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Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #2]

Patent for a spring motor "particularly designed for use in connection with bicycles, polycycles, and all foot-propelled vehicles, but applicable also to all kinds of vehicles, as well as street and railway cars" (lines 11-15). It is intended to accumulate surplus power for use in propelling a vehicle up an incline, or for other propulsion either forward or backward.

Date: April 20, 1897

Creator: Click, John Jones

Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #1]

Patent for a spring motor "particularly designed for use in connection with bicycles, polycycles, and all foot-propelled vehicles, but applicable also to all kinds of vehicles, as well as street and railway cars" (lines 11-15). It is intended to accumulate surplus power for use in propelling a vehicle up an incline, or for other propulsion either forward or backward.

Date: April 20, 1897

Creator: Click, John Jones

Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for improvements in wire stretchers by using a T-shaped lever “to stretch the wire readily to the desired tension, and is capable of maintaining the wire at that tension until after stapling or otherwise fastening the same to a post.” (Lines 61-65) Illustration is included.

Date: April 21, 1891

Creator: Kennedy, Thomas

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench and Cutter.

Patent for a simple, durable, and economic wrench and cutter that is easily used to turn nuts, pipes, or to cut pipes. The wrench does not need to be removed while cutting.

Date: April 18, 1893

Creator: Fletcher, Theodore

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher that "may be readily employed for taking up the slack of a fence wire at a point between fence posts" (lines 13-15). It also cuts wire and removes staples.

Date: April 17, 1894

Creator: Hughs, George W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretching and Splicing Tool.

Patent for a wire stretching and splicing tool used when repairing barbed wire and other wire fences. It connects the ends of broken wires by bringing them together and twisting them. It has a wire gripping device, an adjustable end that corresponds to the wire gripper, a way to separate the above listed parts and bring them back together again, and a clamping device.

Date: April 30, 1895

Creator: la Bauve, Odelon Joseph

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window-Shade Raiser.

Patent for an improved way of raising, lowering, and locking window shades into place. "The operating-cord passes over a pulley located between two larger disks, one of which is screwed toward the other by a spring to clamp the folds of the cord and is screwed in the opposite direction by means of a lever, upon which the chord itself acts when drawn in the proper direction" (lines 14-20).

Date: April 14, 1896

Creator: McCauley, John H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved wagon attachment. This design "relates to hay frames or racks for use with the ordinary box wagon-bodies; and it has for its object to provide a light frame or rack of simple construction adapted for adjustment to wagon boxes or bodies of different width and so constructed as to be folded in a compact form. To these ends the invention consists in a foldable hay frame or rack adapted to fit into a wagon-body and adapted for adjustment to such body; also, in structur… more

Date: April 8, 1890

Creator: Haupt, William W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee and Head Block for Saw Mills.

Patent for a new and improved knee and head block. This design consists, "with a saw-mill carriage, of a head-block extending flush with the outer edges of the tracks of said carriage and provided with the usual groove or recess extending the entire length of said head-block, a knee sliding in said groove and provided on its front vertical edge with a recess, and a log-supporter fitting flush within said recess and provided at its lower end with a forwardly-extending lug or projection" (lines 3… more

Date: April 29, 1890

Creator: Willis, George F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine

Patent for improvements to cylinder washing machines.

Date: April 29, 1890

Creator: Anderson, Henry C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Top.

Patent for improvements in wagon-bodies by providing "a simple and effective means for tightening the canvas covering over the bows of wagon or other vehicle-bodies” (lines 17-19), includes illustration.

Date: April 14, 1891

Creator: James, John

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing-Table.

Patent for an ironing table with an improved construction that makes it easily adjustable so a person of any height can iron easily and keeps clothes being ironed off the floor.

Date: April 4, 1893

Creator: Smith, Millage M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Patent for an improved washing machine "in which is employed a rotary agitator or dasher with blades, and it has for its objects among others to provide an improved construction whereby better results are attained, the construction simplified and made cheaper, less liable to become inoperative or injured and easier to operate" (lines 16-22). It has a cover with a hinged lid.

Date: April 4, 1893

Creator: Anderson, Albert Grant

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Index.

Patent for "an improved method of indexing books of reference, and more especially city and county records, and the means for carrying over from one line to another where several indexes are to be set opposite one name" (lines 9-14).

Date: April 11, 1893

Creator: Heppenstall, James Edward

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water - Tank.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in water tanks.

Date: April 12, 1898

Creator: Stevenson, William M. & Bailey, William K.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Sealing Newspapers, &c.

Patent for a machine to seal "the open edges of folded newspapers or other periodicals at the place of publication to prevent their return for redemption by the publishers when the seal is broken." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: April 13, 1897

Creator: Sundstrom, Herman T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wind-Wheel.

Patent for a wind-wheel "designed to secure a rapid descent of the pump-rod and thus enable the wheel to raise more water in a given time" (lines 8-10). Damaging the wheel proper with the forcefulness of rapidly descending water is avoided in this design.

Date: April 27, 1897

Creator: Pippin, John William

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Decorticating Jute, Ramie, and Other Fibrous Plants

Patent for "a machine for separating the valuable fibrous portions of the stems of the plants of the jute, ramie, flax, and hemp, and like varieties from refuse matter and preparing the same for use with the least possible injury and waste" (lines 10-15).

Date: April 19, 1892

Creator: Fremery, Felix B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Patent for an improved machine that cleans and transfers seed cotton to a gin. It combines exhaust fans and a cleaning mechanism, and is less expensive than similar machines.

Date: April 11, 1893

Creator: Cannon, Burrell

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive-Headlight.

Patent for an independent reservoir lamp for locomotive head lights. "?The conduit by which the reservoir and burner communicate is liable to be obstructed with sediment which not only interferes with the suitable flow of oil but corrodes the metal and necessitates repairs" (lines 13-17). The invention is convenient to use and inexpensive.

Date: April 25, 1893

Creator: Owens, Thomas B.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed Cotton.

Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed cotton: "For uploading cotton from wagons and for transferring it from place to place, for example, from wagon to storehouse or from the wagon or the storehouse to the gin house when it is to be delivered to gins or gin feeders, pneumatic apparatus has advantages over other devices" (lines 12-18).

Date: April 17, 1894

Creator: Elam, William E.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windlass.

Patent for a new and improved windlass. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a frame having the cross-bars near its lower and upper ends, the windlass-shaft journaled in the side pieces of the frame and having the balance-wheels and the pinion, the operating-gears mounted in one side of the frame and one of said gears meshing with said pinion, an upright mounted upon the lower front cross-piece of the frame and having a guide-pulley at its upper end, arms extending laterally from said … more

Date: April 1, 1890

Creator: Bridges, Thomas H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Forming Cotton-Seed Meal into Cakes

Patent for "an organized machine adapted to rapidly compress charges of cotton-seed meal into cakes of sufficient solidity to bear handling and removal to a press, whereby the oil is expressed therefrom, and to deliver said cakes at a point or points in convenient proximity to said press or presses, so that the time and labor involved in preparing the meal for the, press and of inserting it therein will be reduced to the minimum" (lines 9-18).

Date: April 8, 1890

Creator: Price, James S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Patent for a well-drilling apparatus that easily attaches drill-bits to the ends of drill-tubes without removing the tubes from the well. It is meant for Artesian well-boring machines.

Date: April 9, 1895

Creator: Horton, Stephen A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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