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[News Clip: Music]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 18, 1977, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Orchard-Heat or Smudge-Pot

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in orchard-heaters and smudge-pots to provide an improved drat flue and damper carried by a cap especially adapted for use in connection with heaters or crude oil smudge pots commonly used in various orchards during frosty weather. The invention aims to provide a draft flue and damper to withstand the most severe and erratic winds, the damper capable of being opened to suit any temperature, without impairing its efficiency in protecting the draft.
Date: October 18, 1921
Creator: Potter, Arthur C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lens Mounting.

Description: Patent for an improvement to spectacles to prevent lens breakage. The change to the design of the spectacles are mounts on the nose piece that attaches to the lenses, as well as mounts that attach to the temples of the spectacles and the lenses.
Date: May 18, 1918
Creator: Rees, Charles S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor-Actuated Locking Device for Automobiles

Description: Patent for a device that prevents the drive shaft of an automobile from when moving when pushed by an unauthorized person. The device acts as a form of security to ensure unauthorized individuals are unable to move the vehicle. Additionally, the device can be used while the vehicle is in motion in order to slow the drive shaft, and thus the vehicle.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Wherry, Robert D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose-Coupling.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in hose couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 18, 1899
Creator: McCrory, John Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw-Handle.

Description: Patent for improvements in saw-handles. Invention provides for adjustable and detachable means for clamping of a saw blade. The device includes a "head member, means for clamping the end of a saw blade" (lines 19-20).
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Smith, Lee A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door Operating and Locking Device.

Description: Patent for an electric door or gate operating and locking device that allows for automatically opening and closing a door or gate and locking it when it is open or closed. This device may be turned off if necessary to allow for manually moving the door or gate and may be installed cheaply in preexisting structures.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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