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Weed-Cutter

Description: Patent for "a simple, light and inexpensive tool which an be handled easily by women working in gardens and fields, particularly for cutting sand burs and cockle burs" (lines 9-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Klaffert, Katie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cigar-Holder.

Description: Patent for a cigar holder with improved clutching that prevents the cigar from slipping out of the holder when it becomes moist. The clutches are constructed to allow it to hold cigars or any size or shape.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Mathison, Andrew A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a bale tie buckle where "an internal shoulder adapter to cooperate with the tie or band to prevent the latter from accidentally slipping through the entrance throat in the buckle when the tie is slackened" (lines 16-20).
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Schutz, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thimble.

Description: Patent for an improved thimble that incorporates a thread-cutter tool.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Colburn, Sophia
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator Attachment

Description: Patent for improving disc cultivators by attaching a tool (plow, hoe) to pulverize the soil and cut a trench before the machine drops seeds; then the tool runs behind the disc to throw dirt over the seeds. It Is reliable, easy to construct, and cheap.
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Meadows, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill-Head

Description: Patent for drill head improvements by inventor Clarence E. Reed.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Reed, Clarence E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Torpedo-Guard.

Description: Patent for torpedo guards that can be applied without needing to place the vessel in a dry dock, as well as giving the option of retracting the torpedo guards when not needed. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Rolf, Frederick G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peanut Harvester

Description: Patent for "new and improved peanut harvester (lines 5-7)."
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Keith, Walter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Support

Description: Patent for a portable support. This support improves previous portable support structures specifically based around transporting barrels or other cylindrical objects through rockers, pivoted legs, and supporting frames in order to increase movement and allow the frame to be tilted in alternate positions.
Date: March 12, 1918
Creator: Morgan, Doctor F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination Muffler and Air-Heating Device

Description: Patent for improvement for the muffler to silence the explosive exhaust of the internal combustion engines and to heating fresh air in facilitating the carburetion of liquid fuel oil to a combustible gaseous mixture.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Rinehart, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Watchmaker's Tool.

Description: Patent for a watchmaking tool that enables a roller jewel to be set in the balance-wheel of a watch with accuracy, and without removing the hair-spring or the roller table.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Kethley, Jacob D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device For Extracting Cores From Wells.

Description: Patent for a device to obtain samples of the core formed by drilling tools at any depth and withdrawing the same to the surface during the process of drilling.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Dodds, Redus D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clod-Crusher

Description: This patent is for a clod crusher. The purpose of this patent is to make clod crushing more effective and efficient through the action of the cutting members and not by the weight of apparatus alone.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Weems, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle Holder.

Description: Patent for a bottle holder, to hold ink bottles to a surface such as a desk or table. It is designed to be both a permanent or detachable fixture.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Kayser, Mary Louise
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Arc-Lamp Attachment

Description: Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
Date: April 2, 1918
Creator: Pratt, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cutter-Bar Adjusting and Locking Means

Description: Patent for "adjusting and locking the cutter bars of lawn mowers" (lines 9-11), and improve the movement of lawn mowers by adding a screw through the frame and cutter bar.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Hollon, George F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Book with Removable Cover

Description: Patent for a removable cover for a pass book (a book where a customer's bank deposit account is kept). When a customer's pass book is filled the cover can be removed and refilled with a new pass book.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Malsch, Herman C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wall Construction

Description: Patent for type of wall construction that have plastic slabs (spacers) that are superimposed and secured together by concealed mortar joints.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Sawyer, Frank McM.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collar

Description: Patent for a collar with tie supporting strip.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Naegeli, Fred E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collapsible Foot Rest.

Description: Patent for a collapsible foot rest used for shoe shining stands. The invention is meant to simplify and improve the process of one stepping off or on a foot-rest to prevent injury or accident.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Le Laurin, Eugene M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Saturating Oils

Description: Patent for the process of saturating oils. This is a continuation of the treating and improving petroleum hydrocarbons application serial number 792615 filed 1913-09-30.
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: Almer McDuffie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Treating Cotton-Stalks

Description: Patent for a low cost method of treating cotton-stalks to be used for similar purposes to hemp and other similar fibers.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Jones, Levander D.; Deacon, Herbert D. & Marvin, Zebina E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collar.

Description: Patent for "improvements in turned down collars, the object of the invention being to effect an improvement in the construction of a turned down collar so that the collar is prevented from getting over the vest, and to also improve the fit of a vest and coat in the back." (lines 8-14)
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Rogers, Richard T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Discharge-Nozzle

Description: Patent for discharge nozzle for insecticide spraying machines. Proposed nozzle design to have adjustable opening.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Gohmert, Otto Adolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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