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Account-Index.

Description: Patent for an account index card holder with “superposed parallel arms” (lines 111-112) that allow portions of the front and reverse side of each card to be visible. The holder and its supports may be used with a system for organizing, tracking, and indexing accounts.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Roach, William Eli
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Agricultural Implement.

Description: Patent for an agricultural implement related to ground treating. The implement introduces a novel mounting for a colter that will keep it in line with the draft beam, as well as aids in holding the soil-turning elements in place.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Vanderwater, Daniel B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.

Description: Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Dukesmith, Frank H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Amusement Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements to the Amusement Apparatus that can be more easily constructed and supports swimmers by the use of horizontal and vertical bars on each side of the device with the horizontal bars rotate independently. Includes illustration.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Williams, May Brown
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods.

Description: Patent for an antifriction device designed to protect the rod (sucker rod), rope, or coupler from wear. A sucker rod joins the components of a piston pump in an oil well.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William Leslie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Antifriction device for sucker rods.

Description: Patent for "an improved antifriction device for use in connection with inclosed traveling rods and the like to reduce the wear occasioned by the rubbing of the rod in its casing, and at the same time to so far reduce the area of said antifriction device which projects from the rod as to interpose the least possible obstruction to the free passage of material in the casing."
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William Leslie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Lifting Grapple

Description: Patent for a device to hook to an automobile and lift either the front or the rear of the chassis off of the vehicle. To be used for ease of repair and maintenance to automobile motor.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Wood, Guy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Lock.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive automobile lock that is adapted to fit the front bumper of an automobile and designed to lock the two front wheels in place.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Tiedemann, Otto
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for baling-press which is to "provide a rotary sweep,..., which is connected in a novel manner to the compressing-plunger, whereby said plunger is operated twice to each revolution of the sweep" (lines 12-16). Illustrations included.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Fitz Water, Marshall V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Belt Fastener

Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in Belt-fastners by which the end of the belt may be quickly united and held without cutting holes in it.
Date: November 4, 1884
Creator: Norris, Albion K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Circuit-Closing Device for Doors.

Description: Patent for a device mounted within a door jamb that closes or breaks a circuit when the door is opened or closed, respectively. The electrical connection can be used to turn on lights when the door is opened and off when closed.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Fitch, William Hubert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consist[s] of the frame, raised axle, and arch, having at one end the bearing, the transverse shaft carrying the bevel-gear, and journaled in said bearing, and the vertical arm, the said shaft also carrying a sprocket-wheel, which is connected to a similar wheel upon the axle by means of the endless chain, the cutter-shaft, journaled at opposite ends in the arms . . . and the removable cutter" (lines 68-77).
Date: November 4, 1884
Creator: Daniel, William L. & Daniel, Robbert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Packer.

Description: Patent for an automatic cotton packer that provides a new method to packing cotton. This mechanism can be controlled automatically or by hand. As the cotton leaves the gin, it is packed automatically.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Kinne, Tempel Leeroy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cross-Roller Bit.

Description: Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in cross-roller bits. Invention relates to "improvements in rotary boring drills for use in drilling wells for water, oil or gas and has particular reference to drills of the so called cross roller type for use in hard formation."
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Attaching Horseshoes.

Description: Patent for a new and improved device for attaching horseshoes. This design "relates to improvements in means for attaching shoes to the hoofs of horses or mules without the use of nails; and the invention consists in . . . a nailless shoe [that] can be firmly and securely attached to the foot and detached therefrom without requiring the services of a smith" (lines 9-18). To this end, it consists in "the combination, with the shoe-plate and the toe-plate, of the toe-bar having a flange to engage… more
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Mayow, Daniel L. & Castle, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Disk Plow.

Description: Patent for a disk plow modification, which allows the disk to be self-sharpening and automatically release accumulated garbage.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Hoffman, George L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ditching Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ditching-machine. This design "consist[s] of the standards, block, handles, braces and round ears, axle and wheel having cogs, scoop provided with points, chute and side plates, elevator shaft, its upper end resting on the round band, elongated cups, rollers, and cog-wheels, shaft, inclined chute, [another] cog-wheel, arms, band, and rollers" (lines 87-95).
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Witt, William Carroll, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dog Attachment for Logging-Cars, &c.

Description: Patent for a new dog attachment "for logging cars, sleds, and wagons, &c., [...] which will securely retain logs on a car, sled, or wagon and also readily release the same for unloading when required" (lines 9-13), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Hudgens, George Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Doll Novelty.

Description: Patent for a new device, which is a rounded, weighted base placed in a doll that allows the doll to raise itself when turned over on any side without external assistance by lowering the doll's center of gravity. Descriptions of materials used and illustrations are included..
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Flint, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill.

Description: Patent for a drill especially adapted for use in rock and earth formations. The drill has a number of separate cutters that are secured onto a head and detachable, which gives the tool many advantages.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Weathersby, Fred Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill-Cutter.

Description: Patent for new and improved drill cutter for rotary boring drills including exact description and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Godbold, Louis A. & Fletcher, Harold W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Educational Device.

Description: Patent for "improvements in combined desk and blackboard devices arranged in convenient shape for opening and closing and reversing in position" (lines 8-11); including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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