625 Matching Results

Search Results

prev Results: 25 - 48 next

Truck.

Description: Patent for a strong but light steel framed truck with a beamless braking system that is affordable and easy to repair.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: McKiel, James B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for "revolving-cylinder seed-planters; and its object is to furnish a strong and durable implement adapted to plant with precision various kinds of seed, and the wheels of which are not liable to become clogged with earth." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 13, 1877
Creator: Burris, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Baling Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements to "the construction and combination of the levers, rack-bars, and pawls with each other, and with the follower and baling-box" (lines 15-17).
Date: May 10, 1870
Creator: Stroud, Bryant F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hand-Cultivators.

Description: Patent for "hand-cultivators; and the novelty consists in the improved construction and arrangement of the stock, tongue, and plows; and in the application to the end of the tongue of a shoulder-strap to assist in working the implement." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1872
Creator: Jones, William G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Propeller Shaft Bearing.

Description: Patent for a new and improved propeller-shaft bearing. This design consists, "with the horizontal propeller-shaft, of the single central stationary thrust-block through which the shaft snugly extends, the opposite ends of said block being each flattened and provided with a circular groove concentric with the shaft, the pair of collars rigidly secured to the shaft at the opposite ends of said central block, the inner ends of said collars each having a groove corresponding with the grooves in the… more
Date: July 8, 1890
Creator: Gaffield, William Z.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements in baling-presses. It consists of movable followers and a sliding drum that has a ratchet secured to a clutch and a shaft. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1879
Creator: Smithson, Richard T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Harmony Attachments for Piano-Fortes.

Description: Patent for, "an attachment for piano-fortes, whereby the musician may play the melody upon an instrument like the violin with his hands in the usual manner, and the accompaniment or harmony by operating the attachment with his feet."
Date: November 11, 1879
Creator: Radinsky, Gustav A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spur Attachment For Stirrups

Description: Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Poorter, Charles Louis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grate

Description: Patent for grate that are applied to the fire box of a boiler.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Brown, Sidney E. & Kain, Harry C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mantel

Description: Patent for an invention that can be applied to a mantel, consisting "essentially, of a flexible screen, guard, or shield adapted to wind upon a roller, the latter being housed in the space formed between the shelf off the mantel and the headboard" (lines 22-25). It is intended to prevent fire from getting into the from from the fire, control heat radiation, and provide a closure for the fireplace when it is not in use.
Date: June 26, 1900
Creator: Cox, Thomas J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mantel.

Description: Patent for fireplace guards that connect to mantels, which can be folded out of sight, or rolled out to prevent sparks or closing off the fireplace when not in use.
Date: June 26, 1900
Creator: Cox, Thomas J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent to improve the construction of the mold-board of the plow described in Letters Patent No. 163,352, "to make it more effective in preventing the black lands of Texas and other sticky and waxy soils from adhering to it, and to enable a proper furrow to be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 20, 1876
Creator: Bell, Francis R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ladder

Description: Patent for ladders, more particularly to one adapted for use in connection with freight-cars. (lines 9-11) Design to prevent the grab-irons from becoming disconnected from the rails. (lines 27-29)
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Arrester

Description: Patent for "improvements whereby the sparks from a locomotive will be passed directly from the flues through the stack and the outer air will be admitted, which will keep the cinders in motion and force them through fine perforations and against the hard surfaces until they are thoroughly pulverized and all the fire therein is extinguished, and which .will thereby prevent the danger to combustible products by fire thrown from an engine and which will not in any way decrease or interfere with th… more
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Curran, John William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen