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Safety-Lock For Doors and the Like.

Description: Patent for improvements in door safety locks. Adding this simple and easy to manufacture lock allows a door to be locked from the inside, making the door inaccessible to anyone on the outside.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Kless, Herman L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Forming Machine.

Description: Patent for a wire forming machine that takes wire from an intake and automatically forms the wire into clothes pins. This machine also improves the wire feeding mechanism in older models of this type of machine, and it forms a ring that the pins can attach to for the purpose of suspending the pin from a clothes line.
Date: March 9, 1920
Creator: Werner, Henry E. & Mitchell, Jordan H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Tool.

Description: Patent for a tool designed for mounting pneumatic tires on wheel rims.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Boone, Daniel M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sliding Caster

Description: Patent for improvements to furniture sliding casters for protecting the furniture, as well as floors and carpets when moving furniture. Improvements include caster prongs "which are set back from the outer margin of the caster so as not to split or mutilate the [furniture] leg" (lines 23-25) and casters that are "easily casted or stamped out from sheet metal [ . . . ] which therefore may be cheaply and easily manufactured" (lines 29-32).
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Preston, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine

Description: Patent for a Washing-Machine which includes a base, a rotary rubbing drum with a foraminous concave rubbing bed of flexible material on the lower portion of the drum. Adjustable springs attached to the rubbing drum vary the drawing tension of the flexible rubbing bed.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steering Device and Brake for Tractors

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements for the steering and stopping of tractors, particularly for the machines that are extremely difficult and laborous to manually steer and apply brakes. The invention permits the controlling of the direction of movement of the behicle by disconnecting the source of power from the wheel(s) at one side while those at the other side contrinue to rotate under power. The invention allows for braking to be used to slow the motion of the tractor on downward grade o… more
Date: January 10, 1922
Creator: Lewis, Otto Leroy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved design of washing machines "which combines simplicity of construction with economy in operation" and helps "to minimize the opportunity for wear, breakage or derangement" (lines 30-35), including illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Signal.

Description: Patent for a signal to be placed on the fender of a motor vehicle to indicate to other drivers the intended direction the vehicle is going.
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Cochran, Carl T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine

Description: Patent for an improved clothes containing basket within washing machines that is longer-lasting and less likely to become imbalanced. The device increases agitation of clothes and water.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Seifert, John W.
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

Dental Handpiece.

Description: Patent for an improvement on a dental handpiece that is made of fewer parts and is cheaper to make. It makes insertion and removal of the drill easier, and keeps the drill in place more securely.
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Graves, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cable-Clamp.

Description: Patent for improved cable-clamps for oil drilling and water wells, such that the gripping member will accommodate a variety of cable sizes.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Lacy, Benjamin B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Culvert.

Description: Patent for a culvert which is to be used for sewers or other underground conveyers. Its is to be composed of varying materials that can be easily shipped and jointed together to form the sewer or other underground conveyer.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Charliss, Charles F. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Convertible Automobile-Body

Description: Patent for a convertible automobile body with front seats that can be adjustable horizontally to connect with the rear seats and form a bed.
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: Mitchell, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bandage

Description: Patent for a bandage made of elastic material which includes a flap that can be fastened, or unfastened, and which acts as a holder for an absorbent material that can be replaced.
Date: August 9, 1921
Creator: Kirwan, Leah M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Concrete Building-Block.

Description: Patent for concrete building blocks, intended for use in the building of smaller structures, which are strong, easily assembled, and light weight.
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: McEwen, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment For Internal-Combustion Motors

Description: Patent for improvements in attachments for internal- combustion motors. The invention is about new and useful improvements to a specific attachment. The two stated objectives are to provide a device adapted for application to the intake pipe on an internal combustion motor and to provide a device which may be locked in a closed position, thereby preventing theft.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Thomas, James Clarence
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothespin

Description: Patent for an improved version of the clothespin, which is simple to use, durable, and cheap to manufacture.
Date: March 21, 1922
Creator: Ingersoll, Charles James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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