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Cot.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cot. This design is for a cot that, "[w]hen it is desired to pack the cot for transportation the flexible bottom is first removed from the frame, after which the latter is taken apart and the pieces thereof placed compactly together in a bundle with the flexible bottom. In this cot there are no pivot-joints to become worn or get out of order, and should any of the separable pieces become broken or damaged they can be readily replaced" (lines 47-56).
Date: January 23, 1883
Creator: Martial, Antoine William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boring-Drill.

Description: Patent for detachable heads and plates for frusco-conical rollers that allow for space between drills, including illustrations.
Date: April 23, 1918
Creator: Reed, Clarence Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with Jean Wilkins-Dember, June 23, 2016

Description: Jean Wilkins-Dember, referred to as Mother Dember, was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York. After becoming involved in police brutality work and racial equality efforts in New York, she would move to the historic African American neighborhood of Third Ward in Houston, TX. She talks about her involvement in multicultural organizing and the psychological affects of racial oppression. Dember has participated for many years in the National Black United Front and SHAPE Community Center's Elder Instit… more
Date: June 23, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Wilkins-Dember, Jean
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Renilda Hilkemeyer, May 23, 2000

Description: Interview with Ms. Renilda Hilkemeyer, beginning with her early education and career. She explains how her career led to working in the field of oncology nursing. In this section of the interview, she highlights the development of training nurses, the stigmatism around cancer, and the value of hands-on experience. Ms. Hilkemeyer explains how she came to M. D. Anderson and the challenges she faced in developing the department of nursing, including staffing, interdepartmental collaboration, and i… more
Date: May 23, 2000
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Hilkemeyer, Renilda & Marchiafava, Louis
Partner: University of Texas MD Anderson Center

Combination Pool and Billiard Table.

Description: Patent for a combination pool and billiard table. The table has plugs for the pockets, which can be used to convert the table from a pool to a billiard table. There is also a circular removable covering, which converts the table from a game table to an ordinary household table.
Date: July 23, 1918
Creator: Lee, Hoard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Farm-Gate

Description: Patent for an improved hinge mounting for a gate to swing and to served as a stay or brace connecting a pair of posts supporting the gate. Also, a provision of a novel mounting and operating means for such a gate, including springs for raising the operating levers on the gate used to move the gate.
Date: August 23, 1921
Creator: Rawley, Fleming C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reamer.

Description: Patent for an enlarged reamer for maintaining the gage of the hole comprising a head threaded at one end for attachment to the drill and disk-shaped reaming cutters housed in slots in the sides.
Date: April 23, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roller Boring-Drill.

Description: Patent for a roller boring-drill with improved arrangement of cutters on the head, and formation of teeth on the cutters. This new head design is better for drilling formations that are not brittle.
Date: August 23, 1921
Creator: Fletcher, Harold W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Powder Duster

Description: Patent for "a truck mounted upon wheels, to the reat end of which is adjusted a sifter that, as the machine is progressing, will have lateral reciprocating motion imparted thereto and eject powder through an attached meshed screen" (lines 10-15).
Date: April 23, 1889
Creator: Glover, Charles Bazel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Screen.

Description: Patent for a "well screen in which a maximum screening area is obtained without weakening the frame" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 23, 1918
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tractor.

Description: Patent for improvements to the tractor with adjustable framework for the wheels (narrower or wider).
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Weaver, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Station-Indicator

Description: Patent for "an apparatus which will indicate to the passengers of railway or street cars when the car is approaching, standing at, or leaving a station, the station or street name, distance from the last station passed or to the next station, or any point upon the line that may be desired, and wherein all of the above data may be displayed simultaneously or any one or more items" (lines 10-18).
Date: October 23, 1888
Creator: Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Propelling Mechanism For Bicycles.

Description: Patent for propelling mechanism for bicycles that allows any type of bicycle frame to have an improved and inexpensive added high speed mechanism, including illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Meschkat, Wilhelm
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Box Signal

Description: Patent for a mail box signal which is attached to a locking system on the mail box which prevents anyone from changing the signal without unlocking the box.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Harmon, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mud-Guard.

Description: Patent for a mud guard for bicycles, which can be folded out of the way when not in use.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Chisholm, Walter J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump

Description: Patent for an improvement on the design of pumps used in the oil industry. This uses a combination of water, sand, grits, and other sediments for deep wells.
Date: April 23, 1920
Creator: Scott, Floyd L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Unscrewing Device for Pipe-Joints.

Description: Patent for an unscrewing device for pipe-joints, in the event that the drill stem gets stuck while drilling wells. This invention allows the user to unscrew "the joints of the drill stem" and withdraw "the same without the use of the left hand threaded string of pipe" (lines 35-38).
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Edwards, Charles R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Double Acting Pump

Description: Patent for a double action pump. "This invention relates to improvements in double-acting pumps; and its object is to provide a vertical double-acting pump in which provision is made for automatically exhausting the air from the upper portion of the piston-chamber" (line 11-16) illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Hall, S. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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