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Truck.

Description: Patent for a truck or hand cart useful for loading and unloading at depots. This hand cart has has a hand actuated lift for lifting objects to the height of the loading vehicle.
Date: November 17, 1919
Creator: Thomas, Theodore G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lid and Label Holder.

Description: Patent for an improvement to lid and label holders (boxes) that allows for the lid to be held against the side of the box so that the box sits at an inclination and displays the contents of the box.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Watts, Albert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Load-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a Load-Indicator for tools being used in drilling a well. The indicator gives an accurate measure of the weight upon the drill, allowing operators to adjust the weight accordingly.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Fletcher, Harold W.
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Wagon Brace

Description: Patent for wagon brace that obviates danger of thimbles breaking under excessive weight and strain.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Albritton, James
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Lifeboat

Description: Patent for a lifeboat that "prevents the boat from capsizing" (lines 19-20) or sinking.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Rusk, Raymond
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Line Type Casting Machine.

Description: Patent for a linotype machine with improvements to the float, the ejector, and slugs magazine.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Wilmans, Lloyd I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Elevator.

Description: Patent for a water elevator. The invention produces a means for "high power water elevating" which provides " a steady and voluminous flow of water" (lines 20-22). Illustration included.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Barnett, Grady L.
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Windmill

Description: Patent for a windmill that rotates on a vertical and horizontal axis. The blades are mounted to stop in order to prevent damage to the windmill should pressure occur.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Brown, Archie Edwards
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Work Clamp.

Description: Patent for an improved work clamp. The inventor claimed that the clamp was meant to be universal, allowing for several clamped pieces of material to be secured simultaneously for welding or other joining methods. The tool was meant to facilitate complex construction in a variety of machinery repair facilities and markets.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Treuthardt, Arnold Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose-Supporter.

Description: Patent for improvements in Hose-Supporters or garter that "grips the entire sock, around the leg, prevents the possibility of sagging, insures a perfect fit on the leg of the wearer and serves to equalize the stress on the sock" (lines 11-14) which adds durability and "avoids straining the sock out of shape" (lines 16-17). Includes illustration.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Tonahill, William J., Jr.
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Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils

Description: Patent for a process for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils that converts these fluids into more buoyant products with lower specific gravities and boiling points. This process seeks to meet demand for engine fuels, gasoline, and oils, and augment the diminishing supply of these natural products.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Adams, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for an improvement in pumps and "has for its object the provision of a pump providing a counterbalance for the weight of the column of liquid in the suction pipe provided by a vacuum chamber in the pump" (lines 10-14). Illustration included.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Haszinger, George Ernest
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor-Actuated Locking Device for Automobiles

Description: Patent for a device that prevents the drive shaft of an automobile from when moving when pushed by an unauthorized person. The device acts as a form of security to ensure unauthorized individuals are unable to move the vehicle. Additionally, the device can be used while the vehicle is in motion in order to slow the drive shaft, and thus the vehicle.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Wherry, Robert D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire Construction

Description: Patent for an improvement to rubber tires. The inner tube is enclosed within a thick detachable shoe to withstand shocks and jars, and also uses side guards to protect from dirt accumulation.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Luck, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heater.

Description: Patent for a heater, "designed for use in orchards for raising the temperature of the atmosphere at times when frosts or freezing temperature is threatened" (lines 11-14). Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Briscoe, Williard H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench

Description: Patent for a pipe-wrench that features new and useful improvements and also extends the purposes to which the pipe-wrench may be applicable.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Steen, Buford J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Means For Injecting Sealing Liquid Into Tires.

Description: Patent for a means for injecting sealing liquid into tires. This is an "improved mechanism for introducing a sealing liquid into a pneumatic tire" (lines 31-32). Illustration included.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Anthony, Daniel Luther
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rear Sight for Guns

Description: Patent for a rear sight for firearms, particularly larger firearms such as service rifles or other field artillery and machine guns.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Kaempfer, Effie May Wagner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate

Description: Patent for an improved gate design.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Jenson, J. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Elevating-Truck.

Description: Patent for new improvements for a portable elevating truck, used for handling and storing heavy material to stack on each other. (referred to as "decking") using an endless chain on an incline.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Anderson, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in cultivators for the ground working elements.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Kendall, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Signaling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for new, durable improvements requiring minimal installation cost in the signaling apparatus on automobiles and other vehicles to notify traffic of an intended turn and its direction. These improvements involve a lamp being illuminated and raised and then lowered by the movement of the steering wheel. Said improvements also provide manual operation for emergencies.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Wyrill, Arthur O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sack Attachment for Cotton Picking Machines

Description: Patent for an improved sack attachment for cotton-picking machines that is waterproof and stays in position on the machine to prevent its walls from collapsing during suction of cotton.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Chaney, Bailey E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Disk Plow.

Description: Patent for a disk plow modification, which allows the disk to be self-sharpening and automatically release accumulated garbage.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Hoffman, George L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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