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Convertible Case.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in convertible cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collector's Bill-Book.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in collectors' bill - books, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 18, 1899
Creator: Ward, George Cooper
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dipping-Vat.

Description: Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in dipping vats or tanks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1899
Creator: Skinner, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Back-Pedaling Brake.

Description: Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Cot.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvement in folding cots, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Martindale, James Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Jewel-Setting.

Description: Patent for a new and useful jewel setting, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Wandry, Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of and Apparatus for Treating Mineral Pitch.

Description: Patent for an "improved method of and apparatus for treating mineral pitch and similar material to readily separate the asphalt and asphalt-oils from sand, bituminous rock, and other impurities contained in the mined material and removing the sand and impurities" (lines 12-17). The method circulates the material in hot water to separate the asphalt and asphalt-oils from the sand and impurities. The asphalt and oil rise to the top of the water and the impurities sink.
Date: November 5, 1895
Creator: Sellers, Harvey Lee; Conyngton, Hugh Ronald & Conyngton, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Time-Signaling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an electric time-signaling apparatus meant for use in hotels or other places where employees need to be alerted. The invention rings a bell and turns on a light when the signals goes off. "If the current of an incandescent electric-light system was electrically connected with a time-circuit, it would destroy the whole mechanism of the time-circuit" (lines 26-29).
Date: November 19, 1895
Creator: Todd, James T. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to … more
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Keith, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Freight And Grain Car

Description: Patent for "freight-car which shall be simple, strong, durable, and comparatively inexpensive in construction, and which shall, by virtue of its attachments, be capable of instant transformation from a car for transporting grain, cereals, and similar loose substances in bulk toa car for transporting miscellaneous dead freight" (lines 17-24).
Date: September 6, 1892
Creator: Butz, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Revolving Book-Holder.

Description: Patent for a "combined desk and cabinet especially designed for students' use to obviate the scattering about of books when writing, studying, or making reference thereto" (lines 8-12). The are two rotating sections: a many-faced book-rest, and a cabinet above it where books can be stored. There is also a sliding writing-board underneath the desk.
Date: November 17, 1896
Creator: Ballart, Calvert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Minnow-Net.

Description: Patent for "improvements in fishing-nets, and particularly to frames for nets which can be set up in the water in various places where other nets cannot be used and which can be folded up into a small package for convenient carrying." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1896
Creator: Breeding, Enoch
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
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