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Railway-Ditching Machine.

Description: Patent for railway-ditching machines used "to facilitate the opening of railway ditches and the removal of dirt" (lines 41-42) including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1882
Creator: Grove, David E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Joint Shock Absorber.

Description: Patent for a shock absorber for trains, including instructions and illustrations
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Meyers, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paving for Streets and the Like

Description: Patent for paving for streets and the like invention relates to paving with specific constructions for high efficiency in resisting wear.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Stubbs, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ruling Blotter

Description: Patent for a ruling blotter. This invention provides "a blotting-pad having on one face a measure, a calandar, and spaces for advertising matter, and a straight-edge secured along its edge" (lines 9-13). Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Wood, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in planters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: Shofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas Generator and Burner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gas generator. This design "has for its object to improve the efficiency of that type of vapor generators and burners wherein oil and air pipes enter a casing having burner orifices and filled with an incombustible substance, which when heated vaporizes the oil" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 10, 1889
Creator: Street, Joseph G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plane for Aeroplanes.

Description: Patent for plane for airplanes that imitates bird flight (without added power) once an airplane has reached the desired altitude.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: McCarroll, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Educational Device

Description: Patent for a combined folding desk, blackboard, scroll, and map cabinet to be used for educational purposes. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer

Description: Patent relating to improvements to draft appliances for tractors. Illustration is included.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Equalizers

Description: Patent for a draft equalizer that permits either three horses to travel at one side of the beam and two at the other, or three horses at one side of the beam and one at the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.

Description: Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
Date: September 17, 1917
Creator: Meier, John & Wallace, James F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Saw Gummer

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton saw gummers. The patented improvements include a cutter rather than a puncher in the gummer's design, as well as means for adjusting the cutter.
Date: September 2, 1913
Creator: Nelson, De Witt C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for a cotton gin that removes lint-cotton from the saws using an air-suction mechanism instead of a brush, which pose a fire hazard and can impair the gin's effectiveness. An air-blast mechanism is also an ineffective method of cleaning lint-cotton from the saws. The air-suction mechanism sucks "the lint-cotton directly from the rear portions of the saw-teeth independently of and without a brush, and an apparatus for preventing the withdrawn lint-cotton from passing into and through the … more
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for a "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Gins" (lines 4-5) with description and drawings. Improvements include a "lint-removing mechanism and designed...especially for reginning or delinting cotton-seed" (lines 13-15) and the abiity to stop the float and delinting process instantly.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sewer-Clean-Out Cover

Description: Patent for specific improvements of sewer-clean-out covers that will "provide a cover for the clean out pipes of sewers, which cover will be securely held in place under ordinary circumstances and cannot be removed except by authorized parties carrying a certain form of key, adapted to release the fastening mechanism" (lines 10-16) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Linskie, Benjamin B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Fastening.

Description: Patent for improvements in shoe-fastenings by using a “pivoted clasp-lever which has a tail-piece acted upon by a leaf-spring for holding the lever in its closed or open position.” (Lines 11-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Dessoir, Julius
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Signal Apparatus for Motor-Vehicles

Description: Patent for automobile signaling apparatus. The apparatus is designed to signal the operator's direction to other drivers.
Date: September 17, 1918
Creator: Riggs, Fletcher S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Music-Indicator

Description: Patent for an "ornamental design for a music-indicator" (lines 11-12).
Date: September 4, 1906
Creator: Thrash, William Edwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1899
Creator: Miller, Frank A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Alarm.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient electric alarm to be used for vault protection. It is a magnet, which is a better design than a coil. The magnet is suspended between two points, and a spring that pushes it in one direction. There is an armature that causes friction when it slides, and sounds an alarm when the arm moves in one direction.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Hull, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calendar.

Description: Patent for "a perpetual calendar embodying such a construction that the movement of a finger device will turn wheels, so as to successively display the names of the days of the week, the numbers of the days of the months, and the names of the months, the mechanism being such that the name of a month will be displayed until the numbers of all its days have been displayed, when the name of the succeeding month will be displayed, and so on." (Lines 13-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 22, 1896
Creator: Dickason, Frank B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calculating Device

Description: Patent for an improved calculating device including a calendar.
Date: September 30, 1914
Creator: Moody, Jason B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Curing-House.

Description: Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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