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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

Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer

Description: Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Batla, Thomas H. & Holan, Heny J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Pest-Poisoner

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer specifically designed for use in the treatment of cotton plants. The cotton-pest poisoner is in the form of a powder that can be scattered over the plants.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Tramper.

Description: Patent for a cotton tramper that allows the plunger mechanism to operate automatically when needed to enhance the item's utility.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Jacob, Ernst A. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Parcel Carrier

Description: Patent for improvements in parcel carrier for automobiles.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Campbell, William L.; Straughan, Augustus E.; Commons, A. J.; Weisman, S. & Winton, E. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garbage-Can.

Description: Patent for a garbage can that is simple and efficient and has a lid that can be opened on the garbage can.
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Lewellen, Rosa B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Medicine-Spoon

Description: Patent for a safety medicine spoon which can be carried over distance without spillage or loss of the contents held by the spoon, particularly aimed at helping medicate infants or weak patients without the potential for spillage. The design prioritizes easy cleansing and decontamination.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Toler, Hubert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sailboat.

Description: Patent for an improved sailboat with updated "arrangement of cables controlling the movements of the sails whereby the force of the wind alone is utilized to simultaneously shift all the sails... by merely changing the course of the vessel by actuating the rudder in the usual manner." (lines 10-16), including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1922
Creator: Moraitis, Charalabos
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rolling Screen.

Description: Patent for a rolling window screen which may be held in various semi-open positions.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Leach, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved design of washing machines "which combines simplicity of construction with economy in operation" and helps "to minimize the opportunity for wear, breakage or derangement" (lines 30-35), including illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Waiterless Restaurant

Description: Patent for a waiterless restaurant design with electrically operated waiters.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Paul, Charles P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horseshoe.

Description: Patent for horseshoes that can be attached to the horses' foot without nails.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Lainweber, Mary C.
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

Street-Traffic Signal

Description: Patent for a street traffic signal that can be operated from either the center of the intersection, or the curb.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Miller, Thomas O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gasolene-Measuring Device.

Description: Patent for a device which allows for gasoline to be measured while under constant flow.
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: McKallip, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Valve Lock.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in gate valve lock. This invention is to improve locks for gate valves and other various valves with rotatable stems.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Madrin, Leonard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hair-Clipper.

Description: Patent for hair clips that have a protector that prevents the clip from digging into the skin or hair.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Nicosia, Vincent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Attachment

Description: Patent for improved attachments for cotton gins. Useful amendments include the improvement of the function of "moving and regulating the feeding of cotton to the gin and the ejection of refuse, hulls and chaff." (lines 13-15). This is accomplished with the addition of a mechanism that "at regular intervals, close the feeder, open the gin breast and discharge the hulls and waste and again close the gin and open the feeder." (lines 37-40).
Date: September 26, 1922
Creator: Hooton, Claude A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Elevator Controlling Device

Description: Patent for improvements to the elevator controlling device. These improvements have to do with the main circuit being broken while the elevator doors are open, thus stopping the elevator from moving before the doors are fully closed.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Quick, Charles F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ignition System for Gas-Engines.

Description: Patent for improvements to ignition system for gas internal combustion engines that is simple, compact and serves as "a combination coil, distributer, interrupter and condenser for use in connection with storage batteries and low tensioned magnetos not timed to the engine shaft."
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Kelly, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for a gate that can be manually controlled to open and close the gate when necessary.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: White, William Eugin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Resilient Hub for Wheels.

Description: Patent for an improved version of the Resilient Hub for Wheels, including illustrations. This design is more practical and efficient, as it eliminates the need for a pneumatic tire; rubber can be utilized instead.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Wright, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switch.

Description: Patent for an electric switch that is used in conjunction with a signaling device that allows for lights to be activated synchronously or asynchronously via the use of two levers.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Riggs, Fletcher S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Producing Barium Chlorate

Description: Patent for a new process of making substantially pure barium chlorate that will be more expeditious and less costly to carry out than those prior.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Schoch, Eugene P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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