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Accelerating Foot-Throttle for use on Automobile-Engines

Description: Patent for an "improved form of foot pedal or foot throttle" (line 10) which "provides means for effectively controlling the speed of an engine by the action of the driver's foot against the foot throttle located in a convenient position on the floor of the car" (lines 13-17), including illustrations.
Date: August 6, 1918
Creator: Vineyard, Pleas E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Shade Hanger

Description: Patent for a window shade hanger device which allows for the shade to be placed at multiple stations by sliding and covering any portion of the window desired instead of a stationary shade mount.
Date: April 6, 1915
Creator: Hillman, Annie M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Stool.

Description: Patent for an adjustable and foldable stool for but not limited to field workers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1880
Creator: Smith, William Alexander & Smith, Robert Toumbleson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Advertising Device

Description: Patent for an Advertising Device. This device provides "a series of hinged leaves so mounted that those exposed to view have the experience of being part of a book." (lines 14-17). "A further object is to provide means which will conceal the operating mechanism, and mystify the observer" (lines 23-25), with a "supporting structure and a dummy provided with a movable hand...for turning said movable shaft as the leaves are turned" (lines 3-13).
Date: April 6, 1912
Creator: Friedman, Bernard Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aerodrome

Description: Patent for an aerodrome. Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Mayhew, Nathaniel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aeroplane

Description: Patent for an aeroplane which has its equilibrium maintained by the operator through levers that bring the plane up or down.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: McManus, Augustus F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Brake

Description: Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
Date: February 6, 1912
Creator: Mead, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Brake System

Description: Patent for an air brake system for trains which does not require waiting between uses for the brakes to recharge with air.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Dillander, John
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

Animal-Poke.

Description: Patent for "a combined animal poke and halter of simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction whereby stock to which the device is applied are prevented from forcing through or throwing their weight against barbed and other wire fences, and also whereby a halter strap or chain may be readily applied thereto to provide for securing the stock in their stalls when stabled." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1896
Creator: Parker, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal trap.
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Myers, George M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Heating and Ripening Honey.

Description: Patent for a device that quickly heats and ripens honey, employing a hot water tank containing a pipe coil through which the honey is poured and strained upon exit.
Date: January 6, 1920
Creator: Mitchell, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute

Description: Patent for an apparatus to produce a lard substitute from cotton seed oil. "An important object of this invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and continuous in operation."
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar.

Description: Patent for " invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar" (lines 5-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1892
Creator: Ellis, Emmett A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Artificial-StoneTomb.

Description: Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 6, 1880
Creator: Wilson, Hence
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Artificial Tooth

Description: Patent for an artificial tooth to a gold bridge. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1904
Creator: Priest, Frank L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Spoons.

Description: Patent for an attachment for spoons, forks, and the like. The attachment is a metal wire loop that attaches to a utensil and is bent to hook onto a vessel such as a bowl to keep the utensil from falling in the vessel.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Allen, Harry P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment For Surveying Instruments

Description: Patent for attachment for surveying instruments. Illustrations included.
Date: September 6, 1904
Creator: Armstrong, Edward R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Cotton Elevator and Distributer.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic cotton elevators and distributes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 6, 1898
Creator: Wheeler, Houston J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Cut-off for Rotary Engines

Description: Patent for improvements "to the means for actuating the valves controlling the steam supply" (lines 10-12).
Date: March 6, 1890
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Fountain Valve For Locomotives

Description: Patent for improvements to the automatic fountain valves of locomotives.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Yeamans, E. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railway-Switch

Description: Patent for a railway switch that can be opened by a car or engine. Illustrations included.
Date: July 6, 1907
Creator: McGee, Richmond M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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