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Safety Device for Steam-Boilers.

Description: Patent for a safety device for steam boilers, which activates an alarm when water levels are too high on the fuse box that gives an earlier warning, does not allow the fuse box to be changed without the chief engineer being alerted, and prevents false alarms.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Smith, James E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plunger.

Description: Patent for a plunger for water and oil wells, which will withstand heavy use.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Karnes, Harry E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Joint

Description: Patent for a rail joint. This invention allows for the secure fastening of the ends of rails. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Roberts, Elbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pianissimo Device.

Description: Patent for a pianissimo device for upright pianos, which "takes up the lost motion when the soft pedal is used by automatic means" (lines 14-16).
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Decker, Herman L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gas-Producing Furnace

Description: Patent for a gas producing furnace that is "highly efficient in the combustion of slack coal, lignite, and other gas producing material" (lines 12-14).
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Gamer, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heating-Drum

Description: Patent for "a simple and efficient construction which may be readily set up and taken down, which will be durable, and in which, moreover, by operation of a single damper the smoke-pipe above the drum may be brought into direct communication with the smoke-pipe below the drum and the several compartments of the apparatus will be opened to permit ready cleaning" (lines 14-22).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Horsley, Robert L. & Rountree, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Elevating-Truck.

Description: Patent for invention to "improve the construction of elevating-trucks and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive apparatus adapted to be readily moved from one place to another and capable of enabling bales, boxes and the like to be readily lifted from the ground or other supporting-surface and raised to a convenient position for loading such freight upon a wagon or other conveyance" (p. 1, lines 10-18).
Date: September 14, 1900
Creator: Penick, James E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer

Description: Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Samuel Cornelious
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Packer.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton packer, which automatically restarts when it finishes a bale.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Cass, Eral B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Planters

Description: Patent for attachment for planters, provides a simple, inexpensive, easily-applied, and effectively operating attachmentc for cotton, corn, or other seed-planting machines in which is included a truck or a carriage whereby a sweep-plow can be connected with the planter truck or carriage for laying out a furrow and covering the seed (Johnson, 1902).
Date: June 14, 1909
Creator: Johnson, Major
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for baling-press to press bales of cotton into rectangular bales including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Taylor, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sad-Iron-Facing Machine.

Description: Patent for a sad iron facing machine, which grinds and polishes iron with a lateral movement rather than a straight one that speeds up the process and prevents gumming of the machine.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Dorsey, Royal H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garment-Seam.

Description: Patent for a method "of forming seams for joining fabrics, metals, paper, or other sheets by means of thread, rivets, solder, or other expedient, and it has for its object to provide a seam within the outer sheets and their linings will be simultaneously joined at a single operation and by use of a single line of stiching, rivets, or other securing means." (lines 11-19)
Date: April 14, 1903
Creator: Johnson, Nellie E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sham-Bolster Frame.

Description: Patent for "sham-bolster frames, and more particularly to that class that are lengthwise adjustable to admit of their being used with beds of any width" (lines 8-12) including illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1902
Creator: Gully, Leontina
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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