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Ant-Trap

Description: Patent for an ant trap with a removable bottom which allows the trap to be emptied easily.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Arc-Lamp Attachment

Description: Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
Date: April 2, 1918
Creator: Pratt, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ash-Pan

Description: Patent for an ash pan for trains. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Spratley, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Vehicle-Seats.

Description: Patent for "a vehicle seat and more particularly to a device securable to the under portion of a seat and engaging the side walls of the wagon body so that the seat will be prevented from shifting transversely of the vehicle" (lines 9-14).
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Jackson, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Headlight

Description: Patent for an automobile headlight to be attached to the front of the vehicle, that automatically turns to the side whenever the vehicle changes its course so that the pathway directly ahead is lighted for increased safety in the automobile's course.
Date: February 8, 1916
Creator: Old, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blade.

Description: Patent for a new blade similar to "weed blades" (line 10) that can be "attached to a cultivator" (line 11) and includes an illustration.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Kelly, John H. & Mershon, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll Cotton Gin.

Description: Patent for an improved boll-cotton gin which gathers the cotton bolls without crushing them or intermingling the product with impurities by separating the seed cotton from the bolls and hulls.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Hopper, James F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boltless Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for improvements in connecting rails without the use of bolts and nuts but instead using two fish-plates.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Richardson, Charles I. & Hall, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Broom or Brush

Description: Patent for metal brooms or brushes that are "strong and durable, relatively light in weight, and can be inexpensively manufactured" (line 13-15). It is intended for "sweeping snow, mud, slush, and the like" (line 16-17). The patent can also be applied for smaller version of metal brooms or brushes for other purposes.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Airhart, Noah S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Butter-Mold

Description: Patent for "a butter mold embodying means for cutting and shaping a piece of wrapping paper to conform to the configuration of the mold in which it is adapted to be placed to receive the butter." (lines 9-13).
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Higginbotham, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cake-Stripping Machine

Description: Patent for a cake-stripping machine which provides novel means for stripping cloth off the oil cake. It is also to provide means for trimming the cake after the cloth has been stripped off the cake. The scope of the invention is to improve generally and enhance the utility of devices of that type.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Card Holder

Description: Patent for improvements made to card holders, mostly for handbags and other cases much like luggage tags today. The patent describes and illustrates improved design and construction so they can be manufactured at an economic price.
Date: May 19, 1914
Creator: Grabendike, Clyde C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compound Tool

Description: Patent for a compound tool which combines the features of the nut-wrench and the pipe-wrench.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Scroggins, James L. & Waldrop, A. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Concrete-Mixer.

Description: Patent for a concrete mixer that keeps the materials low to the ground and has improved mixing and delivery mechanisms.
Date: October 3, 1911
Creator: Foley, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Conductor's Train-Book

Description: Patent for a conductor's train-book. This invention if for a conductor to log train movements. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Crane, James C. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.

Description: Patent for a new, efficient machine, with a double purpose: "to clean hand-picked cotton and better prepare it for the ginning operation" (lines 11-13) and to extract cotton "from unripe and closed bolls" (lines 14-15).
Date: March 7, 1916
Creator: Blackmon, Enoch J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that improved the cleaning process for machine-processed boll cotton. The invention made it possible to extract more lint cotton from closed bolls which were typically unharvestable by traditional machine-based cotton gins. The machine also improved success in late fall or winter cotton harvesting by allowing bolls containing hard-to-reach cotton to be processed.
Date: September 4, 1918
Creator: Blackmon, Enoch J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for an improved method of locating the air blast apparatus for cleaning lint from the saw teeth of saw-type cotton gins, so that the cotton lint does not accumulate on the cleaning apparatus and render it inoperative, including illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Hopper, James F.; Stephens, George B. & Young, Harry F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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