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Belt Tightener for Pumps.

Description: Patent for belt tighteners for well pumps which decreases the amount of force necessary to tighten a pump. Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bench Clamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bench clamp. This design, "[b]eing made of iron or other suitable material . . . is strong, durable, and inexpensive. It requires no bolts or screws to secure it to the work-bench or other object where its use may be required, and can be put in position and removed easily and quickly. It occupies but little room on account of its compactness, and can be applied to any piece of work without marring it" (lines 72-80).
Date: January 25, 1881
Creator: Murphy, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bench-Dog

Description: Patent for a bench dog for holding boards while they are being cut.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: McCormick, Terrill W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bench Plane.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bench plane. This design "consists in a stirrup pivoted to the sides of the plane in such a manner that the traverse piece of the stirrup passes through a transverse groove in the under surface of the plane, this groove increasing in height toward the rear of the plane, so that when the plane is drawn backward it will be slightly raised by this stirrup, so that the cutting-edge of the plane-iron cannot slide on the board being planed" (lines 10-19).
Date: November 22, 1881
Creator: Sawyer, George Frederic
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bending-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new machine providing "a simple, efficient and easily operated fluid-pressure actuated machine" for the straightening of railway rails (lines 12-14)
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Keely, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bent for Suspension-Bridges.

Description: Patent for improvements in bents for suspension-bridges by securing the columns with wire braces, cross-bar and anchor-pins. Illustration is included.
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bevel.

Description: Patent for "bevel-squares adapted to be converted into a try-square through the medium of a pivoted and adjustable blade." (Lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Morris, Thomas R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bevel-Square

Description: Patent for improvements in bevel squares used by carpenters, mechanics, and other similar work to represent the work of multiple bevels at once "to minimize and facilitate operations in fitting the parts of an objective structure together..." (Lines 19-21).
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Seay, Mathew E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Beveled-Rule-Molding Device

Description: Patent for improvements in matrices and devices which are similar to matrices that are used in linotype and intertype or line casting machines. These devices consist of a rule molding mechanism with a bar having the general contour of a matrix. A channel exists in one side with under cut edges. These objects can be operated by matrix molding devices for forming rules for printing purposes.
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Beverage Shaking and Mixing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved beverage shaker and mixer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame provided with arms at right angles thereto and the main drive-wheel journaled therein, gear-wheels journaled at the ends of the arms, provided with wrist-pins and meshing with the drive-wheel, a shaker-bar connected to the wrist-pins of the gear-wheels and having a loop or opening for the insertion of the shaft of the drive-wheel, and the cups or tumbler-holders attached rigidly to t… more
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Haring, Peter Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Biblical Game Apparatus

Description: Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: James, Will S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle

Description: Patent for a bicycle propelled by the front wheel. Illustrations included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle

Description: Patent for device for improvement of speed of bicycle, including illustrations.
Date: March 28, 1896
Creator: Schooler, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle.

Description: Patent for "...a bicycle-frame so constructed that it is adapted to yield automatically...thereby doing away with the necessity of using pneumatic and puncturable tires..." (lines 10-11, 15-17) including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Smith, George Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bicycles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: White, Edward Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle.

Description: Patent for a bicycle that can be operated by the operator's hands or feet or both, and the motion used to operate the bicycle is that of rowing. "the rider must assume a position upon the machine corresponding to that assumed by an oarsman in a boat, and as the rider can work with both hands and feet all the energy and strength he is capable of exerting can be brought to bear upon the propelling mechanism in a most effective manner, and the seat can be rendered much more comfortable than at pre… more
Date: April 3, 1894
Creator: Hyde, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle.

Description: Patent for a bicycle that is safer than other bicycles. It has compensating gearing so that "the variations in leverage in the various positions assumed by the pedal crank are equalized" (lines 12-13).
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Lillibridge, Freeman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle.

Description: Patent for a bicycle that has a drive wheel, a ratchet wheel attached to the drive wheel, a chain that goes around the ratchet wheel, an apparatus for reciprocating the chain, a guideway from the chain to the ratchet wheel, a knob on the chain that engages the guideway, a pair of levers connected to the chain, and a chord that connects the levers to the chain.
Date: February 19, 1895
Creator: Williams, Elbert D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle Alarm

Description: Patent for a "simple and cheap as well as ornamental bicycle-whistle...of novel and peculiar construction, adapted for attachment to the bicycle and made to sound at pleasure" (lines 14-18). Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Crump, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a bicycle attachment that supports the frame and can be used as a "carrier or support for a child, package, a satchel, &c." (Lines 12-13) Illustrations included.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Flinn, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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