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Locomotive Ash-Pan.

Description: Patent for "locomotive ash-pans which are cleared of ashes and cinders without necessitating the stopping of the engine or requiring the fireman or other person going beneath the engine to relieve the ash-pan of its contents, thereby saving expense in labor and obviating loss of time in long runs." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Cummings, Summer Field
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a vehicle wheel meant for children's carriages that has double fellies, spokes, and a hub that has "an interposed band connecting said fellies at suitable intervals and adapted for the attachment to the spokes" (lines 69-71).
Date: February 12, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle Wheel.

Description: Patent for a wheel attachment of "combined purposes of tire, felly and safety guard" (lines 15-16), with slight wing-like widening between spokes to prevent sinking into ruts, with optional cutouts to reduce weight, including illustrations.
Date: May 7, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel with an improved design that is meant for light vehicles. The wheel will "provide novel means whereby the wheel will be prevented from slipping into ruts in the road, thus overcoming the jar that would otherwise be caused" (lines 14-18).
Date: May 21, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve

Description: Patent for improvement to a valve design, with illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Turn Table

Description: Patent for a new and improved turn table. This invention "relates to an improvement in turn-tables, and its an improvement on that particular kind of turn-table shown and described in Patent NO.517,304" (line 7-9).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Trap

Description: Patent for an insect trap which attracts insects with a light and contains them.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: La Baum, Francis M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Cooler.

Description: Patent for a simple, efficient, and inexpensive portable water cooler that refrigerates the water "by the action of the air and the evaporation of the liquid or vapor percolating the material" (lines 12-14). It does not use ice and can be used in rural areas.
Date: September 5, 1893
Creator: Hymans, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for an improvement on vehicle wheels to "provide a novel and inexpensive safety-guard for wheels of the above-referred-to class, whereby the wheel will be prevented from entering crevices and cracks" (lines 14-18) and to improve durability.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel in children's carriages with a double-felly wheel meant to broaden "the tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels falling into cracks between boards of board walks, such as are common in the suburbs or rural districts" (lines 15-19). The spokes are like that of a single-felly wheel.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam Coffee or Tea Pot.

Description: Patent for a steam coffee or tea pot that has "double walls forming an inner and outer chamber, an interiorly arranged spout connecting said chambers and a vent tube arranged in the spout communicating with the inner chamber" (lines 77-81).
Date: August 7, 1894
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for new and improved Nut-Locks, allowing for "a simple, strong, durable, and efficient arrangement for effectually locking a nut on a bolt..." (lines 16-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 29, 1916
Creator: Portesi, Santos & Taini, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Track Walker's Tool.

Description: Patent for a new and improved track-walker's tool. This design "consist[s] of a sectional handle or body having a claw-bar and spiking-maul at one end and a wrench at the opposite end, the said wrench being provided with a stud upon one face, the distance between the outer face of said stud and the outer surface of the maul when the sections are joined together and the maul faces the stud being such as to correspond to the standard distance between rails" (lines 14-23).
Date: December 2, 1890
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Medical Compound

Description: Patent for a medical compound which "when taken internally, is a cure for gonorrhea, gravel, dysentery, and diarrhea, and when applied externally a cure for rheumatism" (lines 12-14).
Date: September 4, 1906
Creator: Mendez, Jesus M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post Hole Digger

Description: Patent for a post hole digger with an illustration.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Wall, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Panorama-Camera.

Description: Patent for a panorama camera to adjust or remove the film without exposing it, including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1905
Creator: Baker, Franklin James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Bunk Stairs

Description: Patent for stair-step that can be folded up, to be used in bunk bed situations such as in sleeping cars of trains.
Date: December 26, 1916
Creator: Mey, Ella E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design utilizes "[t]he combination, with the bolt having a longitudinal groove therein, and the nut having a circular recess in its inner face and a series of perforations in its outer face, of the key having its inner end bent at right angles and fitted in said recess, and provided with an arm and pivoted catch at the outer end, which catch is adapted to engage with a perforation in the nut" (lines 47-55).
Date: May 15, 1883
Creator: Mlinarich, Gioseppe Iosef Pepos
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Triangle for Billiard-Balls.

Description: Patent for an improved triangle for billiard balls that consists of sides, movable doors on the bottom edge, a fixed guide on the side of the triangle, and springs to hold the doors.
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive nut lock that securely locks a nut onto a threaded bolt and can be easily unlocked. It also is simply constructed. It consists of a plank-like spring tongue that fits over the bolt and under the nut.
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Taini, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a nut lock with a locking washer at the base of the nut that does not unscrew. The nut forms a bar of spring metal.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Mauermann, Albert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Neck-Yoke Center.

Description: Patent for a device that improves, simplifies, and strengthens the construction of neck yoke centers.
Date: February 6, 1906
Creator: Quick, E. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Picture Hanger

Description: Patent for a new picture frame with adjustable hanger. Patent for "a new and improved picture frame with an attached hanger to support the top and bottom of the frame at any desire angle" (lines 14-19) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new picture frame hanger design, including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1893
Creator: Hymans, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the revolving harrow-teeth and prong-wheels, of the centrally-hinged vibratory frame, carrying drag-hook teeth . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the harrow-frame . . . carrying the hook-teeth, of the pulley, chain, and lever" (lines 62-70).
Date: March 20, 1883
Creator: Lewis, Charles Patton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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