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Fishing-Float

Description: Patent for a new type of fishing float with "ferrules or caps" (line 18) on the ends to prevent water from getting into the float, causing it to decay, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: October 23, 1917
Creator: Scott, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Balance Attachment for Windmills.

Description: Patent for an automatic balance device for windmills that attaches to the pump-rod.
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Terry, Blake
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for this plow relates to an improvement in plows commly known as "sweeps;" and provides a device of cheap and simple construction adapted to be applied to the rear or upper edge of an ordinary sweep.
Date: February 23, 1892
Creator: Hill, David Jeferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1875
Creator: Harper, Derastus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Fastening.

Description: Patent for the improvement of shoe fastenings by making them out of leather and with more fashionable eyelets. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1892
Creator: Hamilton, Samuel McCleary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Air-Brake Appliance.

Description: Patent for a safety air brake appliance, which automatically applies the brakes on each car if a car derails.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Ash, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sliding Caster

Description: Patent for improvements to furniture sliding casters for protecting the furniture, as well as floors and carpets when moving furniture. Improvements include caster prongs "which are set back from the outer margin of the caster so as not to split or mutilate the [furniture] leg" (lines 23-25) and casters that are "easily casted or stamped out from sheet metal [ . . . ] which therefore may be cheaply and easily manufactured" (lines 29-32).
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Preston, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trap.

Description: Patent for a new type of animal trap with a rotating cylinder that projects the animal into the trap itself when depressed.
Date: November 23, 1915
Creator: Webster, Joseph R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blow-Off Cock

Description: Patent for new and useful Improvements in “blow-off cocks for use on locomotive and other boilers,” (line 9-11), including an illustration.
Date: November 23, 1915
Creator: Roach, John L. & Dawson, Lance L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Surgical Instrument.

Description: Patent for a medical instrument used to perform circumcisions "without pain and bloodlessly" (lines 10-11) and illustration.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: Couch, Albert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle Feed.

Description: Patent for improvement of pressed cakes for cattle feed.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Carter, Newton L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mop

Description: Patent for a mop with removable cleaning cloth. Intended use is for washing dishes. The handles for holding the cloth are for securely twisting to wring water out.
Date: November 23, 1915
Creator: Evans, Anna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wardrobe-Beadsteads.

Description: Patent for a new and improved office-furniture that combines a desk, bookshelf, folding bed, hat-rack, and wash-basin, including descriptions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Sutcliffe, Wilson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Description: Patent for improvements to cultivators that allow the driver to adjust displacement in order to avoid obstacles without changing the path of operation.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Foster, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new invention of pipe-wrench, how it is made and how it is used.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Adams, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the construction of cotton-scrapers, "which is secured to the stock or standard so as to project out to one side of the cultivator-shovel" (lines 14-16) including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Hill, Abner R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Agitator.

Description: Patent for an improved device to produce a useful agitation of liquid in washing machines by configuring the paddles or blades in the most effective manner, including illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1915
Creator: Babek, Aloysius S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Medicine - Glass.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in medicine-glasses.
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Jenkins, John Marshall
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut and Pipe Wrench.

Description: Patent for a nut and pipe wrench that has a detachable handle member which allows the shank to be reduced and extended.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Hunter, Arthur G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cough-Medicine.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved cough-medicine" (lines 7-8).
Date: November 23, 1880
Creator: King, Julia Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harvester-Reel.

Description: Patent for the placement of a "covering of canvas, cloth, or other suitable material" (lines 16-17) around a harvester-reel for various improvements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1880
Creator: Moore, Joseph Martial
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Job Press Standardizer

Description: Patent for job press.
Date: January 23, 1917
Creator: McMath, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Axle - Nut.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Collins, Corties
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a plow that is simpler, more durable, and cheaper to make than previous ones and allows for easier adjustments in plowing depth.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Stafford, George A. & Henry, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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