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Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Description: Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Match Box

Description: Patent for automatic match box. This device is designed to eject matches to a suitable distance. Illustration included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Hanna, John Griffin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Multiple Fuse Block

Description: Patent for an automatic multiple fuse block. This invention is "provided a normally inactive shunt circuit through which, when a fuse is blown, the current is diverted to an electro-mechanical means which, when the rush of current causing the fuse to blow" (16-21). Illustration included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Piano

Description: Patent for an automatic piano that can play longer and is more compact than previous models.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Stauffer, Floyd F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Plow-Foot.

Description: Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Dugger, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Printing Device

Description: Patent for "improvements in automatic printing devices. . .whereby the printing is effected b the movement of the paper or fabric on which the printing is done" (lines 10-16).
Date: July 23, 1889
Creator: Barradall, Norborne D. & Bradley, Andrew Jackson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Quick-Acting Vise.

Description: Patent for a quick-acting, easily operated vise "in which the jaws are automatically held closed upon the work until released." Its simple construction enables it to be inexpensively and efficiently manufactured.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: McCullough, Daniel B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railroad or Farm Gate.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic railroad or farm gate that uses the "weight of the car or wagon upon an operating-board and automatically close[s] after the train has passed, and which can also be opened by hand when it is desired to let a single person pass through, either upon foot or horseback" (lines 20-25).
Date: October 4, 1892
Creator: Benson, Joseph Robinson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railroad-Switch

Description: Patent for an automatic railroad switch which throws the switch automatically back to the main line after a train has entered a siding.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Toullerton, George Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Description: Patent for an automatic railway-gate or cattle-guard for use "at crossings, the entrances to tunnels, bridges or trestles, or at other places where it is desirable to guard the tracks" (lines 11-13). The invention is a simple and effective way for closing gates, can be operated from a distance, and is controlled by the wheels of passing trains.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Baade, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Description: Patent for an automatic railway gate that consists of a picket shaft under the rails, cranks between the rails that are connected to the picket shaft, springs holding the shaft, tread rails that run along the rails and join the cranks, and guide blocks along each tread rail.
Date: February 13, 1894
Creator: Warren, Governor D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Description: Patent for a "strong, durable, efficient, easy of operation, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 20-23) automatic railway gate. It "is to provide a swinging gate and automatic means of particular construction for operating the gate" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Turvan, Jim O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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