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Typewriter-Desk.

Description: Patent for typewriter desk which has a compartment with a moveable platform. The platform supports a typewriter, and is "capable of being raised and lowered within the desk so as to position the typewriter for use or non-use as desired". The compartment has a lid, which when in closed position, provides an even writing or resting surface.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Beard, Margurite E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for new and useful improved invention of wrenches include both pipe wrenches and general-purpose wrenches particularly.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Otey R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trap.

Description: Patent for animal trap that has a mechanism in connection with spring traps, which is controlled by the closing of the trap, with U-shaped jaws that are spaced slightly apart in order to avoid severing or crushing the animals leg when the jaws of the trap closes. It is meant to prevent the animal from escaping by leaving its leg in the trap.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Manning, James, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Expressing Cage and Press.

Description: Patent for improvements to Oil Expressing Cages and Presses "for the extraction of oil from cotton seed cake or the like" (lines 11-12) that allows for multiple oil cakes and press plates which can be "readily inserted in or removed from the press as occasion requires" (lines 22-23).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Henry, Nelson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peanut-Harvester

Description: Patent for peanut harvesting machine. It helps pull the peanut plant from the ground easily and aids in bunching them without having to use your hands.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Phillips Willie Orman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rear Sight For Firearms

Description: Patent for rear sight firearm. To help aid in the night with rear vision and align for better direction when used during the night.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Kaempfer Effie May Wagner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Attatchment For Tractors.

Description: Patent for Draft Attachment For Tractors for the improvement of farming tractors. This invention includes adding machinery to allow interchangeable farming tools for a wide variety of uses.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Gaida, Wale
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton-chopper which is steered using the feet, and where the chopping apparatus is adjustable and can be raised or lowered. The chopping apparatus also rotates, and the operator can adjust the speed of rotation. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Engler, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Tool.

Description: Patent for a tool designed for mounting pneumatic tires on wheel rims.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Boone, Daniel M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tractor

Description: Patent for improvements in tractors for farm and road work. Improvements include enclosing all working parts within a protecting housing, mounting the motor for rotation, balance the weight, provide a wheel carriage to adjust the width and height, and to provide shifting gears.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Ingram, Joseph D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Single-Trigger Mechanism for Double-Barrel Guns.

Description: Patent for a new single-trigger mechanism for double-barrel guns in which both barrels fire successively and premature discharge is prevented, including illustrations.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Lindsay, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Headlight

Description: Patent for a headlight that has a dimming function.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Pepple, John Pepple
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Cleaner

Description: Patent for a cotton-cleaner with beveled beaters attached to a central shaft. The shape of the beaters and rotation push the cotton outwards and downwards, thus preventing the cotton from clogging or collecting around the central shaft. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Stacy, Grover C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Front Sight for Firearms.

Description: Patent for a luminous rear sight for firearms of all types. Including Illustration.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Kaempfer, Effie May Wagner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Decapitator.

Description: Patent for improvements to decapitator handles which "may be very cheaply produced and will present a broad surface for the hand of the operator which will permit him to exert all necessary pressure without any discomfort to himself" (lines 71-75).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Rece, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stove.

Description: Patent for "a novel means for supplying liquid fuel to stoves and other burners and for igniting the fuel from a distant point."
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Peters, William E.
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

Safety Oil-Can.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in safety oil cans...to provide in an oil can, [a] mechanism for securely closing the spout, to prevent waste and evaporation..." (lines 9-13).
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Richey, James David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Poultry-Killer.

Description: Patent for a new poultry killing device which is inexpensive and easy to use by anyone to kill poultry quickly and painlessly with or without decapitation. Design shape ensures that the poultry cannot twist their way out of the device.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Rece, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for railroad ties and especially for a fie made from a log of wood.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Bryant, Joseph D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint

Description: Patent for a rail joint that is new and improves already existing rail joints specifically scarf joints.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: McDonald, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Training Troop in the Pointing of Guns

Description: Patent for improvements to apparatus to train troops in pointing and aiming various firearms. An electric lamp shines light through a tube to point at the target, with a shutter that can operate simultaneously with the trigger or remain open.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Place, Olney
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Burner

Description: Patent for an oil burner, in combination with a gas generating portion of a burner pipe below and provided by a upwardly directed discharge opening, a drip pan secured in place and extending horizontally below said burning pipe.
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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