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Wrench.

Description: Patent for an improved wrench that has two movable jaws and can separate about the length of the handle. The wrench's "head or nut for operating the upper jaw is swiveled and forms a part of the handle" (lines 14-15). The wrench can be converted into a pipe-wrench.
Date: May 9, 1893
Creator: King, Will Henry Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weed - Exterminator

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: McBride, Samuel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement to Suction-Cup for Cotton-Picking Machines

Description: Patent for the improvement in suction-cups for cotton-picking machines in which the addition of knives allows for easier collection of cotton. Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Meier, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks

Description: Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: De Long, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Traffic Signal.

Description: Patent for an illuminated turn signal attached to the frame of a car. The signal is shaped like a hand and can be raised or lowered by a lever behind the steering wheel.
Date: May 9, 1922
Creator: Jones, Theodoric
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tramper-Press

Description: Patent for a tramper press for pressing cotton into bales. Illustrations included.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold for Concrete Silos and the Like.

Description: Patent for a mold for concrete silos that improves on efficiency.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Doyle, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Extinguisher.

Description: Patent for a spark extinguisher "to prevent the burning of buildings and other combustible matter by steam engines" (lines 15-17).
Date: March 9, 1880
Creator: Blewett, George L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire Traction-Lug

Description: Patent for tire traction-lug preventing slipping of the wheel in mud, sand, snow, slush, and other soft road-beds.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Smith, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Apparatus for Sizing and Separating Comminuted Material

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in process and apparatus for sizing and separating comminuted materials. This is the fifth patent and improves on the previous four patents.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process Of and Apparatus for Separating and Grading Material.

Description: Patent for improvements in the process of and apparatus for separating and grading material. "Improvement upon our Patent #1,073,644, issued September 23, 1913, for a 'Separating table and process of separation'" (lines 14-17). Object of invention is to improve the general construction of separating table.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Timing Mechanism for Automatic Oil Pumping Systems.

Description: Patent for a timing mechanism for automatic oil-pumping systems, which adds improvements to a previous patent (Serial No.788,483). This patent includes a "novel mechanism for controlling the alternate action of a pressure and vacuum directed into a well" from the surface instead of the lower portion of the well (lines 33-35). Patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Stephenson, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stirrup

Description: Patent for a stirrup for horse riders which can automatically release the foot of the rider should the rider be forced off of the horse. Illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Haddock, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Faucet-Drain

Description: Patent for a faucet drain attachment that allows for the draining of pipes eliminating the need for opening of faucet. This invention helps to prevent damage to pipes.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Eaton, Bruce E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peanut-Planter.

Description: Patent for a peanut planter that dispenses a single peanut from the seed cans in to the feed wheel's cells.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Wilson, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Signal Device

Description: Patent for telephone signal device.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Boyd, Ura M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mattress-Display Rack

Description: Patent for a mattress rack that will allow mattresses to be displayed in a titled position for display and advertising purposes including illustrations.
Date: August 9, 1913
Creator: Fisher, Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paving for Streets and the Like

Description: Patent for paving for streets and the like invention relates to paving with specific constructions for high efficiency in resisting wear.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Stubbs, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Piano Attachment

Description: Patent for improvements in the medium with which the piano creates notes in correlation with the striking of the strings so that the notes may be "produced alone or in concert with the bell-like tones at the will of the performer" (lines 15-17).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Deutsch, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for a rail-joint that is attached by splice bars.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Whittlesey, Clyde W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gage for Job Printing Presses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gage. This design consists in "the gage-bar provided at both ends with spring-clasps for engaging the platen, combined with gage-pins doubled upon themselves at their inner ends and engaging the gage bar and adjustable laterally" (lines 83-88).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Jones, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for an improved brush cylinder for cotton gins.
Date: May 9, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for getting a good knowledge on how to use a cultivator, detailed instructions are provided.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Blalock, Justice E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Description: Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
Date: May 9, 1899
Creator: Ledbetter, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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