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Account-Book.

Description: Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aeroplane.

Description: Patent for improved propulsion for airplanes involving propellors in the front and rear of the plane. This aids in regulating air currents to stabilize flight, landing and speed. The patent includes illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Campbell, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Agricultural Implement

Description: Patent for a novel and improved implement of this general character including a plurality of supporting members provided with ground working elements together with a body positioned upon said supporting members and wherein said said supporting members and body are capable of relative movement transversely of the direction of travel of the implement.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air Brake Attachment.

Description: Patent for "mechanism for use in connection with railway cars for automatically controlling the air brakes," including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1917
Creator: Flowers, Malon Inghram & Sale, Archie Pierce
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Feed for Motors.

Description: Patent for air-feed invention that aims to supply moist air to automobile engines. Illustrations included.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Reid, Samuel E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air Filtering Gas Burner

Description: Patent for device that helps prevent air from choking burners when used in cooking.
Date: February 6, 1917
Creator: Parks, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Amusement Apparatus

Description: Patent for an amusement apparatus of the character set forth with and inclined place made of a number of pivoted sections which may be simultaneously moved into horizontal position to form steps or seats and be held in such position by trip device provided with a target which latter upon being hit by a thrown ball will release the several sections of the inclined plane of steps and permit them through the weight of one or more persons thereon to aline one with the other and form a continuous in… more
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Andrews, J.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Amusement Device.

Description: Patent for an invention relating to the amusement device. Advantages and illustrations of the invention and amusement device are included.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Moore, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for Improvements in Animal Traps. This trap is a "self and everset trap" (lines 11-12) with the primary purpose of creating a trap that is "efficient of operation, economical of construction, and sanitary" (lines 14-15).
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Burgett, William Matthews
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap

Description: Patent for improvements in animal traps, in particular mouse and rat traps. Illustrations included.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Stockburger, Charles. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Antikicking Device for Automobiles.

Description: Patent for a device that catches the crank of hand crank automobiles which were typical of the early 1900s in the United States of America. The invention addresses controlling the motion of the crank and preventing the crank from causing injury.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Miller, Herman P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Antiseptic Shaving Outfit.

Description: Patent for a more compact and improved version of an antiseptic shaving outfit, including illustrations.
Date: January 2, 1917
Creator: Braunstein, Aron
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Cleaning Deep Wells.

Description: Patent for a device that uses hot steam to clean caked-on paraffin, mud, and other substances out of oil well pumping apparatuses.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Deats, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Cleaning Deep Wells.

Description: Patent for a device that assists in cleaning deep wells that have caked material in the pumping apparatus by using hot steam.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Deats, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Description: Patent for improvements to a device for exterminating insects, in particular corn weevils, including illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Geeslin, Robert Worn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Destroying Weevils.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for destroying weevils and moths, infesting corn, peas, hay, sweet potatoes, beans, and the like, when stored. The apparatus consists of a container with an improved means of distributing heat to the contents in which the weevils and moths are found.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Kasmeier, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date: September 10, 1917
Creator: Cole, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.

Description: Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Arc-Lamp.

Description: Patent for an arc lamp that features a spring operated clutch mechanism for the upper electrode.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Williams, Theron H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Armor For Pneumatic Tires.

Description: Patent for armor for pneumatic tires to prevent puncturing of the inner inflatable tube. To also provide anti-skidding lugs which connect to the flexible armor embodied in the tire casing.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Chilton, William G. & Hobgood, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Armored Car.

Description: Patent for an armored car or portable fort, that aims to provide a novel and improved armor unit of that nature.
Date: December 11, 1917
Creator: Spence, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Cameras.

Description: Patent for an improved camera attachment for adding titles to film that prevents the film from being exposed to light except when the title is photographed, with illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Bretz, George W.; Lowry, Claud A.; Wood, Oscar O.; Wade, J. H.; Pirtle, P. R.; Jones, F. E. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Coffee-Roasters.

Description: Patent for an attachment to a coffee-roaster that assists in separating coffee beans from foreign matter.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Liberto, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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