UNT Libraries Government Documents Department - 77 Matching Results

Search Results

Cotton-Pest-Destroying Machine

Patent for a machine that destroys boll weevils and other agricultural pests. It distributes moisture and poisonous powder that adheres to plants.

Date: June 21, 1921

Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.

Portable Electric Saw.

Patent for improvement of portable electric saws that can be used "as readily and accurately as a hand saw in performing many different grades of work much more rapidly and with less physical exertion" (lines 17-20), including illustrations.

Date: June 7, 1921

Creator: Lange, David C.

Railway Cattle-Guard

Patent for a railway cattle guard whereby the weight of the animal causes a barrier to emerge, but the barrier will be removed automatically when the weight is removed.

Date: January 4, 1921

Creator: Fountain, Henry L.

Cotton-Pest-Poisoner

Patent for an insect destroyer specifically designed for use in the treatment of cotton plants. The cotton-pest poisoner is in the form of a powder that can be scattered over the plants.

Date: September 28, 1920

Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.

Railroad-Switch.

Patent for improvements in railroad-switches, relating to a simple and more efficient means for throwing a switch of a railway truck, whereby a train of cars or a single car may be switched from the main track to another track or on a siding.

Date: December 30, 1919

Creator: Hester, James

Airship-Destroyer.

Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).

Date: November 5, 1918

Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.

Magazine-Projectile

Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).

Date: November 5, 1918

Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.

Multiple Submarine Destroyer

Patent for a munitions delivery system designed for anti-submarine warfare. Specifically, this devise is a multi-stage explosive that periodically (period of deployment determined by depth measurement) deploys first a primary detonating charge, followed up by the detonation of multiple, smaller charges scattered by the primary explosion, ensuring an area of effect should the primary canister miss it's intended target. The patent notes that should the canister actually make contact with an objec… more

Date: October 1, 1917

Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.

Half-Car Unloader.

Patent for the improvement of Half-Car Unloaders as it "relates to the handling of material in bulk and has special reference to a device arranged to enable railroad cars such as are sued for hauling coal, ore, and other like material to be unloaded by a single operation." (lines 13-18)

Date: July 31, 1917

Creator: Scardino, Mariano P. & Scardino, Peter

Cotton Treating Apparatus and Process

Patent for cotton treating apparatus and process, cleaning the cotton as it is removed from bolls and then formed in to bales.

Date: February 6, 1917

Creator: Dunlap, Samuel H.

Key-Ring Holder.

Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.

Date: January 16, 1917

Creator: Kropp, August

Aerial Torpedo.

Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.

Date: August 31, 1915

Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.

Wheel-Fender

Patent for fenders for truck wheels using hoods and reinforcing bands, including illustrations.

Date: May 4, 1915

Creator: Leach, Felix

Safety Railroad-Switch

Patent for a safety railroad-switch which is meant to prevent vertical displacement.

Date: March 30, 1915

Creator: Leach, Felix

Half-Car Unloader

Patent for an improved and simplified mechanism of Half-Car Unloaders, which unloads earth materials such as coal and ore from a railroad car more easily and effectively by lifting up a train car, unloading its contents, and placing it back on the railroad track.

Date: February 9, 1915

Creator: Scardino, Mario P. & Scardino, Peter