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BLIND-STOP

Description: Patent for an improvement in Blind-Stops. "My invention relates to improvements in blind-stops, and has for its object to provide a simple, strong, and cheap device of this kind." (lines 15-18) and illustration.
Date: August 18, 1903
Creator: Koenig, Charles Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Cloth Fan for the Destruction of Insects.

Description: Patent for an improved fly-swatting fan that employs wire mesh to create less of a shadow so that the user has more of a chance to hit the insect. This improved fan also allows for easier flow of air that creates less of an air flow that might blow the insect away from the fan and allow for the insect to avoid injury or death. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1880
Creator: Taylor, Morse K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lens Mounting.

Description: Patent for an improvement to spectacles to prevent lens breakage. The change to the design of the spectacles are mounts on the nose piece that attaches to the lenses, as well as mounts that attach to the temples of the spectacles and the lenses.
Date: May 18, 1918
Creator: Rees, Charles S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blacking-Brush

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in blacking brushes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 18, 1899
Creator: De Witt, Joseph R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting Jack

Description: Patent for lifting jack used to lift vehicles.
Date: January 18, 1916
Creator: Applewhite, Scott C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric-Current Controller.

Description: Patent for a new and improved electric current controller for "use in connection with incandescent electric lamps" (line 10 - 11).
Date: April 18, 1899
Creator: Breeding, James Bouldin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Milk-Bottle Cap.

Description: Patent for a new milk-bottle cap that provides closure for the mouth of milk bottles or jars which can be easily detached and cleaned.
Date: October 18, 1921
Creator: Davis, Ida
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Amusement Device

Description: Patent for an amusement device. This invention is designed as an apparatus for a swing, a trapeze, a horizontal bar, and seesaw. Illustration included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Haye, August
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Number-Displaying Device.

Description: Patent for illuminated signs which illuminate number displaying devices for vehicles. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Jenner, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Screen Frame.

Description: Patent for a more economical, foldable wire screen frame for doors with removable wire mesh, and included illustration.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Carroll, Houston Monroe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements applicable to a gang of plows. Ability to adjust depth, security of plow arms, and can plow three rows at once.
Date: March 18, 1879
Creator: Gifford, George Lewis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hair-Drying Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improved method of drying hair after washing that separates and parts the hair in numerous places to quickly and thoroughly dry the hair. The apparatus, that sits on the shoulders, also has an "improved fastener for holding the frame on the head" (lines 40-41), and the frame is collapsible.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Moffitt, Mansfield M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sanitary Attachment For Milk Pails

Description: Patent for a dome lid that attaches to the top of a milk pail with two "tubes" in which to place the hands while milking a cow. The lid serves to protect the fresh milk from germs, dirt, and other contaminants.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Williams, John Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nutcracking-Machine.

Description: Patent for a nut-cracking machine for cracking hard shelled nuts.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Elder, Benjamin Winchester
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Detachable Handle and Spring-Catch.

Description: Patent for improvements in detachable handles and spring-catches for valises, satchels, traveling-bags, and the like in which a handle “may be readily detached from the valise, and devices for automatically engaging and locking the handle to the valise when the handle is replaced.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date: August 18, 1891
Creator: Epstein, George B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Back-Pressure Valve

Description: Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Neighbors, Charles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench and Cutter.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and economic wrench and cutter that is easily used to turn nuts, pipes, or to cut pipes. The wrench does not need to be removed while cutting.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Fletcher, Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Piano-Key Mounting.

Description: Patent for a piano key mounting with a key pin that makes the "touch" required to depress the keys easily adjustable.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Mayor, Enoch Allen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Floor-Clamp.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive floor-clamp that aids in laying floors so that the floor is laid uniformly and has a good joint. This prevents the floors from warping or curving.
Date: October 18, 1892
Creator: Zauner, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fireproof Floor.

Description: Patent for an improved fireproof floor, which provides a light, rigid fire- and sound-proof flooring that is simple in construction. In addition, the ceiling construction allow the walls of a building to be strengthened against sagging or bulging, and also provides a continuous concrete-ceiling surface, allowing plaster coating or other material to be securely held without the need of another surface to support it.
Date: November 18, 1902
Creator: Shields, Patrick T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Check - Spring.

Description: Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient improved nut-lock that "securely lock[s] a nut against accidental rotation, and adapted to be readily applied to single nuts having either right or left hand threads" (lines 12-15). The invention also is easily screwed and unscrewed without being damaged.
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Comminge, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an improved car coupling that can be operated without going between cars. The coupling facilitates "the coupling of cars having drawheads at the same and different heights by readily guiding the link of one of them into the other" (lines 14-17).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Norcross, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn Mower.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lawn-mower. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bifurcated frame, a driving-wheel supported therein, gears secured to opposite sides of said wheel, inclined pitmen-driving shafts carrying at their inner ends pinions to engage said gears, guide-plates supported by the lower and forward end of the frame, cutters provided with slots and supported between said guide-plates, pitmen connecting the cutters and shafts, and adjusting-screws applied to said plate… more
Date: September 18, 1888
Creator: Grothaus, Frederick E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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