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Wrench

Description: Patent for an improved wrench wherein various shaped and sized heads can be quickly and easily put on and taken off. This allows for the wrench to be used with nuts of varying shapes and sizes.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Davis, George W. & Davis, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locking Device for Car-Doors.

Description: Patent for a locking device for a sliding train car capable of locking automatically upon close, including illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Tierney, Henry J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs

Description: Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Internal Combustion Engine

Description: Patent for Internal Combustion Engine design
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Roquemore, Abb L. & Fallwell, Oscar M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Type-Writer Line-Shift.

Description: Patent for line shifter attachment for typewriter which makes it possible for the typewriter to print characters above or below the standard line of print. This attachment makes the typewriter useful for taking stenographic notes.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Byrne, Henry E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Indicator for Mail-Boxes.

Description: Patent for the operator indicating a mail for the mail box to the courier mans, which allows easy purchase of things.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Hunnicutt, Wallace V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve-Grinder.

Description: Patent for a valve grinder that fit together perfectly to prevent leakage and a consequent loss of power.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Atkin, Frank R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn-Mower.

Description: Patent for improvements on lawn mowers with "drive wheels and an adjustable cutting mechanism [...] held in adjusted positions by means releasable by the propelling handle" (lines 10-15). This allows "adjusted positions to cut grass of different lengths without the necessity of the operator stooping" (lines 21-23), including illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Martin, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Warehouse Truck

Description: Patent for improving hand truck, aiming to increase the carrying capacity of the truck.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Dickson, Braxton B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transmission-Chain.

Description: Patent for a transmission chain made of separate links. Some of the links have spring material to center the chain, increase flexibility, and protect the chain from objects thrown in the chain's path.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Lynn, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for an improved hyrdrocarbon burner that includes "an overhanging generating element of suitable construction in combination with a particular base having a burner jet surrounded by air admitting jets [...] to be installed in the various forms of stoves and grates" (lines 11-26), including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Franklin, Oliver H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Cotton Picking and Transferring Machine.

Description: Patent for pneumatic cotton picking and transferring machine that readily transfers the cotton from the receiver to a wagon where it can be taken to a gin.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Tulley, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stock-Crate.

Description: Patent for "an improved crate for catching, loading and handling hogs and the like stock" (lines 14-16)
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Exterminator

Description: Patent for a device exterminating boll weevils and other insects, which infest cotton and other crops. The device produces new means for producing fumigating gas, and its delivery mechanism. An improved driving mechanism for the device, which connects to a blower, is also part of the patent.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Rawls, Theophilus M. & Miller, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Support for Telephones or the Like.

Description: Patent for "improvements in adjustable supports for holding telephones or the like" (lines 10-11). Patent includes illustration and specifications.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Priest, Charles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle Feed.

Description: Patent for improvement of pressed cakes for cattle feed.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Carter, Newton L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Timing Mechanism for Automatic Oil Pumping Systems.

Description: Patent for a timing mechanism for automatic oil-pumping systems, which adds improvements to a previous patent (Serial No.788,483). This patent includes a "novel mechanism for controlling the alternate action of a pressure and vacuum directed into a well" from the surface instead of the lower portion of the well (lines 33-35). Patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Stephenson, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pulley-Block.

Description: Patent for an improvement on pulley blocks that sustains the pulley block from vertical movement. The improvement consists of a U-shaped suspending member equipped with a depending prong that can engage support.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: La Croix, Cicero H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potato and Peanut Harvester

Description: Patent for improvements in potato and peanut harvesters. It simplifies the ways potatoes and peanuts are dug from the ground.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Reeder, Addison C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for how a oil-burner works and invention in the oil-burner with more advanced features.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pin-Holder

Description: Patent for mechanism that will encase and dispense pins. It holds a roll of pins and its paper and guides "the removal of pins without manipulation of any apparatus, and without requiring mechanism for checking the pins individually" (lines 20-23).
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Bowman, Levi M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new invention of pipe-wrench, how it is made and how it is used.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Adams, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Direction-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a direction indicator that is "extremely simple, durable, efficient in operation, and inexpensive to manufacture" (lines 20-22). It is "an improved electrically operated direction indicator, in the nature of an arm pivotally mounted in a casing and operated by an electro-magnetically controlled lever [...] for indicating the directions in which the vehicle to which the device is applied, is about to move" (lines 10-17), including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Justus, Fred E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dish Washing Machine

Description: Patent for "new and useful machine improvements for washing dishes and other articles" (lines 9-11).
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Randolph, Hallie H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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