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Method of Making Ballast.

Description: Patent for "improvements in methods of making ballast adapted for railway and other uses" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Butler, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner

Description: Patent for an oil burner for burning crude petroleum and hydrocarbon oils. Illustrations included.
Date: July 11, 1911
Creator: Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner

Description: Patent for an oil burner for stoves that can still operate even if there are impurities in the water used to create the steam employed in getting the fuel to burn.
Date: August 13, 1912
Creator: Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pin-Fastener.

Description: Patent for pin fastener that safely allows for buttons, jewelry and other items to attached to clothes and not pierce the wearer.
Date: October 5, 1915
Creator: Towler, Mary E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drop-Pilot or Cow-Catcher.

Description: Patent for an improvement in drop-pilots or cow-catchers for street or steam-railways to allow the cow-catcher to stay higher above the track and be dropped in an emergency to catch large objects and prevent them from being trapped under the wheels. The improvement also contains a device for raising and lowering the cow-catcher, a mechanism for operating the brakes and whistle interdependently, and a single lever for the operator to use to control the various mechanisms.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Maxfield, Nelson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Picker

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton pickers providing a wheeled machine that will "remove cotton lint from the plants by mechanical means" (lines 15-16) with added new features to construction and operation, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Scheble, Eugene Stiles & Ascue, Elbert
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Cultivator-Tooth Adjuster.

Description: Patent for a cultivator tooth adjuster that can be set to different angles.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Kirk, Carrol D.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for improvements to the cotton-chopper. This invention outfits the cotton-chopper with a blade that can be moved, either mechanically or with electric power. Previously, the blade was fixed and stationary.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Janes, Henry T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Car Net

Description: Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Matthews, Harrison C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Money-Changing Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that provides change in coins automatically.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Dodson, Clifton T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Demountable Tire-Rim.

Description: Patent for a demountable tire-rim for automobiles that tires can be "readily mounted or removed". "The principal object of (this) invention is to provide an automobile wheel rim which is demountable and which is so constructed that when removed from the wheel a segment of the rim can be swung inwardly thereby attaining an easy and quick removal of the tire from the rim, and vice versa.". The object of this invention was to create a rim that was easily detachable and was also sturdy and not as e… more
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Jones, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Cleaning Flues

Description: Patent for a flue cleaner that operates by blowing steam through the flue, thus removing dirt and debris. Illustrations included.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Bartles, Neslon E. & Hawkins, Charles O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame Fastener

Description: Patent for a new type of Hame Fastener that has adjustable hooks attached to it. These adjustable hooks allow for the use on hames that have the lower ends closer together. There are springs on this hame that allows for the hame to be held in any position when places on the collar.
Date: November 8, 1913
Creator: Griffin, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thermostat.

Description: Patent for a thermostat that automatically regulates temperatures and is operated "in conjunction with an electric current or the like" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Hinson, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Engine-Muffler.

Description: Patent for improvements to engine muffler, including noise reduction without accompanying "back-pressure".
Date: September 19, 1911
Creator: Smoot, Lonnie C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer

Description: Patent for an ice cream freezer that will have independent and removable receptacles that will freeze ice cream into various sizes and shapes in the form of sticks.
Date: January 2, 1912
Creator: Jameson, Roland Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shovel-Fastening for Cultivators

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in shovel-fastenings for cultivators. Improvements include incorporating a spring latch in the cultivator foot so that no time is lost and no tools would be needed in replacing cultivator shovels.
Date: December 18, 1917
Creator: Kirkpatrick, James M. & Tirey, Grover C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swing.

Description: Patent for a swing, particularly for children, that provides a foot rest that rises from the floor when a person sits down and includes a back that can be reclined. The particular design is also cheaper and easier to build.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Shaw, John Copeland Miller
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Sheep-Shears

Description: Patent for sheep shears. Illustrations included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Ascue, Elbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Remedial Appliance.

Description: Patent for a remedial appliance, intended to be worn as a bracelet or an "anklet," through which a person receives medication that he/she needs. Such an appliance is intended to improve treatment through facilitating the application of medication throughout the body.
Date: December 9, 1913
Creator: Quayle, Sidney
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power Transmission

Description: Patent for improvements in power transmission by inventor Gordon R. Sturgis.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Sturgis, Gordon R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Luggage-Carrier

Description: Patent for improvements on rear folding luggage-carriers for motor cars.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Monroe C. & Dobbs, Charles S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Burial-Vault

Description: Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Casting-Machine

Description: Patent for a casting machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Mills, Virgil H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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