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Aeroplane.

Description: Patent for an improved rotary airplane engine patterned after the Gnome type with extra blades attached to the engine cylinders.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Anal Speculum.

Description: Patent for a new and improved anal speculum. This design is "to so construct the several parts that there will be no rough or raised edges to interfere with its insertion in the anal passage; secondly, to so construct [the] improved speculum that it may be readily used as a bi-valve or dilator; thirdly, to form a locking-joint on the meeting edges of the shells forming the speculum, whereby the sections are prevented from overlapping each other to avoid pinching or injury to the walls of the an… more
Date: March 25, 1890
Creator: Shuford, Quincy Adams
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Antifriction Device For Sucker Rods Or The Like

Description: Patent for an antifriction-roller (part of a pumping mechanism) with a mounting that can be manufactured at a low cost, "quickly and readily applied to a rod at any point....and prevent it from bending...and, furthermore, interpose a minimum obstruction to the flow of the liquid in the casing" (lines 17-25)
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Black, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle.

Description: Patent for "...a bicycle-frame so constructed that it is adapted to yield automatically...thereby doing away with the necessity of using pneumatic and puncturable tires..." (lines 10-11, 15-17) including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Smith, George Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bolt-Holder.

Description: Patent for improvements in bolt-holders by “providing a combined bolt-holder and screw-driver…. in which the hook or engaging member is quickly and conveniently adjustable to any angle to allow the tool to be employed in various positions to engage bolts set.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Carter, Hiram C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bulkhead.

Description: Patent for bulkhead that is "adapted for use as a sea wall or quay wall" (lines 10-11).
Date: March 25, 1919
Creator: Sands, Edward E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Can Spout.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in stoppers and discharge spouts for cans, or receptacles more particularly to cans employed in shipping kerosene oil, cotton seed oil, turpentine syrups and various other liquids." (lines 10-15).
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Herblin, William Leonard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car wheel. This design "consists in the combination, with a railroad-car axle having wheel-bearings of equal diameter throughout their whole lengths, of wheels the peripheries of which are provided with central flanges dividing each into two treads, the said wheels adapted to be pressed on the said bearings aforesaid, and to be removed therefrom, reversed, and again pressed thereon whenever the wear of the first tread shall render the same necessary" (lines 12-21).
Date: March 25, 1884
Creator: Melvin, Josiah W. & Clute, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn

Description: Patent for a vertical dash butter churn with a frame that allows for removal of the receptacle with dash parts still attached to the frame, including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Collins, Edward L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Detachable Automobile Spring-Tire.

Description: Patent for a detachable automobile leaf spring tire. This invention would provide a tire of simple construction with leaf springs and will have a secure connection of the inner and outer tire parts.
Date: March 25, 1919
Creator: La Bauve, Lillie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Gas-Lighter

Description: Patent for a gas lighter that is designed to be durable and reliable, with an improved method of controlling the supply of gas to the burner.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Ruebel, C. A. Ernst
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flying-Machine

Description: Patent for improvements with the construction of flying machines to make them adaptable and more safe, including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Bell, Frank M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Frame or Support for Mosquito Canopies.

Description: Patent for a new and improved frame for mosquito canopies. This design consists in "the combination, with the fixed standards and the forwardly-projecting bearings, of the braces pivoted to [the] bearings and united by cross-bar, the short arms pivoted to the upper ends of the fixed standards, and parallel side-bars connected by cross-bars to form a rectangular frame to support the canopy or curtain and pivoted intermediate, respectively, in the outer ends of the short arms and brace" (lines 22… more
Date: March 25, 1890
Creator: Bailey, Alfred Holt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Frame for Jaw Crushers

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in frames for Jaw-Crushers (lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1919
Creator: Easton, William B. & Cole, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Girth

Description: Patent for the improved securing or removal of a horse saddle, with illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Owens, Robert. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gunpowder Can.

Description: Patent for new container for holding and dispensing gunpowder with illustrations consisting of "glass vessel incased within a metallic jacket and having an exteriorly-screw-threaded neck, in combination with a cap or cover" (page 2, lines 1-3) to increase safety and prevent corrosion of vessel.
Date: March 25, 1890
Creator: Lee, Newton M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Making Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an ice maker that more effectively handles the chemicals used to freeze water. Use of a more strategically placed condenser keeps steam and liquids separate.
Date: March 25, 1879
Creator: Lee, Charles B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines.

Description: Patent for a rattoon-cutting machine which is created to "rapidly pull up and cut into short lengths the stubbles and roots of sugar cane (styled "rattoon") which are left upon the ground after the crop has been gathered" (lines 5-9), includes illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1875
Creator: Angers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Burner

Description: Patent for simple and efficient mechanism capable of producing heat which vaporize oil.
Date: March 25, 1912
Creator: Price, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Device

Description: Patent for a rail securing device which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Tritico, Leonard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ratchet Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ratchet wrench. This design "relates to improvements in ratchet-wrenches wherein a handle carrying a rotating head having jaws to grasp a nut is provided with pivoted pawls, so that by oscillating the handle the pawls serve to rotate the head and screw or unscrew the nut, bolt, or other device" (lines 8-14).
Date: March 25, 1884
Creator: Osborn, Adelbert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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