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Waterproof Car-Door.

Description: Patent for a freight car door of "strong, durable, and inexpensive construction which will be water and air tight, and which will be practically indestructible in case of a wreck" (lines 17-20) including illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1918
Creator: Atkinson, George C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Prescription-Filing Machine.

Description: Patent for a prescription-filing machine that allows for more accurate sorting of medical prescriptions.
Date: August 6, 1918
Creator: Elder, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Butter-Mold

Description: Patent for "a butter mold embodying means for cutting and shaping a piece of wrapping paper to conform to the configuration of the mold in which it is adapted to be placed to receive the butter." (lines 9-13).
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Higginbotham, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trousers-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a trousers stretcher that removes wrinkles and creases from trousers by stretching them. The stretching tension may be increased or decreased as desired.
Date: May 7, 1918
Creator: Johnston, Renord C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Heater.

Description: Patent for an improved tire heater that utilizes gasolene (gasoline) or other liquid hydrocarbon burners to encircle a tire and direct jets of flame at it to quickly heat the tire. The tire heater can adapt to fit tires of different sizes.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Palmero, Louis M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent provides for an improved "guiding of the cultivator through the movement of the seat" (lines 17-18). The plow is guided by the driver using the seat and his foot to guide the cultivator and plow.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Wilson, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Starter

Description: Patent for "improvements in mechanical starters for internal combustion engines" (lines 10-11). It is designed for the use in automobiles, trucks, and similar vehicles.
Date: January 3, 1918
Creator: Johnson, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Advertising-Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that displays advertisements in a rotation.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Barnett, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Bag Catcher

Description: Patent for improvements of mail bag catchers. This patent proposes improvements on the construction and arrangements of mail bag catchers including the alteration of the jaw and the addition of springs. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Davis, Tomie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gasolene and Oil Filter

Description: Patent for a gasoline and oil filter capable of filtering material in a way that makes in suitable for reuse, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Caen, George, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Time-Switch.

Description: Patent for a time switch "which will be automatically operated to close the circuit and to open the circuit at predetermined times so that the translating devices in the circuit may be maintained energized for a predetermined length of time," (lines 10-15) including illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1918
Creator: Scholl, Max
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sliding-Door-Operating Mechanism.

Description: Patent for improvements in the sliding door mechanism to prevent doors from slipping out of their tracks and hold doors yieldingly in their tracks during operation, illustrations included.
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: Fite, Frank James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill.

Description: Patent for improving windmills by attaching the vanes at angles that best match the wind's direction.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Liles, Leander W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cut-off Valve for Pipe-Lines

Description: Patent for cut-off valve for pipe-lines intended for oil companies.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Hagern, Joseph F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Brake for Automobiles

Description: Patent for air-brakes in automobiles. It is a system that replaces fluid braking systems with an air-based braking system.
Date: October 29, 1918
Creator: Daniel, Wiley Eugene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Driving-Box.

Description: Patent for improvements in locomotive driving-boxes aimed at eliminating the need to hold locomotives (trains) out of service for significant periods of time in order to repair solid driving boxes. Increased functionality is achieved by means of removable hub liner, deliverability of lubricant to various surfaces of the box and sections having slidable engagement with the hub face.
Date: December 31, 1918
Creator: Simmons, Arthur W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Phonographic Attachment for Moving-Picture Machines

Description: Patent for an invention that is "the provision of mechanism whereby a sound record may be made or reproduced synchronously with the taking or reproduction of moving pictures" (Paragraph 100). In addition, the invention enables sound and picture to be recorded on the same machine, so that they sound and the picture match.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Moving-Picture Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved machine to play films (moving-pictures), synchronizing both sound and picture in a single machine. Division of another patent by the same inventor (Serial No. 765,959) for a sound record film, and is intended to be used in conjunction with said patent.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
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

Washboiler.

Description: Patent for improvements in washboilers involving water and steam being forced through a perforated clothes receptacle as well as automatic draining or release of accumulated water and soil.
Date: July 2, 1918
Creator: McFarland, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Twisting Device.

Description: Patent for a twisting machine that can tie and secure cords around bales while reducing the likelihood of slipping inside the tying machine, including illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew Tilmon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool for Unscrewing Pipe-Joints from Wells

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Tools for Unscrewing Pipe-Joints from Wells" (lines 5-6). "The object of the invention is to provide a device... whereby the joints of pipe that have become stuck in the well may be unscrewed and withdrawn" (lines 12-16).
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Matula, Joseph R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Form For Concrete Vessels

Description: Patent for large, concrete vessels, meant as a mold to "be used again and again in building different vessels" (lines 17-18).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Kroeger, Otto P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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