55 Matching Results

Search Results

Improvement in Water-Wheels.

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of water-wheels, including illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1878
Creator: Cross, David L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Description: Patent for an inflammable compound for exterminating destructive insects and animals that contains alkanet-root, arsenious acid, gum-camphor, iodine resubl., phosphorus, sulphur resubl., and bisulphide carbon.
Date: January 8, 1886
Creator: Shugart, T. Woodward. & Clifton, Charley D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive Drifting-Valve.

Description: Patent for locomotive drifting valves to admit saturated steam from the boiler to the steam chamber of the valve chest and cylinders while the locomotive is running with the main steam throttle closed.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Meister, Alfred A.; Surles, John W. & Boyle, Edmund F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Stretching and Removing Fence Wires.

Description: Patent for a new and improved machine for stretching and removing fence wires. This design "is to provide a simple, effective, and inexpensive machine for stretching the wires of fences along the fence-posts, and straining the wires taut while they are being fastened to the posts, and also for removing the wires from the posts when required, as in removing or resetting a fence" (lines 8-14).
Date: January 8, 1884
Creator: Killough, John N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for "novel and inexpensive means whereby vehicle wheels may be protected from the many accidents occurring by reason of the irregularities and crevices in the path of travel; a still further object being to construct a safety guard that will be strong, durable, and add but little weight to the wheel." (Lines 17-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lantern.

Description: Patent for a lantern that has an "exceedingly cheap construction, that is designed for use in high winds, as well as for domestic use, and which may be employed in connection with the ordinary oil and wick or candle" (lines 10-14).
Date: January 8, 1895
Creator: Seys, Cornelius D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve

Description: Patent for improvement to a valve design, with illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Letter Clasping Device

Description: Patent for a letter clasping device. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Elliott, Claud B. & Loggins, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel or Felly Screw.

Description: Patent for a new and improved screw for a wheel or felly. This design "relates to screws for setting vehicle fellies or rims on the tenons of the spokes; and its object is to provide a device possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, ease of adjustment, and general efficiency, whereby one [person] can easily and conveniently set the rim" (lines 9-15).
Date: January 8, 1884
Creator: Rotzien, Christoph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Watchmaker's Tool.

Description: Patent for a watchmaking tool that enables a roller jewel to be set in the balance-wheel of a watch with accuracy, and without removing the hair-spring or the roller table.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Kethley, Jacob D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vaginal Irrigator

Description: Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Farrington, Charles Oliphint & Watson, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Movement

Description: Patent for "improvements in devices for converting reciprocal into rotary motion, and is more particularly adapted and intended for use with windmills in applying the reciprocal motion of the pump-rod to the operation of rotating machines" (lines 11-16).
Date: January 8, 1889
Creator: Fulton, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Adjustable Hammers for Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for "the particular construction and arrangement of such swiveling striker with its locking devices, and its combination with a double-barreled gun, whereby a single hammer may be employed for both barrels, the striker being capable of such adjustment as to bring it within the range of either nipple, or into an intermediate position between the two, for the prevention of accidents." (Lines 17-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1878
Creator: Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing-Machine.

Description: Patent for "a self-feeding and self-delivering printing machine which prints sheets and not webs." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1895
Creator: Clarke, George R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Attachment.

Description: Patent for a plow attachment that works especially for plowing around smaller plants.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Perkins, Simon F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp-Burner.

Description: Patent for a lamp burner that supplies air to the lamp flame to ensure proper combustion and maximum light while keeping flame in proper position, illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: McCrone, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Signal

Description: Patent for a telephone signals. This inventions is a switchboard drop of the visual signal for magneto system at a central office. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Schuessler, Gustavus W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switchboard

Description: Patent for a switchboard for use with telephone exchanges and electrical plants. The invention is designed to connect any line wire to the jack wire. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Weir, Welby D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Syringe

Description: Patent for a syringe. This invention is meant for use with animals to perform artificial insemination. Illustrations included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Brookes, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Time Circuit Closer

Description: Patent for a time circuit closer for use in managing the movements of secondary clocks regulated by a masterclock. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Guthrie, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heater

Description: Patent for an improved heater for heating water and utilizing exhaust steam.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Averitt, Robert W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow, of the board, the clip detachably securing said board to the plow-beam, the hopper secured to the rear end of the board and provided with the openings and brush, the lever pivoted upon the clip, the spring, the seed-slide secured to the end of the rear arm of the lever, and the dropping-tube screwed through its wing to the plow standard" (lines 37-46).
Date: January 8, 1889
Creator: Cromer, Thomas L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Car.

Description: Patent for improvements in railway car design to protect passengers against train robberies by a combination of "several walls of the compartment and doors connected therewith bullet-proof lining, and in providing several walls and doors, each with a series of port-holes" (lines 27-31) from which occupants can fire weapons in defense with accompanying illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1889
Creator: Warren, Gerald Patrick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Joint

Description: Patent for a rail joint. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Teubner, Frederick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen