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Electric Alarm.

Patent for a simple and efficient electric alarm to be used for vault protection. It is a magnet, which is a better design than a coil. The magnet is suspended between two points, and a spring that pushes it in one direction. There is an armature that causes friction when it slides, and sounds an alarm when the arm moves in one direction.

Date: September 3, 1895

Creator: Hull, William S.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Trimmer.

Patent for an improved lumber-trimmer that has "a suitable carriage or number of carriages for conveying the lumber a series of swinging frames, which carry belted saws and also supporting-wheels, which wheels, if not tripped, will ride over the lumber, carrying the saws up with them out of an operative position, but which wheels, if tripped, will ride over the lumber, but permit the suspended saws to remain in operative position to trim the lumber at different points in its length, as may be d… more

Date: December 3, 1895

Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Cabinet.

Design patent for a cabinet with a rectangular body and an internal horizontal partition.

Date: April 5, 1895

Creator: Carolan, Eugene P.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for a Display-Banner.

Design patent for an advertising display banner with "an absolutely-smooth uniformly-level surface ornamented by series of horizontal and vertical lines thereon, forming rectangular spaces, whereof the larges space is at the center with a series of smaller rectangular spaces at each side thereof, and series of other rectangular spaces above and below said central rectangular space" (para. 4).

Date: July 30, 1895

Creator: Higby, Luther L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fruit-Picker.

Patent for a fruit-picker that has a jaw or jaws that severs the stem of the fruit, a fabric tube that brings the fruit to the operator or a basket. It bruises the fruit less than other pickers do.

Date: September 24, 1895

Creator: Williams, Thomas Page

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Calf-Weaner.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive calf-weaner muzzle, that can also be used for colts, and is an "attachment for securing a barbed frame to a halter, whereby the frame is maintained in the operative position without interfering with the adjustment of the members of the halter to suit the size of the head of the animal" (lines 10-15).

Date: October 29, 1895

Creator: Sone, Charles W.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton-chopper that cultivates "the rows of plants simultaneously with thinning them out; and a further object of the invention is to provide such a machine which will be durable and simple" (lines 11-14).

Date: February 12, 1895

Creator: Newton, Nicholas H.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Governor for Steam-Engines.

Patent for a governor for steam-engines that provides "an automatic governing device controlled by the speed, and hence, by the load of the engine, in order to maintain uniformity of movement under variations of load" (lines 10-14).

Date: January 15, 1895

Creator: Johnson, Billie

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hasp.

Patent for a hasp that "may be adjusted longitudinally to compensate for expansion or contraction of the parts to which it is applied, or which it is designed to connect, the means for adjustment being such that they may be manipulated without displacing or altering the relative positions of any of the parts of the device, and furthermore, to provide means whereby the hasp is capable of universal movement, whereby it is operative irrespective of the planes in which the surfaces of the connected… more

Date: February 5, 1895

Creator: Hutton, Milton Calhoun

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gearing for Windmills.

Patent for gearing for windmills that "is more particularly designed to provide an improved construction of gearing by which the movement of the wind wheel is transmitted to the pump rod, whereby [the inventor] secures superior advantages with respect to efficiency in use" (lines 14-19).

Date: April 23, 1895

Creator: Keys, Milton

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse and Team Holder.

Patent for "a device adapted to be applied to ordinary vehicles, and designed to be connected with the driving reins, and capable of automatically engaging the horse or team, and by preventing the same from advancing or turning to the right or left or backing, thereby obviating the necessity of tying a horse or team, of dropping the traces, or of leaving it stand with small weights that endanger life." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 21, 1895

Creator: Moore, Franklin Orville

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Girth-Rigging for Side-Saddles.

Patent for girth-rigging for side-saddles that secure the saddles so the saddles only move when the horse does. It has an extended "saddle-tree so as to produce shoulders, the same underlying the saddle-seat at its front and in supporting upon its shoulders and also upon the tree in rear of the cantle-girth suspension-straps that are continuous" (lines 24-29).

Date: July 9, 1895

Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harvester-Platform and Carrier.

Patent for a harvester-platform and carrier that carries forward and elevates the grain. It has toothed bars, a framed, a crank-shaft that is connected to the toothed bars, a cross-rod loosely connected to the crank-shaft, and it is pivotally mounted on grain.

Date: September 17, 1895

Creator: Compton, Silas T.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame-Fastener.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive hame-fastener that has "two adjustable parts, one of which is provided with hooks to be engaged by means on the other part" (lines 11-13). The invention is adjustable and does not unlock or disengage accidentally but can easily be unlocked on purpose.

Date: October 15, 1895

Creator: Anderson, Lee

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame.

Patent for a harness-hame and "contemplates the provision of improved means forming a part of the hames for securing the trace-chains thereto; also the provision of an improved trace-link adapted for connection with said securing means in a manner to insure maximum strength" (lines 15-21).

Date: November 19, 1895

Creator: Anderson, Lee

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Patent for a gate "used to guard thoroughfares on farms, passages into fields and for like purposes, and belongs to a class wherein two similar gates are together employed, and are pivoted to rock on a frame, so as to open a passage through said fame, or close the gate opening as occasion may require" (lines 10-16). The invention is easily opened and closed, has newly designed latches, and has counterbalances.

Date: February 12, 1895

Creator: Whittenberg, William B. & Hawkins, Augustus L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stove.

Patent for "a stove in which the heat may be shifted to various parts thereof to the exclusion of other parts," and "wherein the radiation of the heat from the bottom of the heat-passage is made to heat a secondary or supplemental oven, thereby making use of heat which is otherwise lost." (Lines 19-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 28, 1895

Creator: Brooks, John M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Suspender Device.

Patent for a suspender device that is "a [rear] fastening device having a central loop, a coil, a keeper and a pin extending from the coil and engaging the keeper all formed from one piece of wire, in combination, with a slide having a linked portion surrounding and vertically movable on the central loop, and having a pair of ends or prongs projecting upward between the loop and the linked-portion of the slide to form tongues" (lines 81-90). The forward fastening devices attach to the ends of w… more

Date: December 31, 1895

Creator: Krebs, Emil, L.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Engine.

Patent for general "improvements in engines, and while one feature of our invention is adapted for use on all styles of engines, the invention in the complete form ...is especially suited for use on locomotive engines designed to exert high tractive power and to attain high speeds" (lines 12-19).

Date: February 19, 1895

Creator: Davis, Philip Z. & Barton, Alexander M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

End Cap, Tie, and Seal for Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.

Patent for an end cap, tie, and seal for cylindrical cotton-bales. The cap has a flat end with cylindrical edges and a draw wire in its hem. It extends nearly to the ends of the bale, and the edges go over the ends of the bale.

Date: March 12, 1895

Creator: Campbell, Louis Wilbur

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-House Supporter.

Patent for a fire-hose supporter that can be stretched out, washed, and dried easily. The invention also has a hose-carrying frame that elevates the hose and allows for the hose to be quickly and easily used.

Date: August 20, 1895

Creator: Bramble, James Elworth

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fire-Kindling Cartridge.

Patent for an improved fire-kindling cartridge which "consists, essentially, in a cartridge made in two sections, each composed of coiled wire, with their outer end tapering or contracted, forming a conical point, a sleeve of coiled wire with which the inner ends of said sections engage, and a filling of asbestos or other material." (Lines 25-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: October 8, 1895

Creator: Flatau, Louis Spencer

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch.

Patent for an electric switch meant for the Edison three-wire system. It provides "means whereby the translating devices on either side of the middle wire may be supplied with electricity to the exclusion of those on the opposite side, the return-current from said translating devices being transmitted by way of the middle wire" (lines 11-16).

Date: November 12, 1895

Creator: Mottram, William T. M.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Time-Signaling Apparatus.

Patent for an electric time-signaling apparatus meant for use in hotels or other places where employees need to be alerted. The invention rings a bell and turns on a light when the signals goes off. "If the current of an incandescent electric-light system was electrically connected with a time-circuit, it would destroy the whole mechanism of the time-circuit" (lines 26-29).

Date: November 19, 1895

Creator: Todd, James T. A.

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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