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Vulcanizing Apparatus

Description: Patent for an apparatus used during the process of retreading tires that updates the manufacture of rubber tire patches.
Date: July 12, 1918
Creator: Rasor, James, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock-Strike.

Description: Patent for simple and durable lock plates for door frames. This patent is for the keeper plates for door locks and is an invention "for rendering the plate adjustable both vertically and horizontally without detaching the same from the door jamb" (lines 11-14). Includes one illustration page and description.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Russell, Leo
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Machine for Making Tamales

Description: Patent for a Machine for Making Tamales
Date: July 2, 1918
Creator: Winfrey, Herbert O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill

Description: Patent for a windmill that makes it possible to convert the force of the wind into electrical or mechanical energy. This windmill has a governor that makes positioning adjustments when the windmill reaches an unsafe velocity.
Date: July 23, 1918
Creator: Cox, Oscar M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Screen.

Description: Patent for a "well screen in which a maximum screening area is obtained without weakening the frame" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 23, 1918
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine-Gun.

Description: Patent for a machine gun, meant to have relatively few parts, that includes a belt to carry a large amount of cartridges. The machine gun "provides a structure wherein the cartridges are positively and consecutively fed to the explosion chamber" (lines 11-14).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: McManus, Luis M. & Warner, James Harold
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Window-Sash Lock

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Sash Locks" (lines 5-7). "The object in view is to produce a simple and efficient device..., [which] consists essentially in the provision of means for permitting either sash to be locked or one sash to be partially or fully opened..." (lines 17-22).
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Rickel, Tremont W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheeled Sectional Harrow.

Description: Patent for an improved wheeled section harrow with a simple construction that provides a way to raise and lower the harrow sections as needed, and improves construction of the truck carrying the harrow.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Mize, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tractor

Description: Patent for improvements to tractors which are designed with the driver's seat positioned on the trailing unit. The improvements allow for tools to be attached in such a way cultivating may be done near fences and other common obstructions.
Date: July 1, 1918
Creator: Chenoweth, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Splitting-Ax

Description: Patent for a splitting ax to be used for splitting wood, especially rails, constructed in a manner to prevent the ax wedge from sticking in the rail. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Sandidge, Thomas R., Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Speed-Regulating Means.

Description: Patent for an improvement in regulating the speed of sound recording and reproducing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Fletcher, Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Plug Attachment

Description: Patent for A Spark-Plug Attachment. This spark- plug attachment is designed to facilitate the sparking process without further damaging the porcelain component of the spark-plug.
Date: July 15, 1918
Creator: Sherill, Guy M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Priming Device.

Description: Patent for a priming device, used on internal combustion engines, that can be used to assist an engine heat up. Through this device, users can accelerate this process and benefit from a more fuel-efficient vehicle.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Brooks, Howard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Preparing Carrot Flakes.

Description: Patent for a process of preserving carrots by reducing them to dried flakes so they "retain their flavor and color when subsequently cooked and served."
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Horn, Mary C.
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

Protecting-Casing for Electrical Conductors

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Protecting-Cases for Electrical Conductors" (lines 5-7). The object of the invention is to provide a device... for surrounding the commutator of an internal combustion motor and protecting the terminals thereof and the electrical conductors connected to said terminals" (lines 12-17).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Rooke, Henry L., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Overall-Waist

Description: Patent for connections between union overalls and coat (waist). This invention enables a close overlap between trousers and coat, "to avoid all loose or flying portions of the garment which might otherwise impede or obstruct the free use of arms of the wearer or catch in machinery" (p.1 lines 51 to 55) etc.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Elliott, Joseph S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process and Formula for Tanning Hides.

Description: Patent for the formula and processing used in tanning hides that is cheaper and more effective.
Date: July 2, 1918
Creator: Moore, Rufus N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Harvester.

Description: Patent for a cotton harvesting machine used for gathering the cotton from the plant, stripping the bolls or pods, and cleaning the cotton in one continuous operation during the traction of the harvester over a cotton field. This cotton harvester has a rotary picking member disposed forwardly and grabbing arms disposed rearwardly of the rotary picking arms. These rotary picking members are used for receiving the cotton gathered by the said picking arms and depositing it between two vertically … more
Date: July 30, 1918
Creator: Berry, Louis J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Core-Operating Device

Description: Patent for bale core operating device which improves the bale core quality around which the bale is formed, including illustrations.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Taft, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garment-Protector.

Description: Patent for an easily detachable garment protector "for use with trousers and overalls to protect them from wear and from becoming soiled while in use" (lines 10-13) including illustration.
Date: July 2, 1918
Creator: Spencer, William Levi
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

Elbow-Joint for Artificial Arms

Description: Patent for an elbow joint for artificial arms that can be manipulated by the wearer into any desired position.
Date: July 23, 1918
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Controlling the Flow of Fluid from Wells

Description: Patent for device controlling fluid flow from wells which allows for drawing off oil where oil and water are both present in a reservoir.
Date: July 30, 1918
Creator: Summerrow, Edward D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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