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Cotton Planter and Chopper.

Description: Patent for planting and chopping cotton.
Date: November 9, 1886
Creator: Pitts, Lee Paschal
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Commode.

Description: Patent for an integrated air-venting commode.
Date: November 9, 1886
Creator: Bardon, Prosper
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weed - Exterminator

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: McBride, Samuel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Liquid-Fuel-Lighting System.

Description: Patent for a liquid fuel lighting system, which supplies a pilot light to lamps or stoves without using a separate torch to light them.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Burton, Arthur
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Elevator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design "has for its object to provide for the escape of the air initially held in the upper bends of the screw, so as to relieve the same of the pneumatic pressure caused thereby in connection with the ascending water, thus causing less resistance to the rotation of the screw, enabling it to be operated by decreased motive power" (lines 11-18).
Date: November 9, 1886
Creator: Campbell, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Wilson, Joseph Erwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Train Control System

Description: Patent for an improved train control system that will help to stop train movement when approached b another train or vehicle on tracks within a predetermined or dangerous distance. It is intended to cause a signal that will allow the train engineer to both opportunity and warning in time to apply brakes and stop. The design also enhances the utility and efficiency of the train control system.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Smith, S. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Movement

Description: Patent for "an object to provide a chain and sprocket movement with improved means for maintaining the chain in operatively taut condition and relation to the sprocket wheel" (lines 13-17), including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Stine, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold for Concrete Silos and the Like.

Description: Patent for a mold for concrete silos that improves on efficiency.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Doyle, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Toy

Description: Patent for a children's toy that, when pulled or jerked, will maintain an upright position.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Fouts, Hiram C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Description: Patent for a bale tie that "form[s] a double lock-tie for securing the ends of baling-hoops, which cannot become detached or tear and whose outer surface face is flush, thereby rendering it impossible to catch against other packages, and thus be broken or torn off" (para. 2).
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Drake, Simeon N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows.

Description: Patent for improving a plow device that is curved and has open grooves.
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Freeman, Irvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark Arrester

Description: Patent for spark arrester. This invention is adapted for use with locomotives. Illustration included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Ridgway, Elzie L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for improvement in cotton-presses that relates to a specific combination toggle arms connected to a platen with a ball-and-socket or other joint and sliding guide rods.
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Bearce, Larned S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grinding Planer Knife.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for grinders of wood-planing-machine knives. This design "may be securely attached to the frame of a wood-planing machine for grinding the revolving knives of the planer without removing the knives from its shaft or the shaft from its bearings upon the frame of the machine. . . . in so constructing and combining the parts of the improved device . . . it may be readily adapted to suit various-sized machines" (lines 10-22).
Date: November 9, 1880
Creator: Le Roy, Charles Jerome
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Organ Protector

Description: Patent for a new and useful Oran protector "to prevent the entrance of vermin through the Knee-swell slot" ( line 9 - 11).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Oliver, Samuel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in quilting frames for sewing machines. This invention is to " provide a simple, cheap, and efficient quilting frame adapted to be suspended from an overhead support and to be used in connection with an ordinary sewing machine" (line 13-17).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Heacker, Edwin W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Protractor

Description: Patent for a new protractor design that is “particularly to a protractor or gage for use by carpenters in cutting the rafters for a building roof” (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Ernest, Albert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Means for Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires.

Description: Patent for an automatically inflating tire which allows the tires to be inflated evenly at all times. "Should the air escape from the tire due to a puncture or leak the rim will be prevented from injuring the tire casing, as said casing will be prevented from becoming deflated" (lines 17-21). Motorists will no longer need to drive on flat tires waiting for repairs.
Date: November 9, 1920
Creator: Cooper, Jowel Cecil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peanut-Harvester

Description: Patent for a peanut-harvester, which consists of a frame with forward and rear axles, wheels attached to the rear axles, and forward-projecting arms fastened to a platform. The platform and wheels are adjustable and can be raised and lowered. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1920
Creator: Goodrum, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow

Description: Patent for a plow and particularly "an attachment for securing the heel sweeps to plows and for bracing the said heel sweeps" (lines 10-12), including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Williams, Jefferson L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and useful plow to "provides means whereby a shovel, plow, sweep, or other soil-working device may be connected with the beam or standard of a sulky or walking plow" ( line 7 - 10).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, Louis B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Egg-Case.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Prechtel, Charles A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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