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Plowshare.

Description: Patent for a plowshare with a reinforced and self-sharpening point.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Awalt, Francis Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Generator for Acetylene Gas

Description: Patent for a new and improved generator for acetylene gas.
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Williams, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn

Description: Patent for a churn that can produce butter in very short period of time with minimal effort.
Date: May 19, 1913
Creator: Hoefer, Charle,s Jr.; Belt, Marcus L., Jr. & Belt, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Statement-Blank and Envelop.

Description: Patent for combining statement-blank and envelop that comprises a signature that provides the ability to add the bank statements in a paper that could be folded to create an envelop.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Harwell, Mace
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame for Sweing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a quilting-frame for sewing-machines that "a folding tripod which is adapted to support the quilting frame, by means of a swiveled pulley connected to the handle of the frame carrying the rollers, the said pulley running backward and forward on the upper surface of a horizontal shaft which is held by means of adjustable rods, to a parallel shaft which is slidingly held to the upper surfaces of two of the tripod strips" (lines 18-26). The invention can fold compactly for storage.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Parsons, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator, which allows cotton to be chopped earlier and to be done by one person.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Agee, Jonathan F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calcining Apparatus

Description: Patent for a calcining apparatus. This furnace is designed for calcining lime and other materials. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Lawrence, Ambrose
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for cotton chopper that frees the plants from the "weeds and the soil thereabout cultivated in but a single operation" (lines 14-16).
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Goodman, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Description: Patent for improvements in poisons for prairie-dogs, a “chemical compositions adapted to destroy vermin and more particularly prairie-dogs; but it may also be used to destroy many other sorts of vermin, including birds and insects.” (Lines 12-16) Ingredients and instruction of how to mix this compound are included. No illustration.
Date: July 28, 1891
Creator: Staples, David W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drag-Harrow.

Description: Patent for an improved drag harrow for plowing soil. "The primary objective of the invention is to provide a soil pulverizer in which a rotary grinding action is produced by the drawing of the apparatus across the soil" (lines 10-13).
Date: May 19, 1914
Creator: Kramer, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Heading Knife.

Description: Patent for a corn cutting knife that straps to the hand and protects the fingers for a more efficient harvesting of corn and maize.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Buchanan, Lemuel O.; Maddox, John S.; Russell, James P. & Speers, Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shot-Carrying Shell.

Description: Patent for "a cartridge-shell which shall clean the barrel of the gun each time one is discharged, thereby preventing the gun becoming foul or clogged," and "which can be employed for shooting shot at long or short range." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Williams, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Separator

Description: Patent for an apparatus for cleaning seed cotton and separating the dust and dirt therefrom prior to the ginning operation. The apparatus will have a perforated metal disk or wheel where cotton will readily slide off, instead of getting clogged. The separator wheel will have a smooth plane surface that will cause no injury to the cotton and the entire surface is freely exposed and unobstructed.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Hughes, James Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stove

Description: Patent for a more efficient and cost effective heating apparatus. The stove is designed for coal and similar fuel sources.
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Hanna, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hand churn, that rests on any flat surface to create better support during use.
Date: February 10, 1914
Creator: Trout, Ed T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cooling and Disinfecting Device.

Description: Patent for improvements in fluid cooling and disinfecting devices. The primary object of improvements is "to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient device of this character which will be well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed."
Date: February 23, 1915
Creator: Womack, Samuel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Train-Stop

Description: Patent for Automatic Train-Stops "particularly to a system operable in connection with well-known airbrake systems to apply the airbrakes, and shut off the power when an accident of a predetermined character occurs." (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Estes, Betram P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Replacer

Description: Patent for car replacer. It is an improvement to "what is called a 'frog' or a 'shoe'." The invention involves "two frogs or shoes which are used together" and are used "in such a way as to replace a car truck. . ." (Ledbetter)
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Ledbetter, Louis H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing For Bicycles.

Description: Patent relating to "a new and useful improvement in gearing for bicycles and the like, and has for its object to so construct and arrange a device of this description as to avoid sudden shocks or jars which are occasioned by unevenness in the road-bed over which the machine is traveling, and also to enable the rider to exert a sudden force upon the pedals without straining the framework or wheels of the machine" (lines 9-18).
Date: August 17, 1897
Creator: Godfray, Ernest H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tag-Holder.

Description: Patent for a tag holder for attaching to boxes and cases.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Guinn, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cut-Off.

Description: Patent for a cut-off for water pipes, which provides a new construction to control the flow of supply of water from a roof.
Date: February 27, 1912
Creator: Pruden, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Calcining Plaster

Description: This patent is for an apparatus for calcining plaster of any kind. Or an apparatus that keeps clean the inner surface of a revoluble drum for ventilating the drum during the calcining operation. The apparatus also provides for easily removing the material after the completion of the cooking operation (Lawrence, 1902).
Date: unknown
Creator: Lawwrence, Ambrose
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump Jack

Description: Patent for an improved double-acting pump jack that will require less parts and external force to operate and maintain.
Date: April 29, 1919
Creator: Lively, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock

Description: Patent for a lock used to secure the openings of grain bags. Illustrations included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Chambless, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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