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Eyeglasses.

Description: Patent for eyeglasses that builds upon the inventor's previous patent, No. 654,523, and utilizes a set of nose pieces, lenses, and springs to improve upon existing eyeglasses technology.
Date: May 20, 1902
Creator: Critzer, Augustus B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Float Valve

Description: Patent for improvements on float valves that will "resupply the tank with water when it is withdrawn to a certain lower level and also operate to cut off the inflow when the water will have reached a predetermined height in the trough" (lines 14-18).
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Mayfield, Jess Lewis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Tray

Description: Patent describing a "combined water-cooler and ice tray [...for] the cooling of water by ice without the ice coming in contact with the water" (lines 9-12).
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Henning, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Screen Door

Description: Patent for a screen-door with a gate at the bottom that can be lifted to allow sweeping trash through and for placing small packages through while the door remains closed.
Date: September 4, 1902
Creator: Lynch, E.
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Swinging Gate

Description: Patent for an improved swinging gate "which shall be simple in construction, chap to manufacture, durable in use, and shall be effectual in all respects in the performance of its functions" (lines 12-15)
Date: October 14, 1902
Creator: Holland, William J.
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Receptacle or Tank.

Description: Patent for receptacle or tank for underground storage purpose is to use metal to construct a tank for strength to resist the pressure upon its walls. To protect the tank from the corrosive action of the earth by lining the surface of a tank “with a protective coating composed of alternate layers of asphaltum and tarred-felt paper, a fabric layer imposed upon the outer layer of asphaltum, and a final layer of asphaltum covering the fabric.” (Page 2, lines 109-113.) Illustration is included.
Date: April 15, 1902
Creator: Stewart, Robert P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Scraper for Asphalt Cooking Drums

Description: Patent for a tool to facilitate the cleaning of the interior of asphalt cooking drums in order to prevent clogging, with illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1902
Creator: Nelson, John P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reed-Organ.

Description: Patent for reed-organs that is needed in the construction of reed-board to improve the quality and volume of the tone, produce a uniform pipe-tone throughout the different registers.
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Preston, Percy C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shovel-Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements in shovel-plows “by enabling the stock and shoe securely mounted and yet adjusted from one position to another, according to the work to be performed.” (Lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Michalka, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash-Fastener.

Description: Patent for new and improved sash-fastener so as to "lock the sash when elevated as well as closed" (line 15 & 16), including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Neher, John F. & Neher, Noah N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Separable Button or Stud.

Description: Patent for invention that relates to seperable buttons or studs - such as collar and cuff buttons, shirt-studs and the like of that which the article comprises a back or base portion provided with a stem or coupling member and a head provided the means to coact therewith,... (Vrendendurgh, 1902).
Date: September 2, 1902
Creator: Vrendenburgh, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Spur.

Description: Patent for improvement in riding-spurs for horsemen by “using an open-ended socket, a shank having limited sliding movement in the socket, a rowel freely journaled at the outer end of the shank, and a spring inclosed within the socket and serving to hold the shank normally outward, the tines or points of the rowel being adapted to engage the socket and secure the rowel against rotation when the shank is pressed inward.” (P. 2, lines 6-14.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Ridings, John G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Roller-Press.

Description: Patent for roller-presses that form cylindrical bales from cotton-bat delivered from the gin-condenser to the press. The invention is meant to make the structure more compact and lighter, with greater strength and capacity; to relieve friction; to automatically change pressure as the bale increases; to form the bale without a core; and to improve various aspects of completing the bales.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring-Scale.

Description: Patent for improvements in spring-scales by providing novel means for measuring and indicating the quality of liquid left in or drawn from a container. (Lines 9-10) Illustration is included.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Smith, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shears.

Description: Patent for improvements in shears “for use in cutting heavy materials, in which the shears can be readily operated in connection with a base-plate to slide beneath the material being cut and can be detached from said base-plate in order to permit the operation of the shears without the said base-plate.” (Lines 28-34) Illustration is included.
Date: June 24, 1902
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wind-Motor.

Description: Patent for a "new and improved wind-motor" (line 10) including illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James Madison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shears-Sharpener.

Description: Patent for improvement to shears sharpeners for barbers, with illustration. The device provides a means to hold the blade while the user is honing it, and could be made at a low cost.
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Rossler, Konrad
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wind-Motor.

Description: Patent for wind motors that has new and useful improvements," is simple and durable in its constructions, very effective and powerful in operation, transmits the force of a series of wind-wheels to a common shaft for driving pumps or other machines" (lines 11-16).
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whiffletree-Clip.

Description: A patent for a whiffletree hook and accompanying attachments meant to replace lap-links in harnesses. Illustrations and material recommendations included.
Date: February 25, 1902
Creator: Curry, Jasper
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Fan

Description: Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Rotary Fans" (lines 5-6) with description and illustration.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Hawk, Nathaniel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Self Heating Branding Iron.

Description: Patent for a self heating branding iron, which allows for branding irons to be easily attached and detached from portable sources of fuel.
Date: January 14, 1902
Creator: Lowe, Marvel Avander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring Hinge

Description: Patent for providing a "door-hinge of simple and durable construction swinging freely either way from a spring which is fast at one end, but adapted at the other to ride freely up and down the doorjamb" (lines 9-12) including an illustration.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Kincaid, Michael A. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Steam-Engine.

Description: Patent for an invention that "relates to rotary engines in general, and more particularly to that class wherein a piston is disposed eccentric to the cylinder and is provided with radially-movable heads disposed to travel against the inner periphery of the cylinder and receive the steam-pressure, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and efficient construction which will develop a high speed with a minimum consumption of steam" (lines 12-21). Illustrations are included.
Date: July 22, 1902
Creator: Hays, James T. & Wilson, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Force-Pump

Description: Patent for an improved type of water pump that operates using a method where "valves of each piston work parallel to each other and through the cylinders at points diagonally opposite" (lines 15-17)
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Frank, Samuel M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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