Description:
Patent for improvement in gate-latches by using a single piece of wire bent and coiled to form a u-shaped latch. Illustration and description of how the latch worked are included.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Smyth, Lewis Miller
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for cotton sweep. This invention helps in easy spreading and setting of sweeping blades, "since it provides a novel form of brace to be interposed between the blades of the sweep and the stock" (lines 15-17).
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
Brown, Burel J.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for a steel wheel with springs for automobiles that reduces jarring, is affordable, and does not get damaged as easily as the pneumatic tires previously in use on automobiles.
Date:
April 23, 1907
Creator:
Tubbs, William Oscar
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for a plow that is simpler, more durable, and cheaper to make than previous ones and allows for easier adjustments in plowing depth.
Date:
April 23, 1907
Creator:
Stafford, George A. & Henry, Edward
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for a rail fastening device for use in building street car tracks on roads with concrete foundations. The fastener is put in place in the wet concrete and held fast there by its hardening and eliminates the need for cross ties.
Date:
April 23, 1907
Creator:
Crerar, James P.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Description:
Patent for "new and useful improvements in Hame-Hooks." (lines 5-6). "The object of the invention is to provide a hame-hook which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and by means of which the tug or trace chain may be easily attached to the hame at various heights and be securely retained in position." (lines 12-18)
Date:
September 23, 1902
Creator:
Lindsay, George F.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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