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Washing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design has a reversible trough, "having bearings for the detachable rollers and provided with a pair of flat springs affixed rigidly to opposite sides and at opposite ends of the trough, hooked screw-bolts having thumb-screws, and shaft of the main roller" (lines 1-6).

Date: November 15, 1881

Creator: Blake, Llewellyn A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Straw Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved straw cutter. This design "relates to certain improvements in straw-cutters; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 13-15). The novel construction and arrangement of parts means that "[t]he machine is simple, durable, and inexpensive in construction, will not readily get out of repair, and will perform the necessary work in an efficient manner" (lines 1-4).

Date: May 10, 1881

Creator: Cornish, John A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination of a central beam having a slot at its rear end and a hook at its front end, the laterally-adjustable bars connected with said beam, the scraper-standards pivoted to the adjustable bars, the front clevis for the beam, and rear yoke or support having a transverse pin, and the suspension-chains with a supporting-frame" (lines 101-108).

Date: November 1, 1881

Creator: McCaskill, John C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bran Dresser

Patent for new and valuable Improvement in Bran-Dressers

Date: December 13, 1881

Creator: De Haven, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Farm Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "is mounted upon a hinge-rod, which is adapted for adjustment at its upper end within a rack fixed to the top of the hinge-post and provided with a pivoted keeper for said hinge-rod, the object being to set the upper end of the hinge-rod away from the latch-post as may be required to raise the free end of the gate to take up the sag, to support the gate a sufficient height above the ground to swing free of snow, and to allow of the passage of smal… more

Date: September 13, 1881

Creator: Miller, Wilson B. & Bell, William H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Planter.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-planters.

Date: April 5, 1881

Creator: McFall, Mark M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Caster.

Patent for an improved design for casters, otherwise known as "rollers for bedsteads and the like" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.

Date: April 19, 1881

Creator: Custer, George

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Burglar Proof Safe.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "relates to burglar-proof safes, the object being to provide a safe with non-explosive seams; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-17).

Date: September 6, 1881

Creator: Gerard, Alonzo

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pulverizing Attachment for Plows

Patent for improvements in pulverizing attachments for plows used for furrow-slices as they are turned by plows.

Date: September 13, 1881

Creator: Maddux, Tapley, B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Handling Seed-Cotton to be Ginned.

Patent for a gin-house constructed of double tramway that can be used to improve the process of gaining seed-cotton.

Date: April 26, 1881

Creator: James, Andrew P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shingle Gage.

Patent for a new and improved gauge for the installation of roofing shingles. This design utilizes a set of metal brackets and joined metal bars to guide in the nailing of shingles to the roof. This eliminates the need for marking in advance the target of the nail.

Date: April 5, 1881

Creator: Gay, Edward R.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c.

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for treating and preserving. This design "insure[s] the complete and perfect treatment or impregnation of timber of varying hardness and density, and to provide a portable organization of apparatus by which timber at various points or stations along the line of a railroad can be treated with great facility, efficiency, and economy" (lines 12-19).

Date: November 22, 1881

Creator: Kreuter, Hugh E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locking Latch.

Patent for a new and improved latch. This design consists "[i]n a latch, the combination, with the sliding-bolt, tumblers having their forward ends provided with hooks or right-angled projections adapted to engage studs upon the bolt, and the lever operated by the bolt and having its forward end adapted to engage with the tumbler of the supplementary lock having its operating mechanism connected to the lever" (lines 68-76).

Date: July 12, 1881

Creator: Rand, Anders

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Saw Gummer.

Patent for a new and improved gin saw gummer. This design "consists in constructing a gin-saw gummer of a base-block, having a slot to receive the saw, and carrying the dics or stationary cutters, the guide-bar and shoe, the weight-bar, the pivoted bar, carrying the cutter and the gage, the lever and cam for operating the cutter-bar, and the feed mechanism" (lines 23-29).

Date: March 1, 1881

Creator: Clopton, John Benjamin

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the posts, the latch-bar pivoted to the main rail by inclined braces and operated by a rock-shaft and push-arms inclined in a direction opposite to that of the inclined braces, weight-box, and cranks for operating the rock-shaft to open and close the gate" (lines 19-25).

Date: October 25, 1881

Creator: Smith, Robert B. & Curry, William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Steam Engine.

Patent for a new and improved rotary steam engine. This design "first, provide[s] a novel form of valve for regulating the induction and eduction of steam to and from the cylinder; second, [it] provide[s] novel devices for reversing the movements of the rotating pistons; and, third, [it] provide[s] novel combinations of the parts of which the engine is composed"

Date: July 19, 1881

Creator: Cross, David L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Patent for improvement of plows; and it consists of a combination of two plows, which are attached to separate beams of their own, and which run upon opposite side of the growing plants for the purpose of cutting away weeds and dirt from around them, with two culitivators or shovels, which run immediately in the rear of said plows, and which clutivators are attached to beams of their own and serve to throw the dirt back toward the plants, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

Date: April 4, 1881

Creator: Carter, Charles Henry

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Cleaning, Polishing, and Assorting Nuts.

Patent for a new and improved nut cleaner, polisher, and sorter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the nut-cleaning cylinder having the longitudinal door and transversely-arranged wire cylinders having doors, of the intermediate hopper, arranged lengthwise of the cylinder, as well as under it, and having apertures over the doors of the wire cylinders . . . and a series of sieves, successively increasing in mesh, of a perforated floor, an end plate terminating in [an] eccentric, a… more

Date: September 13, 1881

Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump and Sprinkler.

Patent for a new and improved pump and sprinkler. This design "consists of a portable force-pump provided with a capricious air-chamber, and having on the end of its discharge-pipe a sprinkler of novel form, which causes the liquid to be ejected in a fine spray. . . . [This] provide[s] a simple, durable, and effective device, designed especially for use in sprinkling cotton-plants with poisonous solutions, to protect them against the ravages of injurious insects and worms" (lines 7-17).

Date: March 1, 1881

Creator: Polansky, Alois Josef

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Farm Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists "[i]n a swinging gate pivoted at its lower inner end and suspended by a diagonal wire, upon which it swings in being opened and closed, the adjustable bar provided with a depending loop or staple for the suspending-wire, the point of suspension by said loop, being between the latch end of the gate and a vertical line drawn through its pivot-pin" (lines 51-58).

Date: September 13, 1881

Creator: Miller, Wilson B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drawer of Furniture, Store Fixture, &c.

Patent for a new and improved chest of drawers. This design "consists, first, in a drawer applied upon side cleats or ledges, grooved longitudinally with the movement of the drawer, and having balls placed in such grooves in such a manner that they are kept separated and are free to roll or move longitudinally, and that they serve as bearings for the drawer, while they keep it from frictional contact with the cleats . . . second, in a novel mode of construction of cleats" (para. 1).

Date: June 7, 1881

Creator: Johnson, William H. & Whomes, Joseph

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Crate.

Patent for a new and improved folding crate. This design "consists, in a folding crate, of a closed-bottom and open work top and sides, each made in two parts, hinged to each other at their adjacent ends . . . the upright bars, having tenons upon their ends; the strengthening-bars, each made in two parts . . . the hooks and eyes; the hasps and staples; and the rod and staple, whereby the crate is made strong and firm, and allowed to be folded compactly for reshipment" (lines 18-29).

Date: February 1, 1881

Creator: Van Hutton, William Bruno

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Sprinkler.

Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists "[i]n a cotton or other plant sprinkler, the reservoir or tank mounted upon a suitable carriage or truck, and having connected thereto a pump, in combination with the grooved pulley, rigidly secured to the wheel of the carriage or truck, belt or chain, pulley, clutch, and crank, connected by suitable levers or arms to the piston-rod . . . with the pipes, provided with roseheads, of the arm or carrier, formed in sections and connected… more

Date: May 17, 1881

Creator: Wolfram, John Arnold

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saddle Bags

Patent for improvements in saddle bags

Date: April 19, 1881

Creator: Elliot, George W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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