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Bat Roost

Description: Patent for a bat roost. Illustration included.
Date: March 1, 1910
Creator: Campbell, Charles A. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bell-Ringer.

Description: Patent for a bell ringer for use in locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1892
Creator: Baker, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Aging Whisky.

Description: Patent for a barrel for heating and aging whiskey, which accelerates aging time. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1892
Creator: Halligan, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic-Cut-Off

Description: Patent for an automatic cut-off part for a steam inlet pipe.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: La Bauve, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window-Sash Gearing and Lock

Description: Patent for a window sash mechanism that allows the upper and lower portions of a window to be adjusted and locked independently of each other.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Peaden, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Device.

Description: Patent for well drilling device with new and useful improvements in well-drilling device for simultaneously drilling the main hole and an advance or "rat-tail" hole.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Smith, Primus W. & Bookhout, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump and Sprinkler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pump and sprinkler. This design "consists of a portable force-pump provided with a capricious air-chamber, and having on the end of its discharge-pipe a sprinkler of novel form, which causes the liquid to be ejected in a fine spray. . . . [This] provide[s] a simple, durable, and effective device, designed especially for use in sprinkling cotton-plants with poisonous solutions, to protect them against the ravages of injurious insects and worms" (lines 7-17).
Date: March 1, 1881
Creator: Polansky, Alois Josef
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Speed-Gearing.

Description: Patent for improvements in “gearing mechanism in which the speed or rotation of a drum or wheel is greatly increased through the intervention of gearing-wheels mounted upon a single shaft.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date: March 1, 1898
Creator: Scofield, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydraulic Air-Compressor.

Description: Patent for an improved hydraulic air compressor: "The principal object of my invention is to provide the cylinder with a pressure and water regulating device" (lines 7-9).
Date: March 1, 1881
Creator: Freeman, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing-Roller-Cleaning Device.

Description: Patent for a cleaning device designed to expedite the cleaning of printing press rollers.
Date: March 1, 1917
Creator: Farr, Charles A. & Dove, Bascom A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for a seed-planter that "may be attached to the leg of the attendant and operated by the natural movement of the attendant while walking along behind the machine" (lines 20-23), including illustration.
Date: March 1, 1859
Creator: Benthall, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for discharging buckshot without reloading and with the precision of firing "a single bullet fired from a barrel of proper bore to fit it" (lines 17-18), including illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1859
Creator: Haynes, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paint and Varnish Removing Process.

Description: Patent for improvements to the removal process for paint and varnish. An invention of a solution that will cause finished coatings to be removed with less expense, less time, and no specifically skilled labor requirement to meet.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Cleveland, David P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design calls for a grooved nut and bolt to hold a pin between the two while the bolt is screwed onto the nut. Depending on whether or not the pin is in said grooves, the nut may or may not be removed from the bolt, which increases the worker's control over the nut and bolt and prevents unintended loosening.
Date: March 1, 1881
Creator: Bunker, John Williamson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Forge

Description: Patent for a portable forge adapted for use in oil well drilling. Used to create a compact form of a forge for easy breakdown and storage, while also making it easier to transport.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Wright, Samuel E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grass-Burning Device.

Description: Patent for improvements in grass burning devices in which “the grass may be safely burned on the prairies and the fire kept from spreading.” (Lines 16-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 1, 1898
Creator: Slaughter, George M. & Christian, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Saw Gummer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gin saw gummer. This design "consists in constructing a gin-saw gummer of a base-block, having a slot to receive the saw, and carrying the dics or stationary cutters, the guide-bar and shoe, the weight-bar, the pivoted bar, carrying the cutter and the gage, the lever and cam for operating the cutter-bar, and the feed mechanism" (lines 23-29).
Date: March 1, 1881
Creator: Clopton, John Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for thills. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the clip having the ears provided with the openings of the draft-iron having the eye at its inner end adapted to be inserted between the ears of the clip and having the transverse central opening" (lines 94-98). Further, it has "the coupling-bolt having the inclined shoulder and the nut provided with the [other] inclined shoulder and the sleeves having the inclined inner ends adapted to enter the… more
Date: March 1, 1887
Creator: Findley, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swing

Description: Patent for swing that accommodates both seated and reclining positions.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Nelson, Carl N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements to the washing machine "which shall enable the washing of clothes or garments to be effected with but little exertion to the operator and with but comparatively little wear to the garments themselves." (Lines 19-23). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1892
Creator: Smith, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potato-Curing Apparatus

Description: Patent for an apparatus used to cure sweet potatoes and similar vegetables by circulating heated air through storage bins and removing moisture.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Wells, James Barber
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Radiator-Plug

Description: Patent for improved radiator plug used for sealing radiators with a fluid-tight joint making it unnecessary to have the radiator pipe extended or threaded. This invention allows the pipe to be sealed at any point.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Brown, Charles James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Food Composition

Description: Patent for food composition. This invention is designed to resemble Italian paste or macaroni.
Date: March 1, 1904
Creator: Dreiss, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Expansion Double-Shovel Corn And Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new machine for planting corn or cotton that can be "adapted for use as a plow or cultivator" (lines 60-61), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1887
Creator: Draper, Richard Edward.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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