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Earth-Auger

Description: Patent for structural improvement in machines used for boring post holes and wells with illustrations and instructions included.
Date: April 13, 1880
Creator: Cudd, Decater P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ink Feeder for Pens.

Description: Patent for a wire attachment to be added to the hollow of a writing pen. This attachment would enable more ink to be drawn into the interior of the pen, therefore allowing more words to be written from a single dip into an ink well.
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Hine, Frank B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Instrument for Dividing Angles into Equal Parts.

Description: Patent for an instrument for dividing angles into equal parts and is meant to be used with a beam compass. The "invention consists in a member having a point adapted to be placed at the point of the angle to be divided, and having movable thereon a beam extending horizontally and having at one end a transverse head projecting from each side of the beam and carrying at one end an indicating point and at the other end a marking pencil" (lines 22-29).
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Cornelius, Francis W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Measuring and Drawing Tool.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and durable measuring and drawing tool that is easily adjusted and used to find bevels, pitches, degrees, and lengths in framing roofs. It has other purposes as well. "The invention consists of a plate in the shape of an eighth of an octagon having four sides, and a straight edge pivoted on the side plate and indicating thereon" (lines 14-17).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Allred, Lemuel O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fountain-Pen.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fountain pen that provides a “novel means for manipulating the compressible reservoir” (lines 13-14) of the pen and of which the contents "may readily be fed manually, to the ink-applying portion of the pen" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Smith, Edwin Ruthven
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fountain-Pen.

Description: Patent for a fountain pen that has a piston which suctions ink into the pen's barrel and feeds it to the pen-point. The pen will be sturdy with no loose parts.
Date: September 1, 1896
Creator: Rogers, William Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pencil-Sharpener.

Description: Patent for a pencil sharpener that sharpens pencils quickly and efficiently. This invention catches the resulting shavings and dust, and has a compact design to fit in a pocket.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Wolf, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pencil Sharpener and Holder.

Description: Patent for a device that is a pencil sharpener and a pencil holder, which can clip onto a coat pocket. The device is made from a small amount of sheet metal.
Date: June 27, 1916
Creator: Brucks, William Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Penholder.

Description: Patent for a penholder that is worn on the finger and is an "open-ended hollow thimble with a detachable and reversible cap-piece" (lines 20-22). The pen-point can be unscrewed and screwed back in the opposite way so that the pen-point is inside the thimble, so the pen-point doesn't break in one's pocket.
Date: January 26, 1897
Creator: Ward, George C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pen-Cleaning Attachment for Inkstands.

Description: Patent for innovations in "pen-cleaning attachments for inkstands" (lines 9-10). It is a lip that extends past the top of ink-wells, and is meant to prevent blotting. The attachment is "an annular expansible body portion of spring metal adapted to be fitted in the mouth of an ink-well" (lines 93-95)
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Higgins, Pattillo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Easel

Description: Patent for an easel that has a sliding picture-rest, which is has a "clutch mechanism for holding the sliding rest at any desired elevation" (lines 11-14). It also has a "auxiliary folding rest for holding a model or study while the artist is engaged at work" (lines 20-22), which can be folded up when finished.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Cooper, Harry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drafting Machine

Description: Patent for a machine designed for constructing or drafting geometric figures, including illustrations.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Kreisle, Edwin Clinton & Hawkins, Lyndsay Dickason
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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