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Boring-Tool.

Description: Patent for "a boring tool for boring scarred and worn engine cylinders" (lines 14-15) that allows for more customization when cutting.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Adams, George Reese
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an improved car-coupling that automatically couples cars by "striking together adjacent couplers of the same class, and which may be conveniently uncoupled by a person standing at a distance from the coupler without going between the cars, as with the ordinary couplers" (lines 10-15).
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Bishop, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Canopy for Vehicles, &c.

Description: Patent to "improve the construction of canopies and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one adapted to be readily mounted on all kinds of vehicles, plows, machines, &c., where shade or protection from weather is desirable" (lines 11-15) with instructions and illustration.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Buchanan, Hugh A. & Tisdal, Jefferson M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle.

Description: Patent for a bottle that has a mechanism near its opening, and when the cork is pulled out, it becomes impossible to refill the bottle and use it again. The point of this bottle is so that after it has been sealed, it cannot be opened and emptied without apparent evidence that it has been opened.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Phillips, George C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling

Description: Patent for a rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Yeiser, John Clarke & Story, Leonidas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brush.

Description: Patent for a brush that provides adjustable handle for variety of uses and great saving of time and labor. The brush is durable and not excessively heavy.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Lay, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Box-Cabinet

Description: Patent for cabinets which are "adapted to hold boxes of the kind used by druggists, as containers for medicines and small objects" (lines 9-11).
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Hines, Bascom L. & Johnson, Mannon G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blow-Out Boot

Description: Patent for a blow-out boot which would prevent the usual particulate from being able to enter the inner tire after a blow-out.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Barnes, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blow-Out Shoe.

Description: Patent for a new blow-out shoe for pneumatic tires which uses a pliable fastening instead of metallic connections or laces.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Moore, Lee, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Button-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a button fastener for clothing that is not liable to damage cloth.
Date: May 4, 1920
Creator: Taylor, Albert Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Poll Tax Receipt Book

Description: Patent for a receipt book for the purposes of maintaining full, clear, and exact information in relation to poll tax. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[a] car-coupling link having a slotted spring-head adapted to hold the link in a draw-head by frictional contact therewith, and arranged and adapted to permit a coupling-pin to pass through the slots in the said link and its spring-head" (lines 48-53).
Date: February 4, 1890
Creator: Thompson, James Alfred M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clutch.

Description: Patent for "the principal object of this invention to provide a compact and efficient friction clutch for transmitting power from a single driving member to a plurality of individual driven mechanisms" (lines 11-15), including illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Taft, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for working body-churn "which is mounted between springs and is adapted to be worked up and down by the contraction and expansion of the springs so as to thoroughly agitate the cream within the receptacle thereof" (lines 16-20) including illustration.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Payne, Luther Maxie; Thompson, Robert Asbury & Morris, Lute Percy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cash-Box

Description: Patent for "a device adapted for persons making a great number of small collections, such as railway conductors" (lines 8-10).
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Peetz, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn Dasher

Description: Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Simons, Silas C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee-Pot

Description: Patent for a simplified coffee pot that extracts coffee by using boiling water and the receptacle without changing the structure of the device.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Haley, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Belt Fastener

Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in Belt-fastners by which the end of the belt may be quickly united and held without cutting holes in it.
Date: November 4, 1884
Creator: Norris, Albion K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blind Slat Adjuster.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blind adjuster. This design consists in "[a] shutter-stop consisting of a slotted bar linked to the end of the slat-actuating rod of a shutter, in combination with a plate having a spur on one side and a screw-threaded stud on the other, a washer, and a thumb-nut" (lines 93-97).
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: Lewis, Paulinus Aloysius
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bill File.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bill file. This design "is to provide a cheap and simple file, upon which the papers may be strung and from which they may be removed with the least amount of trouble, and which is adapted to be locked to securely retain the papers thereon in such manner that they are readily accessible for inspection. To this end [the design] provide[s] . . . a wire loop having ends adapted to lap, fit snugly, and lock the one upon the other, and which may be opened for the ready … more
Date: February 4, 1890
Creator: Seaman, Milton L. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Circuit-Closing Device for Doors.

Description: Patent for a device mounted within a door jamb that closes or breaks a circuit when the door is opened or closed, respectively. The electrical connection can be used to turn on lights when the door is opened and off when closed.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Fitch, William Hubert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Ball Harvester

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton ball harvesters. The invention "relates to harvesting machinery, and has special reference to a cotton harvester designed to remove the cotton balls from plants," (lines 10-14).
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Monk, R. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator

Description: Patent for a steam generator for hydrocarbon burners. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new, improved combined corn and cotton planter, including illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1902
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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