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Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Brown, John Walter R. & Otey, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Writing-Desk and File-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a writing desk with combined filing cabinet designed for routine clerical and writing tasks. The desk has the added benefit of maximizing file space in both the front and back of the desk while permitting the user to remain seated in order to access files.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Cooper, Samuel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Train-Stop.

Description: Patent for a more efficient automatic train stop with a mechanism that uses a connection with the block system used on railways to stop a train when it runs into "the tracks of the danger zone or upon the tracks of the block where the train should be stopped." (lines 16-18)
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Gramm, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bascule-Bridge

Description: Patent for improvements in draw bridges, such as a shiftable weight and supporting guide, particularly for bridges of the rocking bascule type, with illustrations.
Date: February 15, 1915
Creator: McKibben, Columbus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Train-Stop.

Description: Patent for mechanism to automatically sound alarm and shut off steam when a train passes a danger point.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Bulla, Melbern Bernie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Engine-Starter.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Automatic Engine-Starter, of which the following is a specification. The present invention appertains to engine starters, and aims to provide a novel and improved automatic spring-actuated starter for internal combustion engines" (lines 5-11).
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Beck, John Wesley & Gaines, Nolan T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Fire-Alarm System.

Description: Patent for an automatic fire alarm system with a simple arrangement of alarm devices (positioned throughout different rooms) with sound or visual indicators for fire awareness and closer thermal circuits (assisted with spring contact and circuit closer). The automatic fire alarm system will have a more immediate reaction by making an alert noise or visual and propping open the spring contact.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Ammons, John Burck; Ammons, Evander & McGaffey, Otis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Alarm Device

Description: Patent for a spring motorized automatic alarm device with an improved tripping mechanism actuated by the medium of fire severing an actuator cord "or the like".
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Willoughby, Alford Pervis & Bolding, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Bath-Tubs.

Description: Patent for a removable and adjustable wash cloth attachment "in such a position within the tub that a person bathing may readily move the back and shoulders over the wash cloth or other cleaning element to effect a thorough cleansing thereof" (lines 14-18) including illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1915
Creator: Seib, Lee R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Film-Mover

Description: Patent for an automatic film mover which allows film in a projector to be automatically moved forwards and in reverse.
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Edmond, Berger & Barnes, Ned E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll Breaker and Cleaner

Description: Patent for new and improved Boll Breakers and Cleaners "for handling and cleaning seed cotton prior to it delivery to the ginning mechanism..." (lines 9-10).
Date: April 26, 1915
Creator: Kinne, Tempel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Linotype-Machines

Description: Patent for "an attachment for a linotype machine in the form of a measuring gage constructed in such a manner that the same can be quickly attached to the linotype machine adjacent to the keyboard to facilitate the correcting of proofs and the like by the operator." With this invention, an operator can "ascertain instantaneously, what measure or the number of ems at which to set the machine to make the required correction."
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Callan, Christopher B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Mowers

Description: Patent for a dividing and feeding mower attachment to guide grain into the cutters of the mowers in an upright position.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Mosely, Jimmie E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll Breaking or Crushing Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements to machines used for breaking or crushing cotton bolls "which will initially break the cotton bolls before the cotton with its bolls passes to the cotton gin." (lines 13-15).
Date: October 26, 1915
Creator: South, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Luggage-Carrier.

Description: Patent for improving automobile luggage carriers by attaching a device to the vehicle's running board, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1915
Creator: Reed, Allen T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Boll Separator.

Description: Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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