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Combination-Tool.

Patent for a combination tool "specifically adapted for use as a pan or plate lifter or a stove-lid lifter and which may also be used for holding dishes while being washed" (lines 4-7), including illustrations.

Date: May 18, 1897

Creator: Swenson, Charles E. & Swenson, Olive C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ant-Trap.

Patent for a "trap designed to be placed around an ant-hill and adapted to capture ants leaving or returning to the ant-hill." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 18, 1897

Creator: Bond, William Beebe

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil Substitute.

Patent for an oil paint substitute consisting of furniture glue, water, soda ash, and salicylic acid, rosin, and pigment. Includes instructions for three different formulas.

Date: May 18, 1897

Creator: Reynolds, Walter James

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp.

Patent for improvements to headlight lamps used in locomotives, with illustrations.

Date: May 25, 1897

Creator: Pitts, William Wirt

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn.

Patent for an automatic churn, which churns up and down and rotationally. To operate, turn a crank and a gear inside the churn moves the blades.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Rogers, James P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coat-Adjuster.

Patent for a machine that holds a coat for a person and puts it on that person, thus avoiding the need to personally put on a coat. Pivoted arms hold on to the coat and clamps are connected to the arms which hold on to the coat.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Spoon, William L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow-Beam.

Patent for "effective means whereby the component parts of a plow-beam can be relatively adjusted according to the nature of the work in hand or to meet certain conditions, thereby facilitating the work and increasing or decreasing the draft." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 25, 1897

Creator: Miller, Henry A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Cigar-Lighter.

Patent for a cigar lighter in which the cigar is lit on a glowing surface, improves on the ease of operating a cigar lighter, and provides space for an advertisement.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Handshy, Henry M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hand Seed-Planter.

Patent for an improvement in hand-seed planters, designed especially for cotton-seed. The seeds are spit out the bottom through a series of springs, pins, and plungers.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Merwin, Charles F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle Attachment.

Patent for "a new and improved bicycle attachment arranged to serve as a foot-rest for the feet of the rider while coasting and adapted to be lowered to support the bicycle in a vertical position when not in use and to securely lock the wheel and support together to prevent the machine from being stolen" (lines 7-14), including illustrations.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Zintgraff, August

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Canopy for Vehicles, &c.

Patent to "improve the construction of canopies and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one adapted to be readily mounted on all kinds of vehicles, plows, machines, &c., where shade or protection from weather is desirable" (lines 11-15) with instructions and illustration.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Buchanan, Hugh A. & Tisdal, Jefferson M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "automatic pin-and-link car-couplings in which a sliding spring-actuated block is employed for supporting the coupling-pin in an elevated position preparatory to coupling." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 25, 1897

Creator: Lee, Charles

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Weed-Burner

Patent for "a railroad weed-burning device in which a large sheet-iron shield is suspended underneath and between the trucks of any ordinary railroad car for the purpose of confining the flame and heat produced by oil-atomizing burners or other means to direct and maintain continued contact with grass and weeds on the ground between and along the outside of the rails" (lines 9-18).

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Hancock, Geroge A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Patent for non-refillable bottles "which in order to obtain access to its contents will have to be sufficiently mutilated or altered in appearance so that it cannot be again used as an original package for the fraudulent sale of an imitation liquid." (Line 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Clinton, John S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerator or Cooler.

Patent for a refrigerator that has an "arrangement of parts whereby the articles to be cooled are protected from moisture while the space in which said articles are arranged is inclosed by a film of moisture, which is designed to cool the inclosed atmosphere by evaporation" (lines 11-16). The covering is absorbent and the shelves inside are perforated.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Burt, Henry M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Freezer.

Patent for improvements to freezers for freezing liquids and confections, with illustrations.

Date: May 18, 1897

Creator: Jordan, James T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flue-Beader.

Patent for a tool that allows a boiler flue to rotate while not letting any steam out of the flue. This allows for the projecting end of the flue to turn without damaging itself and makes taking the flue apart easier for workmen.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Hutchison, Wilson F.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle.

Patent for a bottle that has a mechanism near its opening, and when the cork is pulled out, it becomes impossible to refill the bottle and use it again. The point of this bottle is so that after it has been sealed, it cannot be opened and emptied without apparent evidence that it has been opened.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Phillips, George C.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Preventing Hens from Setting.

Patent for improvements to a hood that prevents hens from flying (by cutting off vision above or to either side) while allowing them to continue scratching and eating.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Sparks, Andrew J.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Primary Battery.

Patent for a simplified primary battery "whereby the parts thereof may be readily removed and replaced without special tools by unprofessional persons, while at the same time providing a construction of primary battery involving new and useful connections for the positive and negative elements thereof." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 25, 1897

Creator: Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pen-Cleaning Attachment for Inkstands.

Patent for innovations in "pen-cleaning attachments for inkstands" (lines 9-10). It is a lip that extends past the top of ink-wells, and is meant to prevent blotting. The attachment is "an annular expansible body portion of spring metal adapted to be fitted in the mouth of an ink-well" (lines 93-95)

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Higgins, Pattillo

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a machine that removes cotton from a "wagon or other vehicle" (line 11), and moving it to a storage facility. It also moves the cotton from the storage facility and into the cotton gin. The cotton is elevated during movement via suction.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Murray, Stephen D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrist-Guide and Foot-Guard for Pianos.

Patent for “…a piano attachment consisting of an adjustable wrist-pin and foot-guard adapted to serve as a means for securing the proper position of the wrist and forearm in practice and also adapted to protect the front panel of the instrument and serve, with children, as a foot-rest. Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims” (lines 8-19).

Date: May 18, 1897

Creator: Norcross, Levi Watson

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that is "cheap, durable, have as few parts as practicable, and be easily assembled" (lines 13-15). The device uses hoe-carrying shafts and a main-drive shaft, and the hoes elevate and depress to chop the cotton.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Moore, John Neally

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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