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Machine for Clamping and Nailing Boards.

Description: Patent for a "machine whereby boards for floors, ceiling or sheathing may be forced into place and into contact with previously nailed boards without damage and held clamped into position until nails can be driven into the boards and into the joints" (lines 29-34), with illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Binger, Nickolaus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Threshold.

Description: Patent for an improvement for thresholds to consist of a single metal plate with an arched central portion and laterally-projected flanges that is cheaper and easier to make. The threshold will create a tight joint with the bottom of a door to prevent water and dust from entering through the bottom of the door.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Krause, Ernest
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp-Chimney Holder.

Description: Patent for an "improved lamp chimney holder" (lines 12-13) designed to allow a hinged member to light the wick and extinguish the light "instead of raising or removing the chimney" (lines 19-20), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Emmert, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tie-Plate.

Description: Patent for imrpoved tie plates that will prevent the rails from wearing down the ties.
Date: April 25, 1916
Creator: Barnes, Ned E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock that has a washer divided on predetermined lines bent in a V-shaped fold line that provides attaching support. Identical sector-like portions of the nut lock have a curved edge that permit embedding in material through which a bolt is passed.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Harding, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Suspender Clip

Description: Patent for a clamp, used primarily for fastening the shoulder straps of overall garments but can also be used for suspenders for supporting trousers. Includes illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Murray, Richard H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric-Lamp Socket.

Description: Patent for an improved electric lamp socket "having a pair of switches which are alternately closed and opened, and having means for the attachment thereto of three conductors, whereby it is possible to light the lamp by means of a main switch" (lines 11-15), including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Elliott, William Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Cleaner

Description: Patent for a machine to efficiently remove any "dirt, trash and motes from the cotton fiber" (lines 12-13).
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Garner, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental Instrument.

Description: Patent for a new dental instrument that extracts "swollen portions of the gum where it extends over the tooth" (lines 11-13), including illustration. Use of the instrument is meant to replace the common, but "objectionable" (line 56), practice of lancing the gum.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Knox, Eldon Lemoin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing

Description: Patent for improvements in gearing, "especially adapted for use in connection with wind mills and other devices" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Wiggins, Hundley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grave-Filler.

Description: Patent for a grave-filler device that holds dirt from the grave and can be shifted longitudinally from the grave and be titled vertically to refill the grave.
Date: April 25, 1916
Creator: Imhoff, Louis P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw Filer and Gummer

Description: Patent for a device "adapted for the purpose of sharpening and gumming the teeth of circular saws" (lines 12-14), particularly the types of saws used in a cotton gin. Includes illustrations.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: McMicken, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riveting-Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved riveting-machine meant to rivet "metal binding and protecting strips, or fastening clasps" (lines 12-13) in the production of item carriers and used to "secure one or more mental binding strips of any desired shape in place" (lines 18-20) upon certain materials, including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Porter, Burr E. & Norris, Henry O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flue-Scraper

Description: Patent for a flue scraper with multiple self-sharpening scraper arms. The tool is "strong, durable, efficient, and simple" (lines 22-23).
Date: April 25, 1916
Creator: French, Elmer C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cooking Utensil.

Description: Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Curran, William Ferris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Drier

Description: Patent for a clothes drier that is constructed to surround a stove or heater.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Gallsworthy, Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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