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Picture Hanger

Description: Patent for a new picture frame with adjustable hanger. Patent for "a new and improved picture frame with an attached hanger to support the top and bottom of the frame at any desire angle" (lines 14-19) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new picture frame hanger design, including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1893
Creator: Hymans, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Triangle for Billiard-Balls.

Description: Patent for an improved triangle for billiard balls that consists of sides, movable doors on the bottom edge, a fixed guide on the side of the triangle, and springs to hold the doors.
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Cooler.

Description: Patent for a simple, efficient, and inexpensive portable water cooler that refrigerates the water "by the action of the air and the evaporation of the liquid or vapor percolating the material" (lines 12-14). It does not use ice and can be used in rural areas.
Date: September 5, 1893
Creator: Hymans, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boiler Cleaning Compound

Description: Patent for a boiler cleaning compound for steam-boilers and furnaces to prevent buildup from hard water.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: López, Néstor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Screw-Jack Head.

Description: Patent for a new and improved screw jack head, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Glenn, Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for new and improved Nut-Locks, allowing for "a simple, strong, durable, and efficient arrangement for effectually locking a nut on a bolt..." (lines 16-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 29, 1916
Creator: Portesi, Santos & Taini, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post Hole Digger

Description: Patent for a post hole digger with an illustration.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Wall, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Valve

Description: Patent for an automatic valve that uses a lever to open and close quickly, with illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Medical Compound

Description: Patent for a medical compound which "when taken internally, is a cure for gonorrhea, gravel, dysentery, and diarrhea, and when applied externally a cure for rheumatism" (lines 12-14).
Date: September 4, 1906
Creator: Mendez, Jesus M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stove-Lifter

Description: Patent for a lifter for stove lids that may also be used as kitchen tongs, with illustrations.
Date: January 26, 1909
Creator: Hall, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fuel-Oil-Controlling Valve

Description: Patent for a new fuel oil controlling valve for locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Sneddon, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Trap

Description: Patent for an insect trap which attracts insects with a light and contains them.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: La Baum, Francis M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for an improvement on vehicle wheels to "provide a novel and inexpensive safety-guard for wheels of the above-referred-to class, whereby the wheel will be prevented from entering crevices and cracks" (lines 14-18) and to improve durability.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock with a locking washer at the base of the nut that does not unscrew. The nut forms a bar of spring metal.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Mauermann, Albert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive nut lock that securely locks a nut onto a threaded bolt and can be easily unlocked. It also is simply constructed. It consists of a plank-like spring tongue that fits over the bolt and under the nut.
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Taini, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate Latch.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate latch. This design consists in "[a] gate-latch comprising a slotted-sleeve, a pivoted and spring-actuated latch-plate, and a bolt mounted to turn in the latch-plate and extend through the sleeve, and provided with a transverse pin" (lines 98-102).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and easy to use gate-latch for swinging gates in which the lock latches move vertically. The latch is on the gate, and a catch is mounted on the post.
Date: June 5, 1894
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Hinge.

Description: Patent for improvements in gate hinges, "the object being to provide hinges which will hold the gate in an open position." (Lines 9-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shovel.

Description: Patent for a shovel, which has a detachable blade and handle that can be securely fastened when in use and easily taken apart for transport.
Date: April 7, 1908
Creator: Ellison, John Wesley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Neck-Yoke Center.

Description: Patent for a device that improves, simplifies, and strengthens the construction of neck yoke centers.
Date: February 6, 1906
Creator: Quick, E. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Valve

Description: Patent for an automatic valve, "designed to automatically control the water-supply to a suitable reservoir through the operation of a float (lines 9-11), with illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for improvements in gate latches, which "may be adjusted toward or from a gate on a post to be engaged by the latch proper and enable compensation to be made for spreading of the posts upon which the gate is supported and to which it is secured by the latching device." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swinging Gate.

Description: Patent for a swinging gate that consists of a supporting post, a gate, a hinge that connects the gate to the post, a rear bar, a hinge lever that connects the rear gate bar to the supporting post, an operating lever, cords or chains that connect the lever and the hinge lever, and a latching mechanism.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Turn-Table.

Description: Patent for a turn table that is "used for turning locomotives engines end to end; and the object of [the] invention is to provide a simple lever attachment for an ordinary turn-table, by which one man may easily turn the table and its load, and also to arrange the lever mechanism so that it may be easily locked in place when not in use and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 8-16).
Date: March 27, 1894
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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