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Spring

Description: Patent for a spring for footwear that helps facilitate foot movement such as walking, running, jumping, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Backermann, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dirigible Lamp for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for a device to turn the head of lamps on an automobile or similar vehicle with the turning of the steering wheel. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Baker, George R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition for Concrete Tombstones.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful composition of matter for concrete tombstones and a process for manufacturing the same whereby a perfectly white substantial rock will be produced that will be very durable, will not be liable to peeling, cracking, or turning dark, but will bleach out in the weather and become very solid, so as to form a permanent and substantial tombstone." (Lines 10-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Belcher, Jeff D. & Hendley, Marion J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Cover.

Description: Patent for a new and improved well cover. This design "is to provide a new and improved cover for wells, cisterns, &c., which cover is so constructed and arranged that it can be moved back by stepping on a step in front of it, and is automatically closed when the pressure is removed" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 8, 1885
Creator: Bullock, Henry P. & Cook, Henry B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hen's Nest.

Description: Patent for a hen nest that allows the door to open without disturbing the hens inside and allows the nest door to open automatically when a hen leaves. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Burns, Daniel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap

Description: Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Dennis, Decatur D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Fastening.

Description: Patent for improvements in shoe-fastenings by using a “pivoted clasp-lever which has a tail-piece acted upon by a leaf-spring for holding the lever in its closed or open position.” (Lines 11-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Dessoir, Julius
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Equalizers

Description: Patent for a draft equalizer that permits either three horses to travel at one side of the beam and two at the other, or three horses at one side of the beam and one at the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Lock for Mines and Tunnels

Description: Patent for an air lock to remove water, polluted air, and heat from mines and tunnels and force in fresh air. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Durack, Partick H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect - Destroying Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine developed for the removal of insects from cotton plants by means of rotary brushes on each side and crushing rolls below the brushes to kill the insects dislodged.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Dyer, Charles V. & Willette, Willie S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide a cheap, durable, and simple car-coupling, which shall be automatic and positive in its action, and which uses the ordinary link and takes the draft in the same way as the common pin, and which will also fit any car, and will not get out of order from being battered. It consists, mainly, in the peculiar construction of a coupling device, in combination with a spring for holding it to the open or closed position… more
Date: September 8, 1885
Creator: Ferguson, George Jones
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for hydrocarbon-burner "adapted to be used in stoves, both heating and cooking" (lines 17-18). The device "may be attached to any stove" (lines 24-25). The "invention consists in the novel construction of the burner and particularly the cap" (lines 27-28) as well as "other novel features" (lines 29-30).
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: George, Charles Hentz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tie-Plate Machine.

Description: Patent for "a machine for properly positioning and securing metal plates to the cross-ties in the construction of railways, and which will obviate the coupling, buckling, or warping of the said plates when applying them to the wooden ties." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Greenshield, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for improving an Acetylene-Gas Generator. To eliminate a check valve between the generator and the gasometer, this will purify the gas and keep siphoning off of water from occurring.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Gribble, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combustion Device

Description: Patent for a combustion device that allows for the control of fuel to one or two burners of the same fire box. This device is also built in an upright position to assist in supporting the burner members of the box. This device is built stronger and simpler than other devices of its kind.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Halliburton, Orville G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in windmills with a novel construction. This specific construction will help create much more efficiency than the existing windmills.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Ham, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trolley-Wire Crossing.

Description: Patent for "means of which trolley-wires may be made to cross each other without contact and at the same time admit of the passage of trolley-wheels over each of the cross-lines." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Handshy, Henry Milton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pattern for Bridle Blinkers.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blinder. This design "is to provide improved patterns for bridle-blinkers whereby the latter can be made cheaply by utilizing waste scraps of leather" (lines 8-11).
Date: September 8, 1885
Creator: Hess, Christian W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill

Description: Patent for a drill and reamer for the use of drilling deep wells. "This invention consists of a tool combining a drill-point and a reamer, the point penetrating the formation and the reamer following and rendering the sides of the bore smooth and in conjunction with the body directing the drill in a straight or true course" (lines 5-10). Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Higgins, Pattillo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mining Sulfur.

Description: Patent for extracting sulfur that is being mined from the stratum that has the minerals. A fluid medium, such as air or a heated liquid, is forced into the stratum which assists with the elevation of the liquid mineral. As the minerals come up the heated tubes, the liquefied minerals are sent into vats.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Higgins, Pattillo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reamer for Oil or Artesian Wells

Description: Patent for "a reamer of novel construction for enlarging the bore or opening of a well when it is required to increase the diameter to receive the casing or for other purpose. The reamer combines a head and a guide, the latter entering the bores, so as to steady and give proper direction to the tool and also prevent the cuttings entering and filling the bore during the process of enlargement" (lines 9-18).
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Higgins, Pattillo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Plow and Fertilizer-Distributer.

Description: Patent for an improved combined plow and fertilizer-distributor that better feeds the fertilizer from the hopper or container to a depositing boot, from which the material is discharged into the furrow formed by the plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Hurlbut, Milan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[a] hand-lever and two chains as used in combination with the spring-latch catches. . . . [It further consists in a] brake-lever attached to main lever, a spring and spiral to hold said main lever in place, and a chain to main lever attached to the spring latch-catches aforesaid of each draw-head" (lines 53-59).
Date: September 8, 1885
Creator: Jernagan, Alexander Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash Balance.

Description: Patent for an improved window sash balance, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Jones, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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