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Pad for Horse-Collars

Description: Patent for a pad for a horse collar that connects to one side of the branch and then the other to maintain hold around the animal's neck when pulled back. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Flemming, Julius R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Non-Spillable Oil Can

Description: Patent for improvements upon non-spillable oil cans that contain "a valve-controlled inlet and outlet whereby the receptacle can be readily and easily filled and its contents prevented from spilling irrespective of what position it may be arranged when not in use" (lines 10-15).
Date: July 6, 1915
Creator: Matthews, William James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Shade Hanger

Description: Patent for a window shade hanger device which allows for the shade to be placed at multiple stations by sliding and covering any portion of the window desired instead of a stationary shade mount.
Date: April 6, 1915
Creator: Hillman, Annie M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination-Penknife

Description: Patent for a combination penknife that includes: blades, awl, tack puller, screwdriver, beer bottle opener, cork screw, thorn extractor. The pen knife uses a "pocket" within the blades to house the corkscrew and awl.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Feyrer. Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Crossing.

Description: Patent for railway crossing that will prevent shock and vibrations from passing over broken pieces of crossing.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Bristow, George O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baby-Protector.

Description: Patent for a protective device designed to keep an infant from sufficiently bending their arms and reaching their mouth, thereby preventing the child from potentially ingesting dangerous foreign articles.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Dodd, Jacob Everette
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for an oil burner which ensures the "formation of a thorough mixture of oil, air and a fluid under pressure, such as steam or compressed air" and the prevention of the "flooding of the burner with surplus oil".
Date: June 3, 1913
Creator: Eckhardt, Richard H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Book and Pencil Holder.

Description: Patent for a book and pencil holder that mounts a pencil or pen and attaches to a book. The combined book and pencil holder uses a clamp so the pen or pencil attached to the book inside a pocket is maintained in a pocket and does not fall out.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: Colbert, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Bag Catcher and Deliverer

Description: Patent for a mail bag catcher and deliverer. "This invention relates to mail bag catchers and deliverers and the principle object of the invention is the provision of simple and efficient mechanism of the character which may be readily and conveniently thrown to operative and inoperative position and wherein the saddle bars and their respective guards may be aligned with the track and car" (lines 9-17). Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Freeman, Richard J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Detacher

Description: Patent for a horse detacher for use on wagons that prevents accidental separation.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Backermann, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Passenger Recorder

Description: Patent for "automatically auditing the number of passengers and the distance traveled by said passengers while en route on a train or other public conveyance." (lines 9-13)
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Rudolf Brown, of Cuero, Texas.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring

Description: Patent for a spring for footwear that helps facilitate foot movement such as walking, running, jumping, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Backermann, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.

Description: Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, an… more
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for hydrocarbon-burner "adapted to be used in stoves, both heating and cooking" (lines 17-18). The device "may be attached to any stove" (lines 24-25). The "invention consists in the novel construction of the burner and particularly the cap" (lines 27-28) as well as "other novel features" (lines 29-30).
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: George, Charles Hentz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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