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Globe Draft-Shield.

Description: Patent for the invention of a simple and efficient device to attach to a chimney which will prevent sudden wind from blowing out the lamp.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: Byrd, Silas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flashing

Description: Patent for flashing used in roof construction to provide a waterproof barrier between pipes and roof.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lloyd, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Lock.

Description: Patent for a padlock and mount for the steering column of an automobile.
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Ritchie, Allen A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Windlass

Description: Patent for improved windlass for an automobile that attaches to both rear wheels to prevent idling
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Davis, Marion A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Artificial Tooth

Description: Patent for an artificial tooth that is better able to anchor to the mouth plate.
Date: July 5, 1918
Creator: Dee, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Trap.

Description: Patent for a trap for bedbugs made of pine wood with many nooks and crannies and springs attached to either side of the wooden block. It can be put on the bed frame and bedbugs hide in its dark recesses during the day, and then the trap can either be hit to close the springs and crush the bugs or put into hot water to drown them.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Mattingly, Benjamin Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Metallic Window-Blinds.

Description: Patent for "a blind which acts both as a barrier to the progress of flames attacking windows and as a convenient shutter for the common purposes, and is adapted to be adjusted and securely locked in an open or closed position." (Lines 21-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 10, 1875
Creator: Mackrell, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the base . . . of the slotted plate secured thereto, the strip on the rear side of the said plate, the blade having apertures and threaded bolts for adjusting the said blade" (lines 96-100). It further consists in "rear cutters or scrapers on the landside" (line 1).
Date: May 1, 1888
Creator: Irwin, William H. & Hairgrove, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-Brakes.

Description: Patent for "a means for the automatic application of brakes to the cars of a railway-train; and it consists in a loosely-moving draw-bar attached to the car by means of bolts passing through a central longitudinal slot, and having its sides wrought into two rack-bars, which mesh with pinions upon two windlass-shafts; which arrangement, when the locomotive is "slowed," causes the impact of the cars to drive up the draw-bars and wind up cords upon the windlass-shafts, which communicated with and … more
Date: June 1, 1875
Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Twisting Wire Cables of Suspension Bridges.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cable twister. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the casting having grooves and openings therein, of the semicircular disks . . . having grooves therein and openings extending through the same, the bolt for binding the several parts together, and the arms extending out from the disks" (lines 1-7).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carbureter-Regulating Mechanism.

Description: Patent for improvements in carbureter-regulating mechanism by "automatically regulate the air and fuel valve of a carbureter, according to the speed of the engine and the load being carried thereby" (lines 12-15, p.1.) Illustration is included.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ring for Disseminating Perfumes, &c.

Description: Patent for "an improved device for disseminating chemicals, perfumes and the like ... in the nature of a ring which may be worn on either finger, toe, arm, or any part of the body and which constitutes a container for the material to be disseminated." (p.1 lines 9-15). The "outlet ... openings [of the ring] ... are normally obstructed to some extent by contact with the member on which it is worn so that the escape of the material contained will be slow and gradual." (p.1 lines 18-23)
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Griffin, William H. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination of a central beam having a slot at its rear end and a hook at its front end, the laterally-adjustable bars connected with said beam, the scraper-standards pivoted to the adjustable bars, the front clevis for the beam, and rear yoke or support having a transverse pin, and the suspension-chains with a supporting-frame" (lines 101-108).
Date: November 1, 1881
Creator: McCaskill, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Guano Distributor

Description: Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
Date: July 19, 1912
Creator: H. D. Pate
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hairpin

Description: Patent for preventing "the accidental displacement of the dislodgment of the pin from the hair of the wearer." (Lines 11-12).
Date: September 11, 1919
Creator: Nalle, Charles R. of Forth Worth, TX
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench

Description: Patent for an improved wrench
Date: unknown
Creator: Hannsz, Walter L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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

Improvements in Velocipedes

Description: Patent for improvements to a single-wheel velocipede.
Date: June 20, 1869
Creator: Dillaha, J. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.

Description: Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
Date: May 17, 1870
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in fences

Description: Patent for improvement in fences. Inventor created removable, adjustable fences with wire loop hinges.
Date: May 22, 1879
Creator: Martin, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stamp Affixer

Description: Patent for
Date: August 16, 1910
Creator: Harwell, Marvin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spindle Lubricator.

Description: Patent for improving the process of lubricating spindles without removing the wheel, and at a more affordable cost.
Date: January 1, 1918
Creator: Stair, Oscar H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Surgical Splint.

Description: Patent for a surgical splint specifically for the substitution of erectile tissue of the corpora cavernous of the genital organ to promote fecundation even in the absence of an erection.
Date: July 13, 1920
Creator: Renois, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire

Description: Patent for an improvement to the tire. Designed to increase tire endurance.
Date: December 19, 1919
Creator: Brown, Archie E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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