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Curtain-Pole Remover

Description: Patent for a curtain pole remover that allows the user to remove or put in place curtain poles without climbing on anything.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Adair, Lulu N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle Guard

Description: Patent for a cattle guard that will turn horses, cattle, mules, etc.
Date: December 3, 1901
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens.

Description: Patent for a new and improved paper-holder for cake baking. With this design, "[a] cake is placed in the oven, the holder placed in position over it, the hoop or frame raised, and a paper placed upon [another] hoop. The [first] hoop is then pressed down upon it, when the cake may be baked without the top being scorched" (lines 40-45).
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Balfour, Emma
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Box Hanger

Description: Patent for a mail box hanger for mailboxes that allows the mailman to easily deliver mail to them.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Bell, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dumping-Car.

Description: Patent for a dumping car in "which contents of the car may be readily discharged" (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Bogusch, Gustav & Zincke, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Cooler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water cooler. This design "consist[s] of the outer vessel having the removable cover provided centrally with an aperture, the inner vessel supported on legs centrally within the outer vessel and provided with perforated shelves, the keepers for locking the two vessels at a regulated distance apart concentric with each other, and the removable cap to the inner vessel provided with a vertical tube communicating with the interior of the inner vessel and passed through… more
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Clark, James P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Trimmer.

Description: Patent for an improved lumber-trimmer that has "a suitable carriage or number of carriages for conveying the lumber a series of swinging frames, which carry belted saws and also supporting-wheels, which wheels, if not tripped, will ride over the lumber, carrying the saws up with them out of an operative position, but which wheels, if tripped, will ride over the lumber, but permit the suspended saws to remain in operative position to trim the lumber at different points in its length, as may be d… more
Date: December 3, 1895
Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coupling.

Description: Patent for a coupling invention that consists of a detachable key member and locking key member for a valve plug. It is meant to improve couplings for detachable handles of drain-cocks.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Copeland, Joe S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motion-Picture Machine.

Description: Patent for "improvements in motion picture machines and more particularly to means for automatically shutting the lights off the head or film operating part of the machine" (lines 9-13) "in case of accident, as when the film breaks." (lines 15-16)
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Dodd, David P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cooking-Stove

Description: Patent for a cooking stove that can be easily replaced with a new one if it breaks.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Earnest, Mettie C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow.

Description: Patent for "a simple, inexpensive and efficient implement by which roots of weeds and obnoxious grasses may be removed from the ground and destroyed," while also leaving the ground plowed (lines 9-12). The object also provides a simple way to remove accumulation of roots that generally clog implements of this type.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Garrett, Jefferson D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin or Linting-Machine

Description: Patent for machine to "provide means for removing lint cotton from the gin saw teeth" (lines 11-12) and "provide efficient means for taking care of the cotton after it leaves the saw teeth." (lines 14-19)
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Hodo, Wesley A. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-planter.

Description: Patent for a machine that can plant any kind or size of seed or grain at any desired distance apart.
Date: December 3, 1878
Creator: Hoshall, David W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a railway cattle-guard meant to be used "where the track of a railroad passes between the adjacent ends of fence-sections; and the invention seeks to provide elevated pricking-points in connection with adjacent guides inclining toward such points to direct the legs of the stock to such points so the latter will prick the lags at or above the top of the hoof" (lines 9-16).
Date: December 3, 1895
Creator: Jack, Harvey M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for a bailing press machine designed to be more efficient and durable. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Jones, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle Holder.

Description: Patent for a bottle holder, to hold ink bottles to a surface such as a desk or table. It is designed to be both a permanent or detachable fixture.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Kayser, Mary Louise
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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