Horton, Stephen A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Lynn, John McKinzie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Jetty.

Description: Patent for a an inexpensive and durable jetty made from "piles driven in the ground in the ordinary way, but incase them in such a way that they will not be liable to early decay or infested by insects, which cut and destroy them when not protected" (lines 11-15).
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Bryant, Benjamin N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve-Gear.

Description: Patent for a valve-gear that uses a single eccentric, "together with devices by which such eccentric may be shifted upon the shaft and locked in its various positions to effect either a reversal of the engine or a stoppage thereof with a full head of steam on, and to run the engine in one or the other direction, as may be desired" (lines 10-15).
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Hill, Millard F. & Easley, Clifton W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer consisting of a steam-generator used with "removable drawers forming the fire-box and ash-pan of the generator, a safety-valve connected with the steam-boiler, and a novel form and construction of flexible discharge-tube, the same being provided with a cut-off device and with a socket-piece adapted to receive a handle by means of which the discharge end of the flexible tube may be elevated and conducted to any desired point" (lines 12-21).
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Maddux, Richard Calvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for "washing-machines which combine in one structure means for heating the suds-water and maintaining the same at the required temperature, a suds-box having chambered or hollow bottom and sides to secure a circulation of the suds-water independently of the agitation resulting from turning the drum or clothes-receptacle upon its axis, and a drum removably journaled in the suds-box and comprising longitudinal slats or bars having bent edge portions for scooping up the suds-water and direc… more
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Roach, Henry B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee-Protector.

Description: Patent for leg protectors that have "a pad or reinforcement on the knees thereof, such as will afford a sufficient protection against injury by stones or other hard substances or irregularities on the surface of the ground or other place upon which the wearer is obliged to kneel." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Herbelin, Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wash Boiler

Description: Patent for improvement on boiler washing machines so that steam is produced in conical chambers underneath a false bottom thus producing steam in less time and stirring the clothes as steam is vented upward and out of said chambers.
Date: January 24, 1893
Creator: Medley, John Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trawl-Line.

Description: Patent for a trawl-line that is supported so that it "can be caused to travel continuously in the same or reversed directions at will" (lines 12-14). The invention prevents "the choking of the line supporting pulleys with grasses and other foreign matter, and also to enable the ready adjustment of the pulley son the posts to change the elevation of the trawl-line and the depth of dip of the hooks in the water" (lines 16-21).
Date: July 24, 1894
Creator: White, Warren Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tongue-Bar-Supporting Clamp.

Description: Patent for a clamp that holds the hammers in a piano. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Staple Extractor.

Description: Patent for a staple extractor used for removing wire from the posts of wire fences. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1892
Creator: Hunt, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydraulic Compresor.

Description: Patent for a hydraulic compressor meant to press cotton using the minimum amount of weight and the maximum amount of strength.
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Reisel, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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