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Automatic Vehicle Brake

Description: Patent for automatic vehicle brake. The invention "provides a spring controlled rack cooperating with a gear or pinion or a vehicle wheel." (line 18-20). Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Uhl, Edgar G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Billiard Cue

Description: Patent for a billiard cue. This invention is designed with removable tips. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Borroughs, John Vertie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Caisson-Driver.

Description: Patent for an improved machine that sinks caissons into gravel or mud in order to make a foundation for breakwater, jetty, bridge, or similar purpose. It applies continuous and heavy pressure to the caisson during operation, and "is provided with a jet apparatus to force the sand and mud from within the caisson and cause it to settle around the outer portion of the same, thus holding it firmly in place, and which in general enables a caisson foundation to be laid with great facility and in a su… more
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Perrenot, Theodore F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calipers.

Description: Patent for calipers that make it easier to read measurements, by having a strip of measuring tape at the ends that allows users to determine the distance between the arms easier. The measuring tape component is also retractable.
Date: April 4, 1922
Creator: Miller, William James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a vertical hook car coupling that also couple air-brakes. In the invention "the drawheads are provided with interlocking tongues to prevent the disconnection of the drawheads by vertical movement; the interlocking faces of the drawheads are provided with sockets to receive a plug for completing the air passage for the train pipes; the drawheads are provided with means for receiving the ordinary hose-coupling on cars not provided with [the] drawhead, and finally other features of [the… more
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Ervin, Robert N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car coupling that safe and can be operated without the operator going between cars. It consists of a car, a draw-head, a pin, a guide, a plate that holds the pin, a spring arm, and handles.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Myers, Joseph L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Journal Lubricating Machine.

Description: Patent for employed who related to car journal lubricating machine and oiling all classes of railroad cars and streetcars. Also, its benefits to improve the construction and increase the efficiency of machines of this character.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Fleischer, Lewis Bernard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cigar-Tip Cutter and Match-Safe.

Description: Patent for a combined cigar tip cutter and match-safe that consists of a shaft, an operating lever, a match box under the lever, a link that attaches the match box to the lever, a coiled spring that is attached to the lever, a curved lever that is lined up to the other lever, a spring connecting the two levers, and a picker.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Briggs, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cooking Utensil.

Description: Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Curran, William Ferris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cooler

Description: Patent for a cooler for water, milk, and other perishable items. Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Langham, William Wiley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cooling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a cooling apparatus for food that uses the process of evaporation of water to cool the apparatus.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Steen, Mary L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Tie-Press.

Description: Patent for a cotton tie press, which allows the easy removal of the temporary ties on the cotton bales.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Howlett, Payton Leon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Tramper

Description: Patent for a cotton-tramper with less than five horsepower and an eccentrically mounted drum for more efficient cotton tramping.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Whitt, Joseph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental Instrument.

Description: Patent for a new dental instrument that extracts "swollen portions of the gum where it extends over the tooth" (lines 11-13), including illustration. Use of the instrument is meant to replace the common, but "objectionable" (line 56), practice of lancing the gum.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Knox, Eldon Lemoin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric-Lamp Socket.

Description: Patent for an improved electric lamp socket "having a pair of switches which are alternately closed and opened, and having means for the attachment thereto of three conductors, whereby it is possible to light the lamp by means of a main switch" (lines 11-15), including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Elliott, William Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Time-Alarm and Annunciator

Description: Patent for "a combined call and annunciator system by which any number of signals can be sent automatically or manually and various signals received through the annunciator, the apparatus serving to send signals to or from any number of distant points on the circuit at any time" (lines 17-23).
Date: April 4, 1890
Creator: Suren, Nathan H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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