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Wireless-Telephone System.

Description: Patent for a wireless telephone system that does not require the user to flip a switch in between receiving and sending a message.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and useful wire stretcher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 27, 1899
Creator: Yankee, Elmer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truck for Railway-Carriages.

Description: Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Exterminating Insects.

Description: Patent for a machine for exterminating insects on plants by sucking them off the plants and then dropping them into a fire chamber in the machine.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Hill, Leonidas C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber Conveyor and Separator.

Description: Patent for a lumber conveyor and separator that sends cut lumber automatically away from the machine to a storage area.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Williams, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weighing-Scale

Description: Patent for an improved weighing scale that is made in a way that prevents error in weighing objects.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: McKee, Clarence W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Yielding and Buoyant Pile Breakwater.

Description: Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design is "of a cheap, durable, and efficient breakwater for localities exposed to the destructive action of the waves; and it consists mainly in a line of single-column buoyant piles, arranged side-by-side, and grouped together in sections . . . and anchored to their water-bed, and also in certain constructions and combination of parts" (lines 28-35).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Machinery.

Description: Patent for a mechanism that drills and bores; it attaches to a vehicle so the engine can be used to power the mechanism.
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Lee, Joseph G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Driving Horses.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient horse-whipping or driving machine that is meant to whip horses that are connected to machines that are powered by horses, such as thrashers, fans, and bark-mills. "The invention comprises a whip-carrying lever pivotally mounted on one end of the sweep-lever of a draft horse power, and means for moving said lever so that the whip will be caused to strike the draft horses" (lines 18-22).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Williams, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing-Machine

Description: Patent for an ironing machine that has an adjustable ironing board.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Green, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect Gathering Machine

Description: Patent for insect gathering machine. Illustration included.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: Fogle, James Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilating Attachment to Hearths.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ventilating attachment for hearths. This design "consists in extending the ventilating box or casing . . . sufficiently below the floor of the room to the hearth to which it is applied to allow it to project into the room below" (lines 19-23).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Howard, Joshua Eaffrom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trap.

Description: Patent for a small animal trap that prevents injury to the animal. When the animals step on the pedal inside the enclosure, a door is automatically dropped. The animal is trapped inside the enclosure.
Date: June 27, 1922
Creator: Dinkins, Earl T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor

Description: Patent for motor in the category of internal combustion engines. This motor increases power and efficiency through the use of heat which was previously wasted in other models.
Date: June 27, 1916
Creator: Harwood, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Coffee-Pots

Description: Patent for the design of an improved coffee and tea pot with an internal water reservoir, dripping cup for coffee or tea, gauge for water level, and two separate valves for the hot water and resulting coffee or tea. Includes illustration of both a sectional and horizontal elevation of coffee-pot design.
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: Sherwood, Willis H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hawk-Traps

Description: Patent for an "improved trap for catching hawks, owls, and other birds of prey, which shall be so constructed as to adapt it to be attached to a pole or post set in the ground" (para. 4).
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: White, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Pouch-Transferring Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a mail pouch transferring apparatus that has a secure attachment to the frame.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Plug

Description: Patent for a spark plug that has a cooling method for keeping the porcelain section from cracking and a better way of keeping it clean.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Harpst, Fred E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Gap Muffler.

Description: Patent for a spark gap muffler that muffles the sound of a spark jumping a gap between wires in wireless telephone and telegraph systems.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Tank.

Description: Patent for oil tank top to prevent destruction of inflammable substance in the tank by enabling the gas to escape in a simple and effective manner.
Date: June 27, 1916
Creator: Bradley, Benjamin Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness Attachment.

Description: Patent for a simple, strong, and durable back-band and chain trace attachment that connects the two. This holds "the chain trace and back-band in their proper places and thus prevent[s] chafing of the horse, &c., by the trace chain when it slackens" (lines 12-15).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Camp, John Cecil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pencil Sharpener and Holder.

Description: Patent for a device that is a pencil sharpener and a pencil holder, which can clip onto a coat pocket. The device is made from a small amount of sheet metal.
Date: June 27, 1916
Creator: Brucks, William Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of and Apparatus for the Construction of Concrete Abutments, Bridge Piers, &c.

Description: Patent for a new and improved method of making béton concrete. This design "consists of a method of building piers and abutments in a monolithic character of cement, sand, and broken stone or gravel, called 'béton concrete,' by laying the same in sectional molds contrived to add successive sections to the molds as the height of the structure increases, the molds being supported against the lateral pressure upon the sides by rods passing through the structure, and being removable when the materi… more
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Burns, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Stock Or Standard.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in plow stocks or standards. including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 27, 1899
Creator: Armstrong, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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