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Audiphone

Description: Patent for a audiophone which reproduces sounds at their original volume and timbre through the use of diaphragms vibrated by an electric signal.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Baker, John A.
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Brick Kiln

Description: Patent for a brick kiln. Illustration included.
Date: November 15, 1904
Creator: Sonka, Joesph & Metzner, Robert A.
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Automatic Alarm for Stem-Boilers.

Description: Patent for a new and useful automatic alarm for steam boilers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Prencel, Anthony M.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Gesche, Eugene C.
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Animal-Poke.

Description: Patent for a device that prevents animals such as cows from tearing down fences.
Date: February 12, 1901
Creator: Specht, W.
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Automatic Railway-Switch Operating Mechanism

Description: Patent for an automatic railway switch operating mechanism with improved levers and controls.
Date: August 8, 1911
Creator: Hoffmann, Laniel F.
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Box Stand or Bracket

Description: Patent for a pivoting box and/or box stand for use in stores.
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Luensmann, Henry
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Automatic Cylindrical Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cylindrical power-source. This design "consists in the combination of a cylindrical slotted frame with a series of blades which are connected together in pairs, and which are alternately forced through the slots in the frame to receive the force of the wind or water and then retracted, so that they will offer no resistance during a portion of the revolution of the frame. . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a motor which is adapted for use either as a … more
Date: November 15, 1881
Creator: Hutchinson, Thomas E.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to improvements in that class of car-couplings in which the link is held in the draw-head by a tongue engaging the link; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-11).
Date: September 8, 1885
Creator: Meusebach, Otto C.
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Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the plate, having extensions and laterally-extending arm or bracket, the hopper mounted upon the extension of the plate, the seed-slide or coiled spring connecting the front end of the latter with the bracket, metal plates secured to the front and rear sides of the rear wall of the hopper above the seed-slide, the brush or cut-off arranged between said plates, and suitable operating mechanism for retracting the… more
Date: February 18, 1890
Creator: Cromer, Thomas L.
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Automatic Heat-Regulator for Incubators.

Description: Patent for a device that allows for automatic temperature regulation in incubators. It operates by extinguishing and lighting the incubator's heating lamp wick to maintain a predetermined temperature.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Wiedner, Charles
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Stub-Axle Adjustment Device.

Description: Patent for useful improvements for Stub-Axle Adjustment Devices. This device will allow for the stub-axle to be efficiently adjusted in both a vertical plane and a transverse plane with respect to the machine.
Date: November 8, 1921
Creator: Kopplin, Otto E.
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Wagon Spring.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wagon spring. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which springs of great strength may be employed which will not require stay-chains, and which will not increase the height of the wagon-body and cause inconvenience in loading and unloading the vehicle and in getting in and out, and, furthermore, to provide a vehicle in which the wagon-body may be but slightly elevated above the axles, and in which the springs will have great play" (lines 17-26).
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Conley, Miles D.
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Windmill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the combination of a central vertical shaft a series of supporting-arms projecting horizontally out from this shaft, a number of curved buckets which are pivoted at or near their centers between these supporting-arms, and suitable springs or weights which are attached to the inner edges of these buckets" (lines 13-20).
Date: June 13, 1882
Creator: Lowther, Lorenzo Dow
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Well Drilling Machine.

Description: Patent for an improvement in well drilling.
Date: April 10, 1900
Creator: Wiedner, Friedrich R.
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Knee-Pad

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Knee-Pads" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Schmitt, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lineman's Portable Telegraph and Telephone Pole Seat.

Description: Patent for a seat for linemen when stringing telegraph or telephone poles, which has clamps that go around the pole.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Troell, Charles T.
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Induction Coil

Description: Patent for induction coil. Illustration included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Baker, John A.
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Improvement in Tanning.

Description: Patent for improvements in tanning materials: "extractive matter for the manufacture of leather from the wood and bark of the mesquit - a tree of extensive growth on the prairies of western and north western Texas" (lines 9-13).
Date: December 5, 1865
Creator: Park, John E.
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Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers

Description: Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
Date: January 3, 1871
Creator: Booton, Sinclair
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Stalk-Cutter

Description: Patent for a cotton stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Werner, Fridolin, Sr.
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Pump.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pump. This design utilizes a new combination and arrangement of cylinders, pistons, pipes, chambers, valves, screws, levers, and air and water vessels to pump water more effectively.
Date: May 31, 1881
Creator: Maney, Henry, Sr.
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Tongue for Farm Implements.

Description: Patent for a tongue for farm implements, which regulates the draft of the implement.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Mader, August W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for the improvement of seed planters using a gage-wheel "to regulate the depth of the furrow made by the plow" (lines 16-17), including illustration.
Date: December 28, 1858
Creator: Marshall, Frank M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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