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Ice-Holding Device.

Description: Patent for a device to hold ice upon running-boards of vehicles (lines 10-11.) This device is flexible in use (it can be pulled up to reveal the ice, and put back out of the way), simple in design, and cheap to construct.
Date: March 21, 1922
Creator: Barton, Warren D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coat-Adjuster.

Description: Patent for a machine that holds a coat for a person and puts it on that person, thus avoiding the need to personally put on a coat. Pivoted arms hold on to the coat and clamps are connected to the arms which hold on to the coat.
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Spoon, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Trull, Harvey L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing-Board.

Description: Patent for an ironing board that has no legs or braces, but is securely held and provided with a cabinet that can be attached to the side of a wall or built into a wall to not take up space in the room by being placed out. Makes for easier ironing of garments, such as dresses and skirts, by allowing them to be inserted on the board.
Date: July 12, 1921
Creator: Trammell, Earl, M. & Carothers, Willam C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Evaporative Cooler.

Description: Patent for an evaporative cooler/refrigerator that is cooled by the evaporation of water with ventilating tubes to maintain the air condition in shelves. Water is adapted to move through a "cloth, flowing downwardly therethrough and being evaporated therefrom to thereby effectually cool the articles disposed within the refrigerator" (lines 28-31). This patent includes illustrations
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Henderson, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trunk-Strap.

Description: Patent for an "efficient and inexpensive" (lines 13-14) trunk strap, including instructions and illustration. The strap is comprised of adjustable sections, the free ends of which hook into angular plates on the bottom of the trunk.
Date: March 28, 1916
Creator: Hall, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement of Cotton Cleaners and Condensers

Description: Patent for changes in the parts of cotton cleaner and condenser machinery, includes illustrations. The changes in machinery seek to eliminate impurities in the cotton while also compacting the cotton into a sheet.
Date: May 1, 1877
Creator: Greaves, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Liquid-Fuel Burner.

Description: Patent for a liquid fuel burner that mixes air with the fuel.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Hannah, Robert L. & Hannah, Homer R.
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Water Distilling Apparatus

Description: Patent for a water distilling apparatus. This invention is designed for condensing steam into distilled water. Additionally, the design is meant to separate empyreumatic gases from the water vapor during the distillation process. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Lazenby, Robert S. & Lazenby, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Package-Tie.

Description: Patent for a tie that fastens the ends of a string together for the purpose of securely wrapping packages, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Forsgard, Edward F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling

Description: Patent for a coupler adapted to be employed for operatively uniting the fluid pressure pipes of a pair of railway vehicles, when the vehicles are coupled up. The invention aims to improve the construction of the main pipe through the instrumentality of which the coupling operation is immediately effected, and to provide a means whereby the pipe is mounted in such a way as to have the necessary movemtns.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Cobb, John Ollen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Can.

Description: Patent for a new and improved oil can. This design is of an oil-can "in which the nozzle remains closed, except when the bottom of the can is pressed, thereby preventing useless waste of oil. To prevent the oil-outlet from being stopped up; to enable the operator to see how much oil is given to each hole, and to facilitate the removal of dirt and grease from the oil-holes before oiling" (lines 8-15).
Date: October 23, 1883
Creator: Campbell, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paper Box.

Description: Patent for a paper box that can be easily and securely locked. The ends of the box are locked into place with inwardly-curved edges, and slits receive the end portions of the inwardly -curved edges.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Girard, Alexandre Ferdinand
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ratchet Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ratchet wrench. This design "relates to improvements in ratchet-wrenches wherein a handle carrying a rotating head having jaws to grasp a nut is provided with pivoted pawls, so that by oscillating the handle the pawls serve to rotate the head and screw or unscrew the nut, bolt, or other device" (lines 8-14).
Date: March 25, 1884
Creator: Osborn, Adelbert E.
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Oil-Burner

Description: Patent for an oil burner for refined oil which vaporizes all the oil put into the burner.
Date: May 4, 1909
Creator: Breckenridge, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metallic Awning.

Description: Patent for improvement in metallic awning by using a plurality of toggle-bars pivoted together and connected to the house, awning-plates carried by toggle-bars, straps provided with a stud and slot, respectively, connected to the lower member of the toggle-frame to prevent it from opening downward too far. A cord connected to the toggle-bars for raising or lowering the awning. (Page. 2, lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date: March 10, 1903
Creator: Cornitius, Ernst
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motion-Transmitter

Description: Patent for a motion transmitter for wave motors, "the primary object of the invention being to produce motion-transmitting mechanism which will effect the conversion or translation of reciprocity motion into continuous rotary motion in the same direction."
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Walker, James Constant
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mattress-Making Machine.

Description: Patent for a mattress making machine for use in cotton gins that fills the mattress tick with a even amount of stuffing without wadding and can be used with any type of cloth mattress tick.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: White, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold for Making Sewers.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sewer mold. This design consists in "[a]n expansible and contractible reversible mold for sewers, in form in cross-section of either a semi-circle, semi-ellipse, or semi-ovate, formed of segmental portions hinged together and provided with stay-braces and thrusting tie-rods" (lines 76-81).
Date: June 18, 1889
Creator: Baade, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Overall Jacket Or Waist.

Description: Patent for an overall jacket or waists, the construction of which permits of its formation with less material and its use with greater comfort and convenience by terminating at its lower edge in a waist band, which, in use, is intended to be seated upon or lap the upper edges or portions of the trouser sections, thus avoiding the extensions usually present with a wait section or jacket into the trouser section.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Elliot, Joseph Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric-Line-Apparatus Protector

Description: Patent for electric-line-apparatus protector used to protect telephone and other electrical circuits from damaged caused by electricity. This is a simple and efficient device.
Date: July 25, 1916
Creator: Higgins, Peter K. & Parker, Frederick R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements to Cotton-Choppers. The invention relates to the agricultural implements and more particularly to machines for thinning rows of cotton, whereby to prevent crowding of the plants and insuring a stocky growth which will under favorable condition produce a good crop.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Ogden, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Releaser

Description: Patent for a horse releaser that allows the quick removal of horses from a vehicle in case of an emergency.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Burleson, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental Bridgework.

Description: Patent for dental bridgework with "an improved slotted crown, cap, or band for attaching the bridges to the natural teeth" (lines 9-10).
Date: July 2, 1895
Creator: Bray, Bernard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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