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Stationery Filing-Case

Description: Patent for a stationery filing case. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Bane, Hamilton Sayers
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Elevated Railway

Description: Patent for an elevated railway track system including motorized elevators in each tower/station/terminal to access the railcar platform.
Date: August 10, 1915
Creator: Hinsen, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Methods of Adjusting Signaling-Mirrors.

Description: Patent for an improvement in the "method of throwing reflected light of a mirror with accuracy upon a distant object in flash-signaling" (lines 5-7), including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1873
Creator: Kenney, Martin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-Clay Charcoal-Furnace

Description: Patent for fire clay charcoal furnace. "The object of the invention is to provide a furnace of this character which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and efficient in action" (lines 13-17).
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Koch, Charles Jean
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Cut-Out for Windmills

Description: Patent for a windmill part which stops the windmill from running when the water tank is full.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Roesler, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie

Description: Patent for a bale-tie that is of "simple construction, durable in use, and comparatively inexpensive of production" (lines 13-15), including illustration and instructions
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Pfeffer, Albert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Handsaws

Description: Patent for an improved handsaw with changes made to the teeth, frame, and bolts.
Date: May 15, 1877
Creator: Shave, Levi & Reams, Sherwood Young
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Portable Derricks.

Description: Patent for improvement in portable derricks by using an “adjustable crane mounted on a truck-platform, having an overhead frame for the support of the upper end of the crane-post, and braces for staying the frame, so that the crane can be turned around to overhang the sides.” (Lines 6-11) Illustration is included.
Date: May 16, 1876
Creator: Reams, Shirwood Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent relating to "certain improvements in presses for baling cotton or hay" (lines 15-16) including instructions and an illustration.
Date: June 24, 1879
Creator: Stopple, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment For Plows

Description: Patent for an attachment for plows. This invention "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments for plows, and my object is to provide means whereby the pitch of the moldboard or shovel may be regulated as desired" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Wilke, Ernest
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sad-Iron Heater.

Description: Patent for sad iron heaters: "a device for heating sad irons, and it has for its object to provide a heater adapted to receive a plurality of irons" (lines 8-11).
Date: April 17, 1894
Creator: Lee, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie

Description: Patent for improvements in bale-ties by using a “combination with a band; of jaws pivoted to one end of the band and adapted to engage a hook carried by the other end of the band, and a guard-plate fixed to one of said jaws and adapted also to engage the hook and prevent it from accidentally becoming disengaged from the jaws.” (Lines 78-84) Illustration is included.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Pfeffer, Albert John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mailing-Galley.

Description: Patent for a mailing galley for cleaning type, which allows the cleaning fluid to drain but keeps the type in the galley.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Zeiske, Richard E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for a simple, metallic, and inexpensive clothes pin that can be used with a rope or wire line. It can be attached easily but will not blow off. It does not rust or tear the clothes.
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Crump, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chimney Cowl.

Description: Patent for a chimney cowl with a manually controlled spark outlet
Date: November 9, 1920
Creator: Jezŏva, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.

Description: Patent for an insecticide that kills ants via fumigation. Ingredients include sulfur, charcoal, potassium cyanide, arsenic, and coal tar.
Date: September 22, 1874
Creator: Tottenham, John William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cutter.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cutters.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Macke, Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.

Description: Patent for a device that reduces the crackling sound of records playing on a phonograph.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Gollmer, Edmund
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collapsible Tent.

Description: Patent for improving collapsible tent rods and corner posts that support the structure, with illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1920
Creator: Hackfield, Arnold W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.

Description: Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Balke, Morris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Strainer.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in well strainers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1898
Creator: Booth, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Steam-plows.

Description: Patent for improvement in the apparatus for turning up soil with a steam plow.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Miller, Herman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sunken-Ship Indicator.

Description: Patent for an object that can show the location a sunken boat from the surface of the water and can be carried in or by a boat and becomes operable once the boat sinks.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Hlavaty, Joe, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Corn Hanger.

Description: Patent for Seed-Corn Hangers "for holding ears of seed-corn during the period of drying".
Date: July 6, 1915
Creator: Weaver, Willis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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