51 Matching Results

Search Results

Valve for explosive-engines.

Description: Patent for an improved valve for use in explosive engines which lists the movements of various parts in order to allow air and fuel to mix and explode.
Date: February 2, 1914
Creator: Ray, Albert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement to Elevator Signal Systems

Description: Patent for an improvement to an elevator in which “to provide an elevator signal system that will permit a party at any landing to indicate his desire to go up or down to the elevator operator by pressing one of two buttons” (lines 10-15). Instructions and illustration included.
Date: February 2, 1915
Creator: Johnson, Charles S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Two-Wheeled Delivery-Vehicle.

Description: Patent for "a light and convenient vehicle for the use of mail-collectors in cities, and for the transportation and delivery of parcels, milk, or other articles," (lines 8-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Boone, Manly Breaker
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Keel.

Description: Patent for an improved type of keel construction, "of which the distance between the keel and covering-boards is equalized throughout the length of the vessel and a vessel of exceptional strength and advantageous construction is afforded." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Grothgar, John & Garfield, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Bag or Pouch

Description: Patent for an improvement of the device known as a mail-pouch, along with detailed illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Campbell, Parker
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new ratchet-wrench with "improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Rettberg, Ernest Frederick & Ellis, Charles Carroll
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Log-Cart.

Description: Patent for a log-cart in which "one end of the log is elevated or drawn up underneath the axle, while the other end drags along on the ground" (lines 14-17). This design is more efficient than other models of log-carts.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Moon, Robert G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a kitchen cabinet, which is compact but has many features such as a built in sifting system from the glass fronted dry ingredient drawers, a sink, fold out counter space, and slide-out bottom drawers.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Ridley, Richard W. & Clark, Andrew R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Leather Product and Process for Making the Same.

Description: Patent for a process of treating leather that produces leather that is heavier and more durable for shoe soles by coating it in linseed oil and soaking it in a bath of Portland cement, borax, and water for at least 24 hours and then coating it with linseed oil a second time.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Mackay, Hugh
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement for Cotton Chopper

Description: Patent for improvement for cotton choppers “so that the operator may regulate the depth of cut, and may shift the cutting member forward or back” (lines 18-20). Instructions and illustration included.
Date: February 2, 1915
Creator: Finch, Arthur M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple mold with few parts and can separate easily. It is designed specifically to make semicircles and rectangular shapes, of concrete or earthenware. The mold also can be held together simply and inexpensively.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Parker, William Sink
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam-Engine.

Description: Patent for a steam engine which is more economical than other steam engines. "Steam is cut off in the earlier or later part of the stroke, according to the conditions of the work" (lines 15-17), according to a governor or engineer.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Dickson, Henry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Description: Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date: February 2, 1875
Creator: Reese, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-beam, of two side-bars, the rear portion of each of which is folded back upon itself, forming a standard, a shorter standard, a handle the front end of which and the end of the double portion are secured to the said bar by means of a single bolt, and the downturned end of one-half of the adjusting device and a brace for said handle being secured by a single bolt at another place" (lines 8-17).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Putman, John Howard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tourist's Glasses.

Description: Patent for tourist's glasses which include a compass, a mirror, and binoculars which fold up into a compact case and includes adjustable lenses.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Faerhrmann, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved tire-tightener. This design has "parts [that] are the width of a felly and a fraction less their depth, and bearing solid against their ends are held in place by flanges on each end. As the screw is turned in it forces the parts against the ends of felly, forcing the fellies against the tire, and is prevented from coming in contact with the tire by a rubber fender, or of other substance placed under tire-tightener. Fender is held in place by flanges at each side on… more
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Pluck, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness Saddle

Description: Patent is for "improvements in harness saddles" (lines 6-7) that will "not injure animals' backs and which will be automatically adjustable to a back of any size or shape."
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Edelbrock, Frank E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power Stand.

Description: Patent for a new and improved power-stand. In this design, "a single pulley is mounted upon a stand, the shaft of said pulley bearing at each end, outside of the stand, one part of a friction or other clutch, which may be engaged with or disengaged from the corresponding part of a clutch attached to the shaft of a machine" (lines 13-19).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Hetherington, Johnathan S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Stock-Guard.

Description: Patent for "a guard which will effectually prevent cattle from entering adjoining fields to which ingress is afforded by means of a railroad traversing them and to provide means for preventing the guards being injured by trains passing over the road," (lines 11-16) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1892
Creator: Bridges, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Description: Patent for "a non-refillable bottle of simple, cheap, and improved construction, which can be quickly and easily sealed" (lines 13-15). The bottle can be emptied easily.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Saunders, David R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen