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Adjustable and Detachable Bow for Spectacles.

Description: Patent for a temple bow for spectacles which is secured to a lens frame and is adjustable to “accommodate the angle of vision of the wearer” (lines 89-90). The connection joints between the bow and lens frame allows adjustment without bending or twisting the bow, providing a more durable bow and frame.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Blanchard, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Brake.

Description: Patent for train air-brakes to provide set brakes and same auxiliary pressure on all cars regardless of the brake cylinder piston travel distance.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Extracting Minerals from Ores.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that extracts minerals, especially sulfur, from ores. The apparatus features new and useful improvements, creating an automatic extraction that separates the minerals in a pure state.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Shires, George M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Treatment of Oil Emulsions.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for treatment of oil emulsions by providing a means that will greatly assist in the separation of water from oil emulsions and which will aid the re-absorption or retention of gas.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails

Description: Patent for "fish-plates and bed-plates so constructed that rails can be secured in place without the necessity of making holes in the ends of the rails [...]; and the object is to simplify rail-joints and make the ends of the abutting rails stronger and to repair broken rails" (lines 10-17).
Date: January 13, 1903
Creator: Crawford, William, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "[i]n a car-coupler, the coupler having at its forward end a loop or link, hook, and connected rigidly with the ball or any suitable device moving in a passage" (lines 78-81).
Date: January 13, 1885
Creator: Bywater, Joseph K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carbureter

Description: Patent for the carbureter for controlling the quality of the combustible mixture for internal combustion engines, such as automobiles requiring a wide range of variation in the proportion of fuel and air to efficiently and economically supply the demand.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Guthrie, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Hook and Buckle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "protect[s] straps from wear at the point of attachment to or contact with rings or eyes" (lines 12-14). This patent references another, the invention of which this one is intended to supplement.
Date: January 13, 1880
Creator: Padgitt, Tom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Display and Vending Device.

Description: Patent for a new improvement to display and vending devices to display products for purchase without a clerk. The device is automated so that it delivers the product directly to the consumer without the need for the consumer to move or change positions. The device cuts costs due to the dismissal of clerks.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Ogden, Carlton N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door Check.

Description: Patent for a new and improved door check. This design "consists in providing the door with a sliding rod, which is adapted to be actuated so as to engage with a retaining-block attached to the floor by the knob-shank, which is provided with a dog for raising and lowering the rod" (lines 17-22).
Date: January 13, 1885
Creator: Niggli, Emil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dynamometer for Locomotives.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dynamometer for locomotives. This design is "to provide a novel construction in dynamometers for indicating the traction power of locomotives" (lines 9-11). It consists in "a draw-head, a chamber containing a liquid located therein, a piston operating in said chamber, means for connecting said piston with the opposite draw-head, suitable tubing connecting with the said chamber, and a pressure-gage mounted upon or attached to the said tubing and actuated by the said… more
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Innes, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin

Description: Patent for a gin that will strip fiber from the seed, "motes", and other "foreign bodies" (lines 27-28) without damaging the fiber.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Tischer, Edward R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame Hook.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hame hook. This design "consists of a hook composed of two members hinged together and adapted to be clamped upon a hame-staple, one of the said members being provided with a pin adapted to project into an opening in the opposite member" (lines 14-19).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Dankworth, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design "is to produce a hay-press of simple construction that will work easily and rapidly, that will operate in such a manner that the hay cannot clog in the press, and in which the plunger or follower will be automatically reciprocated by a continuous motion of the main pulley" (lines 9-15). It consists, "with the plunger having a sideways-extending arm, a screw-shaft connected with the plunger and having a sideways-extending arm, the pinion on th… more
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Donald, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hilling Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hilling-plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the beam, the stock, and the pivoted heel-bar, of the adjustable brace connecting said stock and heel-bar together, and the adjustable brace connecting the said brace with the rear of the beam" (lines 63-68).
Date: January 13, 1885
Creator: Schuster, Rudolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hot Pan Lifter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved potholder. This design is "to provide novel means whereby the various sizes of baking and other pans in the equipment of a kitchen can be conveniently and safely handled without danger of the pan being accidentally disengaged from the implement . . . to provide a novel hot-pan lifter which will in use have a positive toothed engagement with the rim of a hot-pan . . . to provide novel, simple, and efficient means whereby the lifter or implement can be promptly and c… more
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Penfield, Matie B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mirror-Holder

Description: Patent for a mirror holder containing a bracket that allows for easy fixing to various items of furniture.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Barnard, Elmer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Padlock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved padlock. This design "relates . . . more particularly to those padlocks which are used for locking railway-switches . . . [T]he invention consists in a padlock comprising a bow, or hasp, or shackle, a spring-bolt for engaging the same, tumblers, and a lever connecting the tumblers and bolt, a locking device for the tumblers, and an audible alarm, such as a bell" (lines 9-25).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Lucas, George William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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