60 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next

Grain Measure and Tally.

Description: Patent for improving the measurement of grain.
Date: August 7, 1888
Creator: Holland, John Newton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Trap.

Description: Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for improvements in wire-stretchers by using a combination of winding-drum, a ratchet upon the drum and wire clutches for engagement with a wire to be stretched. Illustration is included.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Walls, Joseph A. & Boyter, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a tool to stretch telephone wire, barb wire, and wire fencing. The tool connects to and holds in place a wire using a lock. While locked in place, the wire is stretched without the need of chains.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Armstrong, Henry H. & Armstrong, H. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet

Description: Patent for a new design and construction of kitchen cabinets.
Date: December 4, 1888
Creator: Shanley, Michael H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet

Description: Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, and in which provision shall be made for the safe-keeping of all the materials and ingredients used in bread-making and in ordinary cooking as well as for pies, cakes, cold victuals and the like" (lines 9-15).
Date: July 9, 1889
Creator: Skipper, James Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for an improvement to wire stretchers and splicers, to more practically "facilitate the stretching and splicing of fence wire or the like" (lines 12-13), including illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1921
Creator: Sanderson, Auther L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a kitchen-cabinet that is a "simple and convenient portable device provided with the necessary receptacles for flour, meal, spices and other condiments, as well as apparatus for grinding coffee, beating eggs, weighing, &c.; to provide means for adjusting such receptacles upon the frame of the cabinet to secure the desired height or distance from the floor; and furthermore to provide improved means for removing the flour and meal from the bins and sifting the same by the same operatio… more
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Shanley, Michael H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Jack for Turning Fly-Wheels of Engines, &c.

Description: Patent for jacks for turning fly-wheels of engines, pulleys, etc. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Roberts, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen Cabinet

Description: Patent for a metal kitchen cabinet. This cabinet is designed to be portable and protect against vermin. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Shanley, Michael H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design consists in "[t]he improved combined flue and ventilator . . . consisting of an outer casing surmounted by a cap and provided with a central flue, funnels hinged to the outer casing and provided with flexible connections for elevating the same, and means for conducting the air downward from said funnels" (lines 8-15).
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Shanley, Michael H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.

Description: Patent for "a device that will chop cotton mechanically" (line 10-11) and require less labor including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Crum, Martin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Storage System.

Description: Patent for storage system to store goods without using ice or any other material for lowering temperature. This design uses strategic air circulation to achieve the desired low temperature.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Rector, John Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock

Description: Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Baker, Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Milk Cooler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design "has relation to that class of devices for keeping vessels containing milk or other fluids cool, in which water is drawn by capillary action from a receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the vessel, cooling the vessel and its contents by evaporation; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device, and more particularly to the top of the can and the cover for the same" (lines 21-30).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Jowell, George Ratcliff
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Milk-Cooler.

Description: Patent for a combined water-cooler and refrigerator. "One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of devices of this character and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one capable of enabling the temperature of its contents to be readily controlled and quickly changed. A further object of the invention is to provide a combined water-cooler and refrigerator which may be advantageously employed as a churn-body" (lines 10-19). Includes specifications and illustrat… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Halford, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring Frame for Freight Cars.

Description: Patent for new and improved springs for transportation. This design provides "vehicles for the transportation of merchandise . . . with an interior spring-padding, and in some cases with intermediate elastic floors or partitions, by which injury to the load, by jolting while in transit, shall be prevented, and which shall further conduce to the preservation of fruits and other merchandise of a like perishable nature" (lines 22-30).
Date: December 14, 1880
Creator: Shirley, Joseph J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process for Tanning Hides.

Description: Patent for a novel process of tanning hides of various animals.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Moore, Rufus N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hedge.

Description: Patent for a new way to plant hedges, which "consists in an improved method of planting and training the cactus-plant (preferably of the species known as the 'scabbard' or 'brush cactus') to adapt it to form a thick and impenetrable fence which shall resist the attacks of cattle, and will grow regularly and evenly after the young plants have been properly trained" (lines 13-20).
Date: February 7, 1882
Creator: Fleming, Edward H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse Detacher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved horse detacher. This design "consists in two longitudinally-movable rods or bolts which are attached to the front axle and are adapted to engage the eyes of the thill-clips; the levers connected at their lower ends to the adjacent ends of the said rods or bolts; a ring embracing and adapted to slide on the upper arms of the said levers whereby they may be drawn together to disengage the outer ends of the rods or bolts from the thill-clips; the band or strap connect… more
Date: April 24, 1888
Creator: McMorries, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Detacher.

Description: Patent for improvements in devices of attachments for wagons or similar wheeled vehicles, by improving “the attachment to the brake rod or shaft of the wagon, connected also with the bolts which secure the shafts or pole in the clips on the wagon-axle, by means of which the brake-shaft may be rocked so as to apply the brakes and stop the wagon, hold the shafts or pole, and thus disconnect them from the wagon.” (Lines 16-22) Illustration is included.
Date: April 28, 1891
Creator: McMorries, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Rail Joint

Description: Patent for strengthening the nails and their meeting ends.
Date: July 25, 1916
Creator: Nichols, Walt M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rack for Displaying Dry Goods

Description: Patent for improvements in construction of racks for displaying dry goods.
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Fain, Emmet C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power-Hammer.

Description: Patent for a hammer operated by a treadle with improved springs for enhanced power.
Date: September 3, 1907
Creator: Kinson, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen