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Automatic Fire and Burglar Alarm.

Description: Patent for automatic fire and burglar alarm. A cord extends from the casing of the alarm mechanism to a window. The alarm is triggered either by weight of a window opening or the cord is burned by fire.
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Mann, Oscar O. & Whitley, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carbureter Attachment.

Description: Patent for a carbureter attachment.
Date: March 19, 1918
Creator: McDonald, James A. & Harris, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Extensible Ladder

Description: Patent for a portable extendable ladder, designed for use, among other things, as a means of fire escape or observation, along with illustrations and explanations.
Date: July 2, 1918
Creator: Trojan, J. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Block and Tying Mechanism for Baling Presses.

Description: Patent for blocks and tying mechanism for baling presses, which include "a hollow block, a plurality of which may be used in a press, and a tying mechanism including transversely operating needles or plungers entering the the blocks and cooperating with the means therein for tying the bale wires" (lines 17-23) including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Ezell, Uberto D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Dental Instruments.

Description: Patent for a dental instrument which is to attach to a dental drill handle. Protecting the patient's tongue from being cut by the drill or grinding disk while the patient's lower teeth are being operated on, including illustrations.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Luzzi, August F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll Breaker and Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a device that attaches to a cotton gin that cleans and crushes the cotton bolls.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Streun, John Arnold
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Breaker and Cotton-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for improvements to the boll breaker and cotton cleaner by changing the construction and arrangement of parts. The patent uses air pressure to move the bolly cotton through the boll breaker and cotton cleaner chambers.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Gillespie, Solomon E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Automobile-Top.

Description: Patent for an improvement on automatic automobile-tops. The primary objective is that when in inoperative positions, the actuated drum neatly appears as a weather proof roll. Another objective is to provide side curtains so that the vehicle may be closed on all sides.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Montroy, Phiip A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment For Coffee-Roasters

Description: Patent for coffee roaster attachment to aid in storing coffee after particle separation and also as a filter. The intention was to have this particular device be an attachment for many coffee roasters.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Liberto, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Casket-Support.

Description: Patent for Casket-Support. "An object of the invention is to provide a support of simple and durable structure adapted to be manipulated to support the casket at an elevated position with relation to a floor or which may be folded whereby the casket may rest flat upon the floor." (line 3)
Date: April 2, 1918
Creator: Kinnison, Martin L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Vehicle-Headlights.

Description: Patent for attachment for vehicle headlights. The invention has a deflecting hood for the head light that deflects the light downward, below the line of sight, particularly for oncoming vehicles
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Burns, Bessie A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Description: Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.
Date: June 11, 1918
Creator: Stubs, Orace Virgil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Circuit-Closer Attachment for Telegraph-Keys

Description: Patent for an attachment for telegraph keys, so that the line circuit closes automatically upon the release of the key.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: White, James L
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Destroyer.

Description: Patent for woll weevil destroyer that is an attachment that can be applied to the frame and beams of a cultivator and may knock weevil and insects from plants standing in a row.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Young, Troy W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Separating Liquids.

Description: Patent for dehydrating petroleum oil emulsions through liquid seperation.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil-Destroying Machine.

Description: Patent for "a machine for destroying boll weevil and other pests which frequent and infect agricultural products" (lines 14-16) using "suction nozzles correlated with a common suction system adaptable to sweep a plurality of rows at a time" (lines 27-30) including illustrations.
Date: April 16, 1918
Creator: Diserens, Thomas H. & McKay, Frank C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Bur Separator.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating burs from cotton lint despite severe weather conditions, illustrations included.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Irwin, Samuel D.
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

Buttonless Neckband.

Description: Patent for a buttonless neckband eliminates collar buttons "which would have a tendency to discolor the neck of the wearer" (lines 21-22).
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Narmore, Missouri A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Fuel-Changing Valve.

Description: Patent for Automatic Fuel Changing Valve. The purpose of the invention is to provide a mechanism that switches to another gas supply when the one which is feeding the system runs low.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Connelly, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Separating Device.

Description: Patent for an automatic separating device. This device operates with a link that connects the float level at the top of the tank with a valve handle at the bottom of the tank to control discharge from the tank.
Date: January 22, 1918
Creator: Allen, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bending-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new machine providing "a simple, efficient and easily operated fluid-pressure actuated machine" for the straightening of railway rails (lines 12-14)
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Keely, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railway Switch.

Description: Patent for providing the means for a switch to be actuated which will allow trains to enter or exit a siding of the track.
Date: January 22, 1918
Creator: Gullion, Robert, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Vaporizing-Plug

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Vaporizing-Plugs" (lines 5-6). "This invention... has for its principle object the production of a device which is adapted to be carried upon a manifold of an internal combustion engine... so that upon each stroke of the piston, or pistons, air will be drawn into the intake manifold where it will be mixed with gas passing therethrough, thus forming a charge which will have more power when exploded and which will prevent the formation … more
Date: July 2, 1918
Creator: Floyd, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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