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Wagon-Body

Description: Patent for "an improvement in extensible wagon-bodies," (lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1887
Creator: Stumpf, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Bag Fastener.

Description: Patent for a mail-bag fastener that consists of a mail bag with a flap, slots, a double upper portion next to the flap, a channel cut into the portion, guides with slots across the channel, a leather strap that slides into the channel, staples on the inside of the flap, and a tag holder attached to the back of the strap.
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Roosevelt, James Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee Pad.

Description: Patent for an improved knee pad, which provides better ventilation and cushioning to the knee, including illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1922
Creator: Rylander, Parrish H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Cracking Nuts

Description: Patent for a machine for cracking nuts of various types but especially pecans.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: McDonald, Charles Walton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Rounding Leather.

Description: Patent for a machine for rounding leather in harness making shops, which produces a uniform product and requires less time and effort than hand rounding leather.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Pfeifer, Reinhold A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Fire-Lighters.

Description: Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Craig, Samuel M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

T-Square.

Description: Patent for a new and improved t-square. This design calls for a triangular prism of a tongue, which enables more scales to be available to the work-person. The head, with its brackets and rabbet, will fasten the tongue in place while the work-person uses it.
Date: November 7, 1882
Creator: Rowe, Joseph William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp Chimney Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for oil-lamp chimneys. This design is for a metal piece to be inserted into the top of the glass chimney, resting along the chimney's brim. The piece has an elbow that connects the inserted part to an angled and tapered part, which, when appropriately turned, prevents the wind from extinguishing the lamp's flame.
Date: November 28, 1882
Creator: Illingworth, James O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Ginning Cotton.

Description: Patent for a process of ginning cotton that is "based upon the principle of a gradual or successive ginning of the seed, somewhat analogous to the gradual reduction process of grinding wheat or other grain" (lines 28-61). This process improves ginning by over thirty-three percent.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Cracking Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that helps crack and break down nuts for processing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mosquito-Canopy for Folding Bed

Description: Patent for an improvement "to provide a folding bed of any variety with a canopy-frame for suspending a netting which will both fold up when the bed is closed and open when the bed is opened automatically" (lines 9-13).
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Eva, Addison H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Saddle.

Description: Patent for a harness saddle that has a metallic frame that is hinged with straps, pads, guide straps that are secured to the pads and slide along straps, plates connected to a curved plate in the saddle, plates pivotally connected to the aforementioned plates, cylindrical lugs that are attached to plates, and cylindrical apertures that slip over the lugs.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Miller, John A. & Warmoth, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power Attachment for Treadle Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for treadle machines. This design "consist[s] of the frame provided with the bearings and adapted to support the machine to be driven, the shaft journaled in the said bearings and provided with the arms, the roller journaled between the outer ends of the said arms, and the pulley secured on the said shaft" (lines 85-92).
Date: November 20, 1888
Creator: Von Boeckmann, Eugene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Neck Yoke Attachment

Description: Patent for a neck yoke attachment. Illustrations included.
Date: November 8, 1904
Creator: Miller, Eli H. & Mangham, William O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Picker.

Description: Patent for improvements on cotton pickers that allow the cotton to be collected separately from the bolls.
Date: November 16, 1915
Creator: Phel, Walter Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Self Centering Axle Lathe

Description: Patent for a self centering axle lathe. Illustrations included.
Date: November 15, 1904
Creator: Boeckmann, Kurt Von
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sewing-Awl.

Description: Patent for an improvement upon the sewing awl that is designed to work well with leather workers. The sewing awl is made to be "adaptable to work with a break or tension device, capable of restraining a thread holding spool against free rotation to prevent excessive undesirable slack or looseness of the thread" (lines 15-19) as illustrated and described.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Alten, George Philip
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for improvement in breech-loading fire-arms.
Date: November 19, 1878
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mosquito Bar Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved frame for mosquito bars. This design calls for wires, bent at right angles, to be attached to a center piece, in which hanging-cords can be stored. This design represents a lighter, more portable alternative to the wooden predecessors.
Date: November 1, 1881
Creator: Bostick, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metallic Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for a new and improved metallic railroad tie that purports to prevent the spreading of rails or the bending of tension-rods. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Saunders, Ellison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire Arm Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved pistol holster. This design "consists of a plate of malleable iron or other suitable metal, curved to conform to the waist of a person, having secured to it on the inside a spring adapted to push outward from the waist toward an auxiliary slotted countersunk plate, serving to hold the head of the screw attached to the fire-arm" (lines 19-25).
Date: November 21, 1882
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dinner Bucket.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lunch bucket. This design consists in a "base-plate having sleeves upon two of its opposite edges, two rectangular-shaped bails secured at one end in said sleeves, the upper ends of each of said bails being bent inward or toward each other, the upper end of one of said bails being shorter than the other and bent slightly upward, and means for securing the upper ends of said bails together" (lines 1-8).
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Lederle, Edward Emil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper with two independently operated plows on the front.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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