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Toy Race-Course.

Description: Patent for toy race-course.
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Cordray, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental Chair.

Description: Patent for a dental chair improvement.
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Stiles, Edmund P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a shaft journaled at its lower end in the ordinary draw-bar and at its upper end in a bracket . . . and in the combination therewith of a brace . . . adapted to support the lower end of said shaft, a hook placed between the brace and the draw-bar, and a spring surrounding the shaft and arranged to hold the shaft and hook normally . . . It also further consists in . . . the hook, . . . a spring-actuated uncoupling… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: De May, Eugene A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "the combination of the disks or sections connected by the central bar, the oppositely-pointing lever-arms, the transverse pin fitting into corresponding openings in the disks or sections on one side of the central bar, the locking-pin adapted to fit into any two corresponding openings of the concentric series of openings made in the disks, and a rope or similar device connecting the wire to be stretched with the disks and th… more
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Boyd, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "consists in the combination of a slotted lever provided with points at one end to catch against the side of the post and a hook over which one end of the chain is fastened, a sliding frame, a reel or drum, pawls, a guiding-pulley, a wire or chain, to which the clamp is secured, and a chain for fastening the stretcher to the post . . . [it] is to provide a slotted handle a sliding frame . . . so that when the strain of the wire being str… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Dunbar, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Elevator Chain.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water-elevator chain. This design "has relation to that class of water-elevators in which the buckets are connected to an endless chain formed of wire, the several links being connected to each other by loops or eyes formed thereon; and the object thereof is to improve the construction of this class of wire chains, whereby the bearings for the links are greatly increased and strengthened and the general construction of the chain rendered more durable, also the link… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hypodermic Syringe.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hypodermic syringe. This design consists in "the combination of a barrel, a sleeve secured to said barrel and having a diaphragm adapted to close the end of the barrel, a needle-carrier having a cylindrical projection working in the sleeve, an outlet-tube secured to the needle-carrier and extending through the diaphragm in the sleeve, and a coiled spring arranged around said tube within the cylindrical projection of the needle-carrier" (lines 71-80).
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Dunbar, Addison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Evaporator and Furnace.

Description: Patent for a new and improved evaporator and furnace. This design is "compris[ed of] the side walls provided on their opposing faces at one end with the horizontal grooves, and the inclined rearwardly-extending grooves communicating at their lower ends with the grooves, the front end wall having the doors . . . the rear end wall having the . . . collar for the attachment of a smoke-pipe, the bottom plate having its edges secured in the inclined grooves, and the grate-bars having their ends secu… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Stallcup, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Saddle

Description: Patent for the "construction and combination of devices" (line 10) that serve as "an improvement in harness-saddles" (lines 8-9) for horses, with illustrations.
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Goodman, William Dave & Tuttle, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mosquito Net Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mosquito-net frame. This design consists in "the combination, with the standards provided with detachable heads, horizontal bars, and a detachable bracket, and downwardly-inclined pins secured to the standards, adapted to enter a diagonal aperture at the upper ends of the bedstead, and an angular bar pivoted to the lower ends of the standards to be passed under the edge of the head-board" (lines 1-10).
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Lottman, Albert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motive Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved motor. With this design, "[i]t is to be observed that the beam is provided with a series of holes near one end, and the frame is also provided with a corresponding series of apertures, so that by taking out the pin which supports the beam and changing its position the throw of the beam may be regulated at pleasure" (lines 57-63).
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Louthian, Lafayette D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door Check.

Description: Patent for a new and improved door check. This design is "formed of a single strip of sheet metal, comprising a base provided with a hole or holes for fastening the same in position, and one end bent inwardly and upwardly at an angle to said base to form a spring-catch, and the other end bent upwardly at substantially at a right angle to the base and thence downwardly and outwardly to form a fastening-flange, in line with the base, and a brace to strengthen the stop, said flange being provided … more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Price, Harry F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton or Hay Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[a] duplex cotton or other press comprising connected pressing-boxes, each having a loose lower platen and platen-supports on its sides, devices . . . for raising said lower platens, a truck for supporting said boxes, traveling wheels or rollers journaled to said truck and having bevel or V-shaped treads or peripheries, a track mounted upon suitable supports and having a V-shaped or recessed top face to receive and guide said … more
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Berry, William Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hearth for Fire Places.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hearth for fireplaces. This design "ha[s] a depression in its upper side, and a lid hinged to the hearth at the rear end of the depression, so as to fill the same when not in use" (lines 93-96).
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Moore, John Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Badge.

Description: Design patent for a badge, "consisting of a plate or body ornamented on one side with the representation of a rising sun, an arm and hand, a serpent, and a shackle and lock" (lines 43-46). The accompanying illustration is not available.
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Horton, Henry A. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for automatic car-coupling for passenger and freight cars.
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Ferguson, George Jones
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Handle and Toilet Case.

Description: Patent for a new and improved toiletry case. This design consists in "[a] combined hollow parasol or umbrella handle and toilet-case, consisting of an ornamental hollow case having an end opening for the reception of a parasol or umbrella stick, its opposite end provided with a rigid extension-ring, a hinged cover provided with a mirror on its inner face and working against the tension of a coiled spring, and an end lip to said cover to contact with end spring secured to said case, the internal… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Myers, Ida Louise
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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